Electric Guitar

Cloud Occlusion - 13

Phil McWalter

Somewhere

'Jerusalem' is probably England's unofficial national anthem. (We have to share 'God Save The King' with other countries!) 
My recording of this beautiful melody was inspired by going round the corner to watch the amazing Englishman; Jeff Beck, at the Royal Albert Hall last night (14th May 2014). 
He didn't play this song... but maybe he could have done, and it would have been so much better!! 

Jerusalem

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green:
And was the Holy Lamb of God,
On England's pleasant pastures seen!

And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of Fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
'Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England's green and pleasant Land

Lyrics: William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English painter, poet and printmaker.
Composer: Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (1848 – 1918) an English composer, teacher and historian of music.

Japanese 1976 Tokai Goldstar 1954 Strat with Gilmour shortened tremolo arm and DiMarzio stacked humbucker. Ernie Ball's Super Slinky's and my own custom made  metal picks. Plugged into Logic X via a Klon Centaur and an Apogee interface.

'The New Jerusalem'

Legend has it: 
When a musician goes to the great big gig in the sky, an infamous roadie hands you a very special guitar as you walk out onto the stage. It has been tuned to your soul. This is me quality checking David's...

A NEW GUITAR FOR DAVID BOWIE

I was just feeling noisy(in 5/4) sorry...
All me: © Phil McWalter - Salt Crystal Music 2017

Thanks to Eventide for the little bit of extra on the guitars:

The Eventide H910 Harmonizer was first demonstrated to universally positive reactions at the AES show in late 1974. It was designed by Eventide's first engineer, Tony Agnello (who went on to become the president of Eventide's audio division). The pre-production prototype was a hand-wired box topped with a music keyboard controller. Jon Anderson of the band Yes was among those impressed, and he became a tester for the first prototype. The production H910 was released in 1975, offering pitch shifting (±1 octave), delay (up to 112.5 ms), feedback regeneration and other features in an easy-to-use box that sold for $1,600. The H910 was named after a Beatles tune (the model number refers to the "One After 909").

The first H910 customer was New York City's Channel 5, utilising it to downward pitch shift I Love Lucy reruns that were sped up to create room to run more commercials. Speeding up the reruns had increased the pitch of the audio, and the H910 was able to shift that pitch back to where it originally had been. Frank Zappa added it to his guitar processing rig. Producer Tony Visconti used the H910 to create the snare sound on David Bowie's album Low, as did Tony Platt on AC/DC's song "Back in Black". Another popular application was to use two H910s slightly detuned with a small delay. Notable users of this twin Harmonizer effect included Eddie Van Halen, who used it for his trademark guitar sound, and Tom Lord-Alge, who used it for the vocals on the hit Steve Winwood song, "Back in the High Life Again". Recognising the popularity of this application, Eventide later recreated it as the "Dual 910" program in the H3000 UltraHarmonizer released in the late 1980s.

The H910 Harmoniser was recognised by the AES with a TECnology Hall of Fame award in 2007. (Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventide,_Inc)

OK, Turn It Down A Little

OK, TURN IT DOWN A LITTLE ....

Saturday afternoon and the river is already too high and too coloured to fish (the ghillie informs me), so no Sunday morning creeping quietly out of bed before my wife and the sun wake up and driving off to the beauty of the Wye Valley and my beat with the kingfishers sparkling by and the salmon hiding by the rocks... tea and jam instead; spread thickly on hot buttered toast... and sticky fingers all over my guitar...

[Tone: My favourite vintage Tokai Strat has a stacked Seymour Duncan by the bridge, wound by the hand of the legendary MJ - Maricela Juarez... love her handiwork, so play it LOUD!]

GREEN GOOSEBERRY CONSERVE

Back To The Jungle - download and add your own solo...

https://jguerreiro.bandcamp.com/releases

For better quality, out now.

Imperfeições

Circulo Imperfeito

Fat And Dirty

Waiting For You

Don't be deceived by the gentle start! This is a sweeping swirling kind of tune, with a heavy bass, but a gentle melody. It is like folky hard rock, oh well, I don't know. Just give it a go and like and share if you enjoyed it, please.
Also on Youtube: https://youtu.be/RoZjvqQwrGk

Gracious

The wonderful 'Yeah Yeah Drums' courtesy of Rick Medlock @rick-4-1 
and 'Other Yeah Yeah Stuff' including sore throat: Me @phil-mcwalter

THEY WANNA BE YEAH, YEAH, YE YE YEAH

You said you were a voice of distinction
You never said what you’re thinking, whatcha drinking?
We had to make a selection
Based on lack of direction, introspection
Look at all the love island people
They want to be painted
They want to be hung
And come and see all of the others 
They want to be yeah, yeah ye ye yeah

You said you were a girl for the future
Your university tutor became neuter
Sailed away from the mainland
Even played for a rock band
Burnt your feet on the sand
Danced with all of the locals
Who had business proposals
Tattoos and steeples, eyebrows and needles
You looked at their downloads 
They want to be yeah, yeah ye ye yeah

We always tell them it’s free
But it’s not freedom
They might live in Poundland
But they pay too much
Robbers and bankers
Pissoirs and crappers
Polluting the single river of love
They look to each other
At our sister and brother all singing
Just like the land and the sea (land of the free)
You can heat up the airspace
We might wish for the stars
But we don’t get too much
The do’ers and seekers
In their wellies and sneakers
Wading through the widening river of blood
We call to each other
At our sister and brother 
All singing
Yeah, yeah ye yeah!

We told them all that they were survivors 
Subscribers and tigers, fighters and snipers
They all wanted in on the action 
Climbed inside our contraption, sought satisfaction
We always tell them it’s freedom
But it aint freedom when you’re out in the cold
The kids, mum’s, dad’s and the hopeless
They want to be yeah, yeah ye ye yeah
Guaranteed for the future 
Powered by wireless 
Victims on radar, au revoir
Order all of your favourites 
The lost and the dreary they wanna be yeah, yeah ye ye yeah
They wanna be yeah, yeah ye ye yeah, they wanna be yeah, yeah ye ye yeah

You said you were a voice of distinction
You never said what you’re thinking, so whatcha singing for?

©Phil McWalter Jun 2018

They Wanna Be Yeah Yeah Ye Ye Yeah

THEY WANNA BE YEAH YEAH YE YE YEAH

All Fab Percussion played by: @rick-4-1
All The Other Stuff: @phil-mcwalter

LET ME CLEAN YOUR GUN

Me and you we used to have some fun girl
Now your gonna leave and break me all apart 
Well let’s keep it classy if you’re gonna shoot me through the heart
Cos if I’m your murder victim
Let me clean your gun

Oil it up 
I’ll clean your gun
Oil it up 
I'll clean your gun

When we went out it was always with a bang girl
So funny that it ends the very same way
Well let me get dressed up and die young and pretty for you honey
Cos if I’m your latest target
Let me clean your gun

You talk like you had thought about it
But even when you brought about it
I was not so sure that you were talking straight or aiming straight
But now the conversations pointed 
Let me clean that gun you dirty girl
Yeah!

Set your sights a little higher, one in the barrel or one up the spout, 
If we could maybe talk a little more we could just work it out
But lets not use that trigger thang
Yer 'cos if I’m your murder victim
Let me clean that gun you dir-dirty girl
Yeah!



Nov 2018 © Phil McWalter

(LET ME) CLEAN YOUR GUN

LET ME CLEAN YOUR GUN

Following an online conversation I had had about keeping first vocal takes; ie keeping it real: I hadn't even really worked out how to sing this! It was first thing in the morning hence the un-oiled larynx on the opening phrase, so it was down to feeling my way through! Be gentle, but only For Awhile...

FOR AWHILE

Waiting to feel better
But time can hold me down
What’s the point of colour
If all we do is glance
Is there joy in being cared for
When all they do is pass
Our thoughts are just our own
We only write a few down
Yeah and tomorrow always comes
For awhile, for awhile
Write some music
Have a laugh
Laugh at me
Laugh at you
All you do is glance
And tomorrow always comes
For awhile, for awhile...
The morrow always comes
For awhile, for awhile



© Phil McWalter Feb 2019
Images/Artwork: Cape of Good Hope SA by Phil McWalter

FOR AWHILE

I pictured this whilst watching the powerful river swirl and push unstoppably onwards beneath the bridge... 
(There's a fugal element inspired by the rolling surface coruscations)

THE THAMES BY NIGHT

The Thames By Night

I DON'T FEEL RIGHT!

Well I woke up this morning and I was sick on the dog
Sick on the cat and sick in the bog
I don’t feel right! 
Yeah, Lordy Lord!
I don’t feel right! 
Oooh my soul!
I took a little something to avoid the derision
It ain't had much effect 'cept on my vision
WTF was that?!?
Please don’t leave me! (alone)
Yeah I don’t feel right!

I woke up this morning and I was sick on the dog
Sick on the cat and sick in the bog 
I took a little something from the baby sitter
It aint done nothin, but it sure taste bitter
Please don’t leave me! (alone)
I don’t feel right!
Please don’t leave me!  (alone)
I don’t feel right!

(More than inspired by my sojourn with The Mosquitos: 

“This isn’t  having much effect”
(1... 2... 3...)
“DON’T LEAVE ME!!!”

We were in bits... 🤣🤣🤣 )

I DON'T FEEL RIGHT

I DON'T FEEL RIGHT!    (Explicit)

I just love the image of this Strat filled with cocaine that was pulled at Customs! It should sing sweetly, not be too heavy and keep you interesting at parties! 

WHITE POWDER STRAT (First Reprise)

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Composer/Guitarist/Producer

Songs: We find them unpainted in our hands, throw them up into the air of our imagination, turning them in the colours we see after we close our eyes until they feel just right, and sometimes we catch them perfectly, without blemishing them...

My music is on most platforms for your ease.

Wow!!  417K+ plays and 4,000+ valued followers and friends on SC alone, that provide lots of wonderfully helpful comments that fuel the next track! Really big thanks to the SC community for listening and providing such brilliant feedback and support. It means so much to myself and my collaborators - huge thanks.

I work in different styles, as the inspiration, dreams or bubonic plagiarism comes! I use Logic Pro X on Mac.
 
I write, produce and play all my own stuff (unless otherwise stated), play vintage Tokai Strats mainly, PRS Torero, Steinberger, Gretsch G2627T, Classical, Fender Dreadnought, Yamaha and Rickenbacker basses, keyboards and sax. I use Native Instrument's Komplete, Omnisphere 2 and my own organic samples.

I mix on Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's and HD 650's (closed and open headphones) when not making a bigger noise through my Yamaha HS8 studio monitors. I use Focusrite Clarett 2Pre ThunderBolt and Apogee audio interfaces, Neumann & iSK condenser & AKG dynamic mics. 

Hardware: Feb 1978 Marshall JMP 50W Combo, BOO & BOSS stomps

I love collaborating with other musicians and will compose with, play guitar for, produce, arrange, master or even just hum along with other SC musicians. Please ask!

P.S. I am a long standing member of the Performing Rights Society and PPL through my old TV and theatre work as well as my record and publishing deals.