So you want to be a rock and roll star?
Then listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar
Then take some time and learn how to playRoger McGuinn was shown performing an acoustic Eight Miles High during the latter programme and for some reason I couldn't quite figure out what was going on. He was playing a six string but it sounded like a twelve string. A closer shot at one point made me think that perhaps old Rog was playing with a slightly more enhanced instrument than the rest of us have to hand**.
It looked to me like he had an extra peg at the bridge end. Here's proof at the end of this post that I wasn't a few miles too high myself. At least some musicians spend some of their hard-earned cash back into their art.
I understand from various sources that Mr McGuinn can be a curmudgeonly old bugger - well, who isn't? - but I thought he comes across as a bit of a laugh. Some nice playing there, Mr M. Shame about the camera work.
* pun intended
** count the innuendos
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Even Liz thought it was an interesting documentary. I never thought that I would hear James Dean
Bradfield quoting Richard Thompson.
Interestingly, Brendan, John and I stood next to JDB in an acoustic guitar shop in Tin Pan Alley a few years ago: the man - like many other electric rockers - has an acoustic heart.
Interestingly, it's the same place where exactly a year before John and I bumped into Noel Gallagher contemplating a Martin guitar and where many years before I'd seen Steve Howe.
The latter left me staring at him for two reasons. One, because in the early 70s he was a guitar god. Two, he was ( and still is) incredibly ugly.
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