Tonight's Troubadour at D's

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He plays mostly sixties covers, as you'd expect from a guitarist of his age. He did cover Richard Thompson's "From Galway to Graceland" which was a nice surprise. Turns out he idolizes Thompson. He told me his 16-year-old son shares his love for the RT and is trying to play in a similar style, and is "scary good" after just a few years. Won't let the kid at his Chapman Stick because he's afraid his son will outdo him and he'll have to jump off the Pier.

He's a good guitar player, but uses so much reverb and delay/loop stuff that you're hearing what he picked last week. At times he stops playing for a bit and the music just goes on. My own theory is that he dropped, like, a POUND of acid in 1974 and the rest of the world sounds this way to him. And he thinks he's playing like Richard Thompson on Small Town Romance while we all talk like we're underwater.

Anyway he's a very nice guy.

Comments

[changeng.livejournal.com]

no monkey???

how primitive.

[substitute.livejournal.com]

You are an early adopter of simian technology. You'll have to be patient with some Luddites and fearful people who don't yet understand what monkeys can do for them.

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

I wasn't even there, and I can still hear the reverb!