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Rules of Rock Number 11
Posted by Sven Garlic on 21 January 2010 - 8:58pm.
Rock is often best when it gets a little funky:
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Rule 12 - Things go better with Fripp
Fripp:"The solo on Bowie's "Fashion" happened at 10:30 in the morning after a long drive back from Leeds gigging with The League of Gentlemen. There's nothing you feel less like in the world than turning out a burning solo—fiery rock and roll at 10:30 in the morning—just out of a truck. But it doesn't matter how you feel, you just get on with it."
Old "As Usual" Face
knows how to pick a plucker don't he?
Ronson, Fripp, Slick, Alomar, Gabrels - nifty little strike force that
Not to mention...
...Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stacey Heydon (better than Slick?), Adrian Belew and, as I've recently learned, Peter Frampton!
Actually, Diamond Dogs indicates he wasn't too shabby on the old six-string himself. Didn't Iggy say he was the best garage guitarist he'd ever heard or something??
Guitar on Fashion
Is simply inspirational. Still does it after all these years.