Sometimes in JANUARY 1990

 




 

Recording: 'Penguin ballet'
Recording:
One-eyed Jack's -  P: Dude.

This cute little number is strongly inspired by pieces by Joe Satriani such as ‘Midnight’ or ‘Days at the beach’. It requires a two-handed tapping technique. The great thing with this kind of playing is that you can perform both the backing rhythm and the melody at the same time.(I’m quit certain that Joe himself stole this technique to somebody else, anyway). The picture above is a cute drawing by Elissa, inspired by the song.

Sometimes in JANUARY 1990

Recording: 'The lost melody'
Recording:
One-eyed Jack's -  P: Dude.

As you may guess, this tune once had a melody attached to it, but the final tape seems to have disappeared forever. All I could find was this edit piece featuring rhythm guitar and bass. It is certainly the first recording I’ve ever made featuring bass guitar, that’s why it is included here.

Sometimes in JANUARY 1990

Recording: 'Various guitar works'
Recording:
One-eyed Jack's -  P: Dude.

This section opens with a piece written by Joe Satriani, called 'Midnight', which requires some two-handed tapping techniques, followed by a home-overdubbed intro of 'Paradise city', from Guns' first LP. At this point, I must explain what 'home-overdubbing' is, since a large portion of tracks from these early times are done with the use of this technique:
Home-overdubbing consists of using two small cassette recorders, one playing a previously recorded tape, the other recording both the cassette player and the additional performed live signal. (Tricky, isn't it?).
Then, there is a suite of solos and riffs from various songs I was studying at the time.