Silence Kid, by Pavement.
Saturday afternoon project…
Back around 2014 when I bought myself an electric guitar for the first time in a decade or two, I always almost entirely driven by trying to get some approximation of Pavement’s sound. The (Squire) Jazzmaster, the Orange amp, a pedal or two, all helped, but the real leap of progress came when I found someone had bothered to transcribe all their songs (and lots of the available Malkmus solo stuff at the time) with all the correct tunings and tablature. Slay Tracks person, if you’re out there somewhere, thank you, and please do the past five years of Malkmus records, too. And thank you.
I wasn’t really sure how to get a decent video without lip syncing, and I didn’t want to do that for this project if I can help it, so all you get is video of me vibing to the first 70 seconds or whatever before the vocal comes in, and then it’s full on lounge singer moves with the mic in my hand.
There are three different guitar tracks and three vocals and some software stuff. The drums are silly, but when they work, it’s really helpful. There are also some terrible edits, because the electric guitar part is a lot to get right.
This song is called Silence Kid, no matter what it says on the back of the record, and the original slaps.
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