Thanks guys, and thanks to Kenny for the BT.
However, this was really not about me, but the vibrato I use. I saw 10cc once when I was young, and hated the way Eric Stuart, (Stewart - can't remember) did that very shaky 'along the string' vibrato. I then realised that that was how I was playing. A local blues guitarist, Len Frame, showed me the basis of his technique. I suppose it's a medium paced sideways movement emanating from the wrist, with the hand doing little else than anchoring the string.
To me it was a much more musical sound than I'd been getting and I practiced doing that with downward bends, I couldn't do it without a bent string because my fingers wouldn't make the same movement on a straight note for some reason, and I didn't have the finger strength for upward bends.
As regards chords, I usually do add a little 'salt' if it's a chord I'm fretting with only one or two fingers, and every now and then I'll do something fancy with a barre chord.
I hope that my post will be of some help, as it's rare that I feel that I can offer anything to the forum in the way of tips on playing etc.
Ian
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