Shrine '69

[Jimi Mac]

While not my all-time favorite album of their's, I find something about the tone of the guitars on this album sublime.



At first I perceived it as too bassy, too fat, and hard to listen too... Then I realized something. With all that bass drive going on it was pushing the guttural mood of the music. The bass was coaxing a certain emotional edge from the live performance recorded that night.

Just like I find I like playing my different guitars in different settings and getting different sounds from them based upon my mood, I found from listening to the CD that the bass was driving the tenor of the entire group that day and it is superb.

The version of the first number; "If You Be My Baby" is a powerhouse of gut-wrenching powerful response w/both the audience and the tune...



Followed by a resplendent version of "Something Inside Of Me" by Danny Kirwan that I think is one of the most memorable of all the versions out there exemplifying his 2nd-to-none left hand vibrato technique...



Simply Marvelous!