were playing slow blues behind
a singer. A guitarist with world
class credentials had a modern
era whammy bar guitar, and as
the poor singer made her way
through the changes this guy
went to town, shredding away,
tapping, dive bombing, just
screaming at the top of his gui-
tar lungs. It’s a style that my old
friend Steve Cropper calls ‘loo-
kamee, lookamee, lookamee.’ It
was pretty unmusical, to say the
least. The guy later came up to
me and said ‘I suck, man! Why
do I do this? I suck, man!’ Maybe
when he was done with his gui-
tar histrionics he heard Ted’s
Pillow Talk running through his
head and had to fess up!
“If you’re playing and can’t re-
ally hear the vocalist, the soloist,
or any of your band mates---play
less, listen more, and turn down.
I’m thankful for the wisdom Ted
Dunbar instilled in me back in
the day.”
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