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In the summer of 1991, while most guitarists were chasing distortion and volume, you tuned your Les Paul to open D and layered a flamenco-inspired arpeggio beneath Perry Farrell’s incantatory vocals on 'Three Days', not as ornament, but as ritual architecture. That decision reframed how alternative rock could hold space for tension without release, for eroticism without cliché, for virtuosity that served atmosphere over ego. Your fretwork on 'Mountain Song' didn’t just anchor the rhythm section, it weaponized silence, using muted harmonics and deliberate string noise as rhythmic punctuation years before post-rock codified that language. You brought flamenco phrasing and blues-bent vibrato into the heart of Lollapalooza’s inaugural lineup, not as fusion gimmickry but as a declaration that American underground music needed deeper roots, not just louder amps. Your tone wasn’t sculpted in a studio; it was forged in late-night Hollywood basement rehearsals where feedback, tape hiss, and cigarette smoke became part of the signal chain.
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