RE: GE SMITH

1999-02-01 Thread Matt Benz
I'm sure he can, but as someone else said just watching the guy was painful. I use to watch a good deal of SNL in those days with buddies of mine who were pretty good guitarists themselves, and they would look upon those skit-ending close-ups on him as comedy sketches in their own

Re: GE SMITH

1999-02-01 Thread Joe Gracey
James Gerard Roll wrote: I disagree with you here. I am not a fan of showboating . . . but a certain amount of TV/Pop music is 'the show' and entertaining people is part of the bag. snip yeah, what he said. Hell, if I had the money I'd buy all them guitars and play them on TV too, and I

re: GE SMITH

1999-02-01 Thread Ameritwang
Joe Gracey wrote: I saw GE on the Dylan tour and I thought he was a model citizen. In fact, it took me awhile to realize that was him because he had dropped the TV demeanor and was much more subdued. His playing strikes me as controlled and inventive and tailored to the act, which is, after all,