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Not bad makes me want to go play

As I'm slowly but surely getting older and a bit more mellow this sounds like exactly the kind of music I need now. Thanks BDB for the link. I wish I could play like her but never made it better than campfire drunken quality. Could this be the inspiration to play with my old battered guitar again?

Off to the record shop I go ...

She is just re-introducing something Eddie VanHalen did a long time ago. It was different then, I guess it is different now.

Eddie Van Halen didn't use the guitar as a percussion instrument to the same degree, and it is a hell of a lot easier on an electric guitar. Then again, I'd like to see this girl play with half as much booze in her system as an average Eddie Van Halen day in the 80s. Personally, I'd rather watch Eddie in his prime.

While I'm sure she isn't the first person to do it, she's the first person to get on mainstream TV doing it as far as I know. Not really my bag, but I heard an interview on the radio with her and she seems pretty cool. She doesn't make as big a deal out of her playing style or claim to be completely original, so much as the interviewers do.

Her style reminds me of Keziah Jones, he also bangs the guitar like a drum and uses slapping techniques like a bass player sometimes. It's obvious that both share the same background of former street musicians where they needed to use the guitar as a versatile instrument.

Neat. Regardless of whether EVH did double-handed tapping first (which is hotly contested by way too many people... Was it him? Randy Rhoades? Yngwie? FRANK ZAPPA??) or not, this is pretty damn cool.

A couple things she has over EVH:

No stupid singer
No stupid lyrics
No crappy EVH keyboard lines
No crappy replacement singer
No crappy "the more you know" lyrics

All of which can be summed up as "no crappy pretense to a band around a guitar hero."

A couple things she doesn't have:

the sweet drum intro to Hot for Teacher
legends about using a Variac