Backing Track Challenge 397 Funk

[klasaine]

@klasaine : the additional rythm guitar is unobstrusive, adds just a little drive; love the jazzy (and non jazzy) lines. You're going quite fast here.

Yep, that's about the top of my speed limit.

 

[SbS]

@klasaine : Beautifully mixed and played. Funky rhythm guitar stays in the band mix, then some very cool (hot) Funk&Jazz soloing. Overdrive sounds great too.
@Gytaurust : Symphony of solos, more mellow guitar on the left then brighter & fuzzier on the right. Both are interesting themselves and like taking turns until going full throttle towards the end. Great sounding, takes lot of focus when listening, but then the track can be listened more than once, it's so fun.
@guitarsophist : Your ES-175 sounds really good and kind of vintageish, like warm and throaty but still with nice top end. Very enjoyable track. Actually Your's and Gytaurust's tracks made very nice contrast when listening them one after another. First some funk fireworks in stereo, great sounding and listener is almost exhausted in the end. Then nice & peaceful take, offering some breathing room to recover.
@Mellencaster : Wow, Italo western like intro, then it turns into southern boogie & melodic rock. Sounds really good, more overdriven tone than usually. I liked the part just before outro too.

 

[G-52]

Thank you Mike!

 

[G-52]

Thanks, Mike. That's a smokin' BT:

Very cool Alan lots of octane.. great licks thoughout and I liked the dominant stabs

 

[Mellencaster]

That was great!
You turned it into a full-on rock jam ala Lou Reed's 'Rock and Roll Animal'.

Thanks, Ken. I really enjoyed your track I get a Steely Dan feel with your version . Nice buy on the pedal.

 

[Mellencaster]

Thank you Mike!

Very nice Andrew! Love the paisley tele in your photo

 

[G-52]

Very nice Andrew! Love the paisley tele in your photo

Thank you Mike, all great tracks here including yours Tele is a Bill Nash

 

[Mellencaster]

Thank you Mike, all great tracks here including yours Tele is a Bill Nash View attachment 1101580

Awesome! Glen Burton's iconic paisley tele comes to mind when he played the shows with Elvis.

 

[Alan L Cole]

Had family affairs too, then sanded & radiused the neck of my first hand made Tele, no time to playing today. But I can still listen and go trough all great takes.

@Alan L Cole : Wow, strong title there ;D. Fierce funk going, sounds like a Strat in between position, I hear some SRV vibes together ALC thing. Great track!

Thanks, SBS. Yeah, the title was questionable but I recently found out about castoreum - interesting and bizarre. Watch out for Swedish Schnapps!

 

[Alan L Cole]

@Alan L Cole : Very nice! A little more overdrive than usual, a very rythmically playing result in a high energy playing. Dig the pickup changes.

Thanks, Ullrich. Mistakes or not, you rocked your take!

 

[Alan L Cole]

I used a Fender Deluxe Strat and Epiphone LP through a Headrush MX5 pedalboard.

Smokin' wailin' and tone there, Mike!

 

[Alan L Cole]

Very cool Alan lots of octane.. great licks thoughout and I liked the dominant stabs

Thanks, Andrew. I dig what you did on your take - sweet tone and it swings!

 

[udoering]

@G-52 : like Alan said: great tone (amp reverb?), swinging melodious lines. Lovely take.

 

[NWinther]

Thanks Mike

 

[SbS]

Thanks, SBS. Yeah, the title was questionable but I recently found out about castoreum - interesting and bizarre. Watch out for Swedish Schnapps!

Haha, found the title fun! ..just googling it now oh.. . I knew surströmming and stuff, but didn't know that about our Western neighbours' culinary culture!

 

[Eyetalian Mouse]

Thanks @Mellencaster for the groovy track. Here's a bag of noodles with a healthy portion of clams for protein.

 

[udoering]

@NWinther : you sound a little out of control - wild, impulsive playing. You´re takink us with you on that ride.
@Eyetalian Mouse : your chord opening brought in other styles of rock music, I think - liked that a lot. What comes then is also very much to my taste.

 

[SbS]

@G-52 : Real nice springy, splashy tone and funky feel. Hearing some phasery thing too?
@NWinther : Raw force in your tone and playing, powerful! Then some psychedelic feel in the middle, adding something maybe flanger like effect? A wild ride like udoering said.
@Eyetalian Mouse : Guitar sits nicely in the mix, the tone is darker but still clear, I like it Groovy playing and runs.

 

[NWinther]

adding something maybe flanger like effect?

Thanks guys...just my old Maxon analog chorus...which by the way can be rather psychedelic

 

[G-52]

@G-52 : Real nice springy, splashy tone and funky feel. Hearing some phasery thing too?
@NWinther : Raw force in your tone and playing, powerful! Then some psychedelic feel in the middle, adding something maybe flanger like effect? A wild ride like udoering said.
@Eyetalian Mouse : Guitar sits nicely in the mix, the tone is darker but still clear, I like it Groovy playing and runs.

Ha! and nice ears I was trying to add some depth and volume to a clean sound which I can’t seem to grasp. I ran 2 identical tracks in GarageBand; cool jazz and at a lesser volume ‘mystery chorus’ which has some fuzz in it. Maybe a pedal is the answer. Thanks for your observations