Surf guitaring without the guitar.....

[sumgai]

Several months ago, reTrEaD opened the ball with a thread about singing a capella, and still being attractive to the listener.  His theory was that instruments may not be totally necessary.  In response to that, I opened a new thread with the subject line - Does it gotta be guitars? - where I exposed Lindsey Stirling, a very talented dancing violinist, like so:

Does it gotta be guitars?

Let's flash forward, shall we?

While searching around the innerwebs looking for something completely different, I tripped across an instrument that I'd never paid attention to before, the Korean gayageum.  (It has been spelled and pronounced differently, this seems to be the most common though.)

Here is a leading practitioner of the instrument, doing what the subject line says:

Yes, we most certainly can perform surf tunes without a guitar!  There may not be much reverb, but there certainly is feeling, in my opinion anyways.

Now, not to imply that this young lady is a one trick pony, let me show you something which not surf related in anyway (although the original tunesmith did believe that we won't hear surf music anymore):

And yet, she's not limited here either.  Get a load of how the blues sound in Korea:

Can the lady rock?  Glad you asked:

Let me make it short and sweet - at 22 or 23 years of age, she's been doing this since barely being able to walk.  I suggest you check out her channel, she's posted literally hundreds of videos of all kinds and genres, both Korean and otherwise. If you're truly into music, and enjoy watching/listening to musicians as they ply their craft, you won't go far off track here, trust me.

Luna Lee

And now that I think about, her videography is not too shabby either.

This has been your daily exposure to something completely different.  Stay tuned for next week's presentation, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel!

sumgai

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its fun.. this vibrato sounds very India

[ashcatlt]

That is pretty cool. She seems be overbending quite a lot on that Ventures tune. The Jimi song was much better in that aspect. The Dire Straits song is a good reminder that Mark Knopler's particular touch is almost impossible to emulate. She definitely does it justice, but nobody does it like Mark.

I once saw a dude in some club in NYC playing a big old zither. I recall the thing being like a baby grand piano. He played with a slide and through some pedals and I guess an amp and while he played mostly originals and blues standards, if you closed your eyes you'd a swore George Thorogood was in the house!

This might fit better with the violinist, but since this thread is covers...

Yes there's some vox in there, but Rasputina definitely doesn't need guitars to rock pretty hard

One of their albums was produced by Marilyn Manson, and has a bunch of heavy distorted industrial-metal madness.

On a somewhat related note, my little sister used to run a mic through whatever pedals us boys left lying around and record her cello through it. She did a lot of the same types of noise work that I do on guitars. None of that ever got "released", but a when I was down there last year, I set her up with fret markers and proper intonation, and just recently she was lamenting that we had taken all the signal processors when we left her in FL to mover to the LBR, so I got on amazon and had them deliver her a new Zoom multi effect something. She's been real sick lately and I think stuck at home a lot, but she's using it as an excuse to make noise again and I for one can't wait to here the results.