Великие гитарные рифы №2. Фирменный бип-бип звук в Spirit in the Sky

Spirit in the Sky — один из главных хитов рок-эры, разошедшийся миллионным тиражом. А всё из-за уникального бип-бип гитарного рифа.

Pan’s People: Spirit in the Sky / Norman Greenbaum (TOTP, 27 December 1973)

Гринбаум использовал Фендер Телекастер с фазз-боксом встроенным в деку для получения этого уникального звука, но как обычно бывает, за фирменный звук мы должны благодарить сессионного гитариста Рассела Дашилла(Russell DaShiell). Дашилл рассказывает, как он получил фирменный «бип бип бип» звук в гитарной партии к Spirit in the sky:

“I actually played the lead guitar parts on Spirit, using a 61-62 SG Les Paul, a 68 Marshall Plexi 100w half stack and a home-made overdrive box in front of the Marshall. Regarding the ‘beep beeps’ as I call them, when the producer asked me to play some fills in between the verses, as a joke I said how about something spacey like this and I did the pickup switch/string bending thing. I saw him stand up in the control booth and he said “that’s it! let’s record that!” so we did. (There was no slide involved, just my fingers, and I used the bridge humbucker and the pickup switch). The fuzz part is Norman with a built-in overdrive circuit built into his Tele pickguard.”

“I must give credit to Jimi Hendrix as my inspiration for this technique (as well as for the double-string riffs I did at the beginning of the Spirit solo tail section). I saw him perform live in a small club in Madison, Wisconsin and loved the way he used his Strat pickup switch to create staccato feedback on songs like Voodoo Child. The difference is, on a Gibson you can start from silence and create the on/off effect, which worked well with the downward string bending thing I did on Spirit.”