this thing Slash did.

Vick · 2011-12-28T10:40:53+00:00

So yesterday I finally watched The Roast of Carly Sheen, Slash was on the show, playing Slash kinda stuff for Sheen's into music. I looked away for a second, and heard slow dive bomb kinda whammy thing, slash was playing a les paul, so I rewound the video, and saw slash does this thing, he puts his right hand just past the switch on his les paul, and then applies pressure, his left hand was just below the head stock....is the guy literally bending the guitar, for the strings to slack and thus getting that effect?

PeachyDragon

So does anyone know where we can find this mythical guide to other fake bending concept by zack wylde?

AlanRatcliffe

I bend the neck a lot - one of the things I picked up from Adrian Belew. Faking a whammy bar is all just using bends, prebends and the odd slide or behind the nut bend.

Hell, just watch any good country player, who do it to fake a pedal steel player:

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PeachyDragon

I've used the pre-bend myself. Its not bad. On a different note I've even heard of a guy emulating slide guitar with a whammy.

evolucian

^ Yeah... Beck and Michael Lee Firkins do that rather well. As does one of the lick library guys, Mike Caswell - hugely influenced by Beck and man I love this guys playing. Soooooooo much fire!

Its pretty much like Alan said for the prebends and stuff... and its in one of them old guitar world columns... but bear in mind its nothing like the real though. But I guess we all knew that already. And seeing as you said mythical... you will never find it now....

And thanks Alan... for putting those vids up... now the nightmares return.... thanks... thanks alot ☹

singemonkey

Jack Flash 'effed up his Tele neck doing neck-bend vibrato. He was so embarrassed he gave up playing real guitars and took to bass ?

Norman86

Holy crap, that Jerry Donahue stuff is inspiring!
People crap on country music, but there are some seriously good players in country music!!

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