[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
In fact, I’ve been going back to the oldest known recordings of blues and rhythm; guys like Gus Cannon, Booker Washington, Howlin’ Wolf among others and just picking nuances out and learning them. Gotta love the oldies![/quote]
lol
I left work at about 11pm last night and went home to learn this… By 1:30am I was trying to turn it into a rocking jam…
But I went to show my daughter this morning and my wife was like “is that why you were up so late?”
“yeah”
“It sounds like that hot cakes and short bread song”
I laughed and figured it isn’t going to be a rocking jam anytime soon, lol.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
I remember when I was younger Kenny Wayne Shepard and Jonny Lang were the “next hot things” and Mayer sounds like them here, but the clips in that youtube aren’t what I knew of him based on his radio play. I was more than surprised by that video.
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Cool, I’m glad that surprised you. He’s pretty fucking good.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
I remember when I was younger Kenny Wayne Shepard and Jonny Lang were the “next hot things” and Mayer sounds like them here, but the clips in that youtube aren’t what I knew of him based on his radio play. I was more than surprised by that video.
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Cool, I’m glad that surprised you. He’s pretty fucking good.[/quote]
Yeah, the guy knows his way around a guitar. That his popular music gives no indication of this is an indictment of the average American.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
Some of these posts are great. I’ve always loved Duane Allmans playing, along with B.B. King/Albert King. I’m gonna go ahead and say this thread needs more Jimmy Page!
Also, any love for bassists?
Geddy Lee
John Chancellor
Billy Sheehan
John Entwistle
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Jaco Pastorius
Vic Wooten
John Paul Jones
Les Claypool
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Jesus, you could really swap Page out for any of the British Invasion guys, Harrison, Richards, Dude From the Who… [/quote]
The only two that come close are clapton and beck, and they dont have the rounded skill set that page has. Page can write, record and perform.
Richards is a rythm guitar player and cant bleed notes like page. Harrison is similar. Pete townsend is alright, but he still isnt on pages level.
I like the stones, and i like the who, but they just dont have the library of great songs like zeppelin…they also dont have the depth or the octane.
Maybe not icon status… Maybe he is, not sure. Just ran across him on something else, and thought about how I don’t know anything other than the radio shit.
