Jack Black as Carl Denham in the backround looking proud about his cigars.

The trippiest take on Take Five

Muchas gracias por tu enseñanza !! Desde Guadalajara.

Love these kinds of exposés, thanks for posting it.

Saw this performance in person! Was awestruck at his abilities! A great jazz/fusion guitarist and excellent teacher!

Take 5

bunch of noise, no melody, every one is doing something different

My wife (U-99 Mariner Too) and I (U 8 Miss Timex) race with Roger from around 1981 to 1986, some of the best time in my life was racing 1/8 scale. The brown bowl in Kent was fun, (old treatment pond) and as you were walking out to get your boat, some one would tell us do you know that your walking in.

smokin'

A monster player. A great teacher. A genuinely nice guy. I was at GIT when he first got the Moller Synth. It was monophonic. No chords on this rig! The fret board conceals a huge amount of wire and solder. Each fret was wired in 6 places! Saw it listed for sale not to long ago.

You can buy his two albums off iTunes.

He has enough talent to play a 3-neck guitar! ;-)

Don is the best...Wish I could get my hands on his CD..It's eternally unavailable on Amazon.

Wow, That compilation is really well-done. Any idea who produced it ? There were no credits.

he doesnt use the typical fingerings he shows in his books,strange

Crimeny - his chops are ferocious. Note to self: if anyone says "hey, have a guitar duel with Don Mock" I'd be like "thanks, I'll just play rhythm!"

i love his facial expression

WOW! I remember watching Roger drive the Budweiser boats on the Family Fishing Pond in Kennewick, WA. He was great.

Get any of his books...just one of his licks or arpeggio patterns can me give TONS of mileage.

I spent one year racing these boats in the early days when most of the races I think were on an old water treatment pond. But following the circuit with a friendly bunch of racers was great. He certainly left quite a legacy. I think almost all the boats even then followed Roger's plans.

Wow, that was wonderful. Ray S.

Wonderful, wonderful composition.

A great tribute to a really fine man. Roger was a man who was always a straight shooter, always helpful and who with his wife, Marti, raised a great family. I don't think I realize yet how much I will miss him.

I know Don is a great scale hydroplane builder too!

Don Mock is a genuine bad-ass. Nice guy too.

Sounds very much like Jan Hammer's stuff with Jeff Beck like Blow by Blow or Wired. Don Mock is a monster and one of a kind: a teacher that can teach AND play!

stuff like this really makes me wonder why guitar synth playing haven't really evolved any much since this time, this is a direct proof that it does have awesome potential. this playing is awesome in itself of course

This setup is for sale on Ebay right now.

Don has this for sale on Ebay and also has a link to ap age with a complete description of it inthe listing. Item #130202590146

Are you sure this video wasn't made in the late sixties? those doubled images are like a sixties acid trip

He wants to be a keyboardist. This is amazing stuff.

I think the guts of the guitar had all the synth pickup hardware installed in the body. but i don;t remember what kind of patch cords he had, just the setup- but remember this was 1980( the time his album Mock One came out). I'm sure his setup has DRAMATICALLY evolved since then.

without midi that won't work, midi appeared in 83. ir is possible that he someone hardwire it, but doubtful --especially since the ob would not interpret all e or all b strings to a guitar tuning. need the interface to pass tha. i have a modified GM70 for that.

I went to GIT in 1980-1981. Don had just( i think) gotten it... The pedals used to control the volume and the filter as I remember were just 2 De Armond style volume pedals. For the filter, he would just step on it and that would open up the filter, heel down would close it. The other pedal was used just as a straight volume pedal....

i had a link to don on forum talking about it, but i lost if after not being able to post on youtube over the last however long, sorry. it's out there somewhere. dod you see the patch 200O? recognize the pedals? what year did you see don?

actually, the other neck is just straight guitar. AS I remember, the Oberheim module was hooked up to the guitar and then routed to the amp. So the custom neck for the synth(only suited because of the touch sensative frets) is only for the synth, and the other neck has regular pickups and is played like a guitar.

please delete my redundant posts.

having trouble replying here this is a test. mb i'll be back with more oberheim must be on other neck. patch 2000 has no midi (pre 83). you are right, bend and vib.

having trouble replyinghere this is a test. mb i'll be back with more oberheim must be on other neck. patch 2000 has no midi (pre 83). you are right.

it's an ampeg patch 2000.

not unless he modified it since I was in school in 1980( he's had that guitar that long) he used to use a volume pedal for the res sweep- the lever is to bend the strings since the frets have a mechanism to make them touch sensitive. Don used to use a Hagstrom Swede before that with synth pickups before Lane made that guitar....

except, that i think the guitar mounted control, in tis case, is the res sweep... not pitch bend.

Guitar is a Lane Moller double neck with touch sensitive frets, synth module is an old Oberheim, with 2 volume pedals, one for the filter one for volume. pitch bender is on the guitar... John

Ii went to GIT when Don was there.. it's a Lane Moller double neck with touch sensitive frets so, as you can see, you don;t need a pick- synth modules are his old Oberheim synth modules with 2 volume pedals, one for filter sweep the other for volume- pitch bender is on the guitar a you can see on the video. John

Man, what great playing and a spectacular guitar