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

Ahh, the memories of the alligator clips at the harmonic nodes through a
Roland RE-201 Space Echo.... I had the strings to (low to high) E-G-A-B-D-E.
THAT was a glorious sound.
M.
Berkeley Press used to have in their catalog a
book titled "The Contemporary Guitar" that had a slew of techniques like this
described.
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From: andy fekete
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To: tv@obbard.com
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 4:44:02
PM
Subject: Re: (TV) Les Paul & Other Shows/Hypothesizing, Theorizing / 'Our
clothes always clean'

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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