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Sir Richard Bishop - Fingering the Devil

Posted over 3 years ago
This guy is part of Sun City Girls, a group which I understand is a bit insane live. I hardly know anything about them, or Sir Richard Bishop, only that my friend gave me this album and it's completely nuts. By nuts I don't mean like cacophonic, earbursting nuts (as I know Sun City Girls to be) but "how.. is someone playing that?" nuts. The last album that compares is Jack Rose's Kensington Blues, but while Jack Rose leaned toward blues guitar, Bishop seems to be closer to a Spanish style, not flamenco (too cheery) but resembling it in rhythm - I'm exceedingly ignorant on the constellation of guitar styles, so I'm sure someone can come up with a closer relative than I have. I also want to say, this guy has the quickest fingers I have ever heard on a guitar, bar none - Jack Rose whups it up for sure, and it may be that what he was playing was more difficult, but for speed Bishop is off on his own, at least when he feels like it. Having just bought a guitar (a Lotus Les Paul and a surfy Univox amp if you're curious) and knowing almost nothing about playing, I am beginning to appreciate the difficulty of playing music like this.

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