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Re: All and all it's just another brick in the well



>That kind of squall doesn't seem to occur in the black culture at all, but 
>it does occur in Celtic music.  It took a Celt to recognize the electronic 
>scream as a musical sound, and get the notion to control it."
>
>Who and when?  Let's talk history, not social/cultural theory.
>BTW, I'll agree that Hendrix did not invent it. He just perfected the 
>technique.

I don't have any dates.  Maybe Max can tell us details, since he was there 
on the scene, but isn't it pretty much documented that Hendrix found the 
Brit kids doing it when he went to England?  Electric guitars weren't 
readily available until the fifites, and obviously the budding English rock 
'n' rollers of late fifties coveted them enough to build their own.  When 
they got one built was probably their first introduction to the sound.

The squall is the pipes, of course, whether Scotts or Irish, and tin 
whistles can be pretty shrill and atonal, as well.  Likely everybody who 
ever played an electric guitar had made the mistake that produced the sound, 
but they just said, oops, and tried not to do that again.  But being 
northern Celts, the Brit kids said, "Wow, listen to that--pipe sounds 
without the pipes!" and the sound took off right away.  Notice it was The 
Chieftains that Roger invited to his Celebration show, and not Chuck Berry.

We've been crediting Pete with the feedback technique, but this somewhat 
makes the case for other young musicians to have independently recognized 
the sound.  Still, recognizing the sound and using it in musical performance 
are two different things.  Like with the rock opera, I'd still credit Pete.

The question is, what did Hendrix hear in it?


keets
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