電影中吉他段落的問題, 當時就想打字上來分享給大家, 但忘了, 今天又想起來就
快來一帖:
問:
What equipment were you using for the guitar duel in the movie Crossroads?
And was it difficult to get beaten by that guy [Ralph Macchio] from
The Karate Kid?
你在”十字街頭”電影裡跟那小子對拼用什麼器材? 被那個演"小子難纏"
(The Karate Kid)出名的演員Ralph Macchio打敗是否很難演?
答:
I used my “Green Meanie” Charvel through a Carvin X100B amp with a
Roland SDE-3000 delay and a MXR distortion pedal. Was it hard to get
beat? Ladies and gentlemen, Ralph Macchio is a wonderful actor
– but he did not play one single note of the guitar in the film! All the
slide guider playing you hear is Ry Cooder. All the picked guitar you hear
is me. It's shocking that people think he actually beat me. It's the
movies. It's all fake!
What was difficult was that I had to create something that I beat
myself at. The first time I did it, we filmed 12 days for 16 hours a day.
And when they went back to the edit bay and cut the movie together,
they realized I didn't lose bad enough. So they called me back a month
later and I had to go in and screw up more.
我用那支我叫它”綠色卑鄙鬼”的Charvel 和 Carvin X100B amp 和Roland
SDE-3000 delay和一顆MXR Ditortion. 被那小子打敗是否難演? 各位先生女士,
Ralph Macchio是一個很出色的演員, 但在電影裡的吉他段落他根本一個音也沒彈
(所以真的很會演), 你們聽到所有用滑管(Slide)彈的段落都是Ry Cooder彈錄的,
用Pick彈的段落全部是我搞的, 真的很驚訝有人認為我真的被他打敗! 那只是電影
的劇情, 都是假的
真正難的是, 我必須搞些他彈的東西打敗我自己彈的, 我第一次的成品, 當時拍了
12天, 每天拍16小時, 當他們回到剪接室開始剪輯電影時, 他們才發現到我輸的
不夠慘! 結果一個月後他們又叫我回去重弄, 我只好回去弄一些聽起來更爛的
(修正過)
Vai當年的Green Meanie, 本來是橘色的 :
http://www.jemsite.com/jem/model/charvel2.htm
這些都是Vai被偷掉的吉他, 下面的字說好險沒包括這把綠的:
http://www.jemsite.com/jem/model/vai_stolen.htm
但我想Vai講的意思也許是說是用這把綠吉他錄音的, 因為在電影裡記得他是拿一把
Jackson頭的(商標貼起來不幫人廣告), 或是Charvel Soloist型的(Jackson
Charvel是同公司), 我想是這網頁裡的其中一把:
http://www.jemsite.com/jem/model/charvel.htm
還有一點他沒講到的, 電影中古典尼龍弦吉他部份是Bill Kanengiser彈錄的
Carvin X100B是八零年代Hair Metal的Amp名器, 早期吉他雜誌裡的廣告照片就是
Vai 拿這綠吉他站在Amp前, 後來改由Jason Becker和Marty Friedman代言, 最後
一批是當時麥克傑克森的超強女吉他手Jennifer Batten代言, 菜舖的黑狗網友前陣子
說有買到一台, 我也曾有過
你們很多人可能沒看過Jennifer Batten當年英姿, 一個女生技術嚇到你屁滾尿流!
Beat it中間的Solo彈的比原版Van Halen彈的還還正點! 琵琶老闆把佐子教成這樣吧:

那個金髮女生就是Jennifer:




之前電視有重撥 麥克傑克森的演唱會ㄟ

