--- skip heller <thisparadise@sbcglobal.net> escribió: >
As for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, they definitely came up with a sound that was theirs. I have to respect that, even if I'm not a fan. Few people ever do that.
I really dug "Mother's Milk" and "Blood, Sugar, Sex Magik" but after that I think the general impression is they've gone down the hill. I think worst of all was the avalanche of imitators (quite similar to FNM's case), but "B,S,S,M" was a great album and on top of that, popular and accessible, which doesn't seem a regular combination of terms nowadays, as we discussed here several weeks ago.
I never got the sense that Ribot owed that much to Quine, whose playing I also know quite well (or rather I did up to about that time -- I can only listen to so much Lou Reed).
I don't know Quine's playing from the purely technical point of view (my knowledge of the guitar must be limited to seven or eight chords, I must admit) but I see lots of similarities between them. Besides the 60's twangy/surf guitar sound-influence, there's always this "skeletical" approach to soloing, for instance- there are lots of exceptions in Ribot's playing, though, specially when he's in a jamming context like Bar Kokhba, Emergency, etc... But even in those recordings with Waits, I get the feeling that he's got a taste for the "lowest common denominator"-approach. By the way, how's Reed's "Live in Italy" with the "blue mask" band? Best, Efrén del Valle ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es