[bomp] Re: Vinnie Bell

[Sknoof@xxxxxxx]

<< I'm not the best Vinnie Bell-head, but I do know that Vinnie Bell had done

some thing where he invented that Underwater guitar sound, that liquidy thing

you hear on soundtracks (probably HELLO DOWN THERE, for example) occasionally

and some records... he's the only guy who was licensed to play that sound...
it
was a strange set-up.  I think the Shangri-Las used him on "Sweet Sounds of
Summer" for example... a favorite of the Domenic Priore/Darian Sahanaja
friendship, and especially for that guitar sound, which I consider kind of
Psychedelic/Surf/Pastiche.  We do have a Vinnie Bell album here where he
plays the Coral
Sitar on loungey versions of all kinds of cool late-'60s Pop songs, but
that's
buried in a box as a move is taking place right now.   Tough to check it this

month!  I'm sure the liners of that album have some revealing brag...  That
said, Vinnie Bell is god. >>

Here's one of those "This Could Not Have Actually Happened" impossible
stories:

During part of my 25 years of retail, I was at the Radio Shack in Bergenfield
NJ (home of, of course, The Knickerbockers -- and once Buddy Randell walked
in the store, but that's a different story) and I was helping this older guy
with a computer question while Lou Christie's "Lightning Strikes" was playing
on
some mix tape I had made -- and just as that insane sputtering guitar solo
started, he cracked a smile and got a faraway look on his face.  "Is this YOUR
favorite guitar solo too?" I asked -- upon which  he replied "I played it."

He was pretty amazed when I said "Vinnie Bell????"

A long question-and-answer session ensued, and the next day he came back with
an autographed photo of himself onstage playing the electric sitar, standing
next to BJ Thomas.

===> To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp" to majordomo@xnet2.com <===