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  • From: ryan chowdhury <ryanchowdhury AT yahoo.com>
  • To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [TypicalGirls] Raincoats / Solex / LF
  • Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 12:30:58 -0700 (PDT)

I'm sure it's been noted a thousand times before,
but it seems like she's inspired by the sound of that
classically-trained violist rocker John Cale's
freakouts on "Heroin" etc...

--- J Neo Marvin <j_n_e_o AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> I've read that Vicki Aspinall was classically
> trained, but on the first
> album, she seems to play as if she were a
beginner,
> leaning off pitch
> sometimes (on purpose for effect I assume) and
> flying up and down the neck
> of the instrument at random. (Those outrageous
> instrumental breaks on
> "You're A Million" or "In Love", for instance.)
Very
> free,
> who-cares-if-it's-perfect, punk rock violin.
Which
> is why we lo



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