Re: Ritchie Blackmore looping

[Art Simon <simart@gmail.com>]

Loved that Akkerman song when it came out in 1977, and I still do. Great groove, great guitar. The live album at the Montreux Jazz festival around that time is excellent as well.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:44 PM, <stanitarium@earthlink.net> wrote:

used to buy the early solo Jan records-loved them to death and played them to death-great music that stands the test of time.Jan Akkerman - Streetwalker - YouTube

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From: Paul Richards
Sent: Nov 24, 2011 6:26 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Ritchie Blackmore looping

Ahhhh...Jan Akkerman. What about his soloing on Questions? Answers? Answers? Questions? / Focus 2 (I think))? He could really rock and his tone was so awesome. He is a vastly underrated guitarist. Of course, Focus ia a vastly underrated group. They've always been one of my favorites.

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From: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>;
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>;
Subject: Re: Ritchie Blackmore looping
Sent: Thu, Nov 24, 2011 6:49:56 PM

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Here's a classic example of that tone:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm9-PZJ3buk


Man what a sound! I love that neck PU sound! That tape recorder
compression is so up-your-face! Makes me think about Hendrix If Six
Was Nine (although that was bridge PU, but still the same PU tone
compression). Vini Reilly (The Durutti Column) once called the
STratocaster "a wonderful machine" or something like that, and that
really is what it is. I love those Strat quirks like the sploinky
sounds of string tension evening out through the nut score as you play
with the whammy bar. I recently recorded this with my strat that I
mocked up in -82 by a Schekter body and all other parts form one of
those early Japan built Squire strats:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4963264/strat_psalm.mp3
Can't say how much I love that tone, although here it is bridge PU all
through. Another classic and great album with the bridge PU strat tone
is Hamburger Concerto with ancient dutch group Focus. Jan Akkerman
played through rotating speaker Lesley cab's on that album which is
another epic strat sound I adore.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen

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Art Simon
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