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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Paco de Lucia
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pip the dog
Mountain climber
planet dogboy
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Redwreck,
>Richard Thompson!
yeah! i just posted that song (hell, that specific URL) on the "Red Hair" thread just the other day. he's a god.
if you play, check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka5irLvdorE
Thompson in '84 playing other guitarist's sounds on his '57 Strat as quick as the twerp interviewing him can name them. total control.
on the electric front, i'd pick "I Feel So Good". that or "You Dream Too Much" -- he rips that one live. ("She fell on her food like a lioness//She had a chassis like an XJS..." -- he's pretty good with lyrics too.)
> I go see him perform whenever I get a chance and he's
> never failed to blow me away.
ditto...
^,,^
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surprised no one has mentioned Hendrix yet (well, not in the 17 of the above i've listened to so far -- on these headphones as the suits think i'm working (i'm "not working"): "Hey Joe" is pretty damned perfect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeems8BzURY
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Redwreck
Social climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Hey pip, good to see another RT fan here. He's one of the most relaxed and seemingly effortless performers I've seen, and his songwriting is amazing.
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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One of my all time favs is Chris Whitley. "Living With the Law" was probably his best known album but he's got a lot of other stuff too, some real gems. He tragically died of cancer a couple of years ago. Will have to re-post later after I look for some links.
Any of you heard of him?
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Wow, that some great guitar playing. I'll have to find them somewhere to get better sound quality than YouTube.
But they all suck compared to Stevie Ray Vaughan playing Little Wing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdYRzH10L2M
close your eyes because the visual is a Fender factory promo.
It's pure bliss.
For the real deal, get his last album, The Sky is Crying and listen to it blast out at yu on a pair of studio monitors. You can hear the tubes buzzing and almost smell them cooking.
Bliss.....
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Gonna take a while to go thru this stuff. All good!
Speaking of SRV; About the most incredible piece of pick'in I've ever heard was a recording made in a kitchen at about 3:00 in the morning of SRV with his drummer playing the phone book working out a new tune.
As far as I know it was never published. A DJ in LA used to do a Monday blues show at noon in the 90's and had Jimmy on for an interview and played it for him. He'd never heard it.
Got it on cassette tape and have about worn it out.
on another note there was a boob tube history of The Who on a while back and one of the interviewd musicians demonstrated how while the Stones riffs (and most other Brit bands)were American Blues based, the Who's were more Flamenco based. Made complete sense when you heard it.
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DanaB
climber
Philadelphia
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Anybody like Charlie Christian? I sure do.
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Porkchop_express
Trad climber
the base of the Shawangunk Ridge
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Steve Vai can wail...Yngwie Malmsteen shreds but he also does some wild flamenco on the acoustic.
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