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Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: muller1007 on December 27, 2005, 09:12:17 PM
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...to download!
http://www.savefile.com/files/8145475 (http://www.savefile.com/files/8145475)
It's Mark King on a Series I.
Enjoy.
Duncan
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It sounds great; but for some reason I wasn't able to see it.
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Moder,
it is in fact a DivX file. I suppose you installed Real-player? Somewhere in the set-up you can indicate if you want to use Real-player as your DivX-reader. If you didn't do that these files only produce an Audio track.
Best thing is to go at www.download.com (http://www.download.com) and download the (free) DivX player 6.
DivX is a software based in DVD-world -IFF I am well informed- and is mostly used to rip DVD's to a computer.
On the PC I gather most of the time the softwares: Quicktime, Windows media player, REal player and DivX. You can get along with the most movie-footages available on the internet.
It will you force to make some choices and do some bookkepping what you want to be played by what but ...well ...that's part of the game!!!
GRZZZZ
Paul TBO
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Dave,
If you are using the Windows Media Player it sounds like all you need is the codec for DivX. Without the correct codec you will get only audio. It has been a longtime but I think I used a freeware program called GSpot to get the updated codecs for DivX. As I recall it lets you look at the codecs used by a particular file and then allows you to find and dowload them to you computer. It is also available on download.com .
I forgot to add that a search of download.com for codec will bring up several packages that install various codecs on your system.
Keith
(Message edited by keith_h on December 28, 2005)
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Thanks guys! I've downloaded the codec and replayed the vid, and it works! I like this video a lot. I like this duo performance better than his band type stuff, which as I recall is more pop oriented. Maybe I need to go back and watch his DVD again. Thanks Duncan!
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he's doing that up and down stuff with the thumb isn't he? I could never do that. I didn't know he could do it either.
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Check this one.
Michael Hampton plays Maggot Brain on his Alembic guitar. This is from the Flashlight Tour of Parliament Funkadelic 1978 Houston Texas.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=38SikbZ0x0w (http://youtube.com/watch?v=38SikbZ0x0w)
Enjoy!!
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Thanks Duncan! That was really cool! Beautiful guitar!
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Hey, just two videos down from there is a really nice segment of Rodney Skeet Curtis playing an Alembic bass!!
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Entwistle (http://youtube.com/watch?v=2uwz8GeLcPs&search=bass)
(But not on an Alembic)
(Message edited by davehouck on March 04, 2006)
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That's from the Royal Albert Hall in 2000 (as on The Who's DVD from that show). He's got a camera on his headstock which shows his playing close-up. Note how halfway through he uses his midrange control like a wah-wah while playing only with his left hand, then uses his detuner to shift between low E and D, then does his signature two-handed hammer-on typewriter tapping runs. This is done, of course, on his custom Status Graphite Buzzard bass, I assume played through his Digitech pre-amp and Ashdown rig.
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And how about a Rodney Skeet Curtis (Funkadelic) bass solo on Alembic Series 1 bass:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z_1lxw2AcB4 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=z_1lxw2AcB4)
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The curtis video was cool but I couldn't see the King video. I could only hear it and I used the new Real player
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Olie; go back and reread the prior posts, you probably need that DivX codec.
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What song was the JAE solo on? Was that The Real Me?
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Nope, that was in 5:15 from Quadrophenia. The solo started as some bubbly little runs on their '89 tour (with the Warwick Buzzard) and turned into a full-fledged solo when they took Quad on the road as a nearly rock theater performance in '96-'97. They played it in every show after that (I think the only exceptions were the Concert for New York, which was the last Who show Entwistle ever played, and 2 unplugged/acoustic benefit gigs in '99), and the solo got longer and more complex over time. That vid showed the solo pretty much at its peak - they only played a few more shows after that, and I don't think he added to it.
He also played a big solo with The John Entwistle Band during Shakin' All Over from '96-'02, bits of which borrowed from the 5:15 solo. This sometimes was done as a bass-drums duel with Steve Luongo.
The longest solos he ever played onstage with his Alembics (to the best of my knowledge) were at the end of The Who's Dreaming from the Waist, which got limited stage time from '75 through '79. He played it almost like on the album (Who by Numbers) with his Series 1 in '75-'76 (with Moonie on drums), but he developed it extensively on his Spyder in '79 (with Kenney Jones drumming, he had more room to stretch out).
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Yea I'll download th DivX codec.
That Parliment clip was cool. Iwas able to view it.
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Michael Hampton on Maggot Brain was unbelievable! I'm not familar with most of PF's music. This was like a cross between Hendrix and Kitaro.
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2 vids:
1. Here's Entwistle on his Alembic Spyder, playing Won't Get Fooled Again live with The Who in 1978 at Shepperton Film Studios. This is taken from The Kids Are Alright DVD - it's just the camera that focused on John throughout, and most of the sound is just his bass (there was a separate camera trained on each of them, and the finished film had all 4 edited together). This was the last performance Keith Moon did with them - he died about 3 months later. Alembic should buy the rights to this and use it as a commercial! ;-)
Link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FsNJhe2hLyE&search=entwistle (http://youtube.com/watch?v=FsNJhe2hLyE&search=entwistle)
AND....
2. Here's an amateur vid of the John Entwistle Band performing Horror Rock live. This was the theme song for a kids' TV show called Vanpires, for which the JEB did the entire soundtrack (which is available on CD - Music from Vanpires). John's playing a Status Buzzard. I'm not sure what year this was, but it was sometime relatively close to his death in 2002. The camera focuses on the keyboardist for a while at the beginning, but it's on John most of the time. Steve Luongo on drums, Godfrey Townsend (no relation) on guitar, not sure who the keyboardist is here.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUO82u5ck6Q&search=entwistle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUO82u5ck6Q&search=entwistle)
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Cool! Thanks Zvi!
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I just read this thread today. Great stuff.
John
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ABSOLUTELY the greatest few moments of rock on film is that spot in The Kids Are Alright when they come back in on that big punch after the second synth exposition in 'Won't Get Fooled Again': Daltrey's scream and jumpslide towards the camera, Pete's windmill to the one, just slays me every time I see it.
J o e y
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By the way, there's a TON of great footage on www.youtube.com (http://www.youtube.com). Its download and buffering capabilities are slower than Google Video, but there's a LOT more material there. I've found some great vids of The Who/Entwistle, Sheehan, Wooten, Rush, Squire, etc. there, and I've only invested a couple of hours so far. I'm sure there are many common and rare vids of great bassists and groups from across the musical spectrum there - just search and you shall find. There are also lots of amateurs, covers, soloists, etc. of all levels - it was nice to see a good high school band covering Freebird, another doing YYZ, and even 4 guys goofing around with air guitars and drums to a KISS song.
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Here's a very funny clip of a children's TV show that features Mark King playing some snippets on his Alembic S2 long scale.
http://savefile.com/files/3644794 (http://savefile.com/files/3644794)
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This is not childrens TV, this was MTV Europe back in the 90's. ;-)
Gruesse, Pablo
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Oh ok. I guess I thought it was 'cause it looked like something I'd watch as a child (lol).
Just as well, it's a funny video.