Vic Flick - Guitarist/Composer
Vic Flick - Guitarist/ComposerEmail Vic at FLIGHT007@aol.com
Vic Flick was a close companion one many sessions in the 60's. We used to play chess in the moments we had in between takes. I owe quite a lot to Vic, he would help me when the reading was a bit more than I could handle. He showed me how to read phrasing and and more important how to read music rests. He would say its easy to read the notes but to read the rests is more important.
Flick was among the handful of top session guitarists in England during the early 1960s when the whole concept of electric guitar as a lead instrument caught fire. Generally, the only available guitarists who could read were trained in classical or jazz and they weren't interested in playing sessions with a 'rocking' feel. This gave rise to a whole generation of players, especially in Britain, who contributed guitar parts to recordings ranging from The Kinks to Engelbert Humperdink. In addition to Vic Flick, these session men included the likes of Jimmy Page and Big Jim Sullivan.
Press to hear Vic Play the >James Bond Theme<
How did Vic Flick get the sound on the James Bond Movie theme? These are the words from the man himself:
"I
used a Clifford Essex Paragon Cello Bodied F Hole guitar fitted with a DeAmond
Guitar Pick Up. This was played through a DeAmond Volume Pedal into a Vox 15
Watt Amplifier. Also, one of the characteristics of "the sound" came
from the way the music was recorded. Back then. in the late 50s and early 60s,
recordings were made in 'compatible stereo'. In other words, the discs could
be played on mono or stereo record players. It wasn't true stereo but it sounded
better than mono and in that era was a major breakthrough!. Consequently the
orchestra was recorded in one pass - no 48 track machines then! This gave the
guitar a special sound due to the fact that spill from the guitar amp was picked
up on adjacent microphones and so adding high end and other ambient qualities."