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Melody Maker September 16, 1978 Darkness Falls: [Bryan] Ferry in the Confessional By Allan Jones “... His album was eventually recorded in Montreux (and re-recorded, in part, in New York with Simon Puxley), with an Anglo-American cast of musicians, including Linda Ronstadt’s guitarist, Waddy Wachtel, to whom he had been introduced at a Jackson Browne session. His selection as lead guitarist was, I ventured, quite untypical. ‘I agree,’ Ferry replies quickly, ‘that sort of laidback L.A. music isn’t at all my style, but I can spot a good guitarist very easily. And the idea of Waddy playing with Neil Hubbard, I thought that was very exciting.’ ...” Guitar Player Magazine January, 2000 The Keith Chronicles Part 2: Keith, Muddy and Wolf By Jas Obrecht ...” You've said that with the Rolling Stones, Woody could drop his pick and you'd intuitively cover his part. Do you have that similar relationship with Waddy Wachtel? Yeah, yeah. Steve Jordan and I had done Aretha Franklin's "Jumping Jack Flash" video, and that's where we started to work together, although we had been looking at each other for several years. And Charlie Watts had said, "If you're gonna work with somebody else, work with Jordan." I had Charlie's blessing on that one, so that was a great boost. And then we did the Chuck Berry thing [the film Hail, Hail Rock And Roll]. After that, it became apparent that either I was going to do nothing or I was gonna have to do a solo album, because there was nothing else to do that I was interested in, but I wanted to work. And this split with Mick and the Stones had been going on for two or three years already. I mean, it's almost as long as World War II! In retrospect, it's not such a bad thing. At least we've patched it together again, and everybody's still there. It might have been a good thing. So I started to put a band together, because I can't work without a band. Steve looks at me and says, "Who do you want to play with?" I said, "Guitar? Waddy Wachtel." And he goes to me, "My very words." I'd known Waddy since the middle '70s, and I've always liked his stuff. But I always recognized him as a man left alone out there running a chick's band. And I knew this man wants to rock more desperately than he's allowed to. [Laughs.] He's doing Linda Ronstadt, then he's doing Stevie Nicks, and I know my man wants to rock. Waddy and I have always had that empathy, and he understands my music. I don't have to explain anything to Waddy. I say, "It goes like this," and everybody else would say, "Well, that's weird." But Waddy goes, "Oh, that's interesting." That's what you look for, that ESP doesn't come hard. Because what you're looking for in a band is that you don't have to bother about thinking about something, that it's picked up automatically.”... Guitar Player Magazine January, 2000 Steve Lukather By Jas Obrecht ...”Do you use open tunings? I'm getting more into them. Waddy Wachtel turned me onto the Keith Richards 5-string open-G tuning. I pulled the low E string off my Fender Esquire and tuned the rest of them G D G B D [low to high]. You have to have that tuning to make Rolling Stones songs work. It's good for real slam-bang rock and roll; it makes you play nasty. I also experiment with some wild minor 11th tuning.”... EQ Magazine October, 2006 The art and science of capturing great guitar tone Success Story: Tim Hatfield ...It doesn’t get any more rock ’n’ roll than recording Keith Richards, whom Hatfield had the pleasure of helping record main tracks and overdubs for on the guitarist’s second solo album, Main Offender. “I learned so much on that record,” he recalls. “Not only was the band so incredible, but I was working with three of the best engineer/producers around — Joe Blaney, Nico Bolas, and Don Smith. [Guitarist] Waddy Wachtel used a Marshall a lot, and on the first day, I put the mic on the ‘wrong’ speaker of Waddy’s cabinet. It was during this session that I learned how to find the right speaker in a cabinet, and the right spot on the right speaker. I had put the mic on the top left speaker, pulled it up, and he really hated the sound. So I moved the mic to the right, went into the live room, listened, and thought, ‘This sounds great out here.’ Going back into the live room and listening is a wise move. I had noticed that the right speaker sounded better than the left, and when I moved it to the other speaker, Waddy got very excited by the results.”... The Goldmine Interviews 1995 Conversations with Leslie West and Corky Laing of Mountain By Richard Skelley ...Goldmine: Who was around Forest Hills or 48th Street that you learned from in those days? Leslie West: There was a kid at a lot of sessions named Waddy Wachtel, and he lived in my building at the time, and he knew more chords than I did. His real name is Bob Wachtel, and he went on to become an excellent studio musician, and he played with Keith Richards the last time he went out, with the X-Pensive Winos. | Modern Recording and Music | Guitar World | Guitar Player | International Musician | Musician | Misc. Articles | Waddy Wachtel Interview Part 1 | Waddy Wachtel Interview Part 2 | Nina 1 | | Return Home | Discography / Credits / Gigs | Articles / Interviews | Photos | Contact | Waddy Wachtel Band | |
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