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From: 890707p@ace.acadiau.ca (GLENN G. PARSONS)
Subject: dispensible???
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:32:30 GMT

I feel I have to respond to the idiot who tried to suggest that Ronnie Wood 
is the most dispensible guitarist ever.  Obviously, you've never listened to 
any mid seventies Stones bootlegs.  I've got several (Bedsprings, Hampton, 
etc>>, and Keith is so wasted he actually stops playing at several points in 
the songs for long spaces.  IN any case, back then, Keith played mostly open 
G rhythm, and I've never heard a solo he did live from that period.  If you 
watch old footage of the stones live, Keith actually drank quite heavily on 
stage, and this often prompted him to stop playing.  
 anyway, ron wood absolutely carried most of the tunes.  sure keiths playing 
was truly distinctive, as always, and indispensible to that stones feel, but 
it was ron wood's lines, solos, and relative sobriety that kept many a 
stones show from sounding like a garage band in heat.
 Did you think keith invented slop rock on purpose?? Man, if you're 
hammered, open G is the safest way to rock.


                                                  Keep on rollin.,..
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: M23231@mwvm.mitre.org
Subject: Re: Paganini and guitar
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:29:06 GMT

In article <15582@star.cs.vu.nl>
mwelie@cs.vu.nl (Welie van M) writes:
 
>
>
>Hi there,
>
>I recently bought an album of Julian Bream on which he plays
>the Grand Sonata in A (3 parts) of Paganini. According to
>the booklet Paganini used to perform with guitarist Luigi
>Legnani. The violin would play solo and the guitar would
>accompany. This recording is a edition where Bream incorporated
>the violin part in the guitar part. I think the result is quite
>good.
>
>I haven't heard anything for guitar and violin yet,so I was
>wondering if somebody knows about these pieces of Paganini
>and what is it like. Are the guitar parts as difficult as the
>violin parts probably will be ?
**********
Check with Guitar Solo in San Francisco. I'm sure I remember seeing some
of this stuff in catalogs.
**********
>
>A friend of mine plays violin but he's not quite a Paganini if
>you know what I mean ! I hope the pieces are not to difficult
>so we can play them if they are worth it.
>
>Bye
>
>
From: pquince@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Quince)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: SRV Unplugged Clarification Info Pulleeez
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:01:27 GMT
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL

Uh, hello.  Questions regarding subject:

Did SRV have an MTV Unplugged all to himself?  

A friend of mine says he showed up as warmup for Joe 
Satriani and did two poorly mic'd songs; nothing special.
However I distinctly remember seeing Stevie doing _Pride_ 
and_Joy_ on MTV Unplugged and I *thought* he had the entire 
hour to himself.  Is this the case?  

And if it *IS*, I would appreciate any information y'all
may have on how I might come up with a copy on VHS.  
Thanks for your attention.

p quince
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: HELP:  String breakage of the High E on an acoustic.
From: Michael.Bremford@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mike Bremford)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 01:09:23 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.


No Way! Take a look at your bridge (bridge? The thing that the whammy bar goes
into...) "Surveys show that 99% of all string breakage is at the bridge". You'll
find your problem is there methinks. You can get teflon bridges or something
which the advertisers say reduces string breakage, but better guitarists than me
say they are not worth your money.

	Cheers... Mike.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: whc2993@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: The Edge
Reply-To: whc2993@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:37:53 GMT

	First of all, don't even think about playing U2 music without a delay
pedal.  The Edge uses one for most of their songs to add density to the sound. 
He uses alot of arpeggios and natural harmonics which sound really good with
echoes.  He also seems to be a big fan of suspended chords like sus2 and sus4.
Another big part of his playing is the use of open strings while he is playing
higher up on the fretboard.  I used to think the stuff he plays would be pretty
easy to play but after digging into some of the tablature I found out that he
plays some difficult parts.  He is definately under rated.  Few guitarists that
recieve twice the praise in magazines, etc.. have as identifiable and unique a
sound.
								B.C.


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"I'm the Hoochie Coochie Man! Everybody Knows I'm Here!"  Willie Dixon
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From: STDN%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Dan Newcombe)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Q: What are power chords?
Date: 30 Jul 1992 12:57:57 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

>I've seen reference to "power chords" in a couple of tablature
>transcriptions people have done.  I think the definition (for a major
>chord anyway) was just a major triad without III.  Is this right?
Correct.

>Does anyone know what the history is behind these "chords" and clarify
>what they are for me? My original guess that power chords are the
>very thick sounding "notes" in a lot of electric guitar work which aren't
>quite chords.
>Drew

My roommate an I were trying to come up with some of the first uses.
He says it was the Beatles on "Get Back"  I don't know, but Tony Iomni
from Black Sabbath used them quite extensivly on their albums.  Now
the newer stuff is different.  They do have a distinctive overbearing
sound.
   -Dan
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: terry@pride386.PP.COM (Terry Lyons)
Subject: need manual for gr 700
Organization: Pride Plastics
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:27:45 GMT

Well I lost the manual for my Roland gr-700 :-(
now that I want t use the midi stuff I can't  get the midi to 
work a
t all ... would some kind soul either please
fax me a copy ... 714 739 7102
or
tell me where I can get a copy
or
email me the directions to using midi on this critter
terry@pride386.PP.com
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: mvinskus@wpi.WPI.EDU (Michael J Vinskus)
Subject: Re: Rewiring guitars...
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:56:39 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.030205.11746@adobe.com> hawley@adobe.com (Steve Hawley) writes:
>In article <18JUL92.19997949.0028@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA>, META000 <META@UNB.CA> writes:
>|> Incidentally, anybody got any ideas for what to do about the screw holes
>|> in the guitar when you have to keep taking the cavity cover and pick-
>|> guard off for these multiple rewirings.  I, too, am afflicted with same
>|> passion for rewiring, and, short of using huge screws, or velcro, I
>|> imagine I am rapidly coming up to a day when the there will simply be
>|> no thread left in the wood.
>
>Optimal solution:
>Cut a golf tee or toothpick (depending on the size of the hole) that will just
>fit in the hole flush.  Glue it into place, allow to dry and drive the screw
>into the patch.  Oughta hold up forever.  This is what my local luthier
>recommends, btw.


For small holes, try toothpick(s) and Titebond (TM) glue.  They work excellent
and are easier to work with than golf tees for small holes.

--Mike.

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*  Mike Vinskus                     *  "Would you like fries with that. . ."
*  Dept. of Electrical Engineering  *
*  Worcester Polytechnic Institute  *  ...Recent college graduate at their    
*  Worcester, MA  01609             *          new job.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: kew@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (steve.w.askew)
Subject: Re: Blues Net group
Summary: Im For rec.blues
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:21:36 GMT


		I too would be in favor of a place to bond with others
	of the Blues persuasion.

	Steve
	Doin That Blues ThAng!
From: dahe@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Syd Barrett
Date: 27 Jul 92 12:18:35 GMT
Reply-To: dahe@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy)
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK

In article <1992Jul24.151906.19423@cl.cam.ac.uk>, I wrote:
|> In article <25774@life.ai.mit.edu>, bri@black-coffee.ai.mit.edu (Brian
|> Totty) writes:
|> |> 
|> |> 	So, where is Syd Barrett now?  Any interviews recently?  All I have
|> |> 	heard is urban legend...
|> 
|> ...
|> 
|> Another source for bits of the early Floyd history is a book called
|> "Days in the Life", which consists of lots of interviews and eye-witness
|> accounts of things that were happening in the UK in the 60s. I'll dig
|> out the publishing details if anyone's interested. It's a good book.

Someone emailed me to ask for the reference, so here it is:
 Days in the life: Voices from the English Underground 1961-1971
 by Jonathon Green. Minerva books. ISBN 0 7493 9012 3. 1988.
According to the (fairly short) section about Syd Barrett, his last
Floyd gig was the 14 hour technicolor dream, a benefit played in London.
He went out on the stage and stood there for three or four songs before
they took him off. The accounts of this period by various people who
knew him are sad and poignant.

-- david elworthy
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: umcsiki@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Michael Csiki)
Subject: Re: tasty solos
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 23:35:49 GMT

In article <75919@ut-emx.uucp> ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds) writes:
>Is anybody aware of some unknown guitarist who plays like Satriani on
>"Always With You, Always With Me?"  This is, in my opinion, the best
>guitar instrumental of all time, and I had expected that it would open 
>up a school of guitar playing along the same lines... but instead I keep
>hearing the same old crap.  About the only real exceptions I have run across
>to this problem are Eric Johnson ("Cliffs of Dover" from the second Austin
>City Limits tape is AMAZING) and Steve Morse... but SURELY, SOMEWHERE, there
>is SOMEBODY who thinks the same and plays that way to boot...

Yes, I have heard both and own the Satriani album.  His new album, "The
Extremist" in my humble opinion has no signature song as potent as
"Always With Me, Always With You," from the "Surfing With The Alien"
album -- some may disagree with me on this point of fact -- but what can
I say, I love AWM, AWY.  'Matter of fact, Satriani is a personal fav of
Chicago radio personalities Steve Dahl & Garry Meyer as well as Kevin
Matthews on WLUP-AM.  Those jocks do play Satriani, and "Cliffs of
Dover" & Johnson a lot!

:)
Mike.  :)
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Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: bash@tware.com (Paul Bash)
Subject: Re: Re: Syd Barrett
Organization: Techware Design, Boulder, Colorado.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:05:12 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.190956.5672@news.Hawaii.Edu> wilcox@cfht.hawaii.edu (Dan Wilcox) writes:
>I swear I saw an album by Syd produced by Roger Waters a couple of
>months ago in
>my local record shop. I'll have to go and see if they still got it. I think
>it was copyrighted 1991 or 1992. But then again I could have been
>hallucinating.
>;-)
>

That record is "The Madcap Laughs" and was produced by David Gilmour and Roger
Waters (??). The copyright is 1990. I love the Floyd and I really don't care
for this recording at all.

-- 
Paul Bash                                                   Techware Design 
bash@tware.com                                              Boulder, CO  U.S.A.
From: d1hej@dtek.chalmers.se (Henrik Jonsson)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: SLASH- Great or WHAT??!!?
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:35:19 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

c8906822@wombat.newcastle.edu.au writes:

>In article <1992Jul27.151255.7247@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>, billr@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Bill Richmond) writes:
>> In article <1992Jul25.012319.17550@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, bx372@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mr. Arthur J. Musgrove) writes:
>> |> 
>> |> I was just wandering how many Slash [GNR lead guitarist] admirers are out
>> |> there....  I personally think that he must be one of the greatest hard rock
>> |> guitarists alive...  And if you hear him in concert, you'll probably think
>> |> the same...
>> |> 							Peter.
>> |> -- 
>> 

>Thanks for posting this Peter, I can't remember the last time I had a good
>laugh!!!!!!!!

Alright ... Let me put some things straight here... Slash IS a true
Rock'n'roller and not like the pussies in Queensryche or ... well hell
I cant figure out something lower than Queensryche on the scale of
stupid so-called heavy-metal groups!!! BTW I just read an interview
in one of all those Guitarmags out there where the two guitarplayers
in Q-ryche said that 'They didn't improvise on stage because the audience
went to a Q-ryche concert to see a consept or a strict show and not a 
slideplayer going berserk on his guitar' and they also got pissed off
because all the bootlegs circulating !!!! Jesus Christ God almighty and
some other things ... Those folks are wimps!!! I mean sure they're great
teamplayers with (I'm sure) a lot of modular scales moving up'n down their
fretboards faster than I can say Gibson but they dont move anything inside
me .... A true Rock'n Roll band is a band that can jam on some tune for
an hour and make that tune rock all the time and to be able to do that
they need a proper rocknroller on every goddamn instrument.

Id say that Slash is a heir to the rocknroll-throne built up by
Jimi Hendrix , Page , Tony Iommi (hell of a rocker) and Richie
Blackmoore ...

Hang in there Peter... Dont let the symphonic-rock-freaks get to you

NOTE: This is not a personal attack on Bill Richmond. Its just the
result of a society crowded with Yngwie-folks. I hate Harmonic-Minor!!

/Henrik J






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From: rsk@aspen.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Blues Net group
Date: 28 Jul 92 11:25:36 GMT
Organization: Cardiothoracic Imaging Research Center

In article <1992Jul27.181245.4212@ultb.isc.rit.edu> whc2993@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>	Does anyone know if there is a news group on blues music.

Rec.music.bluenote is the appropriate newsgroup for discussing jazz and blues.

I recommend that you also subscribe to news.announce.newusers, where lists
of newgroups and their intended topics are posted on a regular basis.  You will
find that reading the articles there will alleviate the need to bother the
entire network with trivial questions.
From: palmm@csc2.essex.ac.uk (Palmer M J)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Strengthening Fingernails for Fingerpicking
Date: 31 Jul 92 12:19:55 GMT
Reply-To: palmm@essex.ac.uk (Palmer M J)
Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK

When I first started to play guitar (about 12 years ago) I would use my nails
most of the time. I stopped playing for a couple of years and have only 
started playing again a few months ago. For the life of me I cannot decide
whether I like playing with my nails or fingertips. I like playing with my
nails primarily because my steel strung guitar has a narrow fretboard and the
strings are quite close together over the sound hole - I find that with 
long(ish) nails I can hit the strings cleanly. If I use my fingertips they
dont quite fit in between the strings  and it is very difficult to hit the 
string you want without also brushing another, especially when using my thumb
on the fifth string. However, I find that the tone of fingertips on steel
strings is much warmer and I think I prefer this.  I also find playing
fast bits with my 1st, 2nd and third fingers is easer since they just 
gluide of the strings. Nails seem to get cought for that little bit longer
and so fast passages do not sound so smooth. Perhaps I should take up the
classical guitar?
Mike.
From: gistim@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Tim Raebig)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Replacement pickups
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:18:37 GMT
Organization: Educational Computing Network



Or you could email me an offer (cheap) for my Lace Sensors that I took

out of my Strat.  If anyone's interested, I have three golds just 

sitting around.
From: STDN%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Dan Newcombe)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: U2:The Edge
Date: 30 Jul 1992 13:08:02 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

>Does anybody out there have any ideas as to how the Edge achievies his guitar s
>Thanking you
>James

That's the great thing about the Edge....he doesn't play the same
way as everyone else.  I am a BIG U2 fan (No, not just Actung Baby
but from way back)  I used to joke with my friend Dan that I could
take the bottom 3 strings (The thick ones) off my guitar and it
would not affect any U2 song I could play. Zoo Station surprised me.
As was already mentioned, the Edge uses a LOT of delay/echo.  I know
at one point he had a tape echo device.  He plays a lot of triads and
notes right next to open strings...
E--0---0--12--12---0---     Stuff like this( I just made that up. I
B-12--10--14--14--12---     have no clue how it sounds)
G--0---0--12--12---0---

But because he does not do solo's that make a magazine page look like
an ink spill, he is not recognized as good.
 -Dan
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: mau@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Darin Au)
Subject: Re: Casio Midi Guitar Info
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:55:40 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.194706.25289@webo.dg.com> mike@vulcan.webo.dg.com writes:
>Keywords: Casio
>
>A few years back, Casio came out with a couple of MIDI electric
>guitars/controllers.  As far as I can recall, there was an
>el-cheapo "toy" model with rubber strings, but there was an
>actual bona-fide, real electric guitar with infa-red sensors (?)
>that worked as a perfectly good MIDI controller and wasn't a bad
>'lectric axe either.  Does anyone know:
>A) IF they are still made/available
>B) Where I might be able to find one - no stores around me
>    seem to know much about 'em.
>C) What I can expect for a price on one ? Seems to me they
>   were about $550-650 bcak then....
>Any info is much appreciated!
> 
>
>Mike Fugere
>"No Fancy Sigs here!"

I have a couple friends that bought the "pro" models.  One of them sold the
thing a little less than a year after he bought it.  He said it didn't track
too well sometimes.  My other friend plays at a comedy show in Waikiki.  He
still uses his (I think).  He mixes the guitar sound with the synth sound so
the tracking problem isn't very noticable.  I think he only uses it for the
show though simply because the guy he works for likes the sounds that comes
out of it.  Appropriate for comedy I guess.

As far as I know, they went out of production over a year ago.  

--darin

Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: loffit@wam.umd.edu (Dixie Cup)
Subject: Results of open G chord poll
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 02:55:56 GMT


Well, from the responses I've gotten by e-mail and from posts it seems
everyone likes to do their own thing.  I was even surprised to see that
people use their thumbs.  I've never tried this myself but anything that
works is fair game in guitar playing.  It's kind of pointless to breakdown
the statistics on what everyone does since it seems to be so varied.  There
are apparently 3 schools.  The guitarists who use their thumbs on the low
E string who also mute the A, the guitarists who use their middle finger on
the low E string, and the guitarists who use their ring finger on the
low E string.  Of course how you play a given chord may vary depending on
the song or just how you feel like interpreting the song at the given moment.
I prefer to mute the A string with my middle finger most of the time like
somebody (I think it was Steve Davis) mentioned he likes to do.  In any
case, I think the varied responses just go to show how unique every guitar
player really is, even with a small thing like how we play an open G chord
most of the time.  We all have our little idiosynracies, preferences, tricks,
etc. when it comes to playing.  Ain't it great?

--Daniel (the guy who for some unknown reason always wondered how everyone
          played their open G chords)
From: phys174@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Rewiring your old tube amp
Date: 24 Jul 92 10:34:01 +1200
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

I don't know what the laws in the US are for rewiring things - but over
here it is illegal to attempt the sort of mains rewiring described
in an earlier post (without the appropriate certificate) - then again
we have 240V, not 110V so maybe you guys can do what you want.

John.
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
From: paul@everest.tandem.com (Paul Duffy)
Subject: Re: G chord poll
Organization: Tandem Computers Inc., Cupertino CA
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:15:33 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.153901.27221@wam.umd.edu> loffit@wam.umd.edu (Dixie Cup) writes:
>I'd like to take a poll of how people play their typical open G chord.  I
>notice most people and all the books I've seen have you fret the low E string
>with the middle finger, the A string with the index finger and the high
>E string with the ring finger.  Now, when I started playing guitar this
>didn't feel natural and I thought it made it harder to switch between chords
>(for a beginner).  So I played it by fretting the low E string with my
>ring finger, the A with my middle finger and the high E with my pinky.
>For a beginner it made switching between open C and open G trivial.  It
>makes the Gsus4 a trivial chord because all you do is fret the B string
>with your index finger.  Now, am I the only person who plays an open G
>the way I described?  Is this uncommon?  It makes it real easy to move the
>position up the fretboard with your index finger as a barre.  Just curious.
>

I think that's a cool way to play a G chord.
Myself, if I'm playing electric with any gain, I almost always play it like
this:

 E--3--- pinky
 B--3--- 3rd finger
 G------
 D------
 A-2---- 2nd finger
 E--3--- 1st finger

I think it sounds better than with open B 'cos it intonates better.
If you have gain you get some natural harmonics I guess that kind
of fill in the 3rd a bit.

Plus with the D already there on the 2nd string it's real easy to go to C9.

If I'm playing acoustic I play it with the open B more often 'cos you need
the 3rd more.

Keep on chunkin'

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