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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiC__IjCa2s

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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2012, 11:04:32 PM »
Yep, the Strat sounded great - really authentic for some stuff!

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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2012, 11:12:19 PM »
That was pretty impressive :D
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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #4 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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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2012, 11:42:12 PM »
Absolutely brilliant!
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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2012, 06:43:39 AM »
Yeah, very cool. 
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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2012, 07:03:07 AM »
Hats off from me too.
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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2012, 09:20:21 AM »
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.


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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2012, 12:37:05 PM »
Can't see this at work  :x

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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2012, 12:51:23 PM »
Excellent, really excellent!
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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2012, 01:07:26 PM »
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.
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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #12 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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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2012, 02:28:53 PM »
Sweet

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Re: 100 riffs - a brief history of rock n' roll
« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2012, 10:37:36 PM »
Way cool!  8)
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