its sort of narrow nasal but isn't sharp or abusive
unique tone
I remember the long debate about the solo on kohntarkosz trying to determine if its a guitar or organ...
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Chalkpie,
John Burns might know (but I doubt he will remember). I do know that he didn't particularly care working with IAN. Whatever feud those two had must have run deep for IAN to call him out on one of those BBC rock documentaries (decades later) for AQUALUNG sessions (Basing Street).
JK
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
In the 20th anniversary box book Barre says it's a guitar through a very cheap practice amp he had just bought.
And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.
Wasn't he the one that hated the direction that Tull took when Martin joined the band? He thought they should continue in the blues vein they started on This Was and took it out on Ian for changing the sound of the band. Hell, it was Ian's and the bands choice which direction they went not John Burns.
I do know that John Burns did go on and work with Mick Abrahams and Blodwyn Pig... I just couldn't believe that Ian would call anyone out from the Aqualung sessions being that was their breakthrough release that opened them up to the masses (and provided all of them real financial success).
Jim
Partly true, and Watercolour Days was indeed released in early '71, not '70. But the Up Above was - AFAIR - more of a compilation of tracks from Scrapbook, a single and even some earlier things by the precursor 1-2-3 - and issued in the US/Canada exclusively. BGO certainly didn't care about it when they released that two-on-one back in '97.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Yeah, well, I always thought they had only two albums released. I have that BGO CD edition. Watercolour Days I had the LP, about 35 years ago) I think WD is very good. Very strange, that man so talented, as Billy Ritchie, went away from the music business soon after he split the Clouds.
That gnarly gtr amp sound is in there for sure, and if memory serves it's soloed out on the first verse which may be the source of the confusion. But the sound we're all talking about shows up in the 2nd verse. I have to go listen to it now to make sure it's the way I'm remembering it.
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