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the strings are different, three thinner ones are dark, I believe they're made of a different material and give a different sound.
I have always thought that the song referred to London’s West End and general chaos, both literally and metaphorically.
I don’t know why, but the nylon strings never seemed to work for me on the OES tour, perhaps because it was largely outside or in such large stadiums, that it lost that intimacy, but I never saw DS tour live in person, only the videos and maybe it didn't record as well (IMO)
Never told a soul by John Illsley features Mark on nylon ovation guitar :
. those first three albums, although there was an "acoustic" element, with the National Steel in Wild West End and Portobello Belle
you can add Water of love and where do you think you're going wich features a proeminent folk guitar
and also Romeo and juliet which have National arpeggios and folk rhtyhm guitar
even TOL and Hand in hand has one !
Yes, I agree that the group earning big money is much smaller, but the latter larger group is different, diverse, hard working, skilled and barely making it. This group would never have made it in the old days with demos, record companies and radio, but reach out to an audience through alternative distribution channels and methods. I am, though, a bit curious if this group is as large as I seem to claim it is, and I feel that I should be backing it with evidence.
Must be different then, because the latter group is much larger and the group that are being heard like never before and earning money like never before are much, much smaller.
My take is Mark forsees the decline of the west.
