Good ups for all the list. I remember when "This is Not America" David
Bowie/Pat Metheny came out - "this guitarist rules!". But a lot of what I
encountered otherwise , while technically great and impressive, just left me
cold. Brian May is a great example of the innovative but underrated
guitarist.
What about Hillel Slovak from the Chili Peppers? As far as alterna-rock
goes....
peace,
R. Scott
framboise@mindspring.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Catanzaro" <stevencatanzaro@sprintmail.com>
To: "Mark Turner" <nugroove@pacbell.net>; <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: rock 'n roll
> OK, I'll add a couple...
>
> 1) Brian May... This is the cat from Queen who invented all kinds of
> overdubs and studio techniques... He could also cop some mean Chic-Kool
and
> the Gang licks when necessary (Another One Bites The Dust...) and he did
it
> all with a guitar he made, as a teen, with his dad from their old
fireplace.
> Points for that, to counteract the pompousness.
>
> 2) Steve Morse... I played a little bit of this for Daniel A. of Love and
> Rockets, and he almost threw up on the spot.... "Turn this wanker sh*t
off",
> said he. OK, he may have a point. But Morse's band, The Dixie Dregs, did
> produce one of the most impossibly funky jamz of all time, the legendary
> "Kat Food."
>
> 3) Bill Frisell... What... that's a guitar?
>
> 4) John Scofield.... Come on y'all, give it UP. OK, OK, so "A Go-Go"
sucked
> like a lukewarm jacuzzi, but check out his version of "Rockin 'Pneumonia."
> Man, he is too bad. (Plus, he's pro- Napster!)
>
> 5) Pat Metheny... Less a guitar player than an "avatar of concept" as the
LA
> Weekly once derivisvely called him. But he can rock it in a wide variety
of
> styles. He's got his midwestern mode, ("James" era stuff) his Brazillian
> mode, his straight-ahead mode, (A beautiful duet with Jim Hall), his
> symphonic mode, even his avant-unloveable mode (Brand X with Ornette
> Coleman.) What a chameleon this cat is, and teamed with Lyle Mays, it's
> double trouble, even without the bass drum!
>
> 6) Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian... Enough said... The be-all and
end
> all-
> Don't forget Grant Green, Jim Hall and all those other cats... hey, but
that
> ain't rock and roll... it's just guitar the way it should swing!!!
>
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