Tony Levin

in the king crimson song sleepless, levin uses a slap technique. is he using delay, or is he just that fast?

[Sub5ound]

might be the funk fingers.

[smeet]

Definitely a digital delay set to one repeat at 16th note speed. You can kind of see it in the video, but live in a small club it's obvious.

He also uses delay on the stick sometimes, like in the trills in the intro to "Elephant Talk".

[bassrique]

Thanks for the vid. That sure brings back memories. Do you have any more?

[bassrique]

What the heck happened to the vid? Where's the post? Huh?

Who is the TBer so I can PM him?

[20db pad]

Sorry - cat chase action followed by spilled coffee caused me to delete my post. Here's the clip:

http://6.cn/watch/455452.html

[bassrique]

Originally Posted by 20db pad

Sorry - cat chase action followed by spilled coffee caused me to delete my post. Here's the clip:

http://6.cn/watch/455452.html

I have crazy cats as well.

[kreider204]

Originally Posted by teamsmash

in the king crimson song sleepless, levin uses a slap technique. is he using delay, or is he just that fast?

Awesome, awesome song.

Awesome, awesome bassist.

[Thangfish]

Pretty cool.
Levin playing his "Three of A Perfect Pair" Stingray and Belew playing his "Twang Bar King" whatever kind of guitar.

Is this from a dvd?

[bassrique]

Originally Posted by Thangfish

Pretty cool.
Levin playing his "Three of A Perfect Pair" Stingray and Belew playing his "Twang Bar King" whatever kind of guitar.

Is this from a dvd?

That's another great record:



And if that is from a DVD, I'm getting it.

[Thangfish]

Originally Posted by bassrique

And if that is from a DVD, I'm getting it.

Let us know if you find out.

While I'm at it, here's where the paint job on Tony's 'Ray came from:

[MrDOS]

This song has been driving me nuts for years. It seems that I can year the slapback delay at about 120ms clearly on the low notes, but not on the "pulled" high notes.

There's a guy on youtube who tries to emulate this with a double-thumb technique (bless his heart!), but I have not seen anyone quite nail this. Anyone out there ever have to cover this tune?

[smeet]

I saw them in a small club on the tour for the CD. Live at least, it was definitely just a plain old delay, and I could hear the delay on all notes. I see what you mean about the pulled notes on the recording, but the delay is there.

[dmusic148]

No idea about the delay. Met him a couple of years ago at the NAMM show. What a nice, nice guy. Funny thing- you'll see him often, wandering around all by himself. We joked that he had no friends, lol... Me, Tony, and my friend Mike, sorry, couldn't resist:

[Jazzstick]

I just asked Tony he said this "Sleepless, yeah, was just a single echo repeat, equal volume. Makes it quite easy"


easy for him.

Brett

[MrDOS]

Thanks for the replies - time to do some practicing