Re: (TV) Keith, Sterling, and Fred "Sonic" Smith

["MICHAEL CARLUCCI" <subterraneannyc@mindspring.com>]

>Some of my favourite guitarists are one trick ponies! How about Johnny
>Thunders, Mick Ronson, Neil Young... they all had only one trick, it just
>happened to be a very good one.
>And I'm not so sure about the importance of vibrato. It's a very blues thing,
>and I kind of like the people who got away from that a bit -- Andy Gill, for
>instance, doesn't really do vibrato, and Quine doesn't seem to use it much. I
>don't remember Richard Thompson doing it very much either.
>One of the best guitarists around at the moment, I think, is Graham Coxon from
>Blur. Very imaginative rhythm playing, and crosses over into solos in clever ways.
>sam
>
    Sporry to contradict Sam, but Quine and Richard Thompson both have very
fine
and unique vibratos. Both, ironically do it when the push up on a string,
then
hold and sustain the note and add their vibrato. Some vibratos are more
intense than
others. Beck, Hendrix, and Clapton have some of the most intense vibratos,
while
folks like Thompson, Quine, and Verlaine are subtle but are there all the
same.
Again, to some a vibrato may mean nothing and that's fine for them, but to
me
it means everything. Though I can appreciate Lou Reed(also one of my
favorites)
who has no vibrato at all. If you ask me to compare Kramer to  Fred Smith,
give me
Fred any day. He had it goin' on in every aspect. M T C


>> 
>> >     very easily, those trills and pull off's that Kramer does are a cheap
>> > attempt at being a speed demon. Those are fundamental tricks that every
>> > beginner
>> > guitarist learns. No more interesting than say, Alvin Lee
>> > or Mark farner from Grand Funk. Wayne is/was a one trick pony. He used those
>> > trills and pull off's to death. Give me Fred "Sonic" Smith anyday. Not even
>> > remotely close to the vibratos of Green, Hendrix, and even Richard Lloyd.
>> > If you listen to Wayne Kramer, he has no vibrato in his guitar playing. In
>> > essence, if you have no vibrato you're nothing. The vibrato is everything
>> > and is what distinguishes one guitar player from the next. Otherwise, how
>> > could
>> > they all fall in? M T C
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