CLASSIC CORNER: BACKTRACK
don’t you come over and sit in and play it?”
He didn’t even ask me if it was cool. John came
over and did this. After the fact I didn’t care.
It was fine. I just wanted my song to be up
there. I love John and I love the way he plays,
so I wasn’t going to bother him. I have never
been that egotistical about who is playing on
what. I’m playing the single tonic note and the
chords going up. John is playing most of the
filigree stuff in-between and Lowell plays slide.
When I joined Little Feat they emphasized this
ensemble form of playing – this let’s-not-fillup-all-of-the-holes. The space between notes
is just as important as the note itself. So there
was this wonderful nip and tuck, give and take
kind of thing going on. It really helped me form
that whole rhythm style of playing. And there’s
always been something very rhythmic in my
soloing. I’m not the most fluid of soloists;
but I tend to kind of go at is as kind of
rhythmically syncopated. ■
“All That You Dream” by Little Feat
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DIGITAL EDITION
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