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[B. Oliver Sheppard]

A lot of the early daniel Ash guitar stuff is super easy (which isn't a 
bad thing) and he's said he's never thought of the guitar as an 
instrument that shoud stand out on its own and that he never felt h was 
a particuarly talented guitarist. I always get the feeling, listening to 
early Bauhaus songs like Dark Enntries and Bela, which has super, super 
easy guitar parts, that Ash would make up for what he lacked in fretbard 
dexterity with weird effects like pick slides (the scree scree on 
Stigmata Martyr" and strange percussive stuff. Of course, like anyone, 
the more years went by and the more LPs he made, the better he got. but 
the earliest and my fave stuff by Bauhaus is really easy to learn. "Dark 
Entries" is just ridiculously easy, but one of my fave Bauhaus songs.

-Oliver

TB wrote:

>  Danny Ash has become one of my favorite guitarists in the past decade 

> after rediscovering his Bauhaus and Love and Rockets stuff and of 

> course, seeing both bands during their respective reunions.  Really 

> love his tone.  The past few years, I've really began enjoying a lot 

> of more "garage" style guitarists like Poison Ivy from The Cramps and 

> bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Lords of Altamont and 

> Demolition Dollrods.

>

> I used to be a huge Eddie Van Halen fan up through the 80's, but he's 

> hit and miss anymore.  He was truly awful on a lot of shows during the 

> Hagar reunion in '04 and while he improved (and sobered up) a lot for 

> the more recent Roth reunion last year, he's still lost a lot of his 

> physical abilities that help make him a trailblazer back in the early 

> 80's.

>

> Despite his technical limitations as a player, I really like The Edge 

> from U2.  Love some of the effects-drenched sounds he can get in the 

> studio and the fact he isn't stuck on playing any one kind of guitar.

>

> T.B.

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