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Re: (TV) OT: Most distinctive guitar sound



Sonny Sharrock, Eugene Chadbourne, Jeff Beck, & Mission Of Burma's Roger Miller.

And of course, Santeri Ojala (aka StSanders):
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/02/watch-the-parod.html

-A

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:42 PM, tom <thomas@bigdayphoto.com> wrote:
>
>> I'll throw Johnny Marr in there.
>>
>
> I've never quite gotten that one.  Marr seemed to be a guy who could play
> all kinds of different stuff from the get-go.  There was a sort of a Smiths
> "sound", but for the most part it always struck me as a whole bunch of
> different tonalities that fell under the umbra of "guitar pop", but more
> diverse than, say, R.E.M, Husker Du, the Church, the Bunnymen, or even
> somebody like the dB's or the Feelies.  Like I said, I can recognize Pete
> Buck on other people's records; Marr not so much.  He's more versatile,
> which is kind of the opposite of distinctive (although it's certainly not
> bad).
>
> Of course, I like Morrissey a lot less than I like the singers in any of the
> other bands I've just mentioned, so that probably has something to do with
> it.
>
> On the less-is-more front, though... how can you not love Joey Santiago?
>
> -Rex
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