Re: (TV) Verlaine and Slide Guitar

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <20050929210350.2C1AC1A803@smtp-pf.nwnexus.com>, Russ Van 
Rooy <russvr@pop.nwnexus.com> writes
> Has he ever spoken explicitly in interviews about slide guitar and who 
> his mentors might have been ?

" Another strange sound is a switchblade knife bowing the guitar strings 
on the intro" is the only reference I can recall Verlaine making to 
slide, and that's not really a slide reference. The thing that sounds 
like it could be a slide after the intro is actually an ondioline ("The 
weird organ sound is an ondioline, invented by a Frenchman in the 40s. 
It's a 36-note keyboard instrument that can quiver a note by shaking the 
key.")

He used a slide on the newer songs on the latest tour - notably 
"Persia".
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