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| 2490.1 | Two I can think of | WEDOIT::KELLYJ | Master of rhythm, Phd in swing | Fri Apr 03 1992 12:16 | 14 |
| Jerry Garcia from the Dead is missing part of a finger on his right
(picking) hand.
Django Reinhardt, totally_awesome_incredible_how_does_he_DO_that
player from the 30's, 40's, and early 50's, had a left (fretting) hand
that was injured in a fire when he was a youngster. I _believe_ he was
missing one finger and two others had fused together. You can hear him
wailing with Stephan Grappelli of violin fame when they were together
in the Hot Club Band. He tended to play mostly single note lines.
As for chords, I'd suggest learing how to play the ones that are giving
you difficulty with the less important tones left out. For example, if
you were into heavy metal, then I'd say lose all those wimpy thirds.
This might work for the acoustic music you play.
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| 2490.2 | | NWACES::HICKERNELL | | Fri Apr 03 1992 12:20 | 3 |
| Django, yeah, in-effing-credible!
Dave
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| 2490.3 | Les Paul | SAHQ::ROSENKRANZ | Less is More | Fri Apr 03 1992 12:53 | 4 |
| Les Paul had some damage done to his arm in an accident. I recall
that he had the bones set in such a way that would let him play however
I believe that he still had to alter his style to accomodate the
injury.
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| 2490.4 | | RGB::ROST | Make Mine Mellotron | Fri Apr 03 1992 13:31 | 21 |
| Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath lost the tips of his fingers in an accident
and wears some sort of "caps" on his fingers in order to play.
I have a cousin who lost the middle finger on his right hand
and he now plays both guitar and bass with a pick only.
Greg Douglas who played with Steve Miller and Greg Kihn cut the wrist
of his right hand which caused nerve damage so that he lost sensation
in his hand. He now uses a special pick modified from a thumbpick
design so that he won't drop it. He spent a year or two woodshedding
his right hand chops back together.
There's a blues player from the LA area (whose name escapes me...Steve
something??) who lost one arm below his elbow. He picks the guitar
with his stump and frets with his good arm. Supposedly a very hot
player, too.
In a more extreme case, there is that fellow with no arms (think he's
from South America) who plays with his *feet*.
There's a number of blind players (Jeff Healey, Snooks Eaglin).
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| 2490.5 | awesome player too | FRETZ::HEISER | maranatha! | Fri Apr 03 1992 13:33 | 4 |
| Phil Keaggy (note 398.*) is missing the middle finger on his right
hand. It happened when he was 4 so he learned the guitar without it.
Mike
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| 2490.6 | Eric rocked ! | KDX200::COOPER | Step UP to the RACK ! | Fri Apr 03 1992 13:42 | 6 |
| A high school friend of mine lost the index finger of his LEFT hand
in a machine shop accident. He was a very talented guitarist.
He switched over to bass and as of when I left Mass, he was smokin'
on it !!
jc
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| 2490.7 | | NWACES::HICKERNELL | | Fri Apr 03 1992 16:19 | 3 |
| Sure, but for bass all you need is lots of thumbs, right?
Dave (just kidding, just kidding!) :-)
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| 2490.8 | Eddie Vortex... | KERNEL::FLOWERS | Oh well, whatever, nevermind.... | Mon Apr 06 1992 03:45 | 8 |
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There's a guy who plays in a 50's band round here (The Eddie Vortex
Trio) and he only has 2 1/2 usable fingers on his left hand, I've got
4 fingers and I can't play 50's stuff the way he does......
J
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| 2490.9 | | BRUMMY::LAWTON | Tell Carter his lizard is here.. | Mon Apr 06 1992 05:40 | 6 |
| I read a good few years ago about a Japanese bass player with only one
arm. Apparently, he had some Earth-shatteringly loud amp cranked up to
max and just hammered the strings with the fingers of his left (and
only) hand.
Phil
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| 2490.10 | practice..practice..practice | MSD02::KOSKI | | Tue Apr 28 1992 08:30 | 6 |
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Wow, I guess it all comes down to having style and the right
sound.....and a little perseverance. I gotta give a listen to this
Django (sp) guy....
thanks....Dana
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| 2490.11 | | ZYDECO::MCABEE | Fishing for minnows | Thu May 14 1992 20:04 | 8 |
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> sound.....and a little perseverance. I gotta give a listen to this
> Django (sp) guy....
Yep. Django had only two fully useful fingers on his left hand. When you
hear him, you will not believe it.
Bob
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| 2490.12 | Hear it on your friendly PC.... | STRATA::PHILLIPS | Music of the spheres. | Wed Jan 24 1996 10:59 | 8 |
| Re. Django
FWIW, the Encarta '95 encyclopedia CD-ROM (which came with our new
computer) actually has a 30-second sound clip of Django playing.
The guy was a SMOKIN' guitarist! Wow!
--Eric--
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| 2490.13 | | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | General MIDI | Wed Jan 24 1996 12:58 | 9 |
| Wow... that's almost reason enough for me to by Encarta.
Django was SO GOOD so LONG AGO that the only word for him is
"enigma".
When I listen to the 1934 Quitet D'Hot Club album, I conclude that my
personal opinion is that HE (not Eddie Van Halen or Hendrix) was the
most influential guitarist of the 60's, 70's and 80's. It's just that
he happened to have been dead for 30 years during that period.
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