".To my knowledge Bob has never played long guitar breaks of any kind, he is an unaccompanied singer"
You have often expressed your admiration for guitar gymnast singers and lashed out at those who criticise them
Lloyd's 'grin' was not a 'stle' it was a technique for producing a sound in order to sing traditional songs
"they are used to deal with a situation tradtional singers would not have encountered, "
So you reserve the right to use non traditional devices while at the same tim critcising Lloyd fro doing the same thin
Somewhat Dick double-standards' don't you think
Bert was singing in exactly the same situation as you and faced a problem which he cured
Traditional singers have used all sorts of odd techniques to produce difficult effects - I was told last week of Irish singers singing into corners to keep in pitch - singing with the hand cupped over the ear is millenia old for singers
A street singer in Newry was recorded by the BBC singing through a megaphone... there are a myriad of devices that have been used and now lost
Let's leave this Dick before this thread disappears up its own jaxi eh
Jim Carroll