Re: screaming guitar

[improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel)]

>Yes - one thing I like to do shout into the pickups of my guitar and
>loop the output.  Sounds quite otherworldly once it's made it's way
>through a few effects.  And then reversing the lot becomes quite a trip.
>
>However, I don't do this live much. Comes off as kinda too much when
>doing these loopy textures and then seeing some bloke scream into his
>guitar.
>
>Then again, maybe I should - and enhance the Neanderthal humour factor.
>(so often drained when everyone is sitting about listening).
>
>David

Mark France, the guitarist I play with in Minus, uses a thin strip of some
kind of flexible metal that he attaches to one of his pickups, held in
place by the magnets. He takes one end of the strip between his lips and
hums into it, and the it gets (very) amplified by the pickups, and usually
run through a fuzz and envelope filter. We do a Miles Davis tune where he
plays the head this way, the sound is really eerie.


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gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
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