Basic black Warmoth Jazzmaster Satch cover

[markwayne]

I just put this together and used the Warmoth Jazzmaster (with EMGs and a Floyd Rose) on it 'cause it was already sitting out and I'm lazy.

https://soundcloud.com/rawas1935_founinge/always-with-me

And one recorded with the blue-burst Jazzmaster which also has EMG pickups and a Floyd.

https://soundcloud.com/rawas1935_founinge/baker-street

And before anyone jumps on me for ruining a couple of great builds with plastic pickups and silly bridges, I've already been adequately chastised in this thread -> http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=20542.0

Wayne

 

[nandrewjackson]

:headbang1:

sweet playing, and song selection

I don't see what's wrong with EMG/Floyd....
That trans blue finish is KILLER BEAUTIFULLLLL

 

[bagman67]

Very nice job. 


I'm also digging your power-ballad cover of "Both Sides Now."  I don't reckon Joni ever suspected it would go in such a direction.  Fun.  Leaving aside the vocals, the arrangement sounds like if Journey had some studio time to burn and someone said, "Hey, what the hell!"  And your singing voice is actually pretty good.  Nice work all around.  If I had to make a suggestion, it would actually be to go with a less chorusy/flangey guitar sound for the lead fills - that swirl takes what I think is a desirable edge off the tone - and I think I'd actually like to hear the keyboards a little more prominently in the mix.  Not that anyone asked, and the advice is of course worth every penny you paid for it.

 

[Cagey]

Good work!

"Always With Me, Always With You" was the first Satriani tune I learned to play, so I'm partial to it. I'm still trying to remember the name of the other one as I'm writing this, if that says anything. I think it was actually a better work. I don't know. I'm inherently stupid.

 

[markwayne]

Thanks all.

The fact that anyone else likes that treatment of "Both Sides Now" made me smile. I did that partly as a joke but it was informed by a huge crush that I had on Joni when I was a kid. (There is also a reggae version, a post-bop version and a polka that never made it on tape.)

As soon as work slows down I'm going to go back and try out your suggestions.

For the Satch fans, I'm sorry I didn't stay true to the original version. It was done from quickly from memory for a CD of instrumentals I put together for my Dad to listen to while in hospital.

 

[stubhead]

That Satriani cover is really good - I like your touch on the softer, "throwaway" licks. For that matter, I feel the same way about Satriani. I know his bread and butter are the hairy-chested shred-hero stuff, but his ballads are what sounds honest. There's a version - here, I found it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGEcHlj-9lk

A cover of "Little Wing" - Orianthi proves she can play fast, Steve Vai proves he can play faster than a girl, and Satriani plays three slow, good-sounding notes, like "you morons, we've been through this...."

 

[markwayne]

Thanks very much. I guess we all go through that speed fetish. My coming of age was working with a sax player in the house band at a strip club when I was 19. That guy would blow me away night after night and, like any dumb kid, I'd play a faster solo and then he would play even fewer notes and make me look like an even bigger putz. It took me almost a solid year to wise up.

I watched that clip. You know Satch just has that blues sensibility that always adds soul.

It reminds of this jazz, keyboard player that I used to work with in another house band in Miami. We would often have local hot shots who would want to sit in with us and at the end of the night I would typically be raving to him about some shredder who had  been up that night and we would just say that "yeah, that guy sure wanted you to know that he could run faster than you, but I was waiting for him to make music."