[kj] (OT) Jane's Addiction Playing Secret Club Show in LA

[Alexander Smith]

I still love Ash's sorta anti-solo in the middle of "Lagartija Nick".  
Such a great, original sound.

Alex in NYC


On Oct 23, 2008, at 12:35 PM, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:


> 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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