Kinks Go For Spider Sound
Keith Altham, NME, 21 January 1966
THE MYSTERIOUS Spider Korner who plays "seven" string guitar and "roams the world", is the musical influence behind the Kinks' next single, Dave Davies revealed to me in a London pub last week. "Spider is a little known American blues singer," Dave told me. "He gets these fantastically weird chords by having the extra string on his guitar."
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