1.(n.)An unseen energy or forcesaid to be the basis of all music creativity. From pre-macedonian lore related to those that are deeply driven by musical ambition.
It must be the squank that drives those musicians to play with so muchheart and passion.
Matthew grabs a box of twinkies, he reaches his hand in the box and grabs a golden cake. Between his fingers he squeezes it softly with the gentleness with which you caress a woman’s buttocks , and he says “these bois be squank”
sound emitted from a guitar when striking the string with the pick at a slight angle: as opposed to striking with the pick aligned parallel to the string. Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top uses this technique a lot. Two good samples of this are the songs Lagrange and Squank.