Steve Vai - Jemini Distortion Pedal Demo

[Bernhard]

Cool idea, well delivered:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrBLnB3ze5Y&feature=

[Per Boysen]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Bernhard <wer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Cool idea, well delivered:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrBLnB3ze5Y&feature=

Yes, that's a cute and small pedal board! ;-)) He plays well, think.
I especially noticed the part in unison at the very end. Why is it
rock school guitar players never play i unison? Only jazz fusion
players do, but it's much cooler with rock based playing. I've heard
it long ago from Zeppelin (third album) and even earlier from The
Sweet. The Eagles, The Allman Brothers and Wishbone Ash just played
two guitar soli in harmony, never in unison. The Good Rats was another
good two guitars band, but they also just did harmony dual soloing
(like the Allman's on acid). I'd like to start a two guitars, bass and
drums band for unison melody playing, that would be awesome! The
unison melody playing from two, or more, distorted guitars is very
similar to the sound of traditional Scandinavian folk music where lots
of play violins in unison. Or at least they try too, but since every
one is free to join in a the violinists with bad intonations makes it
sound twisted. A great sound, similar to bag pipe orchestras.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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[Bernhard Wagner]

Per, it's funny you would say that about unison playing. By
coincidence, I've been using this lately to get a more "natural"
stereo image when looping.
I had a 2nd EDP sitting around for ages but never got round to
hooking it up in tandem with the first one.
I'd been playing the Looperlative for a while but once I hooked up
the EDPs in stereo, I just had to stick with that setup.
There are a couple of mp3s on http://bernhardwagner.net/soundz/
echoplexLoops.html. Look for the comment "playing unisono lines left
and right".

BTW: Sorry I haven't hooked up with Twitter yet. I've started
developing a rare case of social-network-o-phobia...

[David Auker]

As far as musical expressiveness, how would you describe his (their)
facial expressions while he (they!) are playing? Nuances of digging
deep within...

David

Bernhard wrote:
> Cool idea, well delivered:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrBLnB3ze5Y&feature=

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[Jeff Duke]

I think his sense of humor shows through great. I saw him with Zappa and he
is a riot. He's got all the moves down pat. Phenomenal player although he
got the job with Zappa as a transcriber after Vai sent Zappa a transcription
of "The Black Page". Zappa later heard him play guitar.

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Auker" <dav...@hevanet.com>
To: <loopers-deli...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: Steve Vai - Jemini Distortion Pedal Demo


>
> As far as musical expressiveness, how would you describe his (their)
> facial expressions while he (they!) are playing? Nuances of digging
> deep within...
>
> David
>
> Bernhard wrote:
>> Cool idea, well delivered:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrBLnB3ze5Y&feature=
>> >

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