Friday, November 20, 2015

Vegetable Soup and Dive Bombs

A dive bomb is when you come down hard on a chord with massive distortion and down-tune it as low as you can with the twang bar.  It's a grand effect but that alone isn't enough of the highest-drama you can get out of dive bombing.

Yah, so everything ends on E major or minor, makes no difference for this, at the lowest place you can play the native chord.  That's kind of cool to dive bomb but it's also kind of a one-trick pony.

The way I like to do it is bring it down on the F major or minor (shrug) up a half-step or a fret as you may like to think of it.

In playing that F as a Barre chord, you can use your first finger to pluck the E/F on the bass at the same time as you dive bomb it over and over (i.e. bring it back up to native pitch with the twang bar and then bomb it again).  Get right up to the speakers for the P.A. and I positively ga-ron-tee, you will summon the hounds of hell ... and ain't that grand.

(Ed:  you getting satanic there, Alphonse?)

Screw that.  Pure Satanism is like it goes with bikers, don't tangle with me and everything is cool.  They aren't violent and they don't torture animals.  Who knows what twisted mutant got into that.

(Ed:  see above for the question!)

Nah, ain't got no truck with any kind of religion.  From my own position, I have no trouble agreeing with all them conceptually but I don't so much like their by-laws.


(Ed:  so what does this have to do with vegetable soup?)

Easy, it's algebra.

(Ed:  thanks for (cough) clarifying that)

I had me a half a bowl of vegetable soup with dunking bread and I split half with Yevette so $1.50 and small change feeds both of us.

Since I had only just done that, I conclude:  vegetable soup equals dive bombs.

Logical, yes?

(Ed:  like a fookin' pretzel, Satchmo)


Note:  there is payment in pain for doing this but that payment is ... do it some more.  The pain will go and the music will stay.  That will do it for the moment but I definitely WILL build up strength and it comes, I can feel it.

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