Damn that man was funky!
Anybody play any of his stuff?
I had something of a EUREKA!!!!!!!! moment recently when playing Reuben's Train for a few hours straight when I started finding "Make Lulu Behave herself" in there.
I don't know the words for what's going on, but (I think) one of his tricks, it seems, is snapping (to borrow a term from the Briggs' book) the first string with the left hand after dropping histhumb to the second string...I think that makes sense.
Index on first string, thumb second, snap first string with left hand, hit first with index.
Anybody else have any insight into Smith's amazing playing?