[ATTENDED: August 2, 2024] Tim Motzer
Tim Motzer is a Philly-based guitarist. For his live show, he plays acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, and electric guitar. He loops his melodies and creates percussion by tapping on the hollow bodied acoustic (and gets a lot of different sounds from it).
He played four pieces in about 45 minutes.
The first on the acoustic guitar. It was fun to watch him build and then deconstruct the melodies and work within the drum beat that he created.
When he switched to 12 string guitar the sound was more varied. Afterward he said that he had a new array of pedals and some of the sounds were surprising to him as well
For the electric guitar he played a heavier song with a notable riff. For this and t he other 6 string piece, he used the e-bow a lot to generate cool sounds.
It was genuinely unclear to me if he was improvising the whole time or if he was playing some of his original pieces. It doesn’t matter, of course, because the music was cool either way, but I would give the songs a mention if I could tell which songs they were.
For the final piece, he played the 12 string guitar again and briefly used a violin bow (only briefly) to generate new sounds.
It was a pretty mesmerizing session. The set was marred a little for me by the guy next to me who would whoo! every once in awhile (like “Whooo 12 string!”) and the guy in the other side of me who kept getting out his phone and then reciting into it before taking a photo (I guess posting to Facebook) “He just took out the violin bow”)
But those annoyances were not very frequent so it wasn’t too bad.
And, overall, it was cool to see Motzer in person after having streamed his set from Sellersville last year.
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