in the king crimson song sleepless, levin uses a slap technique. is he using delay, or is he just that fast?
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".
Sorry - cat chase action followed by spilled coffee caused me to delete my post. Here's the clip: http://6.cn/watch/455452.html
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?
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?
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.
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: {}
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