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...Knopfler’s skill as a player contributed hugely to the sound he made with Dire Straits – a uniquely lyrical style in an era largely defined by the anything-goes spirit of punk and new wave....
...I was chided the other day by a bass player for referring to the bass guitar. This turns out to be a point of contention in the bass community....
...There was a lot of electric guitar action, led by Kelsey. Expertly marshalled by the players, the music swelled and ebbed and surged, staking out a space between folk, US roots music and hard rock....
...“I love playing bass and I love listening to bass players’ albums,” Casimir says. “But I want my music to reach more than just bass players. That’s why I’ve been getting into these larger ensembles.”...
...Pioneer DJ Opus Quad, £2,899 A genius travel guitar There are many grim stories to be told about the inherent fragility of the electric guitar....
...The band can also add a keyboard and guitar if people want more contemporary repertoire, dancing or bhangra. They have been invited to perform at Indian weddings too....
...He took up the cello, the guitar and woodwind instruments, later building his own electric guitar, a two-by-four-inch piece of lumber with strings and a guitar pick-up screwed on to it....
...A soundtrack of 1960s and ’70s rock anthems drifts too softly, too foggily into the dimly lit spaces between scenes, while the appearance of a hauntingly voiced, long-haired young guitar player (is it the...
...I’m a blues player – old-fashioned folk blues. The world stopped for me in 1983 when Muddy Waters died. The place that means a lot to me is Rome....
...It had to be so because as a studio guitar player, I had a style that was unique: rhythm-based, aggressive, very loud, so whatever I wrote had to accommodate that.”...
...He was taught the basics by Tarek Al-Sayed, a Syrian musician who is one of his favourite oud players. “Composing with a guitar is more harmonic, whereas with the oud, it’s more about melody,” he says....
...The guitar-trio double album presents seven well-worked originals alongside standards from rock, jazz and the American songbook....
...He was flanked by regular collaborators Leo Abrahams, who played electric guitar, and computer musician Peter Chilvers....
...Her kamele ngoni player, Brehima “Benego” Diakité, is scratching away at a complicated rhythm....
...The resulting campaign, set to Diddley’s guitar music, managed to celebrate the hype surrounding Jackson’s status as an elite sporting all-rounder (“Bo knows baseball....
...Beyond those lay the works composed by Selaocoe himself and kora-player Seckou Keita, which drilled down more deeply into their African roots....
...Digga was joined by a backing trio of guitar, drums and piano for songs from his latest mixtape Back to Square One....
...Cyclists and guitar players always say that the ideal number of bikes or guitars is N+1, where N is the number you currently own. I am personally guilty on both counts....
...Wolfe’s 25-minute work draws on traditions of folk fiddling, uses drum kits and has the strings imitate the sounds of electric guitar....
...Player before the festival itself opens....
...Rhodes recalls watching a punk gig at Birmingham’s Barbarella’s club as a teenager and returning home to try the chords on a guitar....
...The overall winner has now been announced: it’s Jason Moore’s ‘roo with air guitar....
...The Iranian classical musician Kayhan Kalhor made one of the albums of the year with the kora player Toumani Diabaté, The Sky Is the Same Colour Everywhere....
...“Look at the blood we’re spilling, look at the world we’re killing,” thundered Rose as Slash buried himself in his guitar....
...But I grew up listening to poorly recorded guitar music very loudly on cheap cassette players, and I still find that kind of racket to be emotionally resonant. My parents were never keen. I still am....
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