when jimmy page goes to the slide....

SWTsig · Feb 24, 2007

....on In My Time of Dying, i get goosebumps.

BRING IT!

Win · Feb 24, 2007

SWTsig said:

....on In My Time of Dying, i get goosebumps.

BRING IT!
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It is rather surprising he could get his "weenie fingers" to lie straight enough across the fretboard to play slide. Must have taken many takes At least he didn't use the violin bow.

Rockets2K · Feb 24, 2007

Win said:

It is rather surprising he could get his "weenie fingers" to lie straight enough across the fretboard to play slide. Must have taken many takes At least he didn't use the violin bow.
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if you got the muse, no physical deformity can keep you from expressing it.

case in point

Tony Iommi

for those who dont know the story

Iommi picked up the guitar as a teenager, after being inspired by the likes of Hank Marvin and The Shadows. In an industrial accident at the age of 15 on his last day of work in a sheet metal factory, he lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers of his right hand - which, being left-handed, he uses to fret the strings of a guitar. At first he thought his days of playing guitar were over. However, his boss, who knew of his "night job" as a pub band guitar player, paid him a visit during his recovery. During the visit, his boss encouraged him to reconsider. He played a Django Reinhardt record which inspired Tony to pick up the guitar again (Reinhardt lost mobility in the third and fourth fingers of his fretting hand in a fire). After trying to learn to play right-handed, he instead strung his guitars with extra-light strings (which he created himself by intertwining banjo strings) and wore plastic covers that were made from bottle caps over those two fingers (which he covered with leather, so he could grip the strings properly). His accident also had an impact on the Black Sabbath sound: after some time Tony detuned his guitar from E to C# (1 and 1/2 steps down) in order to ease the tension on his fingers, making Sabbath one of the first bands to detune. This idea is now a mainstay of heavy metal music. Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler also tuned his instrument down to match Iommi's.
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and agreed, his playing on IMTOD never fails to fascinate me to the exclusion of whatever Im doing at that moment, I just have to stop adn marvle in it.

rockHEAD · Feb 24, 2007

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