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Carl Edlund Anderson cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK
Thu Mar 4 08:41:16 EST 1999


On tor 4 mar 1999 10.04 +0000 "Dave Berry" <daveb at HARLEQUIN.CO.UK> wrote:
> When a lead guitarist plays a solo, does the rest of the band stop
playing?
>  Not usually.  So why does the rest of the band stop during a drum solo?
> If they were laying down a basic rhythm, and the drummer laying
> cross-rhythms on top of that, you'd have a very different experience.  An
> on-topic example is Richard Chadwick during Space Is Their (Palestine).

     Or Cream's take on "Crossroads" where the whole band seem to
be soloing viciously over the structure :)

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/



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