HW: Knights of Space audio mix

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:33:12AM -0400, Steve Swann typed out:

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> I still think it's funny that Dave (based on what I've heard from
> interviews and comments of his) apparently doesn't think of himself as
> much of a guitar player, while l could listen to him play guitar *all
> goddamn day* (and I have), and prefer him over any number of guitar
> players who win Guitar Player Magazine readers awards, and have people
> obsessively trying to copy their wanky "watch me play scales at jet
> speed" style...  I know it's not quite the same thing, and that in
> some ways it makes more sense to compare him to people like Malcolm
> Young, but you guys know what I mean.  Dave's guitar playing is one of
> the great musical treasures of the world, I wonder if he has any idea.

	I must have said this before, but there was some online Q&A 
with Dave, possibly even one of the IRC chats they used to do, in which 
someone asked him what his favourite instrument was at the moment and he 
named a sequencer. This caused someone else on the chat to beg for more 
guitar and he made appropriate noises but said something like, "but I 
like sequencers..." So I think you're right, he doesn't know why we're 
so keen on his guitar. But there's loads of people messing with 
sequenceers out there, and many of them are doing *similar* stuff 
because now anyone can set this sort of thing up on a laptop, but there 
is *no-one* playing guitar who makes it sound like Brock,[1] and I don't 
think he gets that :-( Yours,
			      Jon

[1] With the exception of the guitarist of the erstwhile doom band 
Warhorse, who was playing rather different stuff but still sounded to me 
like he had managed to replicate Dave's old Coloursound pedal by 
sorcery. Their bassist was a big guy with mutton-chop sideburns and a 
Rickenbacker, too. I figure they knew what they were doing... (Brilliant 
live band, I was very upset when I heard they'd stopped.)

P.S. I've been having some trouble with the list today so if you pointed 
anything at me I probably missed it, sorry.
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 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk