Re: TONE

[Barry Schaede <barrys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kim Wilson's tone on Tiger Man comes to mind of course there's Icepick 
(James Harman) or mark Hummel.  I saw Sugar Ray Norcia with the bluetones 
a while back and he's the living incarnation of Walter Horton's sound.  
Plays a 58 Bassman with a boss digital delay.  The thing about most of 
these guys is that it stops at tone/attitude.  The reason I like Walter 
Horton's playing so much is the rare combination of tone and lyricism
in the same guy.  You can hum his solos.  Speaking of laying out Walter 
didn't much except when he was singing.  Monster players of the 90's. 
Paul deLay comes to mind good tone but not awsome.  It's how he plays 
what he plays.  The other guy that truly floors me is Brendan Power.  Now 
he has truly phenenomnal tone.  He lip blocks and plays blindingly 
fast with a precision that's hard to imagine. Walter Horton's dead.  It's 
too bad but his time has come and gone.  I don't care what he played 
through.  I'm just glad he was recorded and I get to listen to his stuff 
after the fact. Technology changes life moves forward and we all need to 
create our own style of playing influenced of course by the people that 
came before us.  FJM