Audio demos for the article posted here:  http://tonefiend.com/guitar/strange_strings/

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLDk-NncMOQ&feature=youtu.be

Out Of Bed

Nylon

Guitar recorded using an impulse response reverb captured at Pech Merle cave, a famous Neolithic cave painting site in France.

Cave Reverb Guitar

A looped guitar recording made using an impulse response reverb captured at Pech Merle, a Neolothic cave painting site in France. Joe Gore, guitar. 

Cave Verb Loop 2

A rare 1969 live performance by the Fold, the "house band" for the hippie cult of the same name. Remastered by Joe Gore. More details here: http://www.clubbo.com/1969-the-fold/the-fold-clubbos-real-cult-band/

Into the Fold

SIO Looped

Ear Of Dionysius Singer

In honor of the 50th anniversary of a great year in pop, Mark Goldenberg and Joe Gore recorded improvised guitar duets on four great tunes from 1966. (IMPORTANT: This non-commercial recording is distributed free of charge to our friends. Reuse prohibited.)

Suite ’66 (by Mark Goldenberg and Joe Gore)

Pagey Phase 2 Wiring with Seth Lover Pickups

Joe Gore from tonefiend.com demonstrates an alternative tone control scheme for passive basses. The circuit replaces the usual bass tone pot with a rotary switch that selects between various capacitor values. Instead of just rolling of highs, this arrangement brings out different resonant frequencies within the sound. The demo also includes a Black Ice unit — a simple circuit add on that creates a passive distortion effect via a pair of diodes. More details at tonefiend.com.


Alternate Passive Bass Tone Controls

A tribute to our late and beloved friend Richie Leeds. We tracked this in 2009, but I never made a decent mix till now. Richie is the composer, singer, guitarist and background vocalist. Brad Stark played drums, and I added a few extra guitar tracks. Copyright 2009, the Estate of Richie Leeds.

"Princess" by Richie Leeds

Mental 99 (Joe Gore, guitar, and Dawn Richardson, drums) perform their rendition of the Doors' "Hello I Love You."

This is our 2012 Holiday Gift. Download it free if you like.



Hello I Love You

Two new solo guitar performances from Joe Gore of tonefiend.com. Everything is performed realtime without prepared backing tracks, and then live-looped.

There are videos of these performances and extensive tech notes at: http://tonefiend.com/guitar/midimeltdown/

Cathode Ray Blues (Solo Guitar, Live Looping, No Click)

Paneer (Solo Guitar, Live Looping, No Click)

An electric guitar rendition of "Fumeux fum par fumee," one of music history's most bizarre compositions. The score, preserved in the Codex Chantilly (pictured), is credited to someone named Solage. The song's cryptic text ("A smoker smokes through smoke") may allude to an artsy-fartsy smoking cult. (And since this was pre-Columbus, they would have been smoking hash or opium, not tobacco.)

When you hear the music, you'll call "bullshit!" And I won't blame you for suspecting I'm trying to pull another musical hoax like clubbo.com. But please, Google a bit, and you'll discover that (aside from my decision to perform the piece by overdrubbing three tracks of Fender Bass VI baritone guitar) this is an authentic 14th-century freakout. 

More info here: http://tonefiend.com/music/14th-century-freakout/ 

Joe Gore

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