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[Ted Jackson]

>>> nick at THECOMPLETESHEET.COM 09/08/03 05:37PM >>>
Thanks.  I've been wondering for years about that.

--Nick


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>Sent: Sun, 7 Sep 2003  23:39:04
>Yup, that's Tony Levin...they're called "Funk
>Fingers," and Tony even
>describes (with diagrams) how to make them in his
>book, Beyond the Bass Clef.  He
>credits Peter Gabriel with the suggestion of
>attaching drumsticks to his fingers.
> You can see these things in action on the King
>Crimson DVD released a couple
>of years ago (Tony sure gets around, doesn't he?
>:-).

I believe there's a pic of Tony with them on the back
of one of the Bozio Levin Stevens CDs...

theo