RE: Martini skewers, Alligator Clips and Capoes, Oh My!!!

["max valentino" <ekstasis1@hotmail.com>]

Kevin...
go to www.talkbass.com and there is "Tour Journal" that we all ran while 
on 
tour posted there, and a link to the KPIG archive (with, I just found out, 
a 
web video stream too!)
Max Valentino


>From: "Kevin Mulvihill" <kmulvihill@mediaone.net>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>Subject: RE: Martini skewers, Alligator Clips and Capoes, Oh My!!!
>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:25:50 -0700
>
>Very interesting. I want to hear it too! But where? Where I can get to 
>this
>KPIG archive broadcast???
>
>Kevin
>
> > lance g. wrote:
> >
> > "i've been listening to the KPIG archive webcast, and i must say
> > i'm totally
> > blown away by you guys! makes me very sorry to have missed the
> > shows...i do
> > have a technical question for you rick: what gear did you have
> > with you for
> > that interview? in particular, there were some really lovely tapped 
>and/or
> > thrummed and reverberated tones in your piece (layed over the groovy
> > syncopated
> > gamelan-like bed), starting around 9:50 or so...did your signal go 
>through
> > anything particularly exotic, or was that just your superlative
> > alligator-clip
> > & martini stick technique? oh, and what did you mix through?"
> >
> >
> > I was just using a line 6 pedal with my bass capoed up as high as it 
>would
> > go,  alligator clips randomly placed on the strings and then
> > malleting with
> > these awesome martini skewers that I found that have large
> > translucent blue
> > tiki heads on the ends of them.
> > When I play hammered/bowed/slide mandolin (the only kind of
> > mandolin I play,
> > unfortunatetly)  I can use these skewers as
> > hammers with very good multiple bounce capabilites or I can use
> > them as mini
> > 'slides'.  They are awesome and I got them at a trendy
> > retro kitsch store in Santa Cruz for $2.50 for a set of 8.
> >
> > I relied a lot on the line 6 modellers' wonderful 
>backwards/forwards/half
> > speed/double speed characteristics to create parts that
> > were an octave higher or lower.  Using this technique, I play a normal
> > rhythmic ostinato, half the speed and then play a skeletal
> > double speed rhythm to the slowed down rhythm.  By bumping it
> > back to normal
> > speed, I now have a rhythmic line that is
> > twice as vast and an octave higher.............instant abstract drum 
>and
> > bass ;-)
> >
> > Steve Lawson used a line 6 pedal also and his very cool Lexicon guitar
> > effects processor.  I thought I had the line 6 pedal wired until I saw 
>him
> > play and get all of the extraordinarily wierd effects out of his.  He
> > doesn't even use an expression pedal.....what an inspration.   Max, I
> > believe, was also using an aligatored bass through a Line 6 on that 
>piece.
> > I started the piece for about 30 seconds, Steve joined for a minute or 
>so
> > and Max finally entered.  It came out really cool........kind of
> > a psychotic
> > gamelan feel, don't you think?
> >
> > yours,  Rick (loop.pool)
> >
>

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