"Pictures of Matchstick Men" TZF

[Vsat]

Tasty online snippet here (in case you forgot this 1968 offering from Status Quo):

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/listenwatch/0,,496926,00.html

Neat-O Thomas Wah + 12 string as well!

Cheers, Mike

[Bernardduur]

That was a great song BTW; used to cover it in my jamsessions but little people know the song......

[10acErnie]

Love that song!
Check this version:

http://daville.com/Pictures%20of%20Matchstick%20Men.mp3

[spudulike]

Love that song!
Check this version:

http://daville.com/Pictures%20of%20Matchstick%20Men.mp3

who's that version by ?

[10acErnie]

Love that song!
Check this version:

http://daville.com/Pictures%20of%20Matchstick%20Men.mp3

who's that version by ?

Me!!! 

[petemoore]

  Still IS....Nice Cover !!!

[spudulike]

Hey nice one 

[Vsat]

10acErnie,
Nice!!
Regards, Mike

[phaeton]

Excellent cover!

Great mix, love the rhythm guitar sound.  What is it?

[10acErnie]

Thanks everyone!

Excellent cover!

Great mix, love the rhythm guitar sound.  What is it?

I used a '60 Strat relic into (I hate to say it) Protools and used Amplitube with a TC Chorus and a Waves Flanger......... I'm embaressed, but it's easier to record that way sometimes. Forgive me!!!!!

[phaeton]

  Forgive me!!!!!

Forgiven!

My inspiration will always find me at the wee hours of the morning.  For those times, i use the Boss ME-30 Multi-FX into a Yamaha 4-track, then mix it down to Cool Edit to digitize it.  One thing about the ME-30 though, all along I've had this feeling that all 7 distortion types that it offers are nothing more than clever equalization applied to a turn-for-turn DS-1 Distortion circuit.  The effects are useable, but all in all the unit makes all my amps sound the same, and I don't like that.

As a side note, I have a recording (somewhere)  of a friend of mine and I covering Pictures Of Matchstick Men, and I used the "fuzz" and "phase" effects on the ME-30, then bounced it to another track backwards with reverb and my KMD phaser.  Makes those 5 note lil "dee dee deeduh dee" riffs jump out all psychodelicrazylike.

[Peter Snowberg]

VERY cool 10acErnie!

Great cover! It's now in my playlist between My Bloody Valentine and Danzig.

[10acErnie]

  Forgive me!!!!!

Forgiven!

My inspiration will always find me at the wee hours of the morning.  For those times, i use the Boss ME-30 Multi-FX into a Yamaha 4-track, then mix it down to Cool Edit to digitize it.  One thing about the ME-30 though, all along I've had this feeling that all 7 distortion types that it offers are nothing more than clever equalization applied to a turn-for-turn DS-1 Distortion circuit.  The effects are useable, but all in all the unit makes all my amps sound the same, and I don't like that.

As a side note, I have a recording (somewhere)  of a friend of mine and I covering Pictures Of Matchstick Men, and I used the "fuzz" and "phase" effects on the ME-30, then bounced it to another track backwards with reverb and my KMD phaser.  Makes those 5 note lil "dee dee deeduh dee" riffs jump out all psychodelicrazylike.

I know what you mean.
I don't really mind the heavy crunchin' distortion from Amplitube or Ampfarm but it's kinda tough to get a real nice Texas Strat tone.

"psychodelicrazylike" Hah, I love that word!

VERY cool 10acErnie!

Great cover! It's now in my playlist between My Bloody Valentine and Danzig.

I'm flattered...... right between MBV and Danzig!!!   

[Peter Snowberg]

Thanks again for that tune 10acErnie!

Now it's sitting between The Id Group's "White Cadillac" and a Dandy Warhols' cover of "Hells Bells" by AC/DC.         (that's bracketed by some Rush and Mankind Liberation Front)

[spudulike]

Its track #1 on my iPod