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InVettagating: Venice - Michael Lennon August 2005 page 2

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In this InVettagation an interview with their guitarplayer, Lennon family member, singer, songwriter and responsible for their recordings.

Thanks go out to all the Venice bandmembers, their crew and management, they have been very kind and helpfull.

You say you keep it simple in your songs, but you use some strange tunings in your songs... These are sometimes out of the ordinary, why?

I think it started whith being lucky to know David Crosby and Jackson Browne personally. To play with people like that and being around them and see David tune a guitar in the wierdest possible way.. I mean David Crosby tought Joni Mitchell the wierd tunings and then she made up a bunch of her own.

To being lucky and able to sit down a couple of time and he showed me some of these wierd tunings whell it really stimulated my musical ideas and insight. Because of the different tunings I didn't know where to put my fingers I would acidentally hit a chord and thinking WOW that's beautiful or I love this tuning or that one.

You know songs like the family tree, the road to where you are, one quiet day were all written close to a tuning called DADGAD. Of all of the wierd tunings it's one of the more normal ones. The family tree is actually DADAAD because I've changed it and made up my own tuning. So that it worked the way I fingered it.

SoIn the video this tuning is +1, so this Workbench tone is 'tuned' to the video for your convinience.

So I was tought those, I did it, and when I was praticing and fooling around I ended up writing three of our songs that are still on the setlists most of the time. It's interesting because it's a Venice song but the tunigs made me think in a different way. It opened my eyes and it shed light on something that I hadden't thought about before. I had to rediscover something that creatively really stimulated me.

The tuning in Family Tree is a little bit of a strange tuning but if you watch how I play them. I litterly have my thumb wrapped around my guitarneck and I'm sliding up and down. Meanwhile I'm using the open high strings but moving the bass-strings which it root-five-root. Which is just like playing bar chords but then I have that droning open notes going with it that gives it this beautiful open sound.

See the different pictures 1 to 8 to have the idea and the videolink beneath them for the fingersettings of the intro.


Family Tree 1	Family Tree 2


Family Tree pic 3	Family Tree pic 4


Family Tree pic 5	Family Tree pic 6


Family Tree pic 7	Family Tree pic 8

Click here for a small live performance clip. (.wmv file 1, 40 MB)In this clip you can see which notes are played. So if you wanna learn the song, it could help. (Thanks Venice for granting me this favour).

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