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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: VH1 Bands Reunited question |
| Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:41:31 -0500 |
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At 04:19 PM 1/27/2004 -0500, Josh Chasin wrote:
>Anyway, I just talked to my friend John, who was my guitar teacher for 10
>years (which means, among other things, the man has the patience of a
>saint.) He is black and a blues player mainly, which I mention only in the
>context that I'd have thought he'd have the same contempt for bands like
>Flock that I do. But he was raving about the guitar player, said he got
>that "Edge-like" sound before the Edge had popularized it, that back in the
>day he was really impressed with the guy. So go figure.
Frankly, I think Paul Reynolds kicked the Edge's ass as a guitarist: not
only was he doing that sound, he was doing it *better*, with more variety,
more subtlety and a much wider range of rhythms and timbres, and had he
been in a beter band than A Flock of Seagulls (where he was the only thing
keeping them from being third-stringers), he would be lionized today. And,
let's not forget, he was like 18 at the time.
S
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