DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Everything Else... Part V - Lead Guitar

My personal fav guitar player:



I don't listen to them anymore, because I'm burned out on them, but Led Zep is my all time fav band.

Page is a wizard on the 6-string. A frikkin LEGEND.

I must add that Jimmy Page did steal a lot of his riffs though.

'Led Zeppelin - Examples of Plagiarism'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiiY4ciKFQA

'Great artists don't borrow, they steal.'

Yeah I know all that. But I ignore it and besides its Led frikkin Zeppelin!

j/c

Dave mentioned him - Mark Knopfler

https://youtu.be/6jxsnIRpy2E

How can disagree about so much and be right together on this!?!?

What do you think of Joey Santiago from the Pixies. Not very traditional, but still an important part of the sound.

My favorite too.
His layering melodies is awesome, but I think he really does well when he has to put all that stuff together for live shows.

Been privelidged to see some very super axe players in my time live:God(Clapton),Ken Simmons(Savoy Brown,Foghat)He made his axe talk better than Lucille,Mick Box(Toe Fat,Uriah Heep)all on same concert,Frank Zappa(Mothers of Invention),Mike Allsup(3 Dog Night),Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards of Stones,Steve Howe(Yes),Phil Keaggy(Glass Harp,solo),BB King and Ken Simmons talking with their axes on a local tv weekend imitation Bandstand show to name a few. Enjoyed seeing these top notch axemen live:Justin Hayward(Moody Blues),Blondie Chapman(Beach Boys),Billy Gibbons(ZZ Top),Craig Chaquacito(Sp Jefferson Starship). Used a self teach guitar book Improvising Rock Guitar and it had a disk to use to play what you what you learned and improve to guitarist by name of Pat Thrall,he can flat out kick butt on Hendrix style songs. But remember we're(old RnRers) all Chuck's(Chuck Berry) children.

That's a good list.

I work with a guy who grew up near Toronto. He saw Zeppelin in 1968 and Hendrix a year or so later. That's two badass guitarists off his bucket list. He's also seen Jerry Garcia and the Stones

I wonder if that was when Hendrix was opening for the Monkees.

No iirc that was a tour in parts of Europe, but Hendrix left the tour early. Bad match.

school's in session, kids:

I raise you this.



and this

I am a huge fan of Hendrix too. He is the obvious one in terms of what he did with the guitar and how he changed the sound of blues and rock music.

I also love Randy California from the band 'Spirit'. They could have and should have been huge. Sadly, management decisions rendered them a footnote rather than a chapter in the history of rock music. They were offered to play Woodstock but, their manager declined the invite, choosing to tour their superb album, "Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus". Had they played the Festival I am convinced they would have been huge.

Regarding my favorite guitar solo, ever....that's easy.

Eddie Hazel's guitar in "Maggot Brain" (Funkadelic) is so beautiful, so powerful and so full of emotion it can make a grown man weep. Story has it that George Clinton said to Hazel as they heads full of acid..."play like your mama just died". Eddie plugged in, George hit record and to my ears there is nothing that comes close to this flawless 10minute solo.

Side note...WMMS used to finish every Saturday night with this masterpiece and my high school friends and I would always listen as a weekly sermon. Back then, the original album was hard to find but, it now sits proudly in my collection.

Buckethead.

Terry Kath.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVLUFl6WO6E

Check out Blue Oyster Cult's Donald Roeser, AKA "Buck Dharma", on a song called Astronomy off their live album, Some Enchanted Evening ...

You made me go listen to "Maggot Brain" again. I hadn't heard it in years but heard it a hundred times before. It came out the year after I graduated HS.

Right on. This thread has served its purpose.

Mr. Classic still plays it at 11:50pm every Saturday night on 98.5FM WNCX, and Murray Saul's Get Down, who used to play it every Saturday at 1:00am on WMMS back in the 70's (before NCX started it in the 80's), has been revived on www.owownow.com, a Cleveland-based internet radio station (created by the guy behind it getting started being played at both of those places - John Gorman, a veritable legend in Cleveland radio).

Won't argue the point,as there seems to be alot of haze remaining from that time period,but,I seem to remember that bit being played Fridays at 5pm on the Kid Leo show,followed by Friday on my mind and Born to run.
That's how I remember it,I think.

Before I forget;
Bruce Cockburn a master on the acoustic and 12 string.
It would behoove everyone to keep tabs on what those crazy Canucks are up to.