jafadmin wrote:That "golliwog" with the afro haircut was some guitar player named Eric Clapton
Yeh, well, I wasn't interested in their haircuts, and it's been many years since, and I'm now 72.
It was the drumming in which I was interested, but I was no way good enough to copy/rival Ginger Baker.
I'd guess Davie was interested in Eric Clapton's playing technique.
But I saw no sign of him copying his playing.
Davie had his own technique.
He played like a "deaf dumb and blind kid', but he "sure played a mean pinball" [guitar].
He "stood like a statue" [no body movement whatever, only the fingers moved], "became part of the machine" [guitar], "feeling all the bumpers" [frets and strings], "always played it clean".
He did like to do a certain thing, where he lightly plucked strings [right hand] whilst lightly touching and removing [fingers of left hand] so as get a note an octave higher.
He also played lots of different string instruments [electric and acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, etc]
I arranged a folk gig, for
Davie and
Tich, at Falkirk Technical College [I studied there, and was good friends with the teacher who ran the folk club nights].
e.g. A more instrumental version of
Hot Asphalt I cannot find anyone online who plays it on banjo anywhere near as good as Davie did back then.
See this for example. The guitar playing closer to it, but imagine banjo instead.
He was "whacking" the banjo strings [real LOUD, and great technique][plucking, not strumming, he wasn't a "strummer"] to accompany our bands' ex-singer [
Graham "Tich" Frier]...they were childhood friends, and formed a folk duo for a short time in late 1966.