I got to speak to Alessandro Alessandroni who played the classical guitar and fuzz guitar (and the whistling) on most of Morricone’s scores before he passed. I am a huge fan of his solo work but I wanted to ask what he used for his tone. Believe it or not...a Stratocaster and old Maestro fuzz pedal. He said he never understood why everyone writes that he used a Jazzmaster. It was a Stratocaster. I highly recommend you check out Alessandroni’s solo work such as Lady Frankenstein, Devil’s Nightmare, The Mad Butcher And my personal favorite Killer Nun. Killer Nun was recorded in the late 70s and features hip hop beats played on an old drum machine mixed with his iconic fuzzed out guitar, an analog synth and a recording of a Gregorian Chant Of Dies Irea on a reel to reel player that he manipulated with a pencil to warble the pitch. Almost a precursor to a lot of the music and techniques we hear now in hip hop, industrial and electronic.
Alessandro Alessandroni was also the best "Whistler" (i don t know if it is the right term) in the world. He had developed a particular technique managing to whistle emitting very little air to not blowin on the microphone and have the cleanest sound possible. I love his album called "Prisma Sonoro"
TorontoLarrivee For some reason every guitar forum I see on the Spaghetti Western Tone I see Jazzmasters and Mustangs thrown around but never a Strat. I think people assume because it has a similar surf type vibe to it and since it’s from the 60s it must be a Jazzmaster or something.
Uh uh. I know what you're thinking. "Did he play six strings or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a Eastwood Airline 56, the most powerful axe in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
When I was a kid U2 made me want to play guitar, but spaghetti western music is what got me to quit stalling and pick one up. I'd gone to Six Flags Over Texas, and in the Texas section of the theme park they were playing some of that stuff from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I overheard someone say what movie it was from and within days I rented it on VHS and was trying to pick out the guitar lines on a little student-scale acoustic. Decades later, I'm still playing. Nice video.
Awww yeah! These are the kind of sounds I'm always aiming for...but that fuzz was spot on. I too love the surf sound. that over the top drip heard on the chantays pipeline is something I just love to hear. Such a shame there's no equivalent of the surfy bear MOSFET reverb kits here in the UK....☹️
Haha, you seem like a cool guy. Subscribed! I'm glad your video was the first result from Google for "western sounding guitar", you are definitely one of the more fun RU-vidrs to watch, looks like you were actually enjoying it. Thanks for the tips!
what did I just watch... I been looking for tips into deep spring reverb surf sounds, and you came out with this. Man, that guitar playing was sick!!! really! I don't need anything else, already subscribed.
I have a road trip to my Dad's place pretty soon, looking forward to retrieving an old Gibson reverb tank that belonged to my grandfather way back when.. :0)
Jay, not only are your videos of the most informative, inspiring and structured out there, but you know how to endear yourself to your audience. Your delivery is second to none. I swear with the enthusiasm you project, you could have been taught by Mr. Paul Gilbert himself... you’re top class in my book kiddo!!! X 🖖🏼
pure gold, you captured the essence spot on, the previous video i searched for was the luke force theme from star wars and there was a nice rendition but you played exactly what i wanted to hear, the sound is absolutely amazing, gold
It's spaghetti western adjacent, but the rockabilly dream pop hybrid a la Julee Cruise and the occasional late 50s oddity vaults me into the stratosphere.
This is why I'm a Patreon member! Love you for this Jay! Awesome how you kick that Anasounds spring reverb tank to get the gun shot and whip effects! Can't wait to do this with my Gretch, but I'll have to kick my AC-3O CC2 for those gun shots! AWESOME! 🤠🎸🏇
Good shout. And if I remember correctly, The Magnificent Seven was a remake of The Seven Samurai, and there’s more than a hint of Japanese Kendo etc going on with the lightsabers and Jedi costumes in Star Wars. It’s all linked.
Star Wars was kind of influenced by an Akira film which I did watch. The scene where Harrison Ford chases the troopers, and then starts running away that was taken from an old Japanese film, the same guy that made the original Fistful of Dollars.
Munsters tunes too 👍🏽 wif ya secret basement fuzz? Nice SW bit 🤗 A monsterus wide stereo WDW Metal lead with phase dly and so much verb you’re feel like a cave echoing in a bigger cave then add loud! And plenty of it😂
This is a killer rig! Love the whip sounds & spinner for slowing down the tremolo. Cool fuzz, I use a Rat clone that I built and it really gets you there.
Hey man, this thing sounds so Freaking Awesome! Plus I Freakin LOVE The Star Wars Cover. My Dad bought me up on Clint Eastwood- Spaghetti Westerns as well as me loving Surf- Spook guitar music. You also look like your really having fun too. I really gotta get me one of these to go with my Strats- Gretsch and Fender Twin Reverb
im using an AC15 on the normal input with the reverb all the way up and a strymon el capistan with the spring reverb about 75 percent, with a room reverb/mic'd room sound from the el cap and WOW it sounds so close. II use the bigsby on certain notes. Sounds so awesome drenched in verb.
I believe your passion is on another genre 😉 but well explained. For a original sound you need to use a old stratocaster, little valve amps, germanium distorsion and external spring reverb. I remember Ennio speaking about the differents decays in the reverb tanks and how to mix them in the final scene the bad the ugly.. langevin big Iron audio transformers and valves, and tape on tape.. you go near with your equipment but go so close to the original sound.. believe me, a big technique rear. Cheers my friend!
What kind of guitar is that? Coolest looking thing ive seen. Those pedals look cool and they sound cool. The good bad and ugly theme is epic. Your playing is superrb.
Thank you. I really loved these movies growing up and I have the tab from one of my Guitar World books but its nice to to hear it too!!! Also, your Telecaster Tone video was excellent also as my buddy and I are Tele Freaks!!!! I'll post it on your other video!!!
I loved this Jay, thanks for an awesome demonstration! You really nailed the vibe for sure. And yeah, these movies were the coolest thing ever as a kid.... and still now as an adult :-)
Great video! I add a bit of Digitech Freqout and let the harmonic feedback ring through the reverb, it sounds like someone's whistling the Morricone-style on top of guitar chords.
your sound is awsome, as always, but maybe a little bit too modern for "spaghetti western". Here in italy in sixties we didn t have really good amps and guitars..electric guitars in particular were really bad with the tipical "garbage" single coilish sound, thin and with no sustain XD
