How to Sound Like the Guitarists of David Bowie | Potent Pairings

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There are few artists with as diverse of a range as David Bowie. Throughout his career, Bowie consistently pushed the boundaries of sound, songwriting and style; always with great success. To help craft his vision, Bowie enlisted numerous guitar wizards throughout the course of his career including Mick Ronson, Carlos Alomar, Robert Fripp and Nile Rodgers just to name a few. In this #PotentPairings, we're investigating tones from distinctly different parts of Bowie's golden years and how to use common pedals to capture them. Watch this video and nail some of Bowie's most iconic tones. Click the link for more information: goo.gl/wMi2Ma
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@joewesterland5697 7 лет назад

I think a sounds like NewOrder/JoyDivision who have a unique sound with both the guitar and bass that would make a really interesting video!!

@andrewpappas9311 2 года назад

Oh yeah, a video showing Peter Hook’s playing would be awesome. Definitely one of my favourite bassists

@Irisplove 7 лет назад

So nice to see someone take on Fripp's playing on "It's No Game Pt.1"....and get it right!

@faronfaron1401 7 лет назад

I am surprised that Earl Slick was not mentioned. He was on 8 or 9 albums. And some of the most pivotal ones such as "Young Americans" and "Station to Station".

@jl_mendoza 5 лет назад

Maybe because he can't do the station to station lol😂

@ShiroiTengu 4 года назад

Agreed, the intros to Stay and Golden Years are all Slick and would have been perfect.

@drdre4397 3 года назад

@@ShiroiTengu I agree that it's likely he can't play the slick stuff, stay is an iconic under appreciated riff.

@gmb858 2 года назад

No acknowledgment of Stevie Ray Vaughan on "Let's Dance?"

@jkirtleyheacting 5 лет назад

Great stuff. Really interesting.

@TheGuitarHistorian 4 года назад

I have to say that you missed the mark on this one. There is a clarity to Ronson’s tone that was not on display here. He did toe the line between a thick bass response and a wild treble tone. I would consider his sound to be these 2 sounds competing at all times, with the treble side winning just a little bit. It almost sounded like he was double tracking himself sometimes.

@S1N1CAL 3 года назад

I heard David Bowie for the first time when I was just a little kid, I'm 18 now and still can't get over the sound of Rebel Rebel. I fucking love that song.

@loganmiddleton5959 7 лет назад

wouldn't mind seeing ya tackle some other gems like Sound + Vision

@idogn 3 года назад

So cool!!!

@alanjamesh.zamorano1677 7 лет назад

There is several layering done on Heroes, and Robert Fripp makes use of the feedback in a very masterful way, adding textures to the melody. When playing the song's melody with one guitar it will always sound kind of empty. I also don't think E-bows existed back then, I might be wrong. That just places Fripp on a whole different level.

@stevestewart-sturges2159 7 лет назад

The EBow or ebow is a brand name of Heet Sound Products, of Los Angeles, California, for the original type of monophonic handheld electromagnetic string driver, invented by Greg Heet in 1969, first introduced in 1976, and patented in 1978. The name Ebow stands for "Electronic Bow" or Energy Bow) (often spelled E-bow in common usage).[1] The EBow is a battery-powered electronic device for playing the electric guitar. The EBow uses a pickup - inductive string driver - feedback circuit, including a sensor coil, driver coil, and amplifier, to induce forced string vibrations. The Ebow is monophonic, and drives one string at a time, producing a sound reminiscent of using a bow on the strings.[2] Thank you Wikipedia.... Possible Fripp may have had one, I know he's a master of various techniques, maybe he didn't need one...

@alanjamesh.zamorano1677 7 лет назад

Steve Stewart-Sturges Yes Fripp is a very unique player. His guitar playing on the album Scary Monsters is my favourite work done by him. The intro to Kingdome Come is also a good example of those long held notes that only he knows how to.

@nicktheparanoid6282 7 лет назад

Steve Stewart-Sturges Having seen robert fripp live,he sure as hell doesnt need one! But for us mortals,we kinda need them lol

@stevestewart-sturges2159 7 лет назад

That would have been incredible...! That guy is on another planet, so lucky you got to see him... I've seen quite a few of the prog rockers over the years but never had the sonic pleasure of Mr. Fripp!

@mdcesana 7 лет назад

There was an article in Sound On Sound all about the recording of Heroes, you're absolutely correct that he didn't use an ebow: "Everyone who's played the song with Bowie since then has had to use an E-bow to duplicate it, but Fripp had a technique in those days where he measured the distance between the guitar and the speaker where each note would feed back. For instance, an 'A' would feed back maybe at about four feet from the speaker, whereas a 'G' would feed back maybe three and a half feet from it. He had a strip that they would place on the floor, and when he was playing the note 'F' sharp he would stand on the strip's 'F' sharp point and 'F' sharp would feed back better. He really worked this out to a fine science, and we were playing this at a terrific level in the studio, too. It was very, very loud, and all the while he was playing these notes - that beautiful overhead line - Eno was turning the dials and creating a new envelope and just playing with the filter bank. We did three takes of that, and although one take would sound very patchy, three takes had all of these filter changes and feedback blending into that very smooth, haunting, overlaying melody which you hear." Makes it all the more impressive! Full Article: www.soundonsound.com/techniques/classic-tracks-david-bowie-heroes

@TheNeonRabbit 6 лет назад

I was hoping for that wicked sound on "Queen bitch"

@joerandom2957 5 лет назад

Those bends lmao

@VeryScaryBiscuits 6 лет назад

Good playing

@ad6499 6 лет назад

Potent Pairings is an awesome series, Reverb. Keep it up. Rebel Rebel sounded excellent.

@TristanFerlesch 6 лет назад

you guys definitely have gotten better since this one

@xdef1ne 2 года назад

All you need for Micks tone is a tone bender fuzz (or something of the likes) & a wah pedal slightly cocked forward, maybe a bit of echo if you want

@duh_matos_ 2 года назад

cant read the buttons on the "dirty little secret" .-.

@pdg887 7 лет назад

Sweet! Honorable mention: Modern Love, guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn?

@andrewpappas9311 5 лет назад

SRV also played all the lead stuff on _Let’s Dance_ as well, but if he was on Modern Love I’ll have to take another listen

@timidater4803 7 лет назад

what about Earl Slick?

@thesolomonproject 4 года назад

The pedals were mostly a mistake, just made it sound crowded and not at all like songs themselves did

@celluloid-kali 2 года назад

downvote for lack of adrian belew as well as that moonage daydream solo

6 лет назад

Qué guitarra más guapa!

@jbal6956 7 лет назад

Guys i heard srv only played the solo in let's dance

@theearthenstar1355 3 года назад

All Mick used was a wah, tone bender mki, and an echoplex through his Les Paul and "Pig"

@rjassc2 4 года назад

If you want to hear a descent ‘Mick Ronson’ Moonage Daydream sound, check out @ Kelly Dean Allen guitar, i’m sure it would make the late great Ronno very proud

@acidlancegaming8338 7 лет назад

These are really great videos, i just wish they were a bit longer :P.

@andyanraharja2 5 лет назад

cheers dood

@jxff2000 2 года назад

I had no idea Lennon was Bowie’s guitarist

@ThisIsReadyMade 7 лет назад

Can we get an episode on how to sound like SRV?

@TenThumbsProductions 5 лет назад

Gary Moore please!!!!!!

@cactus-mcjacktus 2 года назад

Fripp but no Belew? damn

@jackh1570 4 года назад

he messed up lets dance a bit. Supposed to let the delay do most of it.

@ryboul 7 лет назад

how to sound like St Vincent!

@DeakyBassist 7 лет назад

The lead guitar in Fame was played by Earl Slick, Lennon played acoustic guitar, and Alomar played that phased riff

@davidtm98 4 года назад

@jreagle58 Год назад

Lennon was a lot of things but a master guitar player he was not.

@lauracampoli628 3 года назад

can someone please exaplin the first part of fame what else he was using other than that pedal

@lauracampoli628 3 года назад

the black pedal that says amplifier instrument

@CarlosVargas-cn7rx 7 лет назад

Hey, Did Robert Fripp used an octave pedal in the "It's Not Game (Part 1)" Solo?

@Fran99lf Год назад

And Adrian Belew????

@francisdedumo3323 5 лет назад

At 2:54 I didn't know that John Lennon used to be a sessions guitarist for David Bowie's song.

@nvl2158 5 лет назад

he co wrote "fame" and provided some backup vocals and guitar playing

@kanino0666 7 лет назад

and SRV?

@rillloudmother 7 лет назад

lol that suffragette is a struggle.

@FxkDGM 5 лет назад

Mick Ronson's version of Heroes sounds pretty good tbh, imo better than the original.

@Anteroization 6 лет назад

i wish i can play a quitar, any quitar, thanks mate

@peterlukach310 5 лет назад

Mick Ronson > everyone else

@joerandom2957 5 лет назад

Surprised I didn’t see SRV on the Let’s Dance one. He did most of the main guitar riffs. It doesn’t event sound like it’s a guitar making the “duh-duh-d-d-duhduhduh” part, probably a synthesizer when you listen to the actual song. But the SRV guitar riffs are much more pronounced than the other.

@stilldisorder 4 года назад

SRV only did the leads on "Let's Dance" and the delayed effect was done in post production. Nile Rogers is playing that main guitar rhythm. He came REALLY close with the delay setting he used.

@jackflash5659 4 года назад

No "Panic in Detroit"?

@41doc 7 лет назад

How to sound like Michael Landau!!!..... That would be "AWESOME"!

@hickorymccay2994 4 года назад

You forgot Station To Station.

@yungsavagesleeper3198 7 лет назад

Alright i'm almost 100% sure Carlos used anything but a mxr phase 90 by the way your version came out.

@ShiroiTengu 4 года назад

Pretty sure he'd used a MuTron

@citioflights 7 месяцев назад

the rythm guitars on FAME dont actually use a WAH pedal. carlos alomar is using an ENVELOPE FILTER. not a crybaby.

@sunepedersen8537 5 лет назад

noone can get that heroes sound

@rafindraandhikapermana2499 7 лет назад

Life on mars?

@jl_mendoza 5 лет назад

I actually thought that Earl Slick was on Fame

@wesleyprice7496 6 лет назад

No SRV for the Let’s Dance solo?

@markferguson3745 3 года назад

Fripp famously used the rare Buzzaround Fuzz on the Bowie albums.It's a high gain type that's easily approached by many common Bender types, but it can be nastier than most in certain contexts.Odd circuit, made of spare parts.

@LANEBarrett 7 лет назад

Thanks - Appreciated..

@TheJamison76 7 лет назад

No Jean Genie? That crazy dude

@Braulios_Penesecou 7 лет назад

the bend on heroes it's just hilarious

@phenixreturns 6 лет назад

not an ebow ?amazing sustain

@andrewtate8303 Год назад

What are those two pedals used for "width of a circle "?

@alanjamesh.zamorano1677 7 лет назад

I mean no offense to the guitarist really, but after hearing Moonage Daydream for many years and then this cover of Mick's ending solo is painful to hear, and when he kicks in the echo its just like "adding echo won't help it sound better, buddy" . I really think that back then guitarists like Ronson and many others used to worked on their vibrato and the acurracy of their string bending to deliver an expressive solo, something that I believe is missing here.

@dahliafiend 2 года назад

Check out Adrian Woodward’s version on RU-vid.

@dahliafiend 2 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pds9fAjycjQ.html

@MaBaKar 2 года назад

@@dahliafiend Adrian is a fantastic player and teacher, good call!

@mstemmelen 5 лет назад

What about Stevie Ray Vaughn?

@alexpol-pd7vb 7 лет назад

What pedals you would use in "Gean Jenie"?

@kiandagger 5 лет назад

Alex Pol you can usually get the right sound if you have overdrive on sort of low and turn your amp way up

@kiandagger 5 лет назад

Alex Pol that’s how Ronson got his sound, with volume

@christos_anesti241 3 года назад

Rebel rebel wasn’t bad

@dannyspencer5529 6 лет назад

No Ziggy Stardust, my favorite riff, ok then I will just find my own glam rock sound.

@rattymaxreilly5147 5 лет назад

Weird flex, but ok.

@benlaxton3371 5 лет назад

It’s the same one used on suffragette city

@oscarmadera8267 5 лет назад

Every time not-Andy makes a video on Reverb, the base tone thin and tiny. They have all those insanely expense products yet they have can’t mic anything up right. Big oof.

@camswanson7403 3 года назад

how to sound like the guitarists of david bowie, aka david bowie

@jamesonguitars1322 7 лет назад

Hmmm - nuff said.

@peterpete262 5 лет назад

Was That suffragette city??.....

@owenhu9465 7 лет назад

im sorry, moonage daydream was awful

@gusdupree9076 6 лет назад

Owen Hu i have a feeling you're being disingenuous, mr.hu, don't apologize, owen it ,pfft

@KeeperOfPoops 6 лет назад

no it wasn't, it was amazing!

@Sivkay 6 лет назад

Owen Hu i

@diogofonseca3161 6 лет назад

That's because in moonage daydream we are used to hear more the flute than the guitar.

@jamesy1955 6 лет назад

Owen Hu You're right, mate. Sounded nothing like Moonage Daydream. 😏

@HUSHMONEYBAND 7 лет назад

Do T.Rex next

@raulmoya5435 5 лет назад

Keep practicing

@sherwintavarez8539 2 года назад

John Lennon plays guitar on fame, AND NOBODY TOLD ME?!?!?!?!?!

@bobcorbin3294 5 лет назад

Where's Adrian Belew?

@stilldisorder 4 года назад

Adrian Belew only really played on Lodger. And even then, he was more of a lead guitarist who was cut up in post to "fit" the songs he recorded on.

@Nansen1981 5 лет назад

Oh and I forgot to mention a Les Paul.

@kylestratton3546 7 лет назад

Is that a new doo i see?

@austinwang4828 7 лет назад

Do a jeff beck!!!

@jessemoneyhun3621 4 года назад

Lol. No SRV rundown at the end?

@louiso.4325 6 лет назад

Damn. Everyone hating on his version of moonage daydream. The man tried at least!

@ricwhatever 7 лет назад

beginning line super sounds like dark center of the universe by modest mouse butt

@jjpou1072 7 лет назад

I'm afraid to tell this. I didn't like these sounds although these pedals are wonderful.

@MrTafyism 5 лет назад

y'all must've been unaware of SRV's guitar work in "let's dance"

@G.Lopes.96 7 лет назад

Moonage Daydream was so pathetic... sorry. :/

@theREALChadsexinton 7 лет назад

Ya, that was all wrong. What I do though when I play Moonage, I use a Devi Ever Soda Meiser fuzz with a tape echo delay pedal (Keeley Magnetic Eco). It gets the job done.

@AlfredHugecokk 7 лет назад

Beef_Wellington I love this Devi Ever fuzz pedal (and sound) Sodomizer !

@gusdupree9076 6 лет назад

Gabriel Lopes what's with apologizing, own it or do it better, besides they sell gear, not teach, this is to show case gear not chops

@KeeperOfPoops 6 лет назад

i disagree, it was astounding

@jordanwhite3929 7 лет назад

I'm pretty sure srv played let's dance

@Reverb 7 лет назад

+Jordan White SRV played the solo on "Let's Dance".

@emdblues 7 лет назад

and that's how not to play let's dance. :)

@shkwave99 7 лет назад

*SHOTS FIRED* awwww snap!

@blissmaster71 7 лет назад

he demonstrated the rhythm part to "Let's Dance", which was indeed played by Nile Rodgers. To demo the SRV solo, he would have had to restring with 14's...

@gusdupree9076 6 лет назад

DEEPWINTER that's older than srv's corpse

@ElectricLabel 7 лет назад

Alomar doesn't play on the recording of Heroes, its all Fripp.

@jurriaanmeeuws8384 6 лет назад

ElectricLabel It's definitely Alomar on Heroes. What makes you think Alomar did not play on Heroes?

@stilldisorder 4 года назад

Alomar was part of the DAM rhythm section that played on heroes.

@TristanFerlesch 6 лет назад

god moonage daydream was awful

@KeeperOfPoops 6 лет назад

you mean it was AWESOME

@drdre4397 3 года назад

The rebel rebel tone was by far the worst.

@thomasporton9656 7 лет назад

Width Of A Circle was spot on

@webz3589 6 лет назад

ziggy stardust?

@adee2569 7 лет назад

big fan of reverb, but this really was quite terrible.

@gusdupree9076 6 лет назад

a. dausch so ,it's over , douche, er dausch

@alanhaynes418 6 лет назад

Just what I was thinking - it really cheapened the whole sound when it was used - it would be fine for a lo-fi type of sound but in this case a higher quality of reverb was needed.

@orlandolopezfranco9659 6 лет назад

how to sound like the clash?

@maximo.01 7 лет назад

Guys could you make a video for John Mayer? :)

@gusdupree9076 6 лет назад

thanks for schooling the kids on here ,reverb , ziggy would be proud

@danielnichols3241 7 лет назад

Wheres ziggy stardust

@marcoe.f.mendiolaulloa4440 6 лет назад

How to sound like Carlos Alomar

@josemorales-jr4oh 5 лет назад

Heroes is with an E bow

@ShiroiTengu 4 года назад

No it isn't. It was Fripp moving back and forth in front of the speakers to get feedback and then processed through Eno's briefcase synthesizer.

@Nansen1981 5 лет назад

Your just selling pedals/effects, most of this stuff wasn’t around when these tracks were recorded. Watch the vid, Mick Ronson my sound he only used a Wha pedal and amp sound.

@hickorymccay2994 4 года назад

And a fuzz.

@Hehehehhehehehehehehehhe78 4 года назад

To be fair, not everyone can afford a plexi, let alone blast it like mick did.

@smithson8806 4 года назад

All he’s doing is showing people how to sound like the guitarist not showing people what the guitarist actually used

@anthonypioppi273 6 лет назад

Thought Ronson used a Dallas Rangemaster treble boost quite often?

@chaunceyhulbert7264 5 лет назад

Wait? The one string wonder of bowies soloing wasn't bowie himself?

@prongs0611 4 года назад

I just don’t think you need all these pedals... Mick Ronson said it himself, all he really had was a cry baby wah pedal, which he left on, and then just turned his amp up.

@anomolydebaucle5320 2 года назад

Good try but no you didnt get it . Only Earl Slick can get it.

@DW-pq6wk 6 лет назад

What a pathetic joke - Mick Ronson used a Mk. 1 Tonebender and a wah.

@stilldisorder 4 года назад

Mick Ronson really didn't use the Tonebender much until after the Ziggy Album was released. That whole album was basically a turned up Marshall with a wah. Thus, it makes sense that the catalinbread pedal was used. Also, while I think a Lovepedal Bone Tender or EQD Tone Reaper would have been more appropriate, Mk1 TB's are considerably much harder to find. I think that would defeat the purpose of this series.