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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beck on guitar reminds me of Kanhai batting--there is the same sense of a man sniffing out incredible possibilities and instantly realizing them. His guitar produces the sounds of many other instruments: sometimes it is a percussion instrument rapping out the beat while the drums fly elsewhere as they often do, sometimes Beck sounds like John Handy blowing high-pitched squeals out of his sax, sometimes Beck's guitar sounds like a piano, a bell, and once, unforgettably, a wailing harp (on 'Shapes of things...
...bitter about gimmickry (the Jeff Beck Group's first album just out on Epic, is called 'Truth' because the Group feels that it is an honest album with no tricks.) He ridiculed the Beatles' experiments with sitar music "You know how long it takes to learn that instrument? 7 years. and there's the master who's 50 and still learning...
...baroque doghouse." Once, after Conductor Serge Koussevitzky gave his Boston Symphony players a dazzling demonstration of bass playing, one of them said he was so good that "he sounded like a lousy cellist." At the time, Koussevitzky was one of three men in the 250-year history of the instrument who had mustered enough talent, courage and sense of humor to qualify as a virtuoso bass soloist...
...sings with all the richness of the cello, the warmth of the viola and the agility of the violin. Yet Karr is not content simply to be the master of a narrow field. He wants to broaden the field-by revamping the technique of bass playing and bringing the instrument into its own as a solo voice. "My intention is to start revolutions," he says. "Most bass music doesn't demand very much, and most bass players don't want to work very hard; they're satisfied to be ensemble players. They've done too little...
...Boston's New England Conservatory and the University of Wisconsin. He publishes a magazine (The Bass Sound Post) and organizes annual conferences for the 1,000-member International Institute for the String Bass, which he founded and heads. He champions improvements in bass design: his own custom-made instrument has, among other features, a special thick-bellied shape for resonance and carrying power and an unusually close spacing between the strings and fingerboard for easier fingering. He has his own method of drawing the bow more slowly across the strings to achieve a "rich, passionate" tone. He also argues...