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Ellen Mcllwaine. Bonnie Raitt once said she did not practice her guitar because she did not want to be considered simply "the best girl guitarist." However you judge Mcllwaine, she clearly practices her bottleneck. Through Sunday at Passim. Call 492-7679 for information...
...same time, there was a good deal of inspired soloing, from guitarist Bill Connors and Corea. Connors has developed a unique hybrid sound, one that draws equally from the last five years or so of rock guitar playing. He has a very heavy tone, almost ponderous and always close to the listener; the result of combined use of sustain and vibrato from the usual bank of foot switches filtered through a slightly open wah-wah pedal. You can hear shades of everyone from Eric Clapton to John McLaughlin. His solos were short, to maintain a structural balance, but beautifully constructed...
...BRIEFLY--Guitarist and singer of velvet soul George Benson will be at Jazz Workshop this week. There will be soul next door, too, with the Persuasions playing Paul's Mall...Boston's big-name concert this week will be the New York Dolls playing the Orpheum. Never having heard them, I hope they're better performers than whoever writes their press releases...
JIMI HENDRIX, a documentary eulogy to the late rock guitarist, includes a great deal of performance footage intercut with interviews: of groupies, of roadies, of family and friends and peers. The biography that emerges is perfunctory and predictable. There are all sorts of discussions about genius, talent, self-destruction and the miseries and pressures of a rock star's life, none of it new, most of it rather sweeping and vague. Hendrix's furious, kinetic music is at the core of the film, which at its best is like a "greatest hits" record album on film. The interview...
...true, tend to run together a bit. I suspect the majority of the crowd was unfamiliar with the work as a whole (requests for Tommy were shut off with a brusque, "Where've ya been?"), and that hurt the performance some. Certain things were revealed: Townshend is a conservative guitarist--underneath the windmilling is a man who plays crisp licks and lines and is a master of transitions. He alternates finger-picking, chording and single notes with intelligence and grace, particularly in "I'm One," and the opening of "5:15." He plays with power, though. Live versions of "Bell...