[jj]

i've just been checking some old lighthead jam audio and video focusing on capo usage...you know i think it sounds pretty rich on the first fret, and true, it does bring those nice 'black key signatures' into play in a user friendly fashion

i could be mistaken but i think cathy plays ribbon of darkness in Ab and it sounds great, vocals as well as guitar...if she moved down a tad to A and played in the capo-less A D E, etc formations then i'm not sure if the voicings would suffer or how much more awkward it would be to walk up or down the A scale

thing is, i like Gb...i guess most would play in D with capo up several notches...i wonder about loosening the strings to achieve that instead...an entire dropped tuning...maybe a more appropriate string gauge is required to do that...seems like there are no limits to guitar with alt tunings and the various capos out there...i've learned much here...it's true, the piano is just plain boring, lol