In those long ago but never forgotten times in Hamburg when I first bumped into Ron Howden, I knew we had something special going on when we started jamming in the daytime hours at the Star club.
I have always loved rhythmical music and I guess my style of playing guitar shows that. Together with Ron who is a very rhythmical drummer it was a match made in heaven, as the next years of album productions would show.
I was never big into guitar solos; in fact I tried to shy away from them as much as possible in favor of rhythmic playing. Give me an acoustic guitar any day.
With Ron and I truly locked into each others styles it really didn’t matter who else was in the band because as yet I had never met them, however, it was of great surprise that the bass and keys players were of a distinctive style of their own and it seemed to gell quite well.
TBC
Awesome! Can you tell us what guitar did you use back in the day? or even today?
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ReplyDeleteI used a 1969 Epiphone Shereton custom at the time and still use the semi's to this day, however it's now a Yamaha SA2200 or my old favourite a Antoria custom semi built by Ibanez back in the 70's
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ReplyDeleteWow! How awesome! I'd pay A LOT for that guitar, Roye! It's amazing how I can tell it's you by just listening a couple of notes of your guitar.
ReplyDeleteYou still making wonderful albums... your music is alive, current and the greatest thing about that is that Nektar still sounds like back in the day. None of the Space/Progressive Rock of the seventies can do that. I hope you live forever.
I'm a HUGE fan.
Can't wait for your next post!
You would think that being invited to America to record a demo album would be a dream come true..well it was until we got to the imigration..there must have been a wall chart somewhere that said anyone posing as an Englishman coming in from Germany clad in denim with hair down their backs and beards professing to be musicians must be strip searched and their instruments taken apart.
ReplyDeleteAfter that..all went pretty smooth really and we had a great time.
It was your rhythmic playing that spawned all the classic music that is Nektar.
ReplyDeleteWhat a loss to the music world. Might I be so inquisitive as to ask why the Epiphone looks like it's got 8 machine heads, always wondered whether it was set up like an 8 string with 2 drones? Muchas gracias for any insight.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone's able to answer please do. It's been enigmatic since I bought RTF in 1974, watching one particular YT video intrigues me more...
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