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Dave "Sully" Sullivan Knocks Their Socks
Off - 3/29/02
Sully has been a good pickin’ buddy of mine for over
four years, now - but, I’ve never allowed myself the pleasure of just
sitting back and listening to him play - for hours. I had that
opportunity this past Friday evening as he played an official gig at
Scotty McBean’s Coffee House - the place in Worthington, Ohio where we
host our Tuesday evening club jams. And, he knocked me and the other
patrons off our feet…. He is a deceivingly good guitar player…
Better so than a lot of local professionals I have heard. And, he got to
proved it last Friday night.
For three and a half "solid" hours he played
his smooth clean repertoire of Atkins, Reed, Morgen, Kluge, and latin
composers arrangements. All of his tunes are complex movements of
walking bass, rhythm, and syncopated melodies that transcended the wide
age gap of patrons that were present. Old and young alike seemed to
understand the mastery he possesses for playing that gorgeous Kirk Sand
guitar. Take Five, Struttin’, If Palmer Only Had a Brain, 50 Cents
Will Buy You a Cup of Coffee, Stompin’ At the Savoy, several Latin
tunes I can’t pronounce, Swedish Rhapsody, Beetle medleys (favorites
of the younger crowd present) were among the many tunes he played that
evening.
Folks, there is a reason that Sully doesn’t play
with a Band-in-a-Box or drum/bass machines ---- he doesn’t need them.
He plays the melody of his tunes with a couple of his fingers - the only
other accompaniment he needs is the rest of those fingers - and, he uses
every one of them…
Written by one proud buddy - Palmer Moore
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