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Best regards, tEd ® KiLLiAn Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. – Norman Podhoretz http://www.myspace.com/tedkillian http://www.reverbnation.com/tedkillian http://www.pfmentum.com/PFMCD007.html http://www.CDbaby.com/cd/tedkillian http://www.guitar9.com/fluxaeterna.html http://www.indiejazz.com/ProductDetailsView.aspx?ProductID=193 http://guitarplayer.com/article/y2k6-international-live/Jun-07/27768 Ted Killian's "Flux Aeterna" is also available at Apple iTunes Begin forwarded message: > Marc, > > I don't see anyone else responding to your post so I guess I'll bite. > > I'll confess to being a rather avid Sonny Sharrock fan. > > I love his unusually simple jazz melodic sense - as heard on "Ask the > Ages" (1991) - and his buzz-saw picking as "sheets of sound" - as > heard in a lot of his work with Last Exit). > > I guess it's all subjective, but I didn't hear his playing as being > particularly "dark" so much as truly "wounded" and/or in pain (a kind > of existential thing) with a sort of stubborn, aggressive resitance. > > But that's just me. > > There is some evidence that on his late '80s "solo" recordings > "Guitar" (1986) and Seize the Rainbow" (1987) he made some use of > looping in the composing/recording process. > > I always think of Sonny as a musician who was fully and fiercely > committed to every single note or gesture he made, and (to use an > expression I am rather fond of using) he seemed to be leaning fully > forward into the music with all his might and weight, as if it were > leaning into a strong headwind or storm. > > That sort of passion and commitment is what made him a great artist in > my opinion. > > Best regards, > > tEd ® KiLLiAn > > Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited > energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of > order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. – Norman > Podhoretz > > http://www.myspace.com/tedkillian > http://www.reverbnation.com/tedkillian > http://www.pfmentum.com/PFMCD007.html > http://www.CDbaby.com/cd/tedkillian > http://www.guitar9.com/fluxaeterna.html > http://www.indiejazz.com/ProductDetailsView.aspx?ProductID=193 > http://guitarplayer.com/article/y2k6-international-live/Jun-07/27768 > > Ted Killian's "Flux Aeterna" is also available at Apple iTunes > > On Dec 27, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Marc Marshall wrote: > >> >> 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. >> > >> >> >> >