Wendy Melvoin - Discusses gear used on Purple Rain and shows exactly how the intro is played

RocknRollDave

Anyone care to share their chord shapes for this?

Tab or just chord fingerings (e.g. x x 0 2 3 2 for a D), whatever you have.

CaseOfAce

1
 1
 3
 0

followed by 
a run down to 

1
1
3
X
X
3

then a first postion Andy Summers style F add 9 (5 fret stretch) and an Eb add 9 with the middle finger playing the third...

gavin_axecaster

Kittyfrisk said:

DrCornelius said:

She’s awesome , I was obsessed with her and Lisa as a teenager and as a ‘grown up’ now I can really appreciate what a musical , tasteful player she is . Thanks for posting 

I really can't imagine for a moment why as a young lad you'd be obsessed with her...
Apart from her undoubted amazing talent as a musician of course  

That's her twin sister Susannah.

https://www.instagram.com/susannahmelvoin/?hl=en

Kittyfrisk

gavin_axecaster said:

Kittyfrisk said:

DrCornelius said:

She’s awesome , I was obsessed with her and Lisa as a teenager and as a ‘grown up’ now I can really appreciate what a musical , tasteful player she is . Thanks for posting 

I really can't imagine for a moment why as a young lad you'd be obsessed with her...
Apart from her undoubted amazing talent as a musician of course  

That's her twin sister Susannah.

https://www.instagram.com/susannahmelvoin/?hl=en

Bugger! Google used to return results related to searches...  
Thanks for the correction 

normula1

Wendy's all over Rag 'n Bone man's last album. Great player

PAL

She's is and always was a brilliant guitar player.

bluecat

Thank you ever so much Mr Randall Flagg for introducing me to Wendy Melvin.
I have just watched a load of stuff on you tube,I had never heard of her before,I don't know why but she is BRILLIANT.
Thanks once again.

bluecat

Sorry predictive text cocked up.    Melvoin

Kebabkid

Finally got to watch it and that was enjoyable.

 It was great to see 'Purple Rain' being played properly and we're reminded of what a great funk player she is, too. When I saw her live, she switched to funk/slap bass for a number or two and she's no slouch on that, either.

One thing I didn't know was that she played guitar on Sheryl Crow's 'Favorite Mistake'. I love that guitar intro and that's my favourite SC song.

 

Strat54

Susannah was married to Doyle Bramhall II.....it didn't end well. Wendy and her sis feature on his first couple of records too. This ACL performance had both the sisters on stage, Wendy is playing bass....

https://youtu.be/HjnTkH5Ejm4

Paul_C

CavemanGrogg said:

TeleMaster said:

EricTheWeary said:

That had come up on my YouTube feed but it’s on the Vertex channel and he is such a knob so I’ve not watched it. Although if she talks about where to buy the best Welsh cakes then it will be worth a watch…

Yea. That whole rebranding Chinese pedals and selling them for 4x the price and denying it for days was the worst. Muppet. 

There was a big one around 2010 with a boutique wah pedal, that the artist tied in with it, but had no involvement with the building and supplying of pedals, was forced to get involved in, and even refund people out of his own pocket over. 

That was Vertex.

A BBE wah rebranded and sold for a huge mark up.

Michael Landau was the guy who issued an apology and offered to refund anyone who couldn't get a refund on his Vertex sig. pedals from Vertex direct.

Before that there was the Freekish Blues Alpha Drive which turned out to be a reboxed Joyo Ultimate Overdrive with three resistors added.

TeleMaster

euan said:

When you say most boutique builders…can you name more than two examples here?

Don't hold your breath. He constantly makes outlandish claims and never backs them up when asked to. 

DefaultM

Why has she chosen Vertex to build her the board? They seem to have done a good job, but there are plenty of other places that would have done it.

thebreeze

Strat54 said:

Susannah was married to Doyle Bramhall II.....it didn't end well. Wendy and her sis feature on his first couple of records too. This ACL performance had both the sisters on stage, Wendy is playing bass....

https://youtu.be/HjnTkH5Ejm4

Great.  I enjoyed that.  He looks like he’s one of those lefties who plays with the strings the wrong way up a la Eric Gayles (not quite as good as EG though!)

Voxman

Kebabkid said:

One thing I didn't know was that she played guitar on Sheryl Crow's 'Favorite Mistake'. I love that guitar intro and that's my favourite SC song.

 

Ditto...and that sound she got straight through a Fender Tweed was just awesome.  

bwets

RocknRollDave said:

Anyone care to share their chord shapes for this?

Tab or just chord fingerings (e.g. x x 0 2 3 2 for a D), whatever you have.

He pretty much nails it here:
https://www.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk/purple-rain/
The only difference looks like she's doing a mini barre with her little finger on the F chord (to get G&C) which is much easier than the stretch he does!