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Title: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
Post by: Twinfan on July 03, 2012, 08:59:07 PM: Pretty impressive memory and 1 take!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiC__IjCa2s
Title: Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
Post by: Andrew W on July 03, 2012, 10:43:10 PM: I saw this today and thought three things:
1) Nicely done, sir!
2) I really do like rock and roll a lot.
3) '58 Strats are a bit of alright.
Title: Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
Post by: Twinfan on July 03, 2012, 11:04:32 PM: Yep, the Strat sounded great - really authentic for some stuff!
Title: Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
Post by: AndyR on July 03, 2012, 11:12:19 PM: That was pretty impressive :D
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Post by: Philly Q on July 03, 2012, 11:20:48 PM: Very cool! I was impressed not only by the playing and the sheer concentration involved, but also by how quickly and effectively he switches between all the different tones. And most of them sound pretty authentic.
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Post by: FELINEGUITARS on July 03, 2012, 11:42:12 PM: Absolutely brilliant!
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Post by: MrBump on July 04, 2012, 06:43:39 AM: Yeah, very cool.
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Post by: 38thBeatle on July 04, 2012, 07:03:07 AM: Hats off from me too.
Title: Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
Post by: AndyR on July 04, 2012, 09:20:21 AM: Quote from: Philly Q on July 03, 2012, 11:20:48 PM
Very cool! I was impressed not only by the playing and the sheer concentration involved, but also by how quickly and effectively he switches between all the different tones. And most of them sound pretty authentic.

More impressive than the switching between tones (for me anyway) was the detuning and retuning on the fly! For me, changing tone like he was doing seemed fairly run-of-the-mill operation... apart from the various distortion/overdrives (footswitches I assume) most of the tonal variation was in his playing, there was a little bit of neck to bridge switching, but otherwise it was all about attack and where he hit it.

But what he was doing to the tuners without pausing!! :o (he looked slightly worried on one of the retunes but relaxed when he heard it was close enough for rocknroll :lol:)

The reaching for the slide was pretty slick as well - looked like he almost panicked first time but made it ok.

Anyone else read any of the comments? What a lot of plonkers there are in the world! :lol:
Title: Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
Post by: Ian Price on July 04, 2012, 12:37:05 PM: Can't see this at work :x

Will be watching tonight (and getting a dose of Strat GAS no doubt)
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Post by: Afghan Dave on July 04, 2012, 12:51:23 PM: Excellent, really excellent!
Title: Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
Post by: Philly Q on July 04, 2012, 01:07:26 PM: Quote from: AndyR on July 04, 2012, 09:20:21 AM
More impressive than the switching between tones (for me anyway) was the detuning and retuning on the fly! For me, changing tone like he was doing seemed fairly run-of-the-mill operation... apart from the various distortion/overdrives (footswitches I assume) most of the tonal variation was in his playing, there was a little bit of neck to bridge switching, but otherwise it was all about attack and where he hit it.

But what he was doing to the tuners without pausing!! :o (he looked slightly worried on one of the retunes but relaxed when he heard it was close enough for rocknroll :lol:)

I may have missed a bit of detuning and retuning, but wasn't it mostly drop-D? That's pretty easy if you know the individual guitar well enough (and so long as you're not bothered about being perfectly in tune! :lol: )

It seemed to me there were quite a lot of tone changes involving pedals or some kind of processing, but he didn't seem to be playing hopscotch so I assumed he was using something with one-button presets.
Title: Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
Post by: Twinfan on July 04, 2012, 01:44:58 PM: Yep, just a Drop D re-tune a couple of times - Phil X does the same thing now and again.

I think he only had some basic single stomp pedals:

Reverb
Fuzz
Distortion
Fuzz-octave thing for a Jack White riff
Maybe a vibrato? Can't remember off the top of my head

That was about it though...
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Post by: TheyCallMeVolume on July 04, 2012, 02:28:53 PM: Sweet
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Post by: Telerocker on July 04, 2012, 10:37:36 PM: Way cool! 8)
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Post by: Ian Price on July 04, 2012, 10:56:32 PM: Strat GAS!!!!

There was also some kind of trem pedal used for Green Day. Not sure if he had a delay there as well for U2 and GnR.
Title: Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
Post by: Keven on July 05, 2012, 04:52:56 PM: take a look at the pedal board! nice and tidy but very efficient in the tones. at first i was thinking he had the patches programmed and just went up, but damn, it's all manual :)

http://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/100riffs/
Title: Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
Post by: gwEm on July 06, 2012, 10:40:12 AM: I've been to the Chicago Music Exchange and its an awesome shop. Highly recommended