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Whole-oween, Hung Over Dubbed Part 2

October 27, 2007

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By: Gary Drechsel visit website

Tags: Hung Over Dubbed Part 2, Whole-oween

Woof! This one is a dog. It's got a face only a mother could love. From the title you can deduce that: it's an experiment with whole tone scales, it's somehow related to another tune I've done, and it's creepy. I noticed last night while playing around with it that the one riff one kind of similar to the riff from Hung Over Dubbed. Oh well. I had already put in a bunch of time on it and I wasn't about to trash it, since I have no ideas lately. So while playing around with it, it went from having pretty standard soloing to me deciding that I liked how it sounded to play a whole tone scale over the main riff and also over another part. The thing that surprised me was that I could play over an E bass note with a scale that didn't even contain an E in it and it still sounded good to me. Now it may not sound good to YOU hahaha, but I don't care. I threw in a standard scale kind of solo near the end so your ear could sort of recover from whole tone stuff that came before it. The more I messed around with it the more I liked it (sounds like lyrics to a King Crimson song hahaha) and I noticed that it had a creepy kind of sound. So it's now my Halloween song. Sure it's ugly and sloppy, but I love it. OK maybe love is too strong a word hahaha. I used the Parker only.

EDIT - 10/29/07 - I did a remix with a different drum track and uploaded it today. Just added some cymbal crashes and some transition drum fills to make it slightly less boring. I've decided that I like this weird thing, so I felt it needed a little something extra.

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Experiments in guitar recording.

Little nuggets of guitar playing for your (but especially my) enjoyment.

From the very beginning when I used to hear those solos on those old records I used to say: now here is an instrument that is capable of spewing forth true obscenity, you know? If ever there's an obscene noise to be made on an instrument, it's going to come out of a guitar. On a saxophone you can play sleaze. On a bass you can play balls. But on a guitar you can be truly obscene... Let's be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That's why I like it... The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that's my idea of a good time.

Frank Zappa