Subject: Guitar Help
Hello Colin,
My name is Nathan and I’ve been playing guitar for about
three years now and love anything you and your guys do, but one thing keeps
driving me nuts. How does you guitarist
do the little chicken cluck noise in Chicken Wing Girl? I’ve been attempting to tab this song and
just can’t find the right frets. Any help
would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
for your time
Rock the Heavens,
Nathan
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Dear
Nathan,Thank you for your email and query as to how we achieved the
"chicken clucking" sounds on the sound recording of our
internationally ignored musical composition "Little Chicken Wing
Girl".
After much
thought and discussion, the band and I have agreed to let you in on the closley
guarded secret of how we were able to create the aformentioned "chicken
clucking sounds" that you alluded to in the email you sent to me dated
7/13/2006.
Please do not
divuldge what I am about to tell you to anyone as it is a highly coveted band
secret....We achieved the "chicken clucking sounds" on "Little
Chicken Wing Girl" by poking a live chicken with a drum stick that was
dipped in lighter fluid, lit on fire, and periodlically jabbed into the side of
the fowl at precisely the exact right moment when the "cluck" was
needed. Sure we could have done it once or twice and then looped the
pre-recorded "cluck" in post production, but we wanted do do
everything "live in the studio".
This turned out to be quite challenging and fun as the yardbird actually
got away from us a few times and had to be re-captured. There is nothing
funnier than seeing a bunch of stoned and drunk musicians running around a
recording studio with a flaming drum stick diving on a crazed chicken!
We stole the
chicken from a farm located near the Suma recording studios in Painesville,
Ohio. I am sure any chicken would do, but the sound you are going to achieve
may be different from that which is on our compact disc. I don't recall the
size, weight or make of the drum stick so try several. The sound you achieve is
a matter of personal preference. The
lighter fluid / accelerant was Zippo brand as was the lighter.
The chicken was
one of average girth and size. I remember we nicknamed him "Foghorn".
After we recorded the song we killed the chicken, cooked him and served him to
the band & crew along with jo jo fries and corn on the cob. I also remember
that we were able to salvage the wish bone. We all gathered together in a
circle and made a wish and broke the bone. Thus far our wish and dream of a
major record label deal has gone unfulfilled, but we enjoyed our dinner and got
a great sound for the song!
I hope this
helps you. Good luck with your guitar playing. Thank you for listening to our
music and thank you for your query.
Sincerely,
Colin Dussault
Colin Dussault's Blues Project Band, LLC
"Makin' Award
Winning, Harmonica Driven, Blues Based, Roots, Rock and Soul Music Since
1989"
(216) 221-5288
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