I don't think Tuck was the originator,didn't mean to suggest it,just that Hedges, wasn't. He was great though.He was a fan of my old band,so I was very slightly acquainted,great guy too. I thought of mentioning Farlow,but he didn't exactly tap melodic passages or riffs so much as use it for articulating chords,as far as I can tell.I never heard him live.I know he had huge hands could reach insane voicings,and would do stuff like strum a chord fingered high up the neck,then tap a low position bass note with the right hand 1st finger while holding the chord. Or strum a chord with the little finger while holding a bass note with the 1st .Yeah the great Baden Powell,and other Brasileiros ,like the Flamencos did all sorts of percussive tapping.
If
we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but
timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the
present. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ok well, as far as I know Tal Farlow beat
everyone to it, at least to the finger tapping part.and that’s not
talking about the Brazilian guys like Baden Powell, who could mimic a samba
batteria with percussive slaps and scrapes on his guitar. This was happening
back in the 60’s at least.
Bill.
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9:05 AM
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Subject: OT:feedback nylon tapping
hedges
"... two hand tap acoustic guitarrists,... since Michael Hedges invented it."
Heges was brilliant,inspiring etc. But definately didn't invent tapping. My friend
Paul Prince,(an excellent guitarist,prolly the first to apply tapping to African guitar styles)
told me about sitting with Hedges at the old Varsity Theater,
in Palo Alto ( sort of the clubhouse for Windam Hill) listening to Tuck Andreas,who was tapping
and Hedges saying "that's it" He got the idea from Tuck.
But maybe you meat Hedges picku system,which wa highly worked out,esp fro his modern harp guitar.
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