Riviera Paradise - something different !!!

[fullerton62strat]

[youtube][/youtube]Had a chance to use Phil McGarrick's PRS ''10'' so we recorded this little old favourite of mine one afternoon. The PRS had a great mellow tone on it and lent itself well to this jazz/blues type number. The guitar is much different from my usual guitar with a different feel and slightly wider neck, but I just about managed it. The number is not the usual Shads type of instrumental - more of a ''chill out with a glass of wine type''!

Anyway, just a bit of fun while we sort out new stuff to do. Hope you enjoy it anyway.

The number is called Riviera Paradise (original by Stevie Ray Vaughan)


http://youtu.be/1uZ15mifeJA



John

[roger bayliss]

Very good and a great tone reminicent of the original by SRV . Suprised noone else has not offered a comment. Maybe you are too good for them !

[Bluesnote]

Great stuff John Loved it.

I'll need to have a go at that one myself sometime, first time I've heard it, its a lovely tune and great chord structure too.
Where is the pick up selector on that guitar? I'm guessing that you've got one volume knob and one tone knob and that other one set up higher is the selector?
Hugh.

[fullerton62strat]

Hi Roger and Hugh, thank you for your comments - very much appreciated.

We all have our own preferences for different types of music, especially guitar instrumentals. I first learned from the inspiration of the Shads when I purchased my first LP ''The Shadows'' from our local Boots record booth in 196... frozen to death, for about 7/6d - that's about 38p today! Then the Beatles, Stones and every other new band coming on the scene.

Turned pro in 1964 and toured Germany clubs in Munich - what an adventure! Lucky me. Back home we did support act for shows with Gene Vincent, Johnny Leyton, Swinging Blue Jeans, Four Pennies, Shane Fenton, Screaming Lord Sutch (Ritchie Blackmore was his guitarist then) and many more - life can't get much better than that. But it did! Jet asked me to play lead for him in 1978. I have been VERY lucky. Because of all this experience and variety of music I played, I learned many of the unconventional chords which are the bedrock and colour of all good music - and vital if you want to learn a tune quickly. Respect to Bruce!

Hugh, you guessed right, the setting on the PRS was as follows: pick-up selection on position 2, Tone knocked back 2/10ths, volume about the same. The chords for the main tune are:
Gmaj7
Gmaj7 / Ab13
Fmaj7 / G13
Fmaj7 / G13 / Gb13
Ebmaj7 Gb13 F13 / Cdim

A beautiful sequence on its own!

John

[Bluesnote]

Thanks for the info John. I'll have some fun with that sequence I'm sure I'll contact Mr BIAB later
I found your version of Sleepwalk when I was looking at your video you posted. I like the intro you do, I have that same backing track and was wondering what to do about the long slow start to the tune. You did a great job of that one too mate
Hugh.

[fullerton62strat]

Glad you liked the Sleepwalk video Hugh. I had the same problem with the beginning being too long before playing, so I made up my own intro and stuck it in.

Thanks again for the comments.

John

[Stratpicker]

Hi John
Don't you just love them 13th chords!!??
Sat here outside caravan in glorious Glastonbury after an unbelievably hot day, swigging a tinnie of Fosters and "Riviera Paradise" in my ear pods from my 7" Android. What a way to spend an evening!
Superbly played and wonderful tone from the PRS - Brill slap-back echo!
Loved it to bits!!!
cheers
ian

[tolo]

Very smooth! Great work here on a lovely SRV classic... I was lucky enough to see the great man play at the Hammy Odeon - so casual and incredible tone and feel. Double Trouble were so tight and Stevie was in great form.

Given the lovely touches in this - and the amount of work involved, I would really love to see a version of the definitive SRV track 'Lenny' - nothing really could match the original (I understand that it was done in one take) - but I reckon that PRS could throw a new angle on it!!

Epic post - well done.

Best

Tony

[fullerton62strat]

Thank you Ian and Tony. Yours, and all the comments on here from guitar music lovers, make it worthwhile posting soundfiles on this site.

Ian, I'm glad you enjoyed the Fosters. If the number was as smooth as the drink then that's praise enough. 13ths are lovely chords and you don't get much chance to play with them, but what colour!

I have great memories of Glastenbury as I used to fish matches on the River Parrot. I remember coming off the M5 early one sunny misty morning and seeing the Torr protruding above it - it was five miles away - but what an unbelievable sight - quite ethereal! A mystical part of the country. You paint a lovely relaxing evening scene.

And Tony. Thank you also for your comments. I envy you having seen SRV live. To see someone of this calibre live must send a shiver up your back. Steve plays everything from the heart and it shows. 'Lenny' is another great instrumental in this vein and shows off his natural genius. He often started this number using the slowed-down intro to Rivierra Paradise. The PRS would lend itself to this also, but his guitar had strings on it so thick that he detuned his guitar a semi-tone to allow string bending - hence that wonderful tone.

John

[Stratpicker]

I have great memories of Glastenbury as I used to fish matches on the River Parrot. I remember coming off the M5 early one sunny misty morning and seeing the Torr protruding above it - it was five miles away - but what an unbelievable sight - quite ethereal! A mystical part of the country. You paint a lovely relaxing evening scene.
John

Hi John
the River Parrett is a little further west from where we are. BUT - we are close to the banks of the River Brue which last night gave rise to quite a few Mozzies. Darned nuisances. Even the citronnella candles didnt keep them all away.