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A little out of left field: Herring is a great guitar player, and yes he fits better with Panic than he did the Dead, but the same problem exists... he outplays Garcia and Houser on a technical, notes per second level, but falls short on the deep, original, measure of soul that both of those play...

Nothing but love for the boys, for ever and ever, but just to clarify: the reason the Europe '72 album has the tightest arrangements ever (especially for the time) is that they did a lot of post-production on this album; it's almost more of a studio album than live. One of the most unintentionall...

@toothandsticks

And Hendrix wrapped his thumb over the top of the fretboard to play E-string root notes on the guitar, which gave him all four fingers free to create chord fingerings that were all new and all his own.

Ever consider that one source of stagnation on an instrument over a large num...

@thepossessor

Couldn't agree with you more on Jimi being the ultimate songwriter, but kind of irrelevant on this tune, since Albert King wrote it. I'm sure you recognize this tune with Jack Bruce singing it and Clapton providing the lead in Cream's heyday.

@skorziks Agreed; one of the best parts about Floyd is that their music isn't inevitable: play this album for a listener that doesn't know their whole discography, and they peg this as pre-DSotM, maybe even pre-Meddle; this is a little bit of throwback sound compared to those highly technological...