Re: (TV) TV southerner? / Blasphemy

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

Russ has the goods here regarding Neil's playing.

The guy's not refined, but that's like saying BB King isn't refined.
Neil's found a totally unique, immediately identifiable sound,
something that is surprisingly difficult to do.  And his ragged,
idiosyncratic style of playing is often astonishingly effective in
expressing a wide range of emotions in his solos, a task from which he
never seems to shy.

One can argue with how Neil does what he does, but the man definitely
knows what he's doing.

-A

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Russ <russvr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neil's a good player, hell even David Crosby is a good guitar player. It is
> not their technical virtuosity that makes them good, it is their unique
> approach to the instrument - the stylistic identifiable qualities that are
> invariant in their playing that informs anyone listening who it is who is
> playing before they even utter a sound from their mouths.  I use DC as a
> comparative bookmark in this discussion because of his association w/ Neil
> and because his playing is instructive as well. Listen to old Byrds songs
> and Crosby's rhythm playing is always identifiable - that chunka chunka
> thing. Similarly, Neil's playing whether acoustic or electric has an almost
> self parodying muted rhythmic twang. And as always the one note wonders as
> heard in songs like Cinnamon Girl or the staccato lines in songs like
> Cowgirl and Down by the River. Young is not Joe Satriani or Robert Fripp but
> his qualification to be on any list of great guitarists is because of his
> origianlity and the unmistakable sound he makes.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:38 PM, BlackMonk <BlackMonk@email.msn.com> wrote:
>
>> But it's also much maligned by others.  Nobody (including Neil) puts him
>>> forward as a superlative technical player.  It's not about that.  I could
>>> expand on what it *is* about, but, really, you either already know/agree
>>> or
>>> not already.
>>>
>>>
>> In the early 90s, Neil guested on an encore at a Booker T and the MGs show.
>> (This was before they toured together.  They played a Jimmy Reed cover.)
>>
>> After the show, I was raving about Steve Cropper's playing, but the woman I
>> was with was more impressed by Neil's one song than anything Cropper played.
>>
>> I couldn't argue. She did have a valid point. --------------
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