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R1SE@SDSUMUS.BITNET (Dave) (02/04/90)

Lowell, Mass?  Isn't that where Jack Kerouac is from?  I mean, it's
famous for more than it's drum factory, isn't it?

Domino
Dave
r1se@sdsumus.bitnet

R_GELINA@UNHH.BITNET (02/08/90)

About the 'bone parts being written in C instead of Bb: Is is possible it is
done that way for notation purposes, so that in an orchestral score it is
easier to tell which line is the sax and which is the 'bone? (I'm ignorant
of wind instr. so it's just a thought).

King Sunny & high life: Great Stuff!  Alot of Talking Heads stuff has high-life
type guitar parts in it, even in their early, punk (sort of) stuff.  Johnny Marr
(of The The and The Smiths) plays some high-life parts on the TH album "Naked".
He is interviewed in Guitar Player about it , and other things. (A simple
example of high-life guitar is a simple repeated guitar figure on the lower
part of the scale, with a percussive rhythm figure higher up. Easy enough, but
hard to actually do well.)  Also, Paul Simon's album "Graceland" is full of
African and high-life guitar, as well as having Ladysmith Black Mambasa on it.
(You know, that was the album that won 2 grammies, in different years...)

more later..............................           HD