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I always wondered how many chicks I could get if I could play like this....
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride And Joy - YouTube
The first time I saw Alvin, was on the cover of Guitar Player magazine with the caption, "Alvin Lee, fastest man alive!" He's really got the diddly fingers! On the song, "I can't keep from crying sometimes" off the Ten Years After Live Album, that was the first time I ever heard someone deliberately de-tune his guitar in the middle of a song! I think it was his A-string, but he tunes it down to almost a bass rift, then starts playing the theme song to Peter Gunn with it, then he tunes it back up and finishes the song. I've never even heard of anyone else doing that.Too bad you didn't get to finish the concert!!!!
I discovered Alvin Lee almost 3 years ago, while seeing the Woodstock video on Netflix. That sound moved me so much, that within two weeks I had downloaded most of everything he has done, and purchased two DVD's with him in concert. Man! I cranked the audio so loud in my car,(as usual though ) after burning his tunes onto two CD's, that people walking or driving theirs cars near me, stared. lol. I had no clue they could hear, with all the windows up.
Jimi Hendricks rocked too, at Woodstock, and until his death. Wow! What a guitarist.
In 2001 I heard Stevie Ray Vaughan, and bought one of his CDs. I like his style.
But for me, Alvin Lee, has the sound that rocks my boat. Also I like his voice and his looks. **Woot**
Are they the same Focus who does this little jewel?
Yes indeed! That's Jan Akkerman on guitar and Thijs Van Leer on flute and yodels.Are they the same Focus who does this little jewel?
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw7qS9OCAPc]Focus - Hocus Pocus - YouTube[/ame]
And I thought Ry Cooder did an amazing job with the soundtrack of this movie.
I posted this on another thread last week. Vai's hardest part was trying to figure out when to fuck up. I ran into one idiot once who tried to convince me Ry Cooder was actually playing the other part! I told him he was fuckin' nuts!Vai plays both parts so I hope this qualifies
Steve Vai- Crossroads guitar duel - YouTube
Jimi also transformed the guitar in Jazz through his influence on people like John McLaughlin and Larry Coryell.Albert King was one of Jimi Hendricks heavy influences.
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Albert King - YouTube
The electric guitar is an instrument whose history can be divided up into two eras: Before and after Jimi Hendrix. Before Hendrix it was a musical device that politely accompanied swing bands, blues, and R&B singers as well as early country & western rockers. After Hendrix, amplified guitar became more akin to Godzilla. It breathed radioactive fire and made whole cities quake whenever it put the stomp down.
Born in Seattle, Hendrix was a serious student of everybody who ever plucked a six-stringer. He loved the blues masters most of allMuddy Waters, Elmore James, T-Bone Walker, Guitar Slim, B.B. King, Freddie King, and especially Albert Kingbut he knew his jazz and country cats tooCharlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel, Glen Campbell, Scotty Moore, Chet Atkinsand the R&B kings Ike Turner, Jimmy Nolen, Curtis Mayfield, and Steve Cropper. He sponged all their styles and stole liberally, but he had sounds in his head nobody had ever thought possible on guitarjet engines, oceans, exploding suns, and planets, wounded wildebeests, weeping seagulls.
He learned his craft and earned his bones playing in R&B bands on the legendary chitterling circuit with the likes of Wilson Pickett, Little Richard, and The Isely Brothers. This left him barely fed and nearly homeless in Harlem after only a couple years of active touring. He got even broker doing his own thing in the same East Village dives that had launched the career of his songwriting and singing inspiration Bob Dylan. A former girlfriend of Rolling Stone Keith Richards introduced him to his first manager, Chas Chandler, who took him to England in 1966... and the rest is rock & roll history.
Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Pete Townsend had been mucking around with feedback, distortion, and high volume but Jimi pushed everything to extremes. The world tuned in and got turned out by how Jimi shaked, rattled, rolled, and psychedelicized those strings. Guitar wanking as we know it begins with Jimi, sad to saybut his legacy isnt built on just freestyle handjobs.
On the occasion of the 41st anniversary of his earthly transition (he died on September 18th, 1970, at the age of 27), we offer twelve exemplary reasons why Jimi Hendrix was a master composer and improviser of late 20th century American classical music.
The 12 Best Jimi Hendrix Guitar Solos | Complex
I posted this on another thread last week. Vai's hardest part was trying to figure out when to fuck up. I ran into one idiot once who tried to convince me Ry Cooder was actually playing the other part! I told him he was fuckin' nuts!Vai plays both parts so I hope this qualifies
Steve Vai- Crossroads guitar duel - YouTube
That's really a pretty good movie. I loved it when the old blues guy trashed the kids acoustic guitar with the line,
"I bet you got this guitar because it was all beat up! Man, Muddy Waters invented electricity!"
"The blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad"
For me.
I didn't know which one to put up of his, but I love love this man. His brother too. I have no words....
And live he kills it.
Take it away Johnny.
Johnny Winter _ Rock Me Baby - 88. - YouTube
