Dave Wirth
Anyone familiar with My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" probably enjoys the sound of dense textures. Indeed, when My Bloody Valentine came to Dallas last year, they played 15 minutes of the loudest noise I've ever heard. I have no idea how anyone could go through that concert without earplugs. My Bloody Valentine is happy to create thick sounds, and playing power chords with open strings can help anyone begin to approach doing this.
Imagine creating any chord progression with power chords. The open strings, if played as open during the chord progression, will add a texture that will ring and fly over the power chords. Basically, you take a regular chord progression and refuse to mute the High E, B, or G strings. The result is that you will create this ringing sound that approaches what My Bloody Valentine can do. It gets even more intense to do this with a reverb or delay pedal. Make sure to pick one with reverse echo or reverse reverb (my favs, but I am biased).
