WARNING: GUITAR GEEK SPEAK AHEAD. I think what Mick-cubed was trying to say Youn (btw that's my mom's name as well...uh, anyways) is that Stevie Jackson tries to emulate Steve Cropper who is the guitarist for Booker T. and the MG's...you know, the instrumental combo from the '60s who not only played on most of the Stax recordings (Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, etc.) but had their own hits like "Green Onions" which is a very popular tune to put in commercials. If you are an oldies listener like I am you can hear Sam--or Dave--say "Play it, Steve!" in "Soul Man." That's Steve Cropper. Basically his playing was a kind of funky rhythmic choppy half-chord, playing the top three strings. Obviously he did more than this (and that's what separates him from most of the session guitar players in the '60s who did that rhythmic choppy thing on the 2 and the 4 for every single song imaginable...the intro to "Soul Man" is sublime, as is his work on "Dock of the Bay") but that's the kind of style you can hear Stevie emulate, esp. on "Dirty Dream No. 2." I have no idea what Arthur Lee's playing is like. Sadly I have not yet been introduced to Love. Soon, my pretties, soon. But as for Maurice Deebank...well, the man was a monster. Classically trained and *very* nimble-fingered. Dare I say the Segovia of indiepop? His style was usually made up of very intricate fingered lines that require superhuman ability to play ("The World Is As Soft As Lace" is jaw-dropping from a compositional *and* technical standpoint). I bow down to Steve Cropper and Maurice Deebank. I hope this has been somewhat helpful, though it's probably waaay more than you wanted to know. Ask me about my beatiful new acoustic guitar, Xavier BXK M o t h e r , M a y bkim0@dept.english.upenn.edu I S l e e p http://www.english.upenn.edu/~bkim0 W i t h D a n g e r ? X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+