Re: Zappas' guitar playing: was: What a loop has to say

[mungenast@earthlink.net]

Reminds me of how, waaaay back in my dazed-and-confused Seveties community 
college years, I had just begun guitar and was mentioning to this biker 
dude that I thought that Pagey's lead in Heartbreaker was maybe a bit 
haphazard. He said "well can YOU play it, motherf*cker?!?" The man had a 
point. Nearly 30 years later, my answer is still, 
"um...kinda...almost....eeeeh, I got nothin'!" (LOL)

Having said that, I draw equal inspiration from master players and 
inspired primitives and all points in between, knowing full well that some 
of those "inspired primitives" are packing serious musical heat and can do 
some things I can't do. Keeps me open minded and humble.

~Timbus Humilius
www.myspace.com/timmungenast
www.cdbaby.com/all/timgoat



-----Original Message-----
>From: stanitarium <stanitarium@earthlink.net>
>Sent: Mar 22, 2006 3:13 AM
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: Zappas' guitar playing:  was:  What a loop has to say
>
>concur
>
>
>on 3/21/06 8:36 PM, Miko Biffle at biffoz@arczip.com wrote:
>
>> 'Chops' sometimes don't account for idosyncracratic players like Zappa,
>> Page, Hendrix... You might be able to hit the notes, but there's a
>> fascinating synergy of primitive muscle, sloppiness with absolute
>> commitment, blended with innate musicality, which can't really be 
>learned...
>> that's what really makes your style yours. 10 guys play a lick... 9 
>sound
>> very similar... one sounds unbelieveable. How did he do that??? Zappa 
>did
>> that.
>> 
>> Zappa was also very involved in ingenious effects routing, including 
>piezos
>> under the nut, going direct, etc.
>> 
>> Miko Biffle
>> "Running scared from all the usual distractions!"
>> C'mon over to MySpace! www.myspace.com/biffozz
>> Now playing 'Rough' www.cdbaby.com/biffoz
>> The Chain Tape Collective! http://www.ct-collective.com/
>> 
>> 
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