Owen Vickers

Forever Man (Clapton cover) with Raf

Raphael Fraser recorded a cover of Eric Clapton’s song Forever Man, and asked me to add some guitar solos to it (at around 1:16-1:44 and more in the outro as well).  Here’s the video on the YouTubes:

Interesting notes on the video (from me):

• I make silly faces when I play the pentatonic scale apparently (see the middle solo, I contained myself, on purpose, on the outro one)
• Good backing vocals make a big difference
• Occasionally I can play some semi-passable Clapton guitar licks!  All those years of playing Wonderful Tonight in my teenage years did some good.
• If your Mac is about to crash, don’t record video on it…  The outro solo came out with 2 out of every 3 frames missing (not a scientific measurement by the way), so it looks like it’s in slow motion.  Raf applied a filter to make it look less obvious though.  Seems I should have used a PC instead
• My black Strat is a cool guitar.  There, I said it.  A 90′s Strat that sounds good (well, it does to me at least ) is not very common according to the limitless knowledge of people on the internet…
• Sometimes you just can’t help but unleash the fury (see the half baked Yngwie lick in the outro for the lolz)

All in all, lots of fun and a good outcome I reckon.