Comparing one night to another at the MusikCircus is like comparing motorcycle riding to scuba diving as the comparison makes no sense. Comparing a guitar to a synthesizer makes no more sense than comparing a tuba to a bass drum. They're different instruments so there's no logic to comparison.
A synthesizer can't do what a guitar does in that a the harmonics that will fly off a string will vary depending on how you touch it. This isn't a comparison, it's a fact. It's a fundamental difference as the note won't change on a synth with how hard you strike it, only the intensity will. However, the touch on a guitar will make a huge difference to the intensity and the fundamental qualities of the note.
I don't like comparing performers and I never have. I think it's hugely insulting to say to a guitarist, man, you sound like Jimi Hendrix as the reaction when I hear something like that is, well, I just wasted forty years of my fookin' life, didn't I! I don't mean at all to denigrate what Hendrix played as the regulars know how much his music moves me but I'm not trying to sound like Hendrix, I want to sound like myself and I would bet everything I own (what little that is!) that every performer feels that way.
All your life you search for your signature in your sound and that's why some will play a guitar and some will play a synthesizer. The characteristics of each one and particularly their differences give one the choices as to what paints your portrait the best.
So, don't fookin' do it! (laughs)
A synthesizer can't do what a guitar does in that a the harmonics that will fly off a string will vary depending on how you touch it. This isn't a comparison, it's a fact. It's a fundamental difference as the note won't change on a synth with how hard you strike it, only the intensity will. However, the touch on a guitar will make a huge difference to the intensity and the fundamental qualities of the note.
I don't like comparing performers and I never have. I think it's hugely insulting to say to a guitarist, man, you sound like Jimi Hendrix as the reaction when I hear something like that is, well, I just wasted forty years of my fookin' life, didn't I! I don't mean at all to denigrate what Hendrix played as the regulars know how much his music moves me but I'm not trying to sound like Hendrix, I want to sound like myself and I would bet everything I own (what little that is!) that every performer feels that way.
All your life you search for your signature in your sound and that's why some will play a guitar and some will play a synthesizer. The characteristics of each one and particularly their differences give one the choices as to what paints your portrait the best.
So, don't fookin' do it! (laughs)
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