I seldom do covers but when I heard Chuck D'Aloia's cover of Alfie, I knew I wanted to do a cover of his cover.
So this is what I came up with.

Covers

Alfie

I've been fascinated with synthesizers since the early 80's and love to program them to get my own specific sounds. Unfortunately, I've never had any success with guitar synths so since I got my Kemper profiling amp 12+ years ago I've been into profiling and playing weird sounds that sounds very little like electric guitars. I call this playing Un-Guitar. Along that, I've also tried all kinds of software plugins to craft more Un-Guitar sounds. One of my go-to software for this is Native Instruments Guitar Rig and with the latest version 7, I'm having a lot of fun!
Every sound you hear in this tunes except for the bass synth and the drums are made with guitars and in most ways mangled by Guitar Rig 7. The few sounds sounding most like traditional electric guitars were played through the Fender Tone Master Pro and then processed with GR7.  

Unknown Quantities

This style is definitely not in my comfort zone. It so out of it, I don't even know what to call it. Could it be Swedish Americana? 
I had this kind of lazy timing groove in my head and wanted to do something with it. When I do know what to do with a guitar oriented tune I bring out my Ruokangas Mojo King and just start playing. So the Mojo King does the basic work here with some other guitars getting used in the process.

Plenty Of Juice

I started getting seriously into music in the late 70s and the 80s so there's were my main musical influences can be found. Both as a player and a composer.

This tune channels some of the lighter guitar fusion styles from that era. The guitar sound I was aiming for here is that of a Dumble ODS on its brighter side.

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