Acoustic Guitar Mastery: Jon Gomm, “Deep Sea Fishes”
From the forthcoming album The Faintest Idea out 16th October. Listen and pre-order here: jongomm.lnk.to
Full guitar tab with all techniques explained, here: jongomm.comI have many mental health diagnoses, worn like medals earned in a war against myself.
When depression grips, I hide in worlds sheltered from human emotion. One time I was hunkered down watching a documentary about fish. This was new footage, of undiscovered creatures who live in the very deepest parts of the very deepest oceans. Down there it’s cold, bleak, there’s no light, and almost no life. The fish that roam this wasteland alone are hideous beasts with terrifying fangs and luminescent lures.Thinking about these tragic monsters left me pretty upset. For days. Until eventually I realised, they must come from somewhere. There must be a daddy hideous sea monster, and a mummy hideous sea monster, and, despite the odds, they must meet, and fall in love, and make little baby hideous sea monsters.
And is that so very different from us? So I wrote this love song.
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Here’s all the gear I used. If you wanna buy any of it, if you use any of the links below then I get a small commission:
Ibanez JGM10 prototype guitar
Newtone Jon Gomm signature guitar strings
newtonestrings.comBlackstar Sonnet 60 acoustic amplifier thomann.de
Sontronics SOLO vocal mic
thomann.deFishman Rare Earth Blend and PowerTap pickup systems
thomann.deMOTU Ultralite AVB mixer/interface
thomann.deBoss OC-3 octave pedal
thomann.deZoom Multistomp effects pedal
thomann.deKlotz cables
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Filmed by The Samsara Collective at Niamos Radical Arts Theatre, Manchester, England.
Audio produced by Andy Sorenson
Mastered by Tom Woodhead