Italians having fun

[uwe]

Bert Kämpfert!!!

[Rob]

[ilan]

Bert Kämpfert!!!

Yep, Ladi Geisler and what he called Knack-Bass.

[uwe]

Kämpfert and him sometimes even tripled the signal: double bass, electric bass and guitar an octave higher. Best of all worlds.

Imagine a guitarist who has to do everything you do note for note - every bassist should own one! 

[Dave W]

A new video

[uwe]

Isn't that the same girl from the last vid?

Probably their baby sis.

Nice song, they're getting better and more refined all the time.

Having heard their four CDs more intensively now and over proper stereos, I can attest to the fact that Francesca's E string has a much lower signal than her other strings. Alas!, the curse of a double bass.

It's a bit like listening to old Status Quo albums, you could always hear when Alan Lancaster hit the E string on his Mustang, the signal was much weaker than on the A string. He came to use it as a style element in his playing.

[Dave W]

New video, classic tune

[Dave W]

Covering Marty Robbins

[Pilgrim]

He did a nice job of coming up with a way to hit that high note on "Devil woman, let go of me."  I couldn't even get close to that!!

[uwe]

New video, classic tune

I love Francesca's ooohs. Très cute.

[uwe]

He did a nice job of coming up with a way to hit that high note on "Devil woman, let go of me."  I couldn't even get close to that!!

It's called bel canto!

[Dave W]

[uwe]

Now that is performed with Italian zest!!!

Italians always give things a boost.

[Pilgrim]

I've always liked that spot. Clever idea!

[Dave W]

New today... a western swing number

I predict Uwe will be watching this one mnay times.