Re: phil keaggy

[Bret <echoplex@yahoo.com>]

Thanks mr monk,
I've been a fan of Phil's since the 70's (glass harp..), but not really
familiar with his loop work.  Can you recommend a recording that
features him looping?
bret
--- mr monk <monk@fuse.net> wrote:
> well...in addition to being able to do all the stuff that lots of
> guitarists
> aspire to... making really cool rhythm loops and playing mindbending
> masterpieces over top of them... he will play a longish (20 seconds?)
> classical guitar line BACKWARDS so that when he flips it over it has
> a
> mellotron meets hendrix sound and will layer two or three parts on 
> top of
> it... and he's improvising it all! and he'll do it in an unfamiliar
> open
> tuning... i guess it's not his use of the jamman that is so
> incredible, but
> his ability to seemlessly integrate it his deep musicality.
> 
> 
> here's an anecdote. i was backstage and he was absent-mindedly
> playing what
> i thought might be a variation on an edvard grieg piece.  he's going
> to town
> and folks are filtering in and out of the room and he's continuing to
> play
> the same piece , but expanding on it... every now and then he'll slow
> down
> just slightly and re-tune one of the strings up or down a half or
> whole
> step... kind of like adrian legg.. but he's doing it to be able to
> keep
> playing what is in his head.. after a while i say..."phil.. how do
> you keep
> track of what pitch the strings are tuned to?" he kind of "wakes up"
> from a
> slight daze and says "what?... oh i don't."  keep in mind this isn't
> some
> michael hedges piece with lush chords and lots of rhythm. it full on
> melody
> and counterpoint with a third and sometimes fourth voice. it's kind
> of a
> lesser reflection of what i imagine bach or mozart to have been like.
> 
> 
> on a good night it's simply beyond comprehension.. on a bad night
> he's just
> amazing.
> 
> my little opinion.
> 
> 
> 
> monk
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> on 12/20/01 6:03 PM, Bret at echoplex@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> > 
> > --- mr monk <monk@fuse.net> wrote:
> >> hey there,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> i just finished mixing a new phil keaggy record that i produced
> and
> >> recorded here at my studio. he does use the jamman and i even
> >> convinced
> >> gibson (when they were still responding to phone calls....) to
> send
> >> him an
> >> echoplex, but it was too much new technology for him. personally,
> i
> >> think if
> >> he had gotten into it it would have been a powerful tool for him,
> but
> >> the
> >> way he uses a jamman is like no other
> > Can you elaborate on the unique way that he uses a jamman?
> > bret
> > 
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