Bill Frisell ~ When You Wish Upon A Star

Nov. 13, 1989 NYC

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Music

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• Bill
• Frisell
• Jazz

[salpinza]

One of the few videos of the period with Bill playing the black s-style Sadowsky, right after the Gibson SG... the trick with the tuning fork to create the drone shocked me then, and still shocks me now, Bill always was, allways is, and always will be beyond any genre, style and categorization in anything he does. You always think what he plays is easy, I can play this myself, then you start studying it... to discover that you can at best sketch out the outline of it, with months of practising.

[mrfish4lyfe]

thank you so much for the uploads

[abby4410]

Oups..In error I get in experimental music area , don't disturb, I know where is exit .I was just looking for Jazz

[bobvanluijt]

@salpinza thanks, just bought one myself to experiment...

[salpinza]

@bobvanluijt he does what's basically the same trick with the different musical boxes he keeps at hand on his reverb, along with his delay: many of his high-pitched clusters of notes, very fast staccatos, are a melody played by a musical box in front of his guitar pickup, fed through his usual Line6 DL-4 Delay/Looper, then played at double speed / double pitch, or sometimes at half-speed / half-pitch, either the original sample or the same played backwards.

[salpinza]

@bobvanluijt a tuning fork in front of of a pickup on electric guitar behaves exactly like a string, but since you hit it on a surface (or a knee, as Bill's doing here), you'll get a continuous tone with no attack (contrary to when you pluck a string with either plectrum or finger). Bill's using a delay to loop what he plays, but with the tuning fork, voilà, he has a drone (i.e. continuous tone) of a sound that no guitar could ever produce, along with his guitar sound on the next phrase 8-)

[johnbblack900]

a re billare trele!

[bobvanluijt]

@salpinza what is it he does exactly with the tuning fork

[aniagain1]

Very interesting experience... Hmmm!!!

[kanga58]

l agree. l met him last summer at a workshop during jazz fest in Victoria Canada. Really sort of shy, but friendly. we had a nice chat and he played this song! l have it on my i-Phone!

[mcrhythm2]

Amazing,humble man!