Comments on: Flashback Friday: Air Guitar to the Gods http://ninebullets.net/archives/flashback-friday-air-guitar-to-the-gods Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:55:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: jkeough http://ninebullets.net/archives/flashback-friday-air-guitar-to-the-gods/comment-page-1#comment-6375 jkeough Thu, 10 May 2007 17:47:24 +0000 http://ninebullets.net/archives/flashback-friday-air-guitar-to-the-gods#comment-6375 no mention of Sting being a critical componet of the sucess of that song? no mention of Sting being a critical componet of the sucess of that song?

]]> By: Autopsy IV http://ninebullets.net/archives/flashback-friday-air-guitar-to-the-gods/comment-page-1#comment-6267 Autopsy IV Mon, 07 May 2007 16:55:52 +0000 http://ninebullets.net/archives/flashback-friday-air-guitar-to-the-gods#comment-6267 Dude! I would love to read that if you can find it. Dude! I would love to read that if you can find it.

]]> By: Vinnie Saletto http://ninebullets.net/archives/flashback-friday-air-guitar-to-the-gods/comment-page-1#comment-6196 Vinnie Saletto Fri, 04 May 2007 18:42:40 +0000 http://ninebullets.net/archives/flashback-friday-air-guitar-to-the-gods#comment-6196 Actually, if I remember correctly, the funny thing about the opening riff in "Money for Nothing" is that although the individual notes were played by guitar, those notes were then sampled, and the samples were then played back via sequencer to make the riff that you hear today. I know there's an article in an old Keyboard magazine about it, and I'm trying to find it for you. Back in the mid 1980s Samplers were all the rage, and people were finding new and novel things to do with it. Actually, if I remember correctly, the funny thing about the opening riff in “Money for Nothing” is that although the individual notes were played by guitar, those notes were then sampled, and the samples were then played back via sequencer to make the riff that you hear today.

I know there’s an article in an old Keyboard magazine about it, and I’m trying to find it for you. Back in the mid 1980s Samplers were all the rage, and people were finding new and novel things to do with it.

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