Re: (TV) Les Paul & Other Shows/Hypothesizing, Theorizing / 'Our clothes always clean'

["andy fekete" <andy.fekete@gmail.com>]

I sorta get how Mission of Burma might appeal to Verlaine: Burma's wall of
sound is much more intricate than it seems at first listen, as guitarist
Roger Miller employs some really unconventional guitar techniques.

Good example: last February I got together with Miller to get some ideas for
solos. About 30 minutes in, he had me playing a strat with a steel fork
jammed under all six strings at the 7th fret;  every so often he'd give the
fork a yank so that it bobbed up and down, making the most incredible
racket;  then came the alligator clips...  As he introduces these radical
techniques, Roger does so in such a refreshingly guileless, matter-of-fact
manner that it seems like the most natural thing in the world.  *Of course*
you want to be playing with a fork jammed under your strings;  *of course*
you want to add alligator clips to every other string at harmonic nodes --
why, doesn't everyone?

I just love that attitude.   Maybe that's why Tom digs Burma.

-A
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