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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
Well Hello - arguably one of the best - though David may disagree  |
Me? No. He's a killer technician with his barreling barging belching style that lent such personality to the old Springsteen songs. Roy plays Texas- & Chicago-style ornamentation & embellishments: blues grace notes & double grace notes, tremolos, turns, octave lead-ins, arpeggios of course, boogie bass lines, rapid thirds & fourths, etc. He's great at syncopation. But mostly octaves -- in fact, Roy is a total master of octaves, at playing them rapidly & trippingly & frippingly & oh so quite hippingly. He's a big crashy stashy slashy mashy piano player, with near-total technical control of the ivories. I like the atmosphere he gave to all those old songs, like JUNGLELAND, OUT IN THE STREET, THE PROMISED LAND, & ROSALITA. I mean, GOLD & BRAID wouldn't be half the song it is without him.
I'd love to hear you guys post some of your playing. Would you consider? I like to hear how others tackle the challenges that Chris & Stevie present (such as they are).
As for SONGBIRD's chord progression, it's a variant of I-IV-V. F major is I, Bb major is IV, & C major is V. Beethoven would have scoffed at it & called it a
Schusterfleck.