Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ctvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ctvax!rob From: rob@ctvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: Great Guitarists - (nf) Message-ID: <39000030@ctvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 10:34:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ctvax.39000030 Posted: Tue Sep 18 10:34:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 06:36:01 EDT References: <42@ism70.UUCP> Lines: 28 Nf-ID: #R:ism70:-4200:ctvax:39000030:000:1080 Nf-From: ctvax!rob Sep 18 09:34:00 1984 #R:ism70:-4200:ctvax:39000030:000:1080 ctvax!rob Sep 18 09:34:00 1984 Re: Chet Atkins. For a real treat of two old fogies who can still blow the socks off Def Priest, Quiet Leppard, Motley Riot, Judas Crue etc, try the "Chester and Lester" album featuring Chet Atkins and Les Paul. I wonder how many of the "Modern Masters of Metal" who have played a Gibson Les Paul guitar, have actually listened to Les play. A couple of other examples of Atkins' work are the sixties' single "Boo Boo Stick Beat" which sounds like one of the first examples of a wah-wah or a volume pedal or somesuch effect. Another album to find is one called something like Chet Atkins' Workshop. I recall that's the one where he wired the fingers of his left hand to provide a bass effect from the vibrations picked up by his left hand! I remember one Prairie Home Companion where Atkins announced he was going to play a punk-rock song. Laughter ensued and then he played a beautiful rendition of the Blondie song "Heart of Glass". His comment afterwards was that one can find good melodies anywhere. And he doesn't bite the heads off bats! Rob Spray ...convex!ctvax!rob