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  • From: "Never call me Phil" <philipayers AT yahoo.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Ryan Adams Raleigh 6/8/05 non-review
  • Date: 13 Jun 2005 19:06:23 -0700



jgmclean0 AT yahoo.com wrote:
> Ron Redfield wrote:

> > tangents, that it really goes threw my soul as I watch him play. I keep
> > thinking of a Hendrix comparison.
>
> I just barely held off referencing Hendrix myself; the moment last
> night when Adams, at the end of a blistering solo, dragged the guitar
> face down across the stage in front of the monitors, screaming
> feedback, then flipped it over and walked away from it, still screaming
> feedback, but somehow still perfectly in tune and synch with the song,
> then *went back and knelt down to adjust the dials* to change the
> timbre of the feedback, walked away again, then turned around and
> grabbed it and finished the song in one motion -- holy crap. It felt
> like Live at Leeds, goosebump stuff, and I'm not even a big fan of
> cathartic soloing.
>
> The other comparison I came up with, God help me, was Ray Charles --
> not, obviously, in a musical sense but as the only other performer I've
> seen with that spooky, psychic sense of effortlessly creating *exactly*
> the desired effect.

I thought you were going to say GOD! ..Damn, now that's going to far.





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