wolbai
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Dear friends,
after I had some serious troubles with my account, I am now able to login and post new content again
ccasion14:
This new Moonchild-cover (originally from 1976) is in honor and in memory of Rory Gallagher - to me, one of the greatest blues rock singer / songwriter and guitarists of all time (R.I.P.).
And with this cover my winding musical Rory Gallagher journey closes in a circle and somehow leads me back to the beginning. And the beginning started in a damp rehearshal room in my hometown somewhere in the middle of the 70s when I tried "Bullfrog Blues" with my first band (as a bassman!). I was 15 years old. From a today's perspective, it was probably a real disaster. But we had fun and felt great! The sky was the limit :icon_jokercolor:
This is not a note-by-note cover. Please take it as an interpretation of the original and how I feel his music.
Rory and his band were a thoroughbred live band who knew how to ignite fireworks on stage and in the audience. Not infrequently they played more than 300 gigs a year - especially in the 70s. I tried very hard to capture some of the live fireworks in this song project. Of course, this is not so easy without a live audience ...
His playing technique is challenging. And this applies especially to his fast finger vibrato and bending.
In terms of guitar parts, I partly stuck to the studio recording. The outro solo, however, is mostly freely improvised and has also been shaped by my own flavor.
I played the guitar parts with a moded James Tyler Variax JTV69 with a Warmoth neck (roasted mable neck and stainless steel frets). Rory used to play in various pickup positions. He sometimes played the intro-riff in the position 2. That is what I did for the guitar rhythm parts.
Like Rory, I put a cleaner booster (from my FX8 Fractal Audio FX-Board) in front of my Marshall amp (Marshall JVM 410, Crunch/Yellow with Gain 4/10 at break level). For the lead parts I add a tube screamer effect in addition. Rory used to play mainly on Combos like VOX AC30 and Fender Bassman.
I recorded the vocals and all the instruments myself.
I look forward to your feedback :icon_thumright:
Link SoundCloud:
[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/wolbai-music/moonchild-rory-gallagher-covered-by-wolbai[/soundcloud]
Link YouTube:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzEIM6nfyOU[/youtube]
All the best - wolbai
after I had some serious troubles with my account, I am now able to login and post new content again
ccasion14:This new Moonchild-cover (originally from 1976) is in honor and in memory of Rory Gallagher - to me, one of the greatest blues rock singer / songwriter and guitarists of all time (R.I.P.).
And with this cover my winding musical Rory Gallagher journey closes in a circle and somehow leads me back to the beginning. And the beginning started in a damp rehearshal room in my hometown somewhere in the middle of the 70s when I tried "Bullfrog Blues" with my first band (as a bassman!). I was 15 years old. From a today's perspective, it was probably a real disaster. But we had fun and felt great! The sky was the limit :icon_jokercolor:
This is not a note-by-note cover. Please take it as an interpretation of the original and how I feel his music.
Rory and his band were a thoroughbred live band who knew how to ignite fireworks on stage and in the audience. Not infrequently they played more than 300 gigs a year - especially in the 70s. I tried very hard to capture some of the live fireworks in this song project. Of course, this is not so easy without a live audience ...
His playing technique is challenging. And this applies especially to his fast finger vibrato and bending.
In terms of guitar parts, I partly stuck to the studio recording. The outro solo, however, is mostly freely improvised and has also been shaped by my own flavor.
I played the guitar parts with a moded James Tyler Variax JTV69 with a Warmoth neck (roasted mable neck and stainless steel frets). Rory used to play in various pickup positions. He sometimes played the intro-riff in the position 2. That is what I did for the guitar rhythm parts.
Like Rory, I put a cleaner booster (from my FX8 Fractal Audio FX-Board) in front of my Marshall amp (Marshall JVM 410, Crunch/Yellow with Gain 4/10 at break level). For the lead parts I add a tube screamer effect in addition. Rory used to play mainly on Combos like VOX AC30 and Fender Bassman.
I recorded the vocals and all the instruments myself.
I look forward to your feedback :icon_thumright:
Link SoundCloud:
[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/wolbai-music/moonchild-rory-gallagher-covered-by-wolbai[/soundcloud]
Link YouTube:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzEIM6nfyOU[/youtube]
All the best - wolbai
