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Fred Bau

About Me

Born into a music lover family, i began meanwhile to play guitar very late. I started around 19 years old after have discovered the miraculous Edward Van Halen. But i renounced fairly quick, at 21, after have listened to, maybe too much, Jimi Hendrix & Frank Zappa. Especially, the incredible Jimi's ability for blues improvisation, & the lives recording Zappa's Shut Up 'n Player Guitar, totally discouraged me. I was totally inhibited. Not by the technics, but by the way they gave voice & original style to emotion. Even if i listened to music every day, it has taken to me several years to find again the wish & the courage to play guitar. I really started to work the six strings at 30 years old, after have found the click listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan, & the Joe Satriani red album. Obviously, there was a life & a musical life after too many drugs & Hendrix. Maybe it will sound silly. But it is. At last relieved one's inhibitions, i worked hard & practiced every day. After have met face to face the rare mutant of guitar Roy Marchbank, & the very classy Matthew Sear, i found the definitive determination to work harder & harder. Curiously, my playing is now very far from Hendrix school, even if it has been my biggest constraint. Trying to combine different influences, i dare to hope that i'm forging my own style. To me, the greatest model, on the artistic & human points is the alive king of Stratocaster, Jeff Beck. I'm now 37 years old, & even if i keep intact my love for guitar, acoustic as electric, i'm more & more interested by Bass.Eternal respect to Django Reinhardt.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/29/2006
Band Website: Comin' soon
Band Members:
Influences: Batman, Jeff Beck, Frank Zappa, SRV, EVH, Yngwie Malmsteen, Al Di Meola, King Crimson, Yes, Mike Stern, Joe Satriani, The Delta Blues, Chicago & Texas Blues, Django Reinhardt, Mozart, Haëndel, Debussy, Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, Richard Bona, Serge Gainsbourg, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Artaud, Hölderlin, Char, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Kierkeggard, Hume, John Carpenter, The Doors.
Sounds Like: I take some influence from everything i meet.
Record Label: Mr Zwelfez
Type of Label: None

My Blog

I would like to talk about an other friend : Mark London.

First time i discovered the music of Mark London, it's with his metal experiment. I was really suprised by his no conventionnal playing, & the very raw aspect of his music which did absolutly no conce...
Posted by Fred Bau on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:55:00 PST

Electric amplification for guitar : a little bit of story.

The first carbon mike & the first amp appeared around 1927 for the human voice.Immediatly, some musicians got the idea to exploit the invention for their guitars, as Leon McAuliffe in the Bob Wills's ...
Posted by Fred Bau on Sun, 18 May 2008 03:50:00 PST

Joe Satriani with few words

When you listen to Surfing With The Alien, the first thing you hear is lot of babbling, some sound climbing, & then, the babbling shuts up, & only music goes on.So, it's not a question of words with M...
Posted by Fred Bau on Sun, 11 May 2008 01:21:00 PST

Beck/Hendrix : lets get some feedback about guitar vision.

The Legend wants that Hendrix was the best.The first very great visonnary about electric guitar's potential.Hendrix genius is powerfull, indeed.. but..Without Delta Memphis Orlean Chicago Blues..& Wit...
Posted by Fred Bau on Sat, 10 May 2008 04:02:00 PST

Yngwie Malmsteen is not a Shredder

It's difficult to catch what a word like "Shredding" is supposed to really mean. If the "shredding" designates the ability to execute very fast & clearly all kinds of technics, maybe "to shred" means ...
Posted by Fred Bau on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:41:00 PST

Its maybe too soon to talk about Roy Marchbank

I say it's maybe too soon to talk about Roy Marchbank.Who am i to say that?No one.But the fact is his work is straight ahead our time.. so what?If, If something like Paganini + Stradivarius is fallen ...
Posted by Fred Bau on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:14:00 PST

Matthew Sear : i would like to talk about a friend.

I would like to talk about a friend.It's always delicat to talk publicly about a close person. So, i'm not gonna to talk about the man, but only about the musician. I discovered Mr Sear via his Satie'...
Posted by Fred Bau on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:19:00 PST

Page/Hendrix tones : question about the past.

Far from the rock star legend building, & back to the musical point, i'm wondering what is the more scaring work finally?The "Are You Experienced" tone, with Marshall 100 watts?Or the first "Led Zeppe...
Posted by Fred Bau on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:38:00 PST