The instrument was too heavy and awkward for her to carry. But it’s still a good read. Talented, British, screamingly white and full of piss and vinegar.
““She’s no hyper-technician,” Gore wrote, “but the 90-pound native of Dorsetshire renders her tough and ingenious riffs with enough violent emotion to make Tarantino flinch.”
It’s so fat and revolting. I just love the way the bottom string is tuned so low it flops like a washing line.”
— P.J. Harvey
She is also an innovator, occasionally utilizing an all-A tuning inspired by a roadie’s stories of the Gary Glitter Band.
“On my last tour, my guitar roadie was talking about Gary Glitter, who he’d worked with,” Harvey told us. “He said the Glitter Band tuning was all strings to A, so I tried it out.”
Harvey called the sound “so fat and revolting. I just love the way the bottom string is tuned so low it flops like a washing line.””
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