07-06-2023, 11:51 AM
(07-06-2023, 10:21 AM)Whatever Wrote: I expect him to play really clean when most of his parts are relatively simple and when you look into his rig, he has noise suppression in almost every link of his signal chain.
His parts fit well in in Pink Floyd 's songs and style, but so did Johnny Ramone's in The Ramones and I wouldn't hold him way up there, either(and I like a lot of The Ramones stuff).
A guy doesn't necessarily have to be ultra fast to be great, IMO. I can appreciate a lot of different attributes, from Bob Weir's insane knowledge of chord inversions, to the crazy stretches Andy Summers pulls off, to the bends Stevie Ray Vaughan could do while using very heavy gauge strings. But playing routine parts cleanly with virtually every noise cancelling trick in the book isn't one of them.
Bobby doesn't get the credit he deserves. I get that he played in Jerry's shadow, but Bob can play in his own right.
That said, Jerry is one of my all time favorites, and people that don't follow the Dead don't get how good he was.
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