Summer Song cover (video)

Gelato · Post by **Gelato** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:05 pm

Towards the end of last year, I played a few songs at my works xmas party. 3.5 of those songs got recorded (before the batteries ran out on the camera

).

Here's one of the songs I did: http://www.owen.net.nz/nzg/summersong-gelato.avi (~16mb DivX. I tried reducing it as much as possible for download). This is a Joe Satriani song that I am destroying

Things to note:
- I'm not a "showman" by any means

- Playing an entire song with your mouth open is wrong (even if I did have Bronchitis that night and couldn't breathe properly)
- Don't adjust the volume of your backing track while you are meant to be playing
- It's human to make mistakes, and I made a lot of human that night...

- No, I'm not wearing a Mysterons t-shirt

johnny mullet · Post by **johnny mullet** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:32 pm

Just downloaded and had a quick listen to the intro. Sounds good but I'll have to wait til after 5 to listen to the whole thing. party on on garth

DaNextSlash · Post by **DaNextSlash** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:42 pm

More shred!!!! Curse you people and your policy of restraint...

TBB Flamey · Post by **TBB Flamey** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:19 pm

Nice, I only have one piece of criticism:

There's not enough sexually infused facial expressions and hip thrusts

Basket Case · Post by **Basket Case** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:20 pm

I symapathise with the open mouth thing. I'm fine and have complete control over my mouth when I play... until I start using a wah pedal- it's then that I start to resemble a goldfish.

johnny mullet · Post by **johnny mullet** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:37 pm

Nasty if you can't close your mouth while looking down at your gat. You get those big stringy goobs hanging off the strings

johnny mullet · Post by **johnny mullet** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:19 pm

Gelato I had a proper listen with cans on and it sounds great. Some nice artificial harmonics coming through among other nice techniques. Great crowd response at the end too. Good on ya.

Jenesis · Post by **Jenesis** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:05 am

Can't get the video going (stupid PC) but it sounds good man, I dug some of your improv stuff towards the end.

Clarky · Post by **Clarky** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:36 am

Pretty cool stuff. I guess this gig was after your dose of inspiration at G3?

johnny mullet · Post by **johnny mullet** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:21 am

Yeah I didn't realise it's s'posed to have video too. I couldn't see nuffeenk

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:06 am

Coolness man

Good choice of song, and a really nice rendition of it.

Post by **Capt. Black** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:19 am

At first it wouldn't play audio. Could see ya but couldn't hear ya. So I downloaded it and it played fine.

Very cool. Nice song and nice playing. Very nice indeed.

I wouldn't worry too much about the open mouth or anything, the viewers attention is drawn to your Mysterons T-shirt.

Zakk Wylde · Post by **Zakk Wylde** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:03 am

In the words of Napoleon Dynamite:

Flippin' Sweet!

Gelato · Post by **Gelato** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:18 pm

Thanks for the kind words everyone

Clarky wrote:Pretty cool stuff. I guess this gig was after your dose of inspiration at G3?

It was a bit scary watching Satch play this song at G3 a week before I was going to be performing it. He'd play something and I'd think "crap, that's not how I learnt it

". Was certainly very inspiring though

Jenesis wrote:Can't get the video going (stupid PC) but it sounds good man, I dug some of your improv stuff towards the end.

I used DivX to encode it, which worked on a couple of PC's and Macs that I tried it on. Don't worry, you aren't missing much without the visuals

Capt. Black wrote:I wouldn't worry too much about the open mouth or anything, the viewers attention is drawn to your Mysterons T-shirt.

I thought you'd say that