[quote]AliveAgain36 wrote:
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Kajagoogoo
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Wait, wut?
My favorite front-man of all time:
Kajagoogoo
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
You telling me this dude wouldn’t be fun as hell to get hammered and howl at the moon with?[/quote]
I think he should host an AA meeting…
I ain’t got a dog in this fight, I love them all. Very grateful for the John Meyer videos, I was not aware the guy could shred an ax like that. Thanks for posting all those videos, they are great!
EDIT: Except for the Kajagoogoo video, that is soooo not great.
A moment with Clapton, this is a great little video from 1968.
No matter how much I try, I just can’t like Clapton, lol. And I’ve been trying the last couple weeks.
His self titled release is pretty tight, 1968
[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
You telling me this dude wouldn’t be fun as hell to get hammered and howl at the moon with?[/quote]
I think he should host an AA meeting…[/quote]
Hard drinking was really a trade mark of being a great blues player. It wasn’t until the white guys starting playing it when heroin and weed became more prevalent.
Another Muddy Waters story: later in his life, his choice of whiskey and the volume he was drinking was killing him, so he switched to champagne. lmao, you know, because it’s apparently easier on you…
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
You telling me this dude wouldn’t be fun as hell to get hammered and howl at the moon with?[/quote]
I think he should host an AA meeting…[/quote]
Hard drinking was really a trade mark of being a great blues player. It wasn’t until the white guys starting playing it when heroin and weed became more prevalent.
Another Muddy Waters story: later in his life, his choice of whiskey and the volume he was drinking was killing him, so he switched to champagne. lmao, you know, because it’s apparently easier on you… [/quote]
Took a jump through Mississippi, well, muddy water turned to [sparkling] wine.
ZZ Top left the sparkling out,
Tip one back tonight for the god of Texas Blues…
25 years ago today…
I like my pocket full of money 'n my whiskey, gin and wine
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
I like my pocket full of money 'n my whiskey, gin and wine
SRV is one of the GOAT. Love that fucker and I didn’t even know him.
Also.
Gibbons doesn’t get enough credit…
Warren Haynes
Derrick Trucks
Jimi
Angus Young
My favorite guitar players. Haynes would go on my lead singer Rushmore too.
A couple of jazz guitarists to memorialize, on that musical Rushmore monument:
Lenny Breau, definitely top 5 all-time, among jazz guitarists. Saw him in the 70’s, at George’s Spaghetti House in Toronto. His technique and musicality was mind-blowing.
Lenny said of his fingerpicking style: “I approach the guitar like a piano. I’ve reached a point where I transcend the instrument. A lot of the stuff I play on the 7-string guitar is supposed to be technically impossible, but I spent over twenty years figuring it out. I play the guitar like a piano, there’s always two things going on at once. I’m thinking melody, but I’m also thinking of a background. I play the accompaniment on the low strings.”
My neighbour, Ed Bickert, when he was a little younger. He’s retired now, but was certainly one of the Canadian jazz guitar greats.
Two more? Hmmm…I’m thinking Django Reinhardt, who simply defied all the norms with his “hot jazz” and having to relearn guitar after burning (and paralyzing) the fourth and fifth fingers of his left hand. You’d never know that, listening to his recordings with violinist Stephane Grappelli. For the fourth, I honestly don’t know - Pat Metheny, Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, George Benson. There are just so many good ones…
Frank Zappa on guitar
That skinny woman from Rush playing bass
John Bonham
and Durga McBroom singing