Thanks for doing this! Funny story is that I wasn't originally supposed to play the guitar for the interview. Seal's guitarist, Zach Wish, was going to do it however we couldn't make it work for the timing of the interview so SEAL asked if I would do it instead so we didn't have to postpone the interview. I was asked to prep for Kiss From A Rose only, and by the time I found out, it was a few days before the interview so I was scrambling to learn the arrangements he'd done up to this time and actually learned the song with a capo on the second fret like all his other guitar players had done who accompanied him in this duo performance set up. However, when we got to the studio, they had one capo, and Seal had the only acoustic, so we had to roll with me on that 1966 Stratocaster (which was amazing) - I'd just not prepped for a non-capoed electric guitar. We did one run through and then did the recorded take and that's what you see here. It went well enough that then Seal asked me to play Crazy and Still Love Remains without any prep other than just a practice run and then the take you see in the video. Needless to say, most of this was a blur for me, but at least I can enjoy the video now after the fact and I'm not as embarrassed as I thought I'd be about how I played. I think the mains things I did differently that what you normally see from his accompanists (that I haven't see in other versions), was the Jerry Cantrell-style voicing of the F# where I lifted the high E, B, and G to more of that acoustic, open-string voicing on "Ba-By" and the Hendrix-style double stops before going into the chorus. I also tried to use lots of open strings on that interlude arpeggio thing just to give some descending movement that could lead us into that last chorus.
The nice thing is that everything seems somewhat spontaneous and not too scripted. That makes everything special and a bit exciting, you are focused, and the interview is very interesting for me as a musician or even a fan. Above all, you are a good listener and give SEAL the space musically and personally. Well done! Thanks for the accompanying story! By the way, I have 3 of your VERTEX Boost Pedals!!! All the best
Thanks for doing this! Funny story is that I wasn't originally supposed to play the guitar for the interview. Seal's guitarist, Zach Wish, was going to do it however we couldn't make it work for the timing of the interview so SEAL asked if I would do it instead so we didn't have to postpone the interview. I was asked to prep for Kiss From A Rose only, and by the time I found out, it was a few days before the interview so I was scrambling to learn the arrangements he'd done up to this time and actually learned the song with a capo on the second fret like all his other guitar players had done who accompanied him in this duo performance set up. However, when we got to the studio, they had one capo, and Seal had the only acoustic, so we had to roll with me on that 1966 Stratocaster (which was amazing) - I'd just not prepped for a non-capoed electric guitar. We did one run through and then did the recorded take and that's what you see here. It went well enough that then Seal asked me to play Crazy and Still Love Remains without any prep other than just a practice run and then the take you see in the video. Needless to say, most of this was a blur for me, but at least I can enjoy the video now after the fact and I'm not as embarrassed as I thought I'd be about how I played. I think the mains things I did differently that what you normally see from his accompanists (that I haven't see in other versions), was the Jerry Cantrell-style voicing of the F# where I lifted the high E, B, and G to more of that acoustic, open-string voicing on "Ba-By" and the Hendrix-style double stops before going into the chorus. I also tried to use lots of open strings on that interlude arpeggio thing just to give some descending movement that could lead us into that last chorus.
The nice thing is that everything seems somewhat spontaneous and not too scripted. That makes everything special and a bit exciting, you are focused, and the interview is very interesting for me as a musician or even a fan. Above all, you are a good listener and give SEAL the space musically and personally. Well done! Thanks for the accompanying story! By the way, I have 3 of your VERTEX Boost Pedals!!! All the best
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Cheers for this, was thinking it was open tuning but then was like “aha” when you said it was an upside down lefty.
Great video, time stamps would make it just slightly better.
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