John HilgartI think my affinity with or indifference to a lot of music that is theoretically in my wheelhouse depends on the lead guitarist being compellingly melodic. Jerry Garcia is obv the king, but someone like BOC's Donald Roeser also stands very tall among guitar storytellers. My Phish "meh" is mostly about this element.
Totally thought I'd already posted some early BOC love here on Mastodon, but apparently hadn't. Hence my seemingly random invocation of Donald Roeser's nice lead guitar.
tlmoore@4CPcomics before I found myself in a place where the bus would come by…One of the most intense & “out there” concerts I attended was B.O.C. on 10/3/1981 in Nashville, TN.
I had only taken psychedelics a few times before, the blotter was very strong & I experienced perceptions in very new ways that night…It was the most colorful night of music I had known until a few years later with King Crimson in NYC & The Dead at S.P.A.C. -both in June 1984
BTW-Sandy Pearlman was probably a genius…
I had only taken psychedelics a few times before, the blotter was very strong & I experienced perceptions in very new ways that night…It was the most colorful night of music I had known until a few years later with King Crimson in NYC & The Dead at S.P.A.C. -both in June 1984
BTW-Sandy Pearlman was probably a genius…
Dave Heumann@4CPcomics I don't know Roeser's playing, but this is a big thing for me too.
And it is like storytelling, but I like to think of it as "walk with me a while, I want to show you a place".
In my mind that comes with a certain amount of responsibility too. You want the journey and the destination to be a compelling one.
And it is like storytelling, but I like to think of it as "walk with me a while, I want to show you a place".
In my mind that comes with a certain amount of responsibility too. You want the journey and the destination to be a compelling one.
David Lefkowitz@4CPcomics this is why a guy like Mick Taylor has fully won me over and I haven’t revisited Clapton nearly as much as 17-year-old me would have thought
Paul Hébert@4CPcomics Knopfler for me.
Mr. Completely@PaulInRainCity @4CPcomics good one. I'm currently listening to the recently released live collection, have you seen that that's out? It's fantastic. Some of it's mixed very guitar forward, too
@mrcompletely @4CPcomics I am listening to the hell out of that.
A new album out soon, too. His songwriting just gets more and more novelistic.