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Subject: re: Guy Van Duser
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 05:30:33 EST
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> From:	dec-orphan!blickstein	(Dave Blickstein)

> The version of "Stars and Stripes" that someone mentioned Chet Atkins plays
> is actually a Guy Van Duser arrangement and Van Duser plays it with much
> more authority.

I could be wrong, Dave, but I believe that Atkins has been playing "SASF" long
before Van Duser has. Van Duser has mentioned at at least one concert that I've
been to that he learned to play guitar by listening to Atkins' records.

I have to agree with you on the stupendous skill of Van Duser's on the guitar.
He has to be seen to be believed. One of my favorite bits of his is something
that he does live (with Billy Novick), but hasn't appeared on any album. He
talks about his learning guitar off of the Atkins records when he was a boy in
upper-state New York. One of the things he never knew then, was that Atkins
occasionally used an echo box to double-up the notes. Van Duser, being the
naive kid he was, knew nothing about echo boxes, so he worked harder and harder
to duplicate what Atkins was doing.
	Then, Van Duser surprised the shit out of everyone in the audience by
playing "Caravanserai", with his thumb playing the bass double-time to simulate
the echo box, and his fingers playing the melody at the same time.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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