What is Steve Hackett doing in this video between 329-353 :?: Is it palm muting and some form of chicken picking..sounds pretty cool..BTW enjoy the video 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WX_RAroNf4
Cool video. It looks and sounds like he's palm-muting, but with the palm further up on the string than what people do nowadays.
They had some pretty big hair back then too. Is that from about '71 or something?
I guess it looks like EVH wasn't the first with the tapping thing.
Cool video. It looks and sounds like he's palm-muting, but with the palm further up on the string than what people do nowadays.
They had some pretty big hair back then too. Is that from about '71 or something?
I guess it looks like EVH wasn't the first with the tapping thing.
Actually, I believe it was Steve Hackett who first recorded taping, and he may have even invented it, but I am not sure about that.
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If memory serves correctly (no promises there! :wink: ) there was a jazz guitarist in the fifties who's credited as being the first "tapper." And this was long before technology made it possible to tap a little more effortlessly and efficiently. I'm going to have to go dig through my files and find his name again.
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That's pretty awesome, whatever he's doing.
I'd also like to add in...that lead singer seems confused.
well...Peter gabriel has always been confused in his whole life...that's why he's so great :)
Cool video. It looks and sounds like he's palm-muting, but with the palm further up on the string than what people do nowadays.
They had some pretty big hair back then too. Is that from about '71 or something?
I guess it looks like EVH wasn't the first with the tapping thing.
I think it was from 1970 or 1971. The sound he gets is almost like a Fiddle.
Steve Hackett is one of the most under rated guitarists of all times IMHO. Those guys were really great in the early 70's before Hackett and Gabrial left the band. Phil Collins is an excellent drummer, but not my favorite front man :wink:
If memory serves correctly (no promises there! :wink: ) there was a jazz guitarist in the fifties who's credited as being the first "tapper." And this was long before technology made it possible to tap a little more effortlessly and efficiently. I'm going to have to go dig through my files and find his name again.
Everything old is new again at some point... :wink:
Peace
I remember seeing a guitarist, in the very early 60's, who tapped with both hands - right hand melody, left hand rhythm and thumbs making a bass line.
As for "a little more effortlessly and efficiently", he did play a split-sound (EAD into one "stereo channel" and GBE into the other), double cut-away Gretsch White Falcon, so it won't have been that painful. :lol: :lol:
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Cool video. It looks and sounds like he's palm-muting, but with the palm further up on the string than what people do nowadays.
They had some pretty big hair back then too. Is that from about '71 or something?
I guess it looks like EVH wasn't the first with the tapping thing.
I think it was from 1970 or 1971. The sound he gets is almost like a Fiddle.
Steve Hackett is one of the most under rated guitarists of all times IMHO. Those guys were really great in the early 70's before Hackett and Gabrial left the band. Phil Collins is an excellent drummer, but not my favorite front man :wink:
I agree...Steve Hackett is certainly one of many under rated guitarists in the music world. He has been in my top five greatest guitarist list since about 1974....
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The February issue of Guitar Player has a brief article on Hackett. You might want to have a look at it.
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