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Location: Jet City | Here's some video. I was goofin' with the UKII and some backing tracks.
Sorry for the bit of distortion, but I recorded with the laptop's camera and built in mic. I used my Roland acoustic amp for the vocals, it did pretty good. The backing tracks are on the stereo, and I'm playing through the Carvin.
Probably not the kinda music y'all listen to (MARK!) but like I said, I was goofin with the UKII, and what better to play on a UKII that some Zakk Wylde! Stick around for the solo though, it's pretty cool.
Oh, and I'm trying to sound like Ozzy singin' too. S'pose I should apologize for that right off too. :D
Me playing the UKII |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Cool! Black Sabbath should take you along on tour in case Ozzie dies or loses what's left of his mind. |
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Location: Tennessee | Goofin' is good! Are you using any pedals between the UKII and the Carvin? You definitely have the Zakk sound down ... be on the lookout for a UKII painted in a black and white target! :) |
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Location: Feeding Hills, MA | My UKII must be defective cuz it doesn't sound at all like that...or is it just me?
Great vid and awesome performance! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Holy shiite! I'm having my last cocktail and hit this vid... Day-um, I'm now ready to ROCK!!! 
BTW, what distortion?!?! 
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Dancin for the camera. Damon's rockin out!
Nice job!!!! |
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| Cool, all ya need is a little rubber bat on a string to fly past you from time to time. I am not the biggest Ozzy fan but he is one cool dude and the grinding guitar is really fun to hear you pull off with an old Ovation!
Vocals are better than I expected! Nice job! you have a fun act.
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Damon, well done! Makes me want to dust off my old copy of Blizzard of Ozz... |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Goofin' is good! Are you using any pedals between the UKII and the Carvin? You definitely have the Zakk sound down ... be on the lookout for a UKII painted in a black and white target! :) Thanks guys!
Bobbo, it's all amp until the solo. When the break hits, I hit the volume pedal to quiet, turn on the delay (Digitech PDS1002) flip to the neck pup (at half volume) do the volume swells and do the first little intro into the solo, then as it builds, I flip to the bridge pup and hit the OD (An old analog one made by Pearl... waiting on the killer OD from StephenT!). End of the solo volume goes back to zero while it echos out. Then all effect off again and back to the Carvin X100B's sound.
The rest is pretty "ghetto" to say the least. I'm getting a Ozzy vocal tone singin into my Roland AC60 acoustic amp with the built in chorus and delay going (secret to Ozzy's voice? LOTS OF EFFECTS!) The backing tracks are courtesy of Tim Chapman's post the other day. Thanks Tim! I'm just playing them through my surround system for the TV.
Recording was done with quicktime on the mac with the built in camera and mic.
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Location: South of most, North of few | Wow Damon, just saw the email this morning, and now it's hit the big time of the internet. Now I've got to sell all the acoustics, buy a Viper or a UK, a bunch of effects, amps......
Oh, I forgot, AND LEARN HOW TO PLAY.
Great job! |
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Location: Vernon CT | Damon, You Rock!!! Sound like Ozzy (and dance like Jack Black LOL!) Great Job!! |
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| F@ckin awesome, dude! That was sweet. Next up, some Rush? Bet you'd nail that, too. |
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Location: ms | sexy... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Good work, Damon. Playing is only half the job. Knowing how to hook up all the electronics and making it all come together on the fly is the other half. Looks and sounds like you got it all down. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I just started watching when somebody else arrived for work. I didn't want to ruin my stodgey reputation, so I'll have to watch it at home tonight. |
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Location: Chicago | Re the T-shirt: "What Would Zak Play?" (Who cares, we got Damon). Excellent tribute. It's funny, with all the hype about Rhoads, and for a long time now the presence of Wylde, I kinda miss the dark horse of the Ozzy stable: Jake E. Lee. You have some of his mojo.... He is fantastic and does it all sans whammy! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Damon was a shy, reclusive guy until the NW Gathering. We created a monster. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Nice job Damon... The way an Ovation solid-body is supposed to sound. JMHO |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Damon - that was awesome!
Keep 'em coming! |
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Location: Las Vegas, NV | Great job and great sound. |
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Location: Jet City | Thanks again all. I was gonna do a couple acoustic things today, but woke up with the cruds. I won't be singin anything for a few days.
theraflu is my friend today. |
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Location: Cincinnati | That was totally awesome, Damon. Now I have even more reason to find that elusive UK II. Thanks for sharing. | |
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Location: Jet City | Jack, I'm tellin' ya, you need one! I've gone through lots of electric guitars in the past 25 years, and I've never come across another guitar that can compare to the tone of a UKII, especially if you're playing a harder rock/metal style.
It'll eat a Les Paul for dinner, then a super strat or 2 for dessert.
Alex, I can play Rush all day long, but singing Geddy's parts are pretty tough. There may be one or 2 I could butcher though. I'm close to getting "Something for Nothing" down. Maybe Red Barchetta. We'll see, Geddy's a toughy. | |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | There seems to be such rave reviews of the UKII and I don't doubt it one bit.
So why do you think this guitar (or any ovation solidbody for that matter) never really caught on in the market?
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Y'all asked for it... VIDEO!
