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Another guitar painted by Ismael Kamara.
And at its side (to the right above) you see the “Shadow of John” watching over us.
The music is a longer piece, showing the qualities of the Vox AC 50 and a special mood I was in on April 29th…
guitar & gear: Gibson Les Paul Special, Vox AC 50, BSM treble booster, Tube Reverb
profundity
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fathoming out
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These two forming a twin entity, you are being invited to enter a door or an entrance to see what’s behind. Thereafter feel the deepness, or measure the unmeasurable like I did by bending my guitar strings more than I ever did before…
guitar & gear: Epiphone Les Paul with Haeussel pickups, Vox AC 50, BSM treble booster, Tube Reverb
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Since I didn’t want to even remotely rival Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption” (a famous rock guitar instrumental – check it out!), I approached Charlie Parker by calling this similar to “Anthropology” and “Ornithology”.
Ouch – wrong again. Ahem. I guess this is simply “Volcanology”, and doesn’t rival anything… It’s a fade-in-tune, so please take a few moments for it to reach its full volume.
64$ question: what does the picture below actually show? (hint: it’s just a detail from a photo I posted here before).
guitar & gear: Epiphone Les Paul with Haeussel Pickups, Vox AC 50, DOD wah pedal, BSM treble booster
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guitar & gear: ’67 stratocaster, Vox ToneLab SE, tube reverb
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Sorry if your weather doesn’t match this. Where I live, it does. And it’s beautiful if you take a close look.
guitar & gear: ’67 stratocaster, Vox ToneLab SE, Tube Trem
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This little improvisation on an instrument I actually am no master of made me feel “longing for the sea”. Or, as one might put it, “long time no sea” – which is true for me, living in southern Germany far from all oceans. On my search for an illustration I stumbled over an old photograph, taken in Brazil many years ago on a two month’s trip with my wife.
There’s something written on the picture in Portuguese: subir. When I thought of it’s meaning, I suddenly felt it all become much more intense and heading for what I hoped to convey. “Subir” is “ascend”. Look, listen, and feel sense and direction in it.
guitar & gear: no guitar, since it’s kind of a mandolin that looks like an electric guitar. Naturally my son’s favorite tool for his playing the guitar hero – which of course he copied from me.
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musically spoken, lydian is a mode
emotionally spoken, lydian is a mood
guitar & gear: ’67 stratocaster, ’65 VOX AC 50, BSM treblebooster
