Success Is Outlined For Shaughnessy

Jay Miller
South Bend Tribune
April 29, 1992

...bassist John Leitham played his amplified acoustic instrument left-handed. This is rare. Lefties usually play right-handed. (To work properly, the instrument has to be rebuilt.) Rarer still was Leitham's unique solo technique in the high registers...Leitham's bass pizzicato technique at times sounded like a mandolin or guitar.

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