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Tag: Wild West End

April 17, 2010May 14, 2019MK guitar style and licks

Version without backing tracks of my Wild West End video

Just a quick note: I added a version of my Wild West End video from last week without backing tracks, just vocals and lead guitar as I played it live over the backing track. The mix including all effects and EQ is the same as in the full video with exception that I increased the level for the lead guitar for about 3 dB.

April 10, 2010May 14, 2019MK guitar style and licks

Dire Straits – Wild West End – Cover by Ingo Raven

Wild West End from Dire Straits’ first album has always been one of my all-time favourite songs, so it is no wonder that it is one of the songs I recently started to practice a bit. Of course you will never come to a point where you think that you really can play it (at least not the way you feel it should be played like), but a few days […]

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