Re: Walker brothers Elegies

[Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com>]

Ha! I thought I was the only one who felt that way about ebows.

Not that easy things are necessarily bad, but when looping on an ebow,
it's hard to not sound like a certain very famous guitarist. For me as
an audience member, I feel like I'm missing out on the chance to hear
of the performer as an individual, rather than the performer as an
admirer of Robert Fripp.

-- 
Matt Davignon
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William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com> was all:
> Thanks Gareth,
>  you joke about ebow's brought to mind something about Kim that some but 
>not
> all  list dwellers might know about. I remember having a conversation 
>with
> him about 6 years ago at one of Rick's Y2K events. We were talking and he
> said how much he hated Ebows. He felt they were the ambient musicians 
>crutch
> and had been used to death, were a cheap method to create drones and
> sustain, and enough with this shoe gazer stuff anyway. At first i was a 
>bit
> taken aback because frankly, I was one of those guys he was talking about
> :-) But then I realized , hey he's right!!!  So at that event, knowing he
> was in the audience I dedicated a piece to him, I think I called it the 
>Kim
> Flint tribute Ebow Solo or something, and then I'd drone for about 5 
>seconds
> and then stopped and thank the audience. But actually I took his 
>critique to
> heart and I rarely ever use my E-bow anymore.  I still dig it, but i've
> found other ways to create drones that don't require it.
>  Thanks Kim for the influence
> Bill
>