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