GUITAR TONE OF THE SUN PT. II

It's obvious I'm going to return to guitars in a million different ways: riffs, styles, solos, interplay, tones and all that. But I'd like to mention one piece right now, as a corollary to the previous post on this awesome, solar guitar sound I was talking about. Funny enough, this track by Space Opera doesn't even employ that precisely played, but highly distorted, harnessed-fire sound built by McLaughlin, Fripp, Duhig, and currently developed by Tim Green. If anything, Space Opera's sound is more generally categorized into "country rock," like the Byrds, Poco or CSN. Their guitar sound usually features more 12-strings than Les Pauls. However, on "Over And Over" they pull out the guitar stops unlike few tracks I've ever heard. If last post's Jade Warrior piece was a noble sail to the infinite horizon, this Space Opera track is a southwestern stellar supernova. The first firework goes off at around a-minute-and-a-half and then the piece proceeds to peak and peak, yes, over and over, for the next four minutes. Those are four ecstatic and astonishing minutes.

Space Opera -- Over And Over