Colin Edwin... How does he do it?

[BongoPeg]

I have some live music from Porcupine Tree and I noticed something strange in one of the live versions I have of a song called "Dislocated Day" by Porcupine Tree. Every once in a while Colin Edwin will make some weird higher pitched sound, that I can only describe as sounding like a drop of water.

I'm REALLY curious how he makes this sound. I know he is using a fretless here but not sure how he does it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOOaHdzzHxs

Somewhere between 4:05 and 4:15 he does a really nice one, but he does it at other parts throughout the song.

[Arrachion]

Sounds like a harmonic bent (past the nut) on the head stock.

[James Hart]

Sliding Harmonic.... Tony Franklin is the master of it.

Here is a how to youtube vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSvu5xM_C28

Here is Tony doing it in the tune Radioactive live in the 80s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdEmBe24Xa4
(comes in at about 0:52)

[lowend219]

colin edwin is one of my absolute favorites

[Kink Rimson]

What a crazy sound! Reminds me of Rolf Harris:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp6qR6sVQlY

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[videomagician]

Just saw PT in Memphis last Friday night. Colin stepped over his pedalboard and used his boot to stop some blogger with a press pass from blinding him with a camera flash. She got pretty pissed off but finally left.

His playing was right on all night - even though there was so much kick drum in the mix it was hard to hear what he was playing sometimes. My daughter wanted to be right up against the stage so we had way too much subwoofer action going on.

David

[jnevi9nr]

hes such a good player!

[fryBASS]

Yep, slide harmonic.

[Marco A. Mayer]

He's my favorite bassist ever. PT has a twitter account now used by the bandmembers and Colin posts sometimes, gonna suggest him to register in Talkbass.