High & Lonesome

My friends regularly laugh about my eerie (!) status message in I.M.s and ask about what is this Samba thing! I humbly answer “yes, why can’t we all just do it?”

Truly more than a single tune or a song this means much much more to me. I have around 20-30 versions of this work of art, once tried to write down about my best feelings and deleted the document as words are incompatible to explain Steve Kimock’s guitar sound.

Steve Kimock is recognized as the guitar monk and knew/known as the favourite unknown guitarist (courtesy Jerry Garcia). My friend Rushi says his guitar sound leads to the path of truth in a myriad mysterious way. He might be true…

There is a distinctive mark in Kimock’s playing; I am much unaware of the technical glittery of music world yet I believe listening Kimock in a concert is some kind of uplift of your spirit. He is not a stunner. He does not play faster than light. But Kimock is a creator. And like any other creator he thinks and makes affection before creating his thoughts through sound. He chooses (rather selects) meticulously his notes from the frets but it is like a waterfall model which is continuously flowing. I feel his lyric-less lyrical ballads possess an infinite journey, they continue beyond his starting or ending.

And finally the phenomenal sound…his comment goes "It doesn't matter what you're trying to do, or what you think you're doing. All that matters in the end is what's coming out of that speaker."

Kimock might not be selected among the best guitarists by the Rolling Stone magazine, but that is the utmost reverence; he should not be featured in a ranking system, as he is beyond.

Enough said, how about a TonguenGroove?
Forgive the crowd noise.