Post by kingofrod on Aug 15, 2007 12:08:08 GMT -5
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Ask David Fricke: "Fricke's Picks" Columnist and Rolling Stone Senior Editor Answers Your Questions
Posted Aug 10, 2007 12:51 PM
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Just to get this out of the way, I just wanted to let you know you're my favorite rock critic of all time. I have always been pleased when I check out the bands on "Fricke's Picks," especially Thee Michelle Gun Elephant.
After hearing Gear Blues for the first time, I was amazed with the guitar player, Futoshi Abe. So here's my question: have you ever heard a guitar player with a more dextrous right wrist than Futoshi Abe? If anyone knows, its you!
Thank you,
Clif Hatton
Lexington, KY
Thank you for the kind words. In return, I wish I could tell you more about Futoshi Abe's "dextrous right wrist." But when I saw Thee Michelle Gun Elephant at a Cavestomp festival in New York a few years ago, I was too distracted by the band's total assault -- especially their mod-yakuza look -- to notice Abe's wrist, other than it did fab, violent things on his instrument. I play guitar myself, but I'm not that technical.
To answer a question you didn't ask, my favorite Japanese rock album of all time is Satori by Flower Travellin' Band, originally released in 1971 by Atlantic in Japan and consisting of one long suite, "Satori," divided into five parts. (I have a rare US Atlantic promo single with two of the sections.) Flower Travellin' Band were total Black Sabbath freaks (their 1970 debut, Anywhere, included what is thought to be the first known Sabs cover, "Black Sabbath"), but the guitarist Hideki Ishima was very much his own demon -- his lead lines have a curdled-distortion quality, like mad-cat wails, that contrast dramatically with his Tony Iommi, Jr block-fuzz chords. Satori is out in a quality Japanese reissue, and has also turned up in a less-expensive (and not as snazzy) British import version on the Radioactive label.
Check this out!!
www.rollingstone.com/news/story/15857960/ask_david_fricke_frickes_picks_columnist_and_rolling_stone_senior_editor_answers_your_questions/3
Ask David Fricke: "Fricke's Picks" Columnist and Rolling Stone Senior Editor Answers Your Questions
Posted Aug 10, 2007 12:51 PM
Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Just to get this out of the way, I just wanted to let you know you're my favorite rock critic of all time. I have always been pleased when I check out the bands on "Fricke's Picks," especially Thee Michelle Gun Elephant.
After hearing Gear Blues for the first time, I was amazed with the guitar player, Futoshi Abe. So here's my question: have you ever heard a guitar player with a more dextrous right wrist than Futoshi Abe? If anyone knows, its you!
Thank you,
Clif Hatton
Lexington, KY
Thank you for the kind words. In return, I wish I could tell you more about Futoshi Abe's "dextrous right wrist." But when I saw Thee Michelle Gun Elephant at a Cavestomp festival in New York a few years ago, I was too distracted by the band's total assault -- especially their mod-yakuza look -- to notice Abe's wrist, other than it did fab, violent things on his instrument. I play guitar myself, but I'm not that technical.
To answer a question you didn't ask, my favorite Japanese rock album of all time is Satori by Flower Travellin' Band, originally released in 1971 by Atlantic in Japan and consisting of one long suite, "Satori," divided into five parts. (I have a rare US Atlantic promo single with two of the sections.) Flower Travellin' Band were total Black Sabbath freaks (their 1970 debut, Anywhere, included what is thought to be the first known Sabs cover, "Black Sabbath"), but the guitarist Hideki Ishima was very much his own demon -- his lead lines have a curdled-distortion quality, like mad-cat wails, that contrast dramatically with his Tony Iommi, Jr block-fuzz chords. Satori is out in a quality Japanese reissue, and has also turned up in a less-expensive (and not as snazzy) British import version on the Radioactive label.
