Sure Red Rover has the tape speed elements, but the question of 'playing the studio' isn't really an issue when you consider that NGBA on Rumours has itself at least two guitar tracks playing simultaneously.
But that sound was definitely geared to emulate in the best possible way the sound of someone playing a acoustic guitar (in the tradition of Landslide, but obviously in much brighter, sharper colours).
With Red Rover, you have to ask - is Lindsey at any time intending to sound like he is sitting there with one acoutstic guitar? Given the different frames of reference, I don't think he went over the top becuase he was aiming for something altogther different.
Rather than using the guitars in the arrangement like a fireside singsong, it's just his weapon of choice to create certain rhythms, textures, 'colours' as he would say (a`la the painting metaphor). Other people use synthesizers and techno stuff.
That's why I get such a kick out of Red Rover/Say Goodbye/Try For The Sun/Big Love (The Dance) ... it's something totally unique... at least in the pop-rock arena.
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