Saturday, March 13, 2010

  Longest Concert by a Solo Artist - world record set by Alex Carlin

  RADOMSKO, Poland -- Alex Carlin performed 500 songs, including the entire Beatles catalogue, in a 32 hours-long show took place at the Pub Bourbon Street - setting the new world record for the Longest Concert by a Solo Artist .
 Photo: Pictured with his TELEFUNKEN M 80 mic and Gibson J-45 guitar is World Record holder Alex Carlin performing in Radomsko, Poland during the world's Longest Concert by a Solo Artist / Telefunken photo ( enlarge photo )

   "Around hour 12 things were getting difficult - my head felt like it was exploding and I had dark thoughts about what later hours could feel like if it was already bad like that."

   "But soon things started getting better and better. In fact, by the moment I was beating the 27-hour record I felt great, and the last five hours were quite easy. The last hour I was feeling very strong, playing Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Metallica and my song 'No Sleep Only Rock and Roll' - high-
energy stuff. I was amazed that I could still sing those kinds of vocals at the 32nd hour."

 The previous Guinness world record for the Longest Concert by a Solo Artist was 27 hours, 3 minutes and 44 seconds by the French-Canadian known as "Gonzales" in Paris.

   During his world record attempt for the Longest Concert by a Solo Artist Alex Carlin used a TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik M 80 vocal mic and a Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar. The extremely rugged TELEFUNKEN M 80 is designed for both stage and studio, performance and recording.

   Carlin was formerly in the 1977 cult-punk band Psychotic Pineapple, based in San Francisco.

   Now he plays 130 concerts per year, mostly in Eastern Europe. Many of these shows are long solo concerts, typically lasting more than 7 hours. After these concerts Carlin likes to go to "after-parties," where he plays for many more hours.

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