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Abschlußbericht Mixed Signal Baugruppen 2008/9 Mischpult SILVESTRIS (Teil 1) Einführung
And people are doing it again now, in order to try and re-create those sounds. They’ve got all this
digital equipment and yet they’re standing down the end of a corridor…
“Yes, they’re using bathrooms and stairwells.”
Your solos with Elvis are legendary. Were they completely off the cuff or did you have some idea of
what you were going to do?
“No, they were completely off the cuff, I never sat down and played the same thing twice. You might
get a bass riff or something, as a hook for the song, but the solos were strictly ad lib. Even now I’ll go
back and I can’t play note for note what I played then; I can get the general feel of it but I can never
go back and hit it note for note. It just doesn’t feel right.”
But you must be aware that lots of guitarists today are still trying to do exactly that…
“Yes, there’s a boy on this tour we just finished, plays every note I ever played – even the bad ones!
His name is Peter Davenport and it just amazed me to watch him.”
But is it flattering, or do you think it’s silly?
“No, I think it’s flattering that somebody would take the time. Especially with songs like Too Much,
which was in an unusual key for us at the time. It was in A flat, and we’d done two or three cuts on it,
but on this particular cut I just got absolutely bonkers, just got lost, but somehow or other I came out
of it and that’s the one Elvis picked. He said, ‘That thing felt good,’ because feel was what it was all
about. But anyway, this boy Peter would stand there and play that sucker note for note.”
Hören Sie hierzu von der Begleit-CD:
Track 45: Elvis Presley Too Much 1956
You’re so well known for the ES295 Gibson guitar that it became dubbed the ‘Scotty Moore’ model,
but you didn’t use that guitar all the time, did you?
“No, actually I didn’t use it for very long. When I came out of the service I bought a Fender, but I just
couldn’t hold on to it; it was too small and the weight was wrong. But then I got the ES295 and I used
it through most of the Sun sessions. Then I got a Gibson L5 and went from that to a Super 400, and
I’ve stayed with the 400s down through the years.”
Is the one you’re using now an old one?
“No, it’s new. When I decided to hang it up, I just sold everything off. I never was one to collect a
bunch of guitars like some people do. But then I had to go out and buy another one…!”
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