In a message dated 10/28/00 5:26:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< For me the number of notes per minute never comes into it, "It's not what
you've got, it's the way that you use it ". Clapton, Page and Howe are great
guitar players but not of the three play in a way that moves me like Neil
does.
Which brings me to Joni, where does she come in your list of virtuosos. She
doesn't play any solos. >>
well...as i named the three above,..speed was never ever a part of my
appreciation of them. or note's per minute. you know.....how many note's
per minute can you play on a guitar with a bow? to me, the issue of virtuoso
was more...who did what first? not many people will say much more has ever
been done with an electric guitar than what jimmi hendrix did. he was the
qunatum change. after that...it was shades of change.
i don't think joni or neil can compare in that arena. they are different
languages. one is singer songwriter...open tunings...guitar and
harmonica...harmony....while the other is sheer expression on six strings in
modal form. they are different languages to me. neither one better than the
other, but both losing something in the translation of comparison.
patrick
np. j. brooke - blood from a stone
