There have been several threads on this site relating to some pretty strange music so I thought I would introduce some of you with open minds to the blues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDCNbacVt5w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfaw3UnIH_I&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR-9unFHeu8&playnext=1&list=PL6DDDA33C26D4A6F0&feature=results_main
[video=youtube;vbD5RwyHWmg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbD5RwyHWmg[/video] Nicest video on youtube
Try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc-4N5iw2MI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COCaXd-4PaE&feature=related
I saw Free at the Isle of White and was hooked. The Muddy Waters Tribute album is well worth a listen
I might only be 26 but I can appreciate decent music and talent when i hear/see it. Totally love just seeing a session back to the bare bones. Never failed to amaze me and both times I have seen him and have been blown away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDK_51f2kMY Again seeing this song live is amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdYJf_ybyVo Although they are acquired taste, both are talented musicans.
Here's a thread I can get on board with. Check out this genius: [video=youtube;nY7GnAq6Znw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnAq6Znw[/video]
Hmm, I'll have to check out a little more of Jon Gomm, Joe. My personal favourite of the percussive guitar technique was always Michael Hedges, and I got several of his albums. Nowadays, I tend to listen to Andy McKee. Everybody has heard Drifting, and Tight Trite Night, by now, but here is something a little softer, more melodic, and where the technique doesn't shout at you - All Laid Back and Stuff If there is one thing I can't stand it's when the technique of the guitarist takes precedence over the song. The artist is getting in the way of the music, in my opinion. This is why I can't listen to Tommy Emmanuel. Amazing player, but he's all fantastic technique and the rhythm and song is forgotten. Good bottleneck blues that Godders. I'm getting near to being able to do a bit of that myself. Of course I don't have a resonating steel guitar, which certainly helps [in fact is practically a necessity for that style], but I can get similar sounds and blues. My pentatonic scales are coming along a treat..!
St Godders Some ace stuff! Curious to hear the Rev play some Blind Blake but the original is better in my opinion. [video=youtube;ZayTpvm0Yho]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZayTpvm0Yho[/video] i bought a solo DVD of Bill Frisell a few months back where he plays solo guitar and the performance is nothing short of staggering. Not sure if the DVD is still available.
Ah the legend. I'm not sure whether I like this version or the original more. He also did a great cover of "Solitary Man".
I had a dabble at Skiffle many years ago with a cheap acoustic guitar but I have no musical memory and had to give up. However bottleneck blues is my thing.
Almost embarrassed to say this Joe, but I've got 4 guitars now. I never thought I'd get into a wee bit of collecting, but they aren't that expensive. My Basher, as I call it, is a cheapish acoustic, MUCH cheaper, even when new, than your Takamine, which is a very good make indeed, as you probably know. I started out a couple of years ago with Basher, so-called because I take it everywhere and it gets bashed about, and learned the basics of setting a guitar up properly. I got it off ebay for £20, and it was the perfect starter because I wasn't scared of it. So many people buy a guitar to learn on and give it up because the guitar has not been properly set up, and they don't know that it has to be, to play. I simply learned off the internet and from advice from good old Justin Sandercoe, the renowned internet guitar tutor. He is totally brilliant, and actually a pretty damn good songwriter too. I've got his first album Small Town Eyes. Here's him giving a live performance and part one of a lesson, on playing From Katie's Window, from the album. Anyway, back to the subject. I have the permanent borrow of an immaculate 1976 Epiphone FT-150 Bard acoustic, from my eldest brother. It has a long history in the family, and nobody but me has been able to play because, once again, it was never originally set up and had completely wrong strings on it. So it was a real bugger to play. I put medium La Bella silk and steel strings on it, and adjusted the action to close [it had been a mile off]. Now it's a beauty, but I rarely touch it. I'm going to inherit it, I believe, so when I do, it will become my main acoustic. I've got two electrics. One is a Vintage VS6, which is a bloody fine Gibson SG copy. A cousin of mine owns a proper Gibson SG and he says he can't quite believe how good my copy is. It even has a proper set neck, like the original, and jeez, doesn't it resonate as only a solid guitar can. They normally retail at £200-250, and I got mine off ebay again for £43. It's in beautiful nick too. I may have mentioned missing out on a Squier Strat ebay auction, the other day. I missed it by a quid, but the winner couldn't pay, so the owner gave me a second chance, and I got it off him for £35. It's in reasonable nick, and now I have my token Strat, and the end of my collecting. It was either going to be a Strat copy or a Tele, but Strats are cheaper. It feels tiny compared to the SG, so small I thought it was a 3/4 quitar at first. But then I put it up against the SG and one can see it is full size. The thing about it is that everything falls in the right place, compared to the SG, but the SG feels gorgeous. It's weird and I can quite easily see why people like to play either or both. I can do justice to neither - all the gear and no idea, you might say. Mind you, I'm currently looking after my 97 year old Mum for a few days, and I took the Strat and Basher with me. She keeps asking me to play something and even though I do my faltering acoustic rendition of Little Wing, or Three Little Birds, or maybe even something I might have concocted, she absolutely loves it. So my first and most important audience has already been satisfied. Her favourite is my Smoke on the Water riff, which is just pentatonic practice really. Wish I'd brought my Capo, then I could have seen what she'd make of the one Nick Drake song I can just about manage, with the fantastic tuning that he devised. I have learned so much in what... 2 years of on/off messing about..? Oh yeah, I've got a HIWATT 15w practice amp too. That was £18 off ebay. It's in new condition and sounds OK.
