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Practically Wired

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This is the one guitar album that can rival Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop.

Bill is the best guitarist you have never heard of - unless you have several albums already - and way better than many you think are good that you have heard of!

Not that I don't rate either Satch or Vai. They just don't hold a candle to Bill in those areas (IMHO) that matter: feel, tone, emotion, communication. And where they surpass in technique it's simply irrelevent.

I know who I would want to play like, or write songs like..

Also check out any Be-Bop Deluxe. 'Air Age Anthology' is a good start.

Put simply, this is Bill just playing guitar instrumentals. Loads of sounds put together like a (musical) art-school collage. But unlike a collage where the joins detract from the work, here the juxtaposition of styles is art in its own right.

Look, just buy it!

Steve

This CD is really very good indeed. Reminds me a lot of Michael Brook's masterpiece "Cobalt Blue" or Steve Tibbet's fantasic record "YR". What is it like? Well its mostly electric guitar with some "found sounds" layered on some good rythmn tracks. The tracks flow smothly from one to the next. There is nothing here that is hard to listen too nor is it bombastic "I can play faster than anyone" material. I really like music like this and I think its Bill Nelson's best work since "The Love that Whirls" (early 80s).

I bought this album and Atom Shop a couple of months ago. Its good to see Bill is still going strong (51 this month). It reminds me of his guitar work from "Be Bop Deluxe", rather than his work in the 80's.

A great guitar album, mellows you out. I prefered it to Atom Shop, because it is more instrumental.

Recommended.

If you're one of those people who lost interest in Nelsons work over the last 6 or 8 years because he headed off into home recorded lo-fi newage territory, then welcome back! I had forgotten just how fluid and emotional Bills guitar playing was. Tracks like "Big Noise in Twangtown" and "Wild Blue Cycle" are what "this" Bill Nelson fan has been waiting for, for a long time.

I loved bill nelson for many years . I had the opportunity to meet him years ago, a down to earth great guy! but after be bop

For all you Bill Nelson fans who may have been staying way from his more recent works - come back to this album - it's gorgeous. The standout track is Pink Buddha Blues, but there's nothing wrong with any of the others!

After almost two decades of making some of the most interesting electronic music of our time, Nelson here returns to his first love, the guitar. No words, just music, and what music it is. If you are impressed with Beck, Clapton and Eddie Van Halen, then take this disc for a spin. What Nelson does with his guitar isn't so much play it and take it on trips into his incredibly creative mind. Perhaps the single most overlooked rock artist of the 80s. END