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Carvin Guitars
For over 60 years, Carvin has been building high-quality guitars, basses, amps and audio gear for pro and hobbyist musicians alike.
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"Studs N' Sisters" Review Featured In ProGGnosis
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Chris Francis
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Review of "Studs N' Sisters"
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By: MJ Brady
hris Francis is perhaps one of the more versatile guitarists I have heard coming from the UK of late, he plays instrumental music that is more hard rock based, no prog, no fusion, just fairly simple melodic hard rock with an emphasis on melody and stinging licks. His styles sounds far more like that of the likes of Blues Saraceno, Nuno Bettencourt, Eddie Van Halen, all players that Chris cites as influential to his musical tastes. In other words, all three of these players are unique apart from the multitude of clones of shred guitar, in that they are gifted players that have their own voice on the instrument, that is what I hear with Chris Francis' playing, it's full of serious shred, yet always tasteful and loaded with carefully constructed melodic lines that are utilized in the same way a lead singers' voice would be.
Many of these songs, in fact all of them, could easily have had a lead singer fronting the songs, and then I would be reviewing a quality hardrock/AOR cd, but with Francis' guitar acting as the voice, we have a cd full of music that creates images and memorable melodies that will reside with the listener far after hearing the songs. Nice to hear in this day and age of speed, anger, loudness and ego, that a guitarist like Chris Francis can still take a fairly simple rock rhythm section and create instrumental music that has some taste and feel.
I think that Chris is an important player, and one the can do a lot more for the instrument in the future, not since hearing Tim Pierce's - Guitarland have I heard an instrumental cd with such good melodic playing, that has direction and feel. Check him out at his Myspace link if this review has your interest.
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