Several months ago, I was looking up some songs on YouTube, must have been something British -- Gary Glitter, maybe? -- and I received, as we all do, recommendations on the right side of the page. One of them had a group with a unique guitarist. This week, I was thinking about that musician and wanted to look him and his band up...but I forgot the names.
I want to see if anyone might know who it is if I describe what makes the guitarist unique. Firstly, it is a male guitarist, as I mentioned. Second, and I'm doing my best here to describe this, but on the songs I watched, he tended to move forward toward the audience and then back as he was playing (the bassist may have been doing the same thing, but in the opposite direction, to create a sort of manic symmetry). He played like this: picture if you will, instead of holding a pick between thumb and two fingers (forefinger, middle), I think he was just down-stroking from the top, or at least it looked like that...the way he did it was impressive and fun to watch. Picture your thumb held straight out and then the four fingers strumming down. He probably was doing something different and more complex, but that's what I recall of his showmanship. And he seemed to do solos like that, such that it looked as if he couldn't possibly be playing what he appeared to be playing if he's not using a pick, if you get what I mean...it was quite neat.
As for the group itself, I'm fairly certain it is British, but I do not know that for a fact...certainly European. Had to have been the 1970s. The concert I was watching seemed to be a TV special, but it was live (it wasn't Top of the Pops, or a lip-synchronization show like that...I got the impression it was one of the smaller, more cult-type music programs; and it wasn't that Whistle show, whatever that's called). There were young, well-dressed kids in the audience, maybe mod style might be the term of the time, I don't know. They seemed, if I recall, to be dancing to the music, but not like in the States on a Dick Clark show, just sort of moving up and down and to the side by themselves, not toward anyone in a true dance. The style of music I think was blues-influenced rock 'n roll. Old-time, of course, even for back then. I don't know if early Status Quo would be any sort of comparison, and I'm not even sure I know many songs from that group. But like I say, maybe I was looking up Status Quo and this came up as a recommendation, or the aforementioned Glitter; I suppose even with the latter a group like I described might come up if they eventually became a glam band.
Anyway, hopefully someone might know who I am talking about. Most likely, maybe someone on the board from England/Europe might take a guess. Thanks...
I want to see if anyone might know who it is if I describe what makes the guitarist unique. Firstly, it is a male guitarist, as I mentioned. Second, and I'm doing my best here to describe this, but on the songs I watched, he tended to move forward toward the audience and then back as he was playing (the bassist may have been doing the same thing, but in the opposite direction, to create a sort of manic symmetry). He played like this: picture if you will, instead of holding a pick between thumb and two fingers (forefinger, middle), I think he was just down-stroking from the top, or at least it looked like that...the way he did it was impressive and fun to watch. Picture your thumb held straight out and then the four fingers strumming down. He probably was doing something different and more complex, but that's what I recall of his showmanship. And he seemed to do solos like that, such that it looked as if he couldn't possibly be playing what he appeared to be playing if he's not using a pick, if you get what I mean...it was quite neat.
As for the group itself, I'm fairly certain it is British, but I do not know that for a fact...certainly European. Had to have been the 1970s. The concert I was watching seemed to be a TV special, but it was live (it wasn't Top of the Pops, or a lip-synchronization show like that...I got the impression it was one of the smaller, more cult-type music programs; and it wasn't that Whistle show, whatever that's called). There were young, well-dressed kids in the audience, maybe mod style might be the term of the time, I don't know. They seemed, if I recall, to be dancing to the music, but not like in the States on a Dick Clark show, just sort of moving up and down and to the side by themselves, not toward anyone in a true dance. The style of music I think was blues-influenced rock 'n roll. Old-time, of course, even for back then. I don't know if early Status Quo would be any sort of comparison, and I'm not even sure I know many songs from that group. But like I say, maybe I was looking up Status Quo and this came up as a recommendation, or the aforementioned Glitter; I suppose even with the latter a group like I described might come up if they eventually became a glam band.
Anyway, hopefully someone might know who I am talking about. Most likely, maybe someone on the board from England/Europe might take a guess. Thanks...
