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Contact Vic via his son Kevin at kevinvflick@gmail.com . Another version of this site is mirrored here. BIOGRAPHY When considering cinema and music, no theme has proved to be more memorable and timeless than that of James Bond. For countless fans, it is indeed with ritualized anticipation that they await the appearance of 007 at the open of each new film. No cinematic experience quite matches it. A sequence of white dots roll across the screen, then open to reveal our favorite British spy targeted through the barrel of a gun. He confidently strolls on screen; he turns, shoots, and slays an unseen assassin. It is only with the combination of this imagery and the appropriate music, does it truly supply the audience with the proper effect. Chill inducing, heart-pounding excitement! The genius of this theme belies its elegant simplicity. Its chords and melody performed for the fi

Vic Flick interview with Jesse Amoroso at Cowtown Guitars, Las Vegas

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This interview by Jesse Amoroso in Vegas was recordeed Sep 7 2015 and is a classic.

New Book by Vic Flick

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  New Book by Vic Flick released . Book is available now . Here are a couple extracts to whet your appetite: The recording of the album "Stringbeat" in 1961 was a major turning point in my career - in more ways than one!. The big solo guitar sound was all the rage with hit records like "The Peter Gunn Theme" and "Shazam" in the charts. John Barry had long used my guitar as the featured instrument in his Seven recordings and was now determined to milk the commerciality of the sound to the full. Using the "plus four" sound and a full string section, we recorded "Stringbeat" in three sessions at EMI. In EMI Studio 2 to be exact. EMI 2 has been photographed many times so I expect most people know that it is a big room. Not as big as EMI 3, but still a big room. Along the back wall was set the rhythm section, piano, bass and drums. Slightly in front of them was a lone chai
A very interesting PDF article from 2012: