"Wally" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

Brown would be more accurate.

Yuh, I think I see where you're coming frarm - kinda *warm, earthy and
natural sounding*...??

Eddie Van Halen has what he calls a 'brown' sound. I think it started with
a
Marshall amp on one of those voltage dropper resistor thingies (variac?).
It's quite distinctive - a dirty, distorted sound, but not harsh. A guy on
a
gituar group spent time (and money, no doubt) fine-tuning his set up to
get
that sound - when he posted an example of his playing, the similarity to
Van
Halen's sound was striking.



Yes, to see some of the posts here you would think that chords, continuo,
discord, distortion, 'blue notes' &c. have no place in music replay....