@mitchgo61 Who can forget the drumline on Radar Love? I figured you would have seen all these bands before. SBM even toured around there in the late 80s
Edit - I *finally* get to say I saw a band tour that you didn't - Nazareth, live in Halifax NS, 86 or 7 (the years were really blurry back then, if ya catch my drift?). They looked so much older than I expected, but they sounded just as good as any of their albums - a great show, at least the parts I remember...
Nazareth - Beggars day
More stuff from around that era -
Rush - Fly by night & In the mood
Before they switched to UFOs and aliens and such...
Some
Messiahs trivia for you:
on Carter's playing style, saying that "[h]e plays without a
pick, crashing the flesh of his fingers into the strings with little regard for its mortality. Blood can often be seen splattered across the
scratch plate – or the place where the scratch plate would be if it hadn't been removed. To avoid completely razoring the top of his fingers off, and I suppose also because he likes the sound, William uses unusually heavy bottom strings;
Rotosound (and nothing else will do)
56, 48, 28, 16, 13 and 12. But he gives 'em such a sound thrashing that one string breaks every couple of numbers and often one a number, and I don't just mean the
top strings; Es and As cop it an' all. In the words of his
roadie, 'He goes fooking
bonkers!'"
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Carter's vocal delivery also attracted attention in the
music press with, for example, John Dougan commenting: 'Carter wielded his instrument like a cross between
Wilko Johnson and
Pete Townshend; he was a deft
soloist, but it was his tricky, complex
rhythm playing that gave the band sheet-after-sheet of supercharged sound for a foundation. As impressive as his guitar playing was his voice: at times comically bawling, other times mumbling and imperceptible; in the course of a
verse, Carter could sound righteously indignant, or suddenly frightened and confused'.
[7] The band's overall sound, according to Dougan, 'made for extreme, confrontational, and very, very exciting
rock & roll'.
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