Using a slow, deep and dangerous-sounding baseline for several bars, he led up to the lyrics, and then broke into Anita Ward's disco hit, "Ring My Bell." But it doesn't sound anything like hers instead it is smoldering and ominous. To accomplish this, he continually does interesting and original things with his guitar and arrangements. "Yeah, I got to be Malcolm Young for one night," he remembers.Īlthough some songs are recognizable when Nesbit plays, others have been so thoroughly customized that he has created an entirely new creature. "When I find talented people I extract as much information as I can," he explains, taking advantage of any learningĪ highlight of his career was performing a fundraising show with AC/DC. as a youth with a music instructor who taught Nesbit about music theory, as well as giving him a healthy dose of philosophy and politics. Nesbit got his start by training on the guitar as a child, but he seems to have picked up his best tricks from life. "Sometimes I'm just wallpaper sometimes ?Ray the Entertainer' comes out," he explains. From families to partiers, the Snook clientele changes from season to summer and from dinner hour to nighttime. The crowd at the Snook varies, he says, and Nesbit plays to whoever is there. Later he plays the Dave Matthew Band's "Crush" and an old Men at Work tune, "Down Under." He plays the songs but does not imitate his presentation is always customized. With one foot madly working the looper, he creates a multidimensional backdrop for the vocals of David Gray's "Babylon." A few moments later, he succumbs to a child's request to hear America's "Sister Golden Hair." In fact, Nesbit plays a lot like the way great chef's cook never uses a recipe. Don't try to anticipate what he's going to do on any given night he hasn't figured it out himself. Rather than becoming tired, like an old hat, he continually re-invents himself and never performs the same show twice. Still playing on Marco, Nesbit now appears Friday and Sundays at the Snook Inn. "I got my start on Marco Island at Rookies' happy hour." "I guess I've played every place on Marco at least once," Ray Nesbit muses, reviewing his musical career.
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