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Article from International Musician & Recording World, January 1986 |
It just won't go away, will it. While manufacturers shout about their multi-second super-bandwidth polyphonic unlimited frequency response goatstrangling tea-drinking rackmounting supersamplers, it still hangs in there.
Yes, we're talking about the guitar of course. Six strings and about three foot of plank and away you go — lurching into the limelight with the best of them.
And it's the best of them (or few of them, anyway) that we've got in this issue. Carl Perkins kickstarted the Rock 'n' Roll guitar. Mark Knopfler has virtually redefined its '80s Rock use. Earl Slick warped the old traditions into a wall of superdistortion. And Will Sergeant from Echo and the Bunnymen has taken his pseudopsychedelic picking into modern Pop.
While engaged in the process of making the Bunnymen a force to be reckoned with, Will used the sampling system to get the perfect in-tune, in-time, guitar sound from his '60s Vox Teardrop guitar.
Is that Emulator used as a guitar effect of the guitar being used as just another synth sound? Who cares. All it goes to prove is that, treat it how you will, the guitar is still here and it's still making great records some 30-years after Carl Perkins recorded Blue Suede Shoes.
You can do anything, but don't step on my cherry sunburst guitar...
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