I know there are many opinions on the GOAT of guitar players. All in the conversation are great players.
I am not a guitar player so I cannot speak from a real technical point of view.
However, I have listened to or seen most who are in the conversation. I gotta go with SRV. He was a monster. A visual spectacle. Mind numbing watching him play guitar. Hard to figure where to even look after watching him. Breath taking really.
I find it very hard to compare guitarists of different genres to one another. As far as a blues guitarists he was certainly one of the all time greats. And while I'm not trying to argue the point in "greatest guitarist", for me it's impossible to compare a blues guitarist to say metal guitarists and jazz guitarists.
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The thing about Stevie is how precise and clean he played. The music flowed through him and into the guitar.
The way he played. You could not take your eyes off him.
You watch him and fantasize what it would be like to be that good.
I have heard stories of him at 14 going into a recording session to fill in for a local band and the recording techs just freaking out. "Look at this kid." If you wanted a Clapton fill no problem. Hendrix fill no problem.
The guy telling the story said when you see genius. There is no mistaking it. You know right away there is a level that others will never reach.
I can imagine a beginner guitar player hearing him the first time. Then either being inspired or, thinking I should burn this thing because getting to that level is unreachable.
I grew up and lived the vast majority of my life in the greater Dayton, OH. area. Our major R&R station was WTUE. As time passed it became the classic rock channel. Every Thanksgiving they had the tradition of playing this song. I'm not sure exactly where it originated as such but it has become a Thanksgiving day tradition among several classic rock channels. So without further ado...................
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I went to college but to be honest I was not driven to gain more education. I just wanted the girls. I went to class. I went to bars. I went to concerts. But the true motivation was I was looking for girls.
It was like fishing to me. Fishing and catching are not the same thing.
A good song for Sunday. Billy Joe Shaver has crossed the river, but he is still around. Billy Joe was more a part of the outlaw country genre, but this song transcends all.
As with all of these vids, headphones do it justice.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
OK....not the most popular to the masses, but Ricky Nelson saved rock. He did it through his parents TV show, "Ozzie and Harriett". Elvis wasn't liked by parents, but Ricky Nelson was liked. It didn't hurt that he had James Burton, one of the best guitar players ever in his band. James played with Elvis and others after his time with Rick Nelson.
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If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
Tonight was the first time I ever listened to this tune, start-to-finish. Yup. I'm that out-of-touch, sometimes. Don't get me wrong- I've always known about Alice's Restaurant. I just never cared about it, beyond knowing of its cultural importance as it was going on around me. I was still in Elementary School when it dropped, so it had no cultural relevance to my life at that time. It was always in the cultural wallpaper of the time, and as a kid, I just tuned it out.
Tonight:
Arlo Guthrie's delivery was as musical a thing that can be heard. The pace of his delivery (speeding up/slowing down, always staying within the backing groove), the rise and fall of his pitch... it was half-spoken, half-sung. It really is something.
It's just like any number of really great books I haven't read.
I just got to check off a 'bucket list' item I didn't even know I had.
I actually think the more parents dislike an artist the more the young people like them. I know my dad hated Black Sabbath and loved John Denver. Guess which of those albums I had and which one I didn't?
Rebellion has always been at the very roots of R&R. If not The Rolling Stones would never have sold any records.
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