Did some driving today and had Pandora to keep me company. Stevie Ray came on several times including Little Wing. It’s I suppose a nuance to his mastery of the strings but he does 3 in a row clear as a tuning fork in an igloo. Who else comes to mind?

Just listened to both versions a couple times. A huge SRV fan, but think considering the diff in pick-ups, string quality & recording gismos, or a 30 year diff, the Hendrix version might be crisper, cleaner. SRV, more melodic. Just a listener with a tin ear opinion.

Shootem, you're speaking my language.

Most will never even listen, but Nels Kline does some incredible stuff!



Eddie Hazel was pretty amazing too!



Jonathon Wilson is a BMF as well.

Have to get back to this tomorrow. I like both version, but probably prefer the original.

And yeah, that Maggot Brain one is special too, I even posted that one in Higgie's funk thread the other day.

I'll catch those others some other time.............right now it's..............................


HOCKEY TIME!

wife went to bed so I can get the TV now.

Interesting stuff there Higgie.

Was wondering about the Jonathan guy. Figured him for a man bun under that beanie hat. Gonna listen to the rest of it on another page.

Check out his album Gentle Spirit. It’s a masterpiece!

I'll look for it one day, thanks.

gotta admit, I was a little impressed seeing a Leslie speaker for that organ in the intro section. Not many younger bands using them any more.

Channeling some Jeff Beck group, a little Floyd, and a touch of Mark Almond in that Love Strong song.

Higginez
Long before Nels rose to fame with Wilco he had a relatively unknown trio simply called the Nels Cline Trio.
I fronted a group that brought the trio on their first two trips to the PNW. They stayed at my place and both groups played together locally, then in Portland and Seattle. He was phenomenal! He gave me a cassette that he and his then GF had hand colored the folding insert for and then she had sewn a furry pouch for. They were numbered 1 - 150. I can't figure out what the heck I did with mine.. but I haven't had a cassette player in years either, so..
Good memories.

Ha,

I've got about 100 cassettes sitting here near the computer..........and no player!

One autographed by BB King in '91 or so.

Valsdad,
I believe they are now considered "collectable". You might be surprised what they fetch! A record store opened up downtown and I had a look last week. I saw a CCR album with a $120 price tag on it!! Not kidding. Old vinyl is $$ now too!

How cool Longarm!

Good times for sure.

I brought up a band from kind of your neck of the woods about the same time called Splatter Trio. Ever hear of them? Don't know whatever became of them. Drummer was Gino Robair. Not everyone's cup of tea, but whatever.

A little later I brought out NYC avante-funk bands, players who were associated with Steve Coleman. I wrote Andy Milne a letter (ha!) and told him we had a band that was pretty popular and of a similar style. Asked if he ever wanted to come to the PNW I could put together some shows. What do ya know, the dude called! He brought out his first and second iterations of Andy Milne's Dapp Theory. Freaking ASTOUNDING players. Nothing like them. Andy is still a pal, his then bassist Rich Brown of Toronto as well. Check out some of the rhythm section work from the first couple of albums.

I brought out the wonderful Kim Clarke, bassist from Defunkt. She was then playing with a band whose name I'm having a hard time remembering, dang it.. Ronnie Burrage on drums, a tenor player Rob Sheps.. Anyway she stayed at my place. Sweetheart of a gal, who was a stone BADASS MFer on bass!!

Was a lot of fun back when there were venues who payed and audiences who came out and ..gasp... LISTENED.

Leo Kottke

Not to make fun of any of those guys, they ARE/were, guitar playing dudes. Just not my genre!
Chet Atkins
Jerry Reed
Richard Smith
Tommy Emmanuel

Finger pickers rule!

Bill Frisell (particularly in Power Tools) and Julian Lage as for jazz color players. We did an opener for John Scofield back in the day and he was a lot of fun.
Can Joe Pass ever be topped for bop and straight-ahead standards?
I liked Marc Ribot for his first solo record and the Tom Waits tracks, I don't know what he's been up to since.

But it's mostly classical guitar now.
Pepe Romero playing the Tàrrega composition Capricho Àrabe on an original 1888 Torres guitar once owned by the composer. There's nowhere to hide here ..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=98oyvmwWde4&pp=ygUOY2FwcmljaG8gYXJhYmU%3D

(Apologies, I dunno how to embed a vid from my phone)

Left out Roy Clark, genre notwithstanding he could play.

There was a woman Chet Atkinson was married to for some time that could chime as good as him. I saw a video of them playing together battling it out.
Lindsay Buckingham did a good job in Landslide.

Edit to say I was wrong it wasn’t landslide it was “Over My Head” in a live performance I was remembering.

I still have some 8 tracks. Boston/Boston, Allman Brothers/Fillmore, and some others. Most likely if a player was found they would spit pea soup and do a death moan if I tried to play them.

For Fuchs Sake...Hendrix was undoubtedly a great "entertainer"...but no more than a wailing noise guitarist. Hell...he wasn't even close to the best guitarist at Woodstock.

Thanks, bud!

That's kinda nice longarm

Good call alcohol. I’ll have to dig out the vinyl and spin the Sony.

Too bad about the intonation!

LOL

I think it might be that 135 year old gee tar.

Ha! Caught that in the first few bars. A bent note. Other than that though?

It's a beautiful piece, IMO. Dramatic changes from major to Minor. Glad you enjoyed

Bent note?

So, he's a blues player?

Ha, unintentionally?

Well, since you ask..the best guitarist at Woodstock was Leslie West.

Mountain kicked azz!

Leslie is the reason I have 5 Les Paul Juniors. Just Like Carol is the source of my 12 FPBs and Jaco my 9 FJBs (3 fretless dooms!)

He and the band were huge fans of Cream. You can hear it. Great stuff

Journeyman,
Send me a pic of those basses!

Next time I get home to Ketchum I will. I know you're a pro! I'll be at my place in Alabama the next several weeks sluicing turkeys. The only bass I have here is my 1972 Hollow Body Vox. It so rocks cause I can strum it around the campfire. Will snap a pic tomorrow if that interests you at all...

Hell yeah, buddy. Have a bit of knife news for you too. Will PM now

Man I love Leslie West, Hendrix would always comment when asked about being the worlds greatest guitarist….”go ask leslie”

Going to see steve morse and the dixie dreggs tomorrow night! His tone can cure covid

Jealous beyond words! I'm from bumphu(k Idaho but graduated Auburn in 1982. My son has told me more than once that The Dregs are one of the greatest gifts I gave him...

Oh, I left out a bunch. Those guys were just what popped into mind quickly!
Another nobody thinks about was Andy Griffith.
I don't care much for his shows (Griffith/Knotts), but I'll watch them in hopes of getting to watch him play.

The episode where "Rafe Hollister" (Jack Prince) sings a song accompanied by Griffith! Awesome!

Lot of memories being jarred here. Saw DD at a beer joint in Birmingham several times. Can’t remember the name of the place but they were semi regulars. Not big at all. Sat with a buddy once on the front line maybe 6 feet from the mics. Stood outside having a smoke with them during a break. Electric fiddle guy was memorable. Pretty sure they did a name change a good while back to just Dregs. A couple more vinyls I need to spin.

If "finger pickers rule" why no props to the one greatest original, the one whose style earned me a tryout at the New England Conservatory of Music... (which I so fraking tanked!!! ):


MERLE TRAVIS

Still Dixie Dregs, He's gonna do his solo thing Steve Morse band and come back and do DD after that, two shows in one. He recruited Dream Theaters keyboard player for the tour also, guy is phenomenal.

One of the first concerts my dad ever took me to was DD back in Macon in early '90s. I picked up guitar shortly after that.

That Fiddle guy become a anesthesiologist , but I believe he is back on this current tour.

Without a doubt! 👍

Ok, so you tanked your tryout, but that still puts you above the run of the mill string plucker! LOL!
Me?
Got a really nice Martin, but all I can do is strum it. If it wasn't for "fake note", I'd never be able to play.
I'll never earn 10 cents playing, but I can make me happy!

One of the first people to start me playing was Jim. Jim had visited Branson, MO at one time and had the opportunity to play. They begged him to come play for one of the venues up there. Jim wasn't leaving Podunk, OK!
Until COVID-19 (💉 vaccine) took the owner, I used to hang out at a weekly acoustic jam. I was surprised at the quality of players that showed up! Some of those guys were amazingly good! One of the guys played for Elvis for a while. You never know! One of the best was a local meth head that could absolutely make a mandolin sit up and beg!

I can’t Travis pick, but I gots me a mean claw hammer…. lol

Let’s see those LP Jr’s!!!!!

We're going to see Tommy Emmanuel this summer, always wanted to see him live. He's playing with Jerry Douglas.

That's a great list. Two of my favorites are Leo Kottke and John Fahey.

My entire family plays stringed instruments. Where I'm from we didn't have TV until the 1980s. I have several relatives that "had it" and made good lives/careers in music (teaching, etc). I simply didn't/don't. Maybe the reason I was so successful in engineering/project management. My playing is technically always pretty darn good...but the "soul" just isn't there. It's more a math exercise for me. Funny thing - I have a cousin who has been immensely successful in guitar. He got me the day school/program tryout at NEC; he graduated from there with all kinds of honors. One in millions. But he is also so smart he knew he'd not make it in the entertainment world on stage. He went on to Missouri for an electrical engineering degree and became a superstar in audio/sound engineering.

It's a strange, brutal unique industry. I'd love to hear the stories from some of the professionals here like longarm that actually had the talent, rolled the dice, and won...

Hey,
Just like I said above ie the basses, I'll be at our Alabama place hunting turkeys for a bit. All I have here are the above mentioned Vox hollow body bass and my old J-45. Will snap some pics when I get back to Idaho.

BUT - to clarify - none of mine are special to anyone but me. I have multiples because my career put me all over the world and I'd seek out guitars from that place and time, then bring them home once the project was complete. Many would call it a trash/music store collection, but to me it's kind of "my life/career" in memories!

Would add: If you want to see THE definitive Junior collection, check this out with Charlie Starr from Blackberry Smoke, one of my absolute favorite artists since I saw him at an Auburn reunion near 20 years ago:

The acoustic venue where I played had Richard Smith several times. First time I saw him, his wife, Julie, was with him! She is as good with the cello as Richard is with a guitar! Quite a show!

I wanted to get a gift for the wifes b-day, The Dregs and Steve Morse play the Carolina Theater in Durham tomorrow night.

She said naaa, doesn't care.. What?

Tommy Emanuel plays there on the 7th... she said, Naaaa it's a Tuesday..

There's nothing like live music.

Here's a little of Richard Smith



Richard Smith with wife Julie Adams - "Blackberry Blossom"

TOP IT :

Charlie playing Duanes SG...

Daaaang. But kept waiting for a slide tube to come out of his pocket.

I don’t seem to be on the same page with the high post count pickers here so I’ll just throw out one more then cozy in with my J-45 and an amazing Wild Turkey Master’s Keep One I’ve kept back for when I got here to my lakehouse.

A finger picker in the Travis style I played with who came by it naturally. Don’t know how many of you know of Thom Bresh, but he was Merle Travis’ son, and a genius in his own right! RIP Merle and Thom. NOT Forgotten…

Needs more fuzz!!!!!

LOL

And to heck with them two fellers.

Who's the cute brunette in the skirt next to them

Some more nice licks from SRV. Even has a visual.