Enthusiasm for Hendrix' technical ability - Those under (edit: 80)...who's your guitar hero?

corsair wrote:

grogg wrote:Corsair - how old are you really?

Cheeky sod! Younger than Barry. mate... younger than Barry!!...

Swine kiwi player! Everyone is younger than me!
"Get on the cart."
"But I'm not dead!"

Dan Gatton was one of the best unknown players around.

Kind of like Lenny Breau, who was a jazz genius, and lived for a while in my little town. He would play little venues around town - had lots of personal issues. But he had a real quiet understated style, unbelievably complex - influencing guys like Randy Bachman who incorporates jazz into some of his stuff (eg,Blue Collar). Anyway here's Breau:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=limCRMZD1Ec&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZKUcGTmvos&feature=related

... and with Chet Atkins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsB8lFwfKyA&feature=related

and a documentary on Breau:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9SvTtaQLC4&feature=related

more docu, with the song Bouree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My78PblnVhU&feature=related

Watching his right-hand harmonics reminds me of Buckethead, actually.

Wiki on Lenny Breau:

Breau was born August 5, 1941, in Auburn, Maine. The Breau family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1957, and their new band travelled and performed around the city and province as the CKY Caravan. Their shows were broadcast live on Winnipeg's CKY on Saturday mornings from various remote locations.^[2][3] One of their regular listeners was Randy Bachman, who was sixteen years of age at the time. On one occasion Bachman bicycled to a Caravan performance in his West Kildonan neighborhood and ended up meeting Breau. Breau and Bachman soon became friends, and Breau informally began teaching Bachman, who has since described those lessons as "...the beginning of my life as a guitar player."

Around 1959 Lenny Breau left his parents' band and sought out local jazz musicians, performing at Winnipeg venues including "Rando Manor" and the "Stage Door". He met pianist Bob Erlendson, who began teaching him more of the foundations of jazz. In 1962 Breau left for Toronto and soon created the jazz group Three with singer/actor Don Francks and Eon Henstridge on acoustic bass.^[2][3]

Three performed in Toronto, Ottawa, and New York City. Their music was featured in the 1962 National Film Board documentary Toronto Jazz, and they recorded a live album at the Village Vanguard in New York City and appeared on US network television on the Jackie Gleason and Joey Bishop shows.^[2] Returning to Winnipeg, Breau became a regular session guitarist recording for CBC Radio and CBC Television, and contributed to CBC-TV's Teenbeat, Music Hop, and his own Lenny Breau Show.^[3] To many Canadians, Breau's jazz is still an evocative memory of the sound of CBC in the sixties.

In 1963 and 1964 Breau appeared at David Ingram's Fourth Dimension at 2,000 Pembina Highway in Fort Garry, a suburb of Winnipeg.^[2] Every Sunday night was a hootenany open to all. Another regular at the club on Sunday Nights at the same time was Neil Young and his band with Vancouver CKNW's Rick Honey as his drummer.
Breau's fully matured technique was a combination of Atkins and Travis fingerpicking and Sabicas-influenced flamenco, highlighted by extraordinary right hand independence and flurries of artificial harmonics. His harmonic sensibilities were a combination of his country roots, classical, modal, Indian, and especially jazz, particularly the work of pianist Bill Evans.
In 1967, recordings of Breau's playing from The Lenny Breau Show had found their way into the hands of Chet Atkins. The ensuing friendship resulted in Breau's first two LP issues, Guitar Sounds from Lenny Breau and The Velvet Touch of Lenny Breau. Live! on RCA.^[4][5]

oh, and so far, Rolf Harris is our best Didgeridoo (sic) player!!

...although this guy gives him a run for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g592I-p-dc

yeah; sorry, Barry..

I've listened to jazz for years, including Breau, Carlton, Burrell, Montgomery, Travers, Farlow and many many others - their knowledge of their craft in unsurpassed and their skill in playing their chosen form leaves most rock players for dead. They are always inspirational, but then I find inspiration in anyone that can do something well; I like watching tradesmen work at their trade, particularly engineers on a lathe...

Randy Bachman would be one of the most criminally under-rated rock guitar players of all time; I love his work with the Guess Who - clever, clever stuff and rocks well hard!!

DuoFuzz wrote:Did you mean THIS Grogg? Awesome isn't it, sadly no video so you cant see Gabriela's strumming style, it's jaw dropping!

Then there is their version of STAIRWAY and their own tracks TAMACUN and DIABLO ROJO.

Unbelievable technique!

DAN.

I was bought their first album when it came out and took the first opportunity to see them, her technique is a one off. She talks about flamenco style but has created her own. Really worth seeing live just to watch those fingernails go.

'Bin followin' along with interest...you know, from my rocking chair on the porch as I eat my gruel and watch the cars go by. That's what we old folk do...

I've been silent 'cuz other more energetic types have already highlighted most of the folks I've looked to fer inspiration over the years. Anaerobe I think has covered off the Canadian players pretty well, and I'm particularly pleased to see Lenny Breau on the list. He's tucked away in my record collection and needs to be retrieved and played more---by everyone!

Can't recall if Russell Malone was mentioned already (this thread is getting so-o-o long!) but he's certainly talented and shmooth (he was Diana Krall's original guitar player). You can find him on that YouTube thingy.

Colin James continues to be a player I enjoy, and try to rip off both musically and vocally---he's one hell of a singer and plays everything from pop to blues to rock and big band with alarming ease. Randy Bachman of course has that jazzy streak in him that he has translated so well to the pop work he did with Guess Who and BTO. Very tastey stuff.

Also already mentioned is my all time favourite jazz player, Kenny Burrell. He's just so damn good and I was lucky enough to see him live in a small club setting a thousand years ago when I was about 18 or 19 (probably underage in the club too!). A couple of my band buddies were with me and it was not long after Kenny's incredible album, Guitar Forms, had been released. I requested Greensleeves, a cut from the album. After I made the request I suddenly realized that he may not be able to play it since on the recording he begins with a classical guitar in a traditional vein, then shifts gears into a jazz version on his electric archtop. I figured it was tracked in and I felt suddenly dumb for asking.
But, damned if he didn't play the thing just like the recording! Picked up a classical guitar from nowhere, did the traditional intro, then, as his side men shifted into the jazz beat he switched guitars and blew us all away! Loved him ever since. What a talent.

There are so many influences, I could be lost here all night and still not remember them all, and I probably go back further than most here. The greats have already been mentioned and I would also include guys like Buddy Holly, Bo Diddley, The Everly Brothers, even Dwayne Eddy(!) as having influenced me in me yute.

I was also fortunate enough to see Bo DIddley live, also in a small setting. He had a couple o' dynamite chicks in leather with him as I recall, who were major distractions. Nonetheless, he did do that "shave and a haircut, two bits" riff on a big red box guitar, probably a Gibson or Gretsch, and of course sang "Bo Diddley". Major rhythm monster influence.

Oh, lest I fergit, John Lee Hooker...especially his earlier stuff. Very primal, earthy blues--rubber inner tube strips nailed to a barn door. Got ya right here, ya know? Taught this (then) young white boy a thing or two about the blues. Also saw him perform in a small club. I remember the experience more than the specifics. But he was an influence.

Man, there was a lot of good music happening in Toronto in the 60's. Great blues. Great Jazz. Great pop. Great folk. He reminisced.

And hey, who didn't play air guitar to every damn James Burton and Scotty Moore lick while pretending to be Elvis?
Or was that just me?

Barry,

That was an energetic display, many thanks. Loved Bo Diddley and that good ol' square guitar he found later in his career. I used to watch him on the Midnight Special, saturday nights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=979rwnVPG4A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loh_btKJjZU&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_BNz_B1PNg&feature=related

Kind of a proto-metal feel to this stuff.

anaerobe wrote:Barry, That was an energetic display, many thanks..

...considering his age and decrepitude, it surely was!! However, he has a point - well, actually he has a few good uns! - but how in the name of poo could we forget Scotty Moore!!!??? Good call, mate

Here's old Scotty... I couldn't find a lot of him playing his stuff, and when I did he was with Knopfler, or Albert Lee, or (fill in name of great):

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=715920658

Is this officially the longest thread?

No idea Grogg, but listen to this... Sister Rosetta Tharpe (the solo is worth the price of admission):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ

She didn't hold back on that solo did she, really gave that SG a good workout. Great stuff!

Give these a shot:

Memphis Minnie - Looking The World Over

Bukka White - Poor Boy Along Way From Home - Check out that slide!

Big Bill Broonzy - See See Rider

Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang - Deep Minor Rhythm Stomp

DAN.

DuoFuzz wrote:...Lonnie Johnson...

That triggered a reminder of one of my buddy Glenn's fav's, Lonnie Mack and "The Wham of that Memphis Man! Just a wild and crazy sound on a Flying V that's unforgetable.

This thread is never going to end, is it! (It is good though )

DAN.

DuoFuzz wrote:This thread is never going to end, is it!...

No.
We haven't named every guitar player in the universe yet.

Its not the naming so much as the education... I suspect a some of us are learning a great deal. Me, for example.

Duofuzz, Grogg, Corsair et al., are a collective wellspring.

BTW I thought the playing of Bill Broonzy is magic.

Dan, was that a National that Booker White is hammering on? And what the Sam Hill is that slide? Looks like the product of a sparkler having rodgered an omnibus! But it sounds right.

While his playing is not quite up to Broonzy or White, he may have the _best name_ in Blues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tOpyipNJs&feature=related

Leadbelly.



In the best robotic players section - this guy controls a machine that plays a guitar (again a poor National at the bottom of this conflaguration?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Db4B93R4PI&feature=PlayList&p=752636AB768FF28D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=16

Yeah, Leadbelly may not have been the most gifted of players but he definitely had feeling. You can learn a solo or a complete tune note for note perfectly, but if you get the emotion right it just sounds lifeless.

Best blues names? Howlin' Wolf! - Spoonful + Smokestack Lightnin' - A big scary looking guy and that voice. I'm sure if the Devil is real he'd sound like this!

We should stop that robot guitarist guy getting a patent taken out on that thing. It can do the alternating pick and strum stuff better than me! If it ever goes into production the fiddlers will rise and we'll all be doomed, DOOOOOOMMMMED!

DAN.

Enjoyed Big Bill Broonzy (enjoyed all the above), dont think Ive heard him before or if I have it was so long ago.
Amazing what you can develop when youve got the natural talent and aptitude, unlike me.

Here's a bunch from around the spectrum - Hair and flash vs energy and Punk vs great finger picking ability on acoustic.

Rik Emmett from Triumph (out of Toronto circa 1977) - Gil Moore is the singer in this one, plays drums - "Little Texas Shaker". Moore was better than Emmett IMHO, way more raw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MSEWq33phk&feature=related

.. and "Rock and Roll Machine", Emmett plays a wicked slide to get things rolling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNhw1Ln9g4o&feature=related

++++++++++++++++++

And one of my favorites - just because the guy had tone with that old Ricky 330 - Paul Weller revisiting the Batman theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXmPEsuipUw

.. and "In the City" live - which is more frantic than the album version - brilliant, epic, unique band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipGhzrIi3s


++++++++++++++++++++++

Muriel Anderson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELRGB9ghOas
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9197001692208155910#docid=-4427829606365376954

Triumph ROCK! I'd never heard of them before but I'm gonna hunt around for their stuff now. I'm learning something new everyday on here.

I'm loving the fact he's using a Framus 'F' hole semi to rock out on, the amount of kids today that think you can only play rock or metal on a pointy guitar with high gain pickups and a Floyd Rose really bugs me. Show them George Thorogood or Ted Nugent and they can't understand how or why they would play rock on "a crappy old jazz guitar", bloody kids .

I think this 60's/70's era of rock is amazing and I've been trying to learn some of my favorites, so I thought I'd put a few up here to see what you think of them.

Jo-Jo Gunne - Run Run Run
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Budgie - Breadfan - Metallica did a great cover of this in 1988
Nazareth - Bad Bad Boy
Wishbone Ash - Blowin' free
Atomic Rooster - Devil's Answer
Justin Hayward & John Lodge - Blue Guitar - A bit more laid back this one, but still a great tune.

I'll stop there before I get carried away.

DAN.

My goodness; there are some names there I haven't listened to in a while!! I've covered loadsa Golden Earring tunes in the past and one of my faves is "She flies on strange wings" and of course the obligatory "Radar love" - great great band, still going to this day AFAIK....
"Forever Autumn" was one of my solo spot numbers for a while; and I think everyone's had a go at "Knights in white satin" - wonderful tunes!

Was that Budgie cover on Garage Inc.? The band I was in at the time covered 3 tunes from that record; hell, it was a beauty; certainly the best they'd done since the black album... but then I'm old and reckon there's been no good music written since 1979...

If you intersted in slightly offbeat stuff, have a listen to Steeleye Span; they did old English folk tunes with a rock'n'roll sensibility... well I like 'em!! "All around my hat" would be a good song to start with...

America wrote some very pretty songs that aren't exactly the easiest to play - I struggle with the licks in "Ventura highway" to this day for some reason and "Sister Goldenhair" is a must for a rockband... plus it gave me another chance to do a bit of lapsteel work!!

If you listen to "Love hurts", right at the beginning , you can hear the power amplifiers hum just before the song actually starts - way cool and Manny Charlton is another under-rated player; like Mick Box out of Uriah Heep; "Stealin'" is a good song for a covers band, too....

Budgie was a mighty good band, forgot about those guys.

So was Nazareth - loved "Hair of the Dog" the best, of many great songs, ground-pounding tone on the album version, but here's a live take:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ66UO-iKpc&feature=related

John if you can play America properly my son, I may need to book a ticket to Fiordland or Dunedin or summat, just to witness it.

Good god! I completely forgot about America. They're one of them bands that escape me for years but I remember the tunes as soon as I hear them! The Eagles spring to mind when I hear them, and reminds me of similar bands around that time like Bread (Guitar Man) amongst others.

I decided to buy a Doobie Brothers 'best' of CD a little while ago and I must have played on my IPod constantly for a week!
Long Train Running and Listen To The Music are the obvious choice here.

DAN.

anaerobe wrote:...if you can play America properly my son, I may need to book a ticket to Fiordland or Dunedin or summat, just to witness it.

I can play most of their big ones note for note, - America tunes should be high on a dance bands set list - but Ventura Highway gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies for some reason; I know what the notes are, I know where I should play 'em ... and of course those licks go right through the song! *sigh*

The Eagles.. well, they're very skilled players, no question, but they're also very clinical and antiseptic... unless you're talking about the earlier stuff that has Bernie Leadon doing the writing: that stuff rocks!

I used to do a solo set within the bands' gig and would 3 or 4 numbers on acoustic guitar; "If" was always in there... pick out a pretty girl in the audience and sing it straight to her...worked every time! I kid you not... every time! Others I used to do were "Angie", "Classical Gas", "As tears go by", "Hillbilly child" - my show off piece; "look at me look at me!" Prat!! - "Roads to Moscow", "Tar and cement", "Rag doll" and "Under the Southern Cross". I've also been known to do "Cows with guns" or "I'm an asshole" for giggles...

I'll tell you, working on acoustic numbers tightens your technique really quite quickly...

corsair wrote:...I'll tell you, working on acoustic numbers tightens your technique really quite quickly...

Right on. For what it's worth, I made a similar observation in a recent post in the GG Forum. Great minds, eh?

For years I've been trying to get my Strat-playin'-pervert band buddy to get an acoustic (mainly for that reason). He never showed interest. Then two weeks ago he finally tried my Vantage VW150...and loved it! Raved about the neck and the sound, etc. And that was before I adjusted the bridge saddle!
I thought I'd converted him, but alas, no.
Pity.

So...all youse kids out there, listen to yer Uncle Corsair. Get an acoustic to go wif yer 'lectric. It really does make you play better and more cleanly, and if you sing as well, it's a must!

corsair wrote:...The Eagles.. well, they're very skilled players, no question, but they're also very clinical and antiseptic... unless you're talking about the earlier stuff that has Bernie Leadon doing the writing: that stuff rocks!...

I have great respect for their singing harmonies, but the current band sucks without Don Felder, Joe Walsh's slide work notwithstanding. Steuart Smith is very good but as you say, "clinical" in his execution.

anaerobe wrote:Budgie was a mighty good band, forgot about those guys...

Geez this thread is stirring up old memories! The mention of Budgie triggered a band that I just loved back in the 70's called Hummingbird.
I don't think they ever went mainstream pop but there was a fanatical following including the likes of yours truly and my band buddy, Glenn. I only have their stuff on vinyl and my turntable system hasn't been hooked up in a long while, but it's time to bring these guys back to life!

From Wikipedia (the source of all truth and light):

Hummingbird were a British rock band, formed in 1974 by Bobby Tench of The Jeff Beck Group and Streetwalkers fame. Hummingbird recorded three successful albums, released by A&M using Ian "Sammy" Samwell as their record producer.

The original line up included members of the second Jeff Beck Group, vocalist and guitarist Bobby Tench, keyboardist Max Middleton, bassist Clive Chaman, drummer Conrad Isidore and second guitarist Bernie Holland. At the start of sessions for their first album they were joined by Jeff Beck for a brief period but he did not contribute to the album and left to work on his own project.

After the first album Bernie Holland was replaced by guitarist Robert Awhai and drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie replaced Isidore on the next two albums,vocalists Madeline Bell and Liza Strike were brought in to compliment the band. They found success mainly in the USA, also in Europe and Japan.

Just an outstanding band with incredible grooves. Still holds up.

Good gravy, I can't read fast enough to keep up - you guys must be drinking gallons of coffee, or Guiness, or summat....

John (or Barry, Dan, Steve, Frenchy, Grogg etc etc), if you have a good source for the tabs for "Classical Gas", I would be in your debt - I really love that tune.

Yikes! Another guy I really loved, Mason Williams!

He was such a talented guy, way beyond Classical Gas. I remember watching him on the Smothers Brothers show, and I used to "cover" his funny and extremely clever The Last Great Waltz when I was a teacher(!) The kids loved it! (So do I. I still play it once and awhile...on acoustic, thank you very much!)

(I think you can find yer tabs on that Internet thingy)

Ah... let me clarify a bit. The quality of tabs varies from pretty good to absolute crap that's often just plain wrong. So, if someone has scanned sheet music (best) or a good "tried and true" tabs version of Classical Gas, I would appreciate the upload.


And what the hay, here's classic Mason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mguzKze1sYo

...and the hyperactive version, Tommy Emmanuel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX0eTp7SoNU&feature=related

I can do you the one I worked out all those years ago; I've performed it for 25 years and no-ones ever pointed out any glaring problems with it!! It may be missing a few grace notes and the like but it's pretty bloody good!!

Mason also wrote "Cinderella Rockefella" for Avi and Esther Ofarhim (sp) which was a (pretty awful) hit in the 60's but is full of exotic chord sequences, as you'd expect from Williams!! I've got that worked out too!!

Have a listen to this and see what you reckon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3pBnw0O-kI

.. a very long time ago I started working this out and just recently finished tabbing it; I've got the full tune as an .mp3 if anyone's interested...

Corsair, you are the dogs plums. Would like your version, old horse. THANKS!!

One thing leads to another on this thread. Mention of the Eagles sent me scurrying to youtube for a reminder; yep, some of their stuff was "antiseptic" but fantastic songwriters.

And the Eagles linked to Jackson Browne... I'd almost forgotten that at 18 I wore out the vinyl of "Late for the Sky." Then bought a car and wore out the cassette too. Awsome song. 30+ years later and I still can't work out what the lyric is about but who cares. "Running on Empty" still sounds good. Not sure about Mr Browne's efforts to capture his lost youth though, looks like his plastic surgeon had a sense of humour

norfolkngood wrote:Mention of the Eagles sent me scurrying to youtube for a reminder; yep, some of their stuff was "antiseptic" but fantastic songwriters.

My goodness; I feel SO old - I go to iTunes and have a listen to whatever it is that someone has mentioned!! Funny, though - with one exception I have something by everyone mentioned so far; the exception being the White Stripes - just don't like 'em.

The Eagles are a strange bird; I really like the music they did with Bernie Leadon as front man; he had a bluegrass sensibility that I dig! When Walsh and Schmit came on board, they seemed to be , well, going through the motions for the most part with a "Look at me, look at me!!" sort-of vibe happening?! All very late-70's So-Cal ennui...

That said, "the Last resort" is very high on my repeat list, along with "Journey of the sorceror"!!

Hmm.... we're in a lull...maybe the Eagles did it to us.

Anyway....

This goes back to when the only TV on Saturday night was Hockey night in Canada and Don Messer's Jubilee. Don played a mean reel, back in the day - sorry this is guitar free stuff, but please check out the crazy tap-dancin' dude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNCyddtqZEU&feature=player_embedded#t=12

I found this kid on YouTube a while ago, it's a bit random but it is guitar related and I'm sure some of you must have heard of him. His name is Zack Kim and while he may not be to every one's taste, his playing technique and ability blows me away.

Zack Kim - The Simpsons theme tune & Every Breath You Take

How his mind can work out all the mental calculations is beyond me? My feeble brain cells would have evaporated in a small mushroom cloud three seconds after trying to learn it!
And as for using a looping pedal, There is many a time I've been near a mental breakdown after spending way to long laying down a cool riff and then wrecking it as I try - and fail - to record a harmony over the top of it. Better still, hitting the wrong button and wiping everything off! Aaaagggghhhh *BOOM*

DAN.

Brings a whole new dimension to "playing with yourself".

Saw Jeff Beck last night, f. me, awesome awesome awesome. Was a one off gig without his usual band, was with the Imelda May band, what a voice shes got, the rest of the guys were fab. Played all sorts of stuff inc covers of Shadows, Elvis .... Finished the night with his spine tingling rendition of "Over the Rainbow".

Never been to the Millenium Dome before but can thoroughly recommend the Indigo2 venue, the sound was superb from my position, so often horrible in large venues not designed for music.

I hate you!

Hey Grogg - well done. You get the lucky sod of the week award!!

Was this it - the first song is Apache - way cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jgG8U9En6g&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg4O0QqvBGI&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNKMGLrNI4&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwDfXMkPog&feature=related

Just how old is that man anyway?! Just ..WOW!! And he looks like he's enjoying himself, too which most these days don't - what a ripper show!! I'm well envious...

Anearlobe - Yes thats the one, sorry for the delay, been on the road. Hes got to be well into his sixties.
The Mrs hates me as well cos I went on my own - was working in the London area, just by chance of course.

The only problem for me was that you could only buy a ticket with an Amex card, presumably JB got a kickback for that. I bought mine on the grey market and with fees paid 4 times the face value, worth every penny tho.

Apart from his inventiveness and the depth of tonal variation he gets what I love about JB is the clarity of every note. If you listen to him playing along with others like Clapton the difference is quite stark.

Fellas,

it's incredible, what you all found and posted. Kept my busy for a while. Thanx for that.
Widened my horizon for good music, but also proofed,
there are a few things which should be better forgotten and kept under the carpet.
Mostly stuff from the mid 70's and early 80's.
But everyone has a different taste...

H.

After stepping back from this for a while, I have realized that I had neglected to add a few favourites:

Steve Howe's "Mood for a Day" is an amazing song, one of the best memories of my youth as I struggled to play it (Howe's facial expressions are pretty intense in this vid):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiA1XBXAE6U&feature=related

Rockier stuff is Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet ride":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwDa5dMmfZ4

Oops, try this one. Michael Monarch plays some great backing chords. Dig the bassist's clothing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxFu7taftE&feature=related

Ted Nugent was a fair (a bit repetitive) soloist and a decent writer - and totally politically incorrect, of course, as always:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYOV8uu17t0

Then there's John Petrucci - how the hell could we miss him and or Dreamtheatre :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMYeXkYcgs

and actually a song with him in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8pUqln36po


Too sleepy to add vids for the others that I wanted to elaborate on, including:

Jerry Garcia

Rory Gallagher (mentioned I know)

Dave Navarro

Alan Holdsworth

Andy Summers

and Dick Dale beats the snot out of his strat (Misirlou). One should always take the time needed to finish up with a good Strat beating! :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UmmbF1Zyvk




Best,
Ian

Damn... I was headed for bed, but forgot to add Paco de Lucia. He is solid as he can be in this vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdE0-aiuZuM&feature=related

and this, non-shabby display:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYkz30RL_GU&feature=related

and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0iEVh4qBmI&feature=related

Agree with most but I've always found Petrucci a bit of a yawn - one of the "How many 64th notes can I whack in here?!" types; there's no denying the man is skilful but... meh! And Nugent is pretty much a self-parody nowadays, but god, his live shows are the best - loud, non-PC and a head-bangers' delight!
Have you got Paco, John McLaughlin and Al Di Meolas' "Friday night in San Francisco"? It has never failed to uplift my spirits, eh....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ypeZ6R-t0

My personal hero is a NZer - James Wilkinson - and this is the only thing of his I've found on YT....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQV2SfpBYHY

...I urge you to watch how he does this!!

Anaerobe wrote

Then there's John Petrucci - how the hell could we miss him and or Dreamtheatre :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMYeXkYcgs

That's the funniest video I've seen in a long time, "when I flick this switch I go into kill zone mode.....when I shred people die, instantly....it's pretty amazing to see" . Hats off to the guy that overdubbed this!

I love the classical stuff, I try to practice on my nylon strung on a regular basis. I'm never going to be as good as Paco but it's great for sharpening up your fingerstyle technique and good for blowing out the cobwebs if your stuck in one of them playing ruts.

And as for Ted Nugent, I've been getting back into his earlier stuff. I know he's a bit of a gun totting nutcase and is seen as a joke to many people but he has some great and surprisingly heavy riffs, and IMHO he's not bad at soloing either. I'll not bother putting up another Nugent song but I did find this fine public safety announcement starring Uncle Ted.

If there are any keyboard players out there of a sensitive disposition, please look away now, you have been warned!

Ted Nugent: Making The World Safe For Guitarists.

DAN.

DuoFuzz wrote: I know he's a bit of a gun totting nutcase and is seen as a joke to many people

...yeah; dickheads like him do nothing for the responsible and everyday hunters amongst us, eh! He comes across as believing his own publicity a bit much... that said, "Cat scratch fever" is a good 'un!!

That Kiwi fellow Wilkinson is gooooooooood. I wondered why in that vid they simply didn't just leave the camera on the guy, skip all the corny train stuff.

:idea:

Ditto, who needs a wammy.

Corsair,
Who was the bass player Al Di Meola used to play with who seemed to be just as fast?
Heres an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atz9vzTAUh0
Grogg