Re: OT: proper way to hold you guitar - live video

[Toby G <carpet8@mac.com>]

Fuck, I gotta get a copy of that video.  The bassist is funky as hell.  
Not 
Tina Weymouth.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Good" <bsgood@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: OT: proper way to hold you guitar - live video


> Rainer Straschill wrote:
>> So I noticed there's this general conflict how to hold your electric
>> guitar, more specifically how long the shoulder strap should be.
>> Generally it's accepted that while having a long strap looks cooler
>> (and is thus indispensable for rock music), only with a short strap
>> good command of the instrument is possible - that's why all the jazz
>> cats etc. accept that they look stupid and have the guitar hanging at
>> chest level.
>
> I suppose that's the equivalent of wearing pants that come up to your 
> armpits, but it doesn't matter, because when you play jazz, nobody is 
> looking at where you hold your guitar. We (a jazz group I play with) 
> recently were looking at some gig pictures, and somebody commented that 
> when anybody, regardless of instrument, plays a jazz solo, they look 
>like 
> they're, um, straining on the commode, though he didn't put it quite 
>like 
> that. That's what the audience looks at.
>
> Brian
>
>