10 November,2010 10:18 AM IST | | Rocky Thongam
It is a musical duel you can't miss
The stage is set, the lights are dim. Four guitar-toting desperadoes are ready for a Mexican standoff. Today, guitarists Frank Wingold, Eric Vaarzon Morel, Dave Goodman and Dylan Fowler are going to share the stage for the first time ever in the Capital.
Eric Varon Morel,Dylan Fowler,Dave Goodman,Frank Wingold
For many of us starved of good music and feeding on trash in some of the clubs right now, the amalgamation smells refreshing. Four of them have distinct styles and are from different genres.
The Slider
Dave Goodman, lucky for us, started with the violin but took up guitar instead. The West Coast influence -- he studied under Dave Vidal -- gave him a firm base in Blues, until he shifted to Vancouver college to study jazz formally under Bruce Clausen.
But it was his first love Blues which has brought him laurels. One of the well-known fixtures of the Bay Areas blues scene he is has a league to flaunt of which consists of names like Tommy Castro, Johnny Nitr, Chris Cobb and Garth Webber. And it is not strumming the man is good at, if you need your guitar fixed Goodman is the man you can call upon, a skill he picked up during his tutelage under Vidal.
Solid baby
Goodman's playing on stage with Frank Wingold is something to watch out for. What the former started and left, the latter picked up. Wingold studied classical guitar and jazz developing his own style of composition.
So the man can dish out classical and jazz as well as rock on his acoustic and electricbabies.
Lift a finger
Dylan Fowler is a man who never wanted to be a professional musician. But the numerous artists he ended up meeting and those performances at the Edinburgh Festival, couldn't keep away from his calling for long. He will do crazy things with his acoustic like he does in real life; once riding 3,000 miles through the Rockies, all for the love of music.
Nibble tickler
Finally, Eric Vaarzon Morel's fingernails are tough as nails and yetu00a0 nibble as a ballerina's feet. Perhaps it is the love of a Flamenco guitarist for open strings that results in he loves integrating Western and traditional forms and creating 'Flamenco de hoy' or today's Flamenco. The man, heard in theatres of Holland, will finally be seen in Delhi with three others. And none of them will get out of this unscathed, without influencing each other.
Today at Ball Room, Radisson Hotel
Timings 8pm onwards
