(OFF BABBLE)Re: TMTYL

[Albert Bouchard]

Not so much Buck but Andy Winters, the bass player, was a big fan of  
Phil Lesh and we did open for them once and they were very nice to us.
Al
On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> On 23 Jul 2008, at 06:18 , Steve Swann wrote:
>> I've never been a fan of the Dead, but as someone who's been  
>> wasting his time and money playing Rock Band lately, I have to say  
>> those weird little jangly trippy jammy tunes are fun as hell to  
>> play on a fake plastic scale model stratocaster.  :)
>
>
> As someone who is a fan of the Dead, they're also pretty fun to jam  
> out on a real guitar, too. :)  Ah, I'm a sucker for "hippy pop"!   
> Especially the kind you can merrily turn from a 3-minute jangle into  
> into a 30-minute pseudo-Coltrane workout whenever you feel like it. :)
>
> Plenty of GD influence lurking around the edges of Proto-BOC, as I  
> recall.  Buck was supposed to be into that vibe back in the day,  
> wasn't he?
>
>
>> Btw, so is Don't Fear the Reaper.  :)
>
>
> One of the earliest songs I tried to learn on electric guitar! :)   
> The guitar breaks/solo in the middle were tricky, as I recall .... I  
> think I'd need a few months of practice (practice!?) to get back to  
> the point where I could angle them recognizably. ;)  But you can  
> very satisfyingly play the main riff for ever and a day. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
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