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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 3391 Registered: Oct-04 | |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 3392 Registered: Oct-04 | It's about time... |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1023 Registered: Jul-07 | |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1024 Registered: Jul-07 | |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 3401 Registered: Oct-04 | John Lennon (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Clapton (Lead Guitar), Keith Richards (Bass), Mitch Michell (Drums) |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 3460 Registered: Oct-04 | I need one... |
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Gold Member Username: ChitownPost Number: 1523 Registered: Apr-05 | I want that phone. |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 3470 Registered: Oct-04 | Want to see what 50+years of guitar playing can do to a man's fingers? Observe closely... |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 15454 Registered: May-04 | . Yeah, arthritis usualy gets to most hard core players, that's the bulging knuckles you see there. Tendons and attachment points get damaged too. Did you ever see a picture of Les Paul's hands in the later years? They looked like a old time baseball catcher's hands. Yet, by all accounts, he astounded everyone right until the time he said he just couldn't play up to his standards any longer. http://www.inventorsdigest.com/?p=1636 . |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 3471 Registered: Oct-04 | This might somewhat explain why Mr. Richards' guitar work has petered out over the years? ...or it could just be the combo of QualityCocaine® and ole' dad's ashes. |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 15526 Registered: Dec-04 | Explains the hands, but what happened to his head, man?!? |
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Gold Member Username: ExerciseguyFort Hamilton, NY United States Post Number: 3472 Registered: Oct-04 | http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-04-29-keithrichards_x.htm ...I'm just sayin? |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 15580 Registered: May-04 | . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twivg7GkYts |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 15585 Registered: Dec-04 | hahaha |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1169 Registered: Jul-07 | |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1170 Registered: Jul-07 | |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 15658 Registered: Dec-04 | Beyond my personal inability to listen to a diminished by age Geddy, this is my fav band. A classic power trio, and thn some. Art has stumbled across tham a few time, I have been more focused, seeing them 9 times. Nobody plays like this. For a reason. Nobody else can. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 15725 Registered: May-04 | . Jeeeeeeeezus-H-Christ! How big is that auditorium? I think it's been over twenty years since I've gone to a concert where you had to pack a lunch to get to the restrooms. . |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 15737 Registered: May-04 | . http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/in-memoriam-1229/# |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1185 Registered: Jul-07 | My dad was a huge Mitch Miller fan. I wish I still had his old records. |
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Gold Member Username: SuperjazzyjamesPost Number: 1243 Registered: Oct-10 | I agree Nuck, Geddy just isn't what he used to be. Mr. Peart's still got it though! |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 4612 Registered: Feb-07 | |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1204 Registered: Jul-07 | |
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Platinum Member Username: NuckPost Number: 15689 Registered: Dec-04 | http://www.archive.org/details/SoundAndTheS |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 15803 Registered: May-04 | . http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/top-10-covers-0112-2011/# |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 15804 Registered: May-04 | . Fifty years ago this week; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE0iPY7XGBo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY . |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 15811 Registered: May-04 | . I just sat down to listen to everything in post 15803. Deezil Zappa and Donny Osmond doing vocals?! I guess it shows the age of most of the people who put that list together but I certainly would have included "Blue Suede Shoes" as an original that was more than topped by the cover. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79CJON8fv6c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjy8EEE4tFw . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1217 Registered: Jul-07 | |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1219 Registered: Jul-07 | |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1220 Registered: Jul-07 | Albert King really does his own thing on the guitar. Strings are reversed, never uses a pick, and I think he may not use standard tuning just from how he's playing the chords.....I'll have to see if I can find that out. |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1221 Registered: Jul-07 | |
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Silver Member Username: KbearCanada Post Number: 949 Registered: Dec-06 | Ian Thornley, a great singer and guitarist: |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 15850 Registered: May-04 | . King kept his tunings a secret and probably didn't stick with just one. http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-hptb5&p=albert%20king%27s%20guitar%20strings&type= Playing a right handed guitar in the left handed position meant he was usually pulling down on the strings which are most commonly bent wide. This gave him great leverage to do big three fret bends that most righties just can't manage. His strings sets were rather conventional as far as gauge. SVR learned a good deal from King but he played exceptionally heavy gauge strings, 13's is what is normally told and his guitar tech would keep a tube of super glue on hand to repair his fingertips after nightly shows for multiple weeks. . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1222 Registered: Jul-07 | Thanks Jan. |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1230 Registered: Jul-07 | |
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Gold Member Username: MagfanUSA Post Number: 2102 Registered: Oct-07 | http://www2.choralnet.org/268945.html Some rare footage of Nuck as a youngster:: |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 4661 Registered: Feb-07 | He still does that every time he comes over. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16046 Registered: May-04 | . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwPGUmdcMtw&feature=related"target=<"_blank" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mEqEe-PIC8 . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1290 Registered: Jul-07 | Just got to these. Those are both terrific Jan. Especially Jake.....wow! |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16068 Registered: May-04 | . . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1293 Registered: Jul-07 | Nothing unbelievable here, just two gals making terrific music.... |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1294 Registered: Jul-07 | These kids are unbelievable..... |
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Gold Member Username: ChitownPost Number: 1537 Registered: Apr-05 | Where are they? In a mobile home? Great combination. Always good to see kids experimenting different instruments with different genres |
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Gold Member Username: ChitownPost Number: 1538 Registered: Apr-05 | Music of a different kind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JmA2ClUvUY&feature=player_embedded |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16072 Registered: May-04 | . This is probably only of interest to those who wish to see a classical/flamenco guitar built from start to finish. Most sections are fairly long at approx. 8-10 minutes each. If you have the interest, go grab a beverage and watch a luthier who builds an average of five instruments per year from old growth cedar. His creations sell for $5,400 and up. http://www.acousticguitar.com/article/default.aspx?articleid=26780 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etuOCHQ7phs&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KRiOFI5GiU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk_YeLf_0GM&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URr8Mc1LJNk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JmoaNhleA0&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5AaECtDwWg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8wmr-Np4s&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL . |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16079 Registered: May-04 | . Ahhhh, the pentatonic scale! The heartbeat of every blues, rock, pop and country song produced over the last century plus. If you listen to modern Western music, you've heard what Bobby Meferrin does with this scale. As you listen, think Clapton, SRV, ZZ Top, Kings of Leon and BB King since this is where their music comes from and where their music thrives; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk I recently purchased a Native American flute. What's it tuned to? The pentatonic scale, of course. This despite the fact the pentatonic scale is a purely academic product formulated by the Greeks more than two centuries ago. Obviously, the Native Americans had no contact with nor knowledge of the pentatonic scale as it existed in Bach. However, as McFerrin points out, all audiences get the pentatonic scale and complete it with their own ingrained expectations of what sounds good and how music sets up tension and then proceeds to resolve that tension. . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1299 Registered: Jul-07 | |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16081 Registered: May-04 | . Great stuff! I've been trying my hand at some Chet Atkins style Travis pickin' but it will be a long while before I can even approach that tune. I don't know if you're aware of the kinship between Atkins and Jerry Reed but they were close friends who both had a deep appreciation for Merle Travis' style of playing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhnebwE As a side note, Atkins was assigned by RCA to produce Elvis on his first few recordings after leaving Sun. Despite the fact Scotty Moore - Elvis' first guitarist and the player responsible for Sam Phillips capturing Moore and Presley playing "That's Alright Mama" during a break from a series of unsuccessful attempts by Phillips to capture the sound he expected from Elvis - held Atkins in the highest esteem as a player, Atkins pronounced Elvis a flash in the pan who wouldn't ever be a real success. Well, what the he11, Atkins knew what he liked when he produced Patsy Clines' RCA recordings. . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1300 Registered: Jul-07 | What amazed me about Atkins is how efficient he was with both hands. No excess movement, and nothing ever seems rushed. But when you listen to what he's doing it blows your mind. He just made it look so easy. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16085 Registered: May-04 | . Yeah, well, the great ones always have that ability. It is quite frustrating for the rest of us! Atkins' style which he took from Merle Travis - and what is now known as Travis picking - came originally from the Piedmont blues tradition. Unlike the deep South, Mississippi plantation Delta style blues, Piedmont (named for that area of the nation towards the Eastern coast) has more in common with a traditional Texas style of blues guitar with a "lighter" beat and a more swinging feel to the music. Think Blind Lemon Jefferson and Elizabeth Cotton instead of Robert Johnson or Charlie Patton. All three styles rely heavily on an articulate thumb which drives the beat. Once the thumb has established the forward drive to the music on the three bass strings, the top (highest octave) strings are typically dealt with using one or two fingers. Atkins was more a two (sometimes three) finger player than a single finger style as you'll see with Travis; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8vOTKMqzw4&feature=player_embedded#at=52 But Travis was unique in that he would play chords with his thumb wrapped around the neck and on a fret up the neck from his index finger. The basic style depends heavily on open strings being played in the bass. This takes a sophisticated knowledge of chords up the neck to maintain open strings played against the highest notes. So rather than move up the neck to find a pentatonic box for a solo as would Clapton, Atkins was moving around the neck to find chord shapes that sounded good with against an open "E" or "A" string played as the "root". He employed more jazz style voicings than would many "country" players with a fair amount of ninths or a little finger than reached out to form a sixth for emphasis. While his style is by no means easy to duplicate or even approach, it was carefully crafted to make the best use of the guitar neck while exerting minimal effort - minimal for someone as talented as Atkins, that is. As you watch his playing style you'll notice the majority of his "sound" comes from his two fingers on the first three strings. His thumb is locked into the beat which settles in underneath the melody played by his fingers giving the entire song the effect of more than one player. It's a highly synchopated style that's fairly easy to describe but that can be incredibly difficult to pull off with the pinache of Atkins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQC-mZivibQ&feature=related Or flip the guitar over and play it all with your finger on the bass; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdKvEiW7cWc&feature=related . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1302 Registered: Jul-07 | Interesting stuff. I'd be willing to bet there is a common cognitive capability in the top guitar players. They're really seeing the instruments models and patterns differently than we mere mortals. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16086 Registered: May-04 | . In a sense that's certainly true. I began taking guitar lessons in my early teens in the late '60's. The manner in which I was instructed to learn the instrument was vastly different than what is being taught today. For example, while many attempts had been made to codify a set of symbols which would in part substitute for the skill of reading music notation and translating that language to the function of actually playing, nothing like "TAB" was around at the time I was learning. http://readguitartabs.com/ Today, while TAB is not perfect, many players cannot read music at all and rely solely on TAB for their learning. It can easily be argued they are missing a large part of "how they see the instrument" but that is only true if they decide not to learn beyond TAB. Playing an instrument like a guitar is deceptive in that it has certain limitations when seen against other instruments such as a piano. However, due to its limitations, it is also a very versatile instrument that allows for patterns to be moved quite easiy around the fretboard. A very large chunk of learning to play well is to recognize how to exploit those regular patterns in ways that allow for that seeming "ease" that players such as Atkins and Clapton appear to possess. Another learning device which has shown up since I first began playing is "CAGED" chord forms. http://www.cagedguitarsystem.com/ When you see Atkins play, what you're seeing is his use of CAGED chord forms which rely on open strings - though no one called them a CAGED system when the style of playing was first developed. Robert Johnson's now famous turnarounds were deveoped by him seeing those up the neck chord forms that had previously not been exploited by most other players; http://guitar.about.com/od/bluesguitar/ss/robert_johnson_guitar_lesson.htm The pentatonic scale and the "blues scale" were never in my vocabulary when I was learning. Yet these are ancient, intuitive ways to combine notes just as the Bobby McFerrin video above suggests. http://www.myguitarsolo.com/sc_penta_blues.htm While these scales were at the heart of jazz and blues playing since the turn of the 20th c/, this is really what players like Clapton discovered as they listened to the mysterious sounds coming from 78's of Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Bill Broonzy, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, etc. Maybe it wasn't called the "blues scale" by those performers but it was what they knew to play to arrive at the sounds they desired. Keep in mind most of what we know as twelve note "Western" (as opposed to"Eastern" or "Oriental" 8 note scale) music was based on what the slaves brought to America and then mixed with Creole, German, Italian, Spanish, Irish and other native music styes brought into the Americas by immigrants. Much of what existed had no formal name or architecture until acamedicians felt the need to make up rules for what already was centuries old. So they took a style such as "blues" which had very few formal rules and which had never adhered to the confinements of "Western" music and created things such as "the blues scale" in order to understand what they were hearing. The more you delve into the blues, the more you see how feeble their attempts were at actually putting on paper a musical style that had been passed down for centuries only by learning from those who had come before you. I think one of the most important lessons you can learn in music is the ultimate limitation of Western style notation (which was developed by the Greeks) to include only twelve semi-tone "notes" within an octave of music. As I believe I've mentioned here before, learning guitar can be reduced to first learning single notes, then power chords which involve two notes, then triads which are made up of three notes, then the pentatonics which have five notes before you add the sixth note for the blues scale and finally the major scale which is seven notes and the octave is eighth. All Western style music derives from the major scale. Once you understand that, you should be able to play any instrument. Of course, the problem is it is so simple it can take a lifetime to learn how to use. Those who intuitively see those patterns and recognize how to exploit them are the few with those great talents. . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1304 Registered: Jul-07 | Changing gears a bit..... |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16097 Registered: May-04 | . While we're on the subject of blowing ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4tO9c7Tjis& |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16105 Registered: May-04 | . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbvTxJEiKU&feature=related |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1309 Registered: Jul-07 | |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16158 Registered: May-04 | . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw&feature=youtu.be |
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Gold Member Username: SuperjazzyjamesPost Number: 1363 Registered: Oct-10 | http://www.stereophile.com/content/Jan-Vigne-banned |
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Gold Member Username: SuperjazzyjamesPost Number: 1364 Registered: Oct-10 | I wonder if Jan still thinks I am incapable of posting links?!?!?! |
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Gold Member Username: DmitchellOttawa, Ontario Canada Post Number: 4743 Registered: Feb-07 | Here we go. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16329 Registered: May-04 | . Buddy guy's rig rundown; http://www.premierguitar.com/Video/20110621/1477/Rig_Rundown_Buddy_Guy.aspx Factory made, high quality guitars; http://www.premierguitar.com/Video/20110621/1479/Godin_Guitars_Factory_Tour_Acoustics.aspx . |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16356 Registered: May-04 | . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1359 Registered: Jul-07 | Both of my acoustic guitars are made in that Godin factory I think. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16421 Registered: May-04 | . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1407 Registered: Jul-07 | 7 String Guitar. Cool. And ya gotta love Anat Cohen! |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1408 Registered: Jul-07 | I have the cd and it's amazing both in performance and sound quality. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16465 Registered: May-04 | . I listened to Corea decades ago. His solos and Romantic Warrior periods were great for some decent demo material. Ultimately, I just couldn't pay enough attention to what he was trying to communicate to care in suffficent amounts to finish an entire album. One friend claims she'll listen to Corea when he can find someone to actually play with him. He's a good starting point for many things "jazz" though. Hang in there with him and see where it takes you, Chris. Personally, I settled on John Lee Hooker as the more interesting musician. . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1409 Registered: Jul-07 | I wasn't a big fan of Corea 20 years ago. I liked him ok, but he wasn't one of my favorites. My tastes more often drift to far simpler constructs. But I've found a couple of his newer disks far more interesting, including the new Crystal Silence disk. Gary Burton is just an amazing vibes player and is worth the price of the disk on his own. I enjoy this disk a lot. Disk 1 they play with an orchestra, which is nicely arranged. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16611 Registered: May-04 | . http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/amazing-shade-illusion-see-light-0242265 13.html or for this video and more like it ... http://www.youtube.com/user/brusspup . |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16612 Registered: May-04 | . "C.G.P." = Certified Guitar Player ... |
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Gold Member Username: MagfanUSA Post Number: 2549 Registered: Oct-07 | I know it's not musical, but if you want to go for the ride of your life: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/08/31/toyota-sets-record-with-electric-racin g-car/?test=faces |
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Gold Member Username: ChitownPost Number: 1544 Registered: Apr-05 | I'm watching this trying to figure out if I can in any way possible control that car around the bend at those speeds. The sigh in my office says it all. |
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Gold Member Username: MagfanUSA Post Number: 2550 Registered: Oct-07 | Kind of like the Dan Ryan at 0300 on a Sunday Morning! |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16719 Registered: May-04 | . Be sure to catch Rice's "Nine Pound Hammer". And, as to #1; does anyone care to debate whether a Stratocaster is the staple electric blues guitar? . |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16720 Registered: May-04 | . Great Web Finds: Johnny Cash Covers Laverne & Shirley Theme |
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Gold Member Username: MagfanUSA Post Number: 2569 Registered: Oct-07 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5r0pOwcYVY Another cover of 'Nine Pound Hammer', this one from the 1972 album, 'Will the Circle Be Unbroken' This album is a must-have for any bluegrass / country fan. It even has a couple cuts with Mother Maybelle Carter. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16723 Registered: May-04 | . OK, while we're on "Nine Pound Hammer", watch this one with Travis himself. Pay attention to what his left hand thumb does at 0':46". It's no wonder Travis has his style of playing named after him as a classsic to emulate; Travis Picking. Just when other players thought they had a leg up on Tavis he would pull something like this thumb slide out of his hat and send them all back to the porch in shame. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzr1zTzoff8&feature=related . |
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Gold Member Username: MagfanUSA Post Number: 2571 Registered: Oct-07 | Great 50s kinescope. I find it interesting how great performers change over time. Listening to the Travis cut from 'Circle' back to back with the old Kinescope really highlights the changes, and similarities. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16745 Registered: May-04 | . Happy Birthday, B.B. King ... |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16779 Registered: May-04 | . Kubek's quite the player having been around since the early '60's. But here's a very inventive use of a basic Blues Box #1 combined with repeated licks; http://guitarzoom.com/texasbluesguitar/video6/ |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1419 Registered: Jul-07 | If there is anyone more skillful on the Dobro than Jerry Douglas I'd love to hear them. And something a little more vintage..... |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16848 Registered: May-04 | . HAH! Points for that one! I haven't been overwhelmed by Clapton's last few recordings - particularly when he did a sleep walk through a night with Steve Winwood and then had the audacity to charge $30 for the DVD of that night - but this might be interesting. Despite how closely related blues and jazz are, it was still interesting to see: You can't take the blues out of a blues player You can't put the blues in a jazz player Clapton reading charts Clapton playing in a band with a banjo Layla played with horns and a clarinet Layla played on a trombone Any audience that takes over one full minute to recognize the intro to Layla Good stuff! Thanks. Now, could someone please tell me what Clapton uses on his hair? Last time I saw a video of him, his hair was shorter than K. D. Lang's. I've never seen anyone who can grow hair as fast as he can. . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1421 Registered: Jul-07 | I bought this cd, and it's quite good.....although Clapton clearly plays a supporting, not leading, role. You have to hand it to him to play with these guys, as I'm sure it was an incredibly humbling experience. Wynton is king. |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1423 Registered: Jul-07 | One of my favorite musical characters. Nobody was more connected to the music they were playing than Gould. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16948 Registered: May-04 | . Oooooowwwwwww! Whatever happened to the rock and roll motto, "Live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse"? EVH looks like he's a used car salesman down on Ross Ave. taking a day off. And Nugent looks like the spokesman for a land development company in the Southwest Teaxs desert. . |
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Gold Member Username: KbearCanada Post Number: 1129 Registered: Dec-06 | Time is cruel. Not one of those artists looks better in their 2nd pic than in their first. Of course, a few have really done something to upset Father Time, who has in turn shown no mercy! |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1436 Registered: Jul-07 | Jagger and Richards. Wow. Just, wow. I think Joan Jett might look better now. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 16971 Registered: May-04 | . RIP Hubert Sumlin; http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/hubert-sumlin-dead-1205-2011/ Last winter I heard Sumlin play in a small, renovated 1930's venue. He only stayed on stage for five songs but they were the highlight of the night. Those songs were so far above the rest of the night, if I were a performer sharing the stage with Sumlin, I would personally question my right to call myself a musician. http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=youtube%20hubert%20sumlin&tnr=21&vid= 1252000794116&l=206&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx% 3Fq%3D1252000794116%26id%3D6ee0051a32f8126de2fbd9bc95cf95fd%26bid%3D6wpGtxeiEI3x mg%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.youtube.com%252fwatch%253fv%253dv Qf5pTzshug&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvQf5pTzshug&sigr=11ai uubc5&newfp=1&tit=Blues%3A+Hubert+Sumlin%2C+Life+Lessons+and+Guitar+Lessons . |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 17032 Registered: May-04 | . |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 17116 Registered: May-04 | . After a few slow weeks where not much looked interesting, there now appears to be more than enough in this isssue of Guitar Squid for anyone to find more than one article of interest. So rather than my picking and choosing what's best, you can take a look at the entire list and select what you want to look at and listen to. http://idevmail.americaneagle.com/message.aspx?d=389&m=650&e=soufiej@sbcglobal.n et&r=1900558&f=HTML . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1508 Registered: Jul-07 | Check this kid out ripping a Pat Metheny tune. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 17121 Registered: May-04 | . I see so many players like this kid who are note perfect copies of the original player. Especially on youtube and so forth. But I always wonder whether they are playing what they know or playing what they've taken off a tab sheet. In other words, are they fully aware of how the music has been formulated by someone such as Metheny? Do they understand the process and the decisions made by Metheny at a level where they could then turn around and create something similar on their own? Or, is their performance just another example of putting slot "A" into tab "B" and then hitting button "C", etc.? Tabs are great things most of the time but they are also a crutch for a lot of lazy players. You can get on the web and find a dozen sites that promise to teach you "How to play like 'X'". Most of those sites are pretty worthless since they aren't interested in teaching you anything other than a note by note rendition of, say, Metheny's tabbed out composition or maybe just his trademark style of riffs. Look for, say, "How to play like Pat Metheny" and you might find not much more than a dozen licks with two or three bars of tabbed out lines in each example. OK, you memorize that and you now know - maybe - that Metheny combines Mixolydian and Dorian modes in his playing style. Or maybe you only know the first bar of the first lick begins with your third finger on the seventh fret of the second string. What does that mean to you and what can you do with that information? On the other hand, I've seen too many people dissect a player's style with all sorts of interwoven modes and scales and introspection such as "E is the third of C when playing in the key of G so we can use the third of the scale as a passing note to reach the fourth of the key". When basically what it comes down to is someone like B.B. King has learned over time that he has a neat move when he gets to F by sliding through E on the way there. And he also knows it sounds good. So he uses it and it becomes a part of his trademark sound. Clapton likes to bend his minor thirds to the major third and Beck often plays in the Lydian mode. Sometimes this isn't brain surgery, it's just music. None the less, the kid is good and way more interesting than another head banger shredding their way through another Van Halen hit. . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1509 Registered: Jul-07 | Interesting point. When I was watching this kid though, he seemed so natural with it, and so efficient, it didn't come off as mimicking.... That being said, this guy kind of made the same song his own.....and very well IMO. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 17123 Registered: May-04 | . Nah! It's just the second guy plays a Martin and first guy plays a Yamaha knock off of a Gibson. You can't know what anyone understands on a single song like that but the second player certainly seems to be less robotic about his playing. If I had my choices, I'd spend an evening listening to him before I moved on to the younger kid. . |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 17124 Registered: May-04 | . Here ya go! In just six short weeks you can quit that lousy job you got and be on stage making money for nothing and chicks for free! http://www.chordmelody.com/specials.htm . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1510 Registered: Jul-07 | And it's all "On Sale Now!". I wonder if I'd get my money back if I still sucked after 6 weeks (which I expect I would). |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 17128 Registered: May-04 | . I've been running through some of the basic exercises in an instruction book I used back in the 1960's. It is exclusively focussed on classical technique and at the end of the book it suggests the entire course should have taken the student two years to complete. Then it suggests you (still the "student") move on to the second level of instruction. Two years! Just to become "competent"! Now you can be a star in six weeks or less. . |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 17142 Registered: May-04 | . Interesting? Or, just nerdy? . |
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Gold Member Username: HawkbillyNova Scotia Canada Post Number: 1516 Registered: Jul-07 | Terrific piece Jan, thanks. |
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Platinum Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 17214 Registered: May-04 | . Cut my meat and feed me some tunes ... That's at least one thing to look forward to when I can't remember who I am. And people think they know all about music, eh? . |
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Platinum Member Username: ArtkAlbany, Oregon USA Post Number: 15708 Registered: Feb-05 | Beautiful...reminds me so much of my father and his last few years. He was a music man...moved to tears. Thank you, Jan. |