was Fahey now Sharrock !!!

[Marc Marshall <agentlesoul2004@yahoo.com>]

alright just for shits (maybe it is the excellent wine causing this) LOL

I know you have been talking mainly Fahey and acoustic guitar in general, BUT you did mention you liked his dark vibe, SO may I humbly introduce my favorite electric guitar player of taste, technique, dark but lovely vibe/ soul,  God rest his soul.................

drum roll please zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

SONNY SHARROCK

man he could play his guitar so it phrased like a saxaphone, (in fact I once heard him say he didn't even like guitar, just sax and drums!) just melody after melody, no pentonic scales (spelled right?) and when he reached for his slide, WOA NELLY

it conjured up the dead souls of Blind Willie Johnson, Charly Patton, Robert Johnson,

filtered through a burned  out Detroit warehouse and played on Thurston Moore's turntable.

 

more wine, bartender!!!  LOL

 

thanks for letting me rant

peace

marc

   

--- On Sat, 12/27/08, Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com> wrote:

From: Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>
Subject: Re: Fahey
To: agentlesoul2004@yahoo.com, Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 5:22 PM

Gismonti is so amazing, though I only heard him for the first time this summer.
I like recommendations! I reach for his stuff over Fahey - other than his unique
dark vibe and some interesting harmonic directions, he's largely lost on me
(ducking) - but that's just taste. Like Charlie Parker, Mozart, and Townes
Van Zandt, I acknowledge the influence, but rarely want to listen to the music.

still ducking...

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com


> 
> Speaking of slow acoustic guitar players, anybody hip to Egberto Gismonti?
> he can really play slow and beautiful and then blaze away as well
> he played an 8 string guitar in 1975!!
>  HIs early ECM stuff is wonderful      Dancas das Cabasas (or something
like that!) LOL   is a good place to start.
>