Re: Enthusiasm for Hendrix' technical ability - Those under (edit: 80)...who's your guitar hero?

colt933 on Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:26 pm

norfolkngood wrote:Gary Moore. Followed his career from Skid Row through Thin Lizzy and then his solo years, saw him a few years back at Birmingham NEC when he was support for BB King's last UK dates. He still seems to want to move on musically, his work has alternated between blues & rock and back again, I've got all the albums and DVDs and will probably be buried with them!

No doubt!

He bought Peter Greene's Les Paul.

In the '60s in England, everyone (including Page, Clapton, and Beck) wanted to play and sound like Peter Greene.

Gary Moore is there!

If you have never heard Peter Greene, then you need to!

There's a sound in my head and Peter Greene is it.

colt933 on Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:35 pm

anaerobe wrote:Grogg - The Squeeze were a very, very strong pop band. Chris Difford's solo in Another Nail in my Heart is another almost-but-not-quite-forgotten piece of terrific work, far beyond the average blues box. I've got a couple of their CD's in the basement, which I am now dusting off.

Difford is very talented (an underrated) as a writer and a player. In the U.S. they didn't make a huge impact in my opinion, but up here we heard a lot of them - cool for cats, pulling mussels from a shell, annie get your gun, etc.

More trivia - I think Difford's guitar in the original vid of Another Nail in my Heart is a Yamaha SG 2000 - which I have a soft spot for. Santana used em for a short while.

I saw Squeeze in about '83 or '84 at the Vanderbilt gym in Nashville. Difford was playing a pair of Washburn Telecaster copies with 2 humbuckers and either Floyd Roses or the Washburn Wonderbar tremolo - through a Boogie Mark II combo - that was pointed right at my head in the 2nd row.

He is a fabulous singer and songwriter but it would be hard to know what a great guitarist he is based on the recordings. He was HOT live!!!

Great licks, feel, and tone, and that golden voice.

Barry on Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:01 am

colt933 wrote:There's a sound in my head and Peter Greene is it.

So, you still have the blues?

**corsair** on Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:19 am

Earl Slick. Capable of so many styles and doing 'em all so-o-o well; listening to "Phantom, Rocker and Slick" atm - 2/3s of the Stray Cats - and it's just damn good rock'n'roll!!

colt933 on Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:56 pm

Barry wrote:
colt933 wrote:There's a sound in my head and Peter Greene is it.
So, you still have the blues?

Yes, but I believe Trevor Rabin is my favorite.

grogg on Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:50 pm

colt933 wrote:
Barry wrote:
colt933 wrote:There's a sound in my head and Peter Greene is it.
So, you still have the blues?

Yes, but I believe Trevor Rabin is my favorite.

Thanks for that, forgotten all about Peter Greene, great stuff.

Whats in this? http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=OM25s5Cn1Vg&feature=related

anaerobe on Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:34 am

Couldn't see that Grogg.

Peter Green - what exactly did he do to the neck pup in that LP? He didn't simply flip it around, did he?

I like the first album he put out with Fleetwood Mac, essentially had nothing to do musically with the pop that they are famous for.

anaerobe on Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:54 am

I've been listening to a lot of Mike McCready lately (famous as the lead guy for Pearl Jam). That guy can shape a lick, but I'm sure he's not everyone's cup of tea. I like that he openly goes after Hendrix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kZsvHl_0ls&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ot2iDM6xg&feature=related

And the much overplayed, ubiquitous "Even Flow".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1bxH4O0g4Q

DuoFuzz on Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:59 am

Hi anaerobe.

About Greeny's Les Paul, I've seen an article in a mag ages ago about that pickup! The way I understand it is that the neck pickup itself has obviously turned around 180 degrees, but less obvious is that the bar magnet inside was removed and also turned 180 degrees before been replaced between the coils.

Basically if correct this means that the magnetic polarity between the neck and bridge pickup coils remains the same as before, but both pickups are now electronically out of phase with each other. You only hear the effect with both pickups on together and at equal volume to each other, rolling off the volume from one pickup weakens the effect and apparently with the volumes set to 10 it cancels a lot of the signal and actually makes it more quiet!

Thing is, Peter Green swears he never did anything to the neck pickup itself other than accidentally putting in back to front after cleaning it, but that on it's own couldn't produce the sound!?! It's one of those great myths that never seems completely solved. Google it, there's loads of info that can explain it better than me!

DAN.

anaerobe on Tue Apr 27, 2010 2:57 pm

Thanks Dan,

That makes sense - much appreciated!!
Ian (anaerobe)

Barry on Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:16 pm

I may have mentioned this before somewhere, but Trevor Wilkinson and the JHS organization have issued a Lemon Drop replica under the Vintage label as part of their Icon series: LINK (Scroll down towards the bottom of the page)

In one YouTube demo I saw it was mentioned that the neck pup was indeed reversed, but no mention was made of changing either the mags or the wiring. As I understand it, flipping the pup reverses the direction of current flow around the mags and throws it out of phase with the bridge when both are on.

Trev's usually a stickler for details so if there was more to it I'm sure that it would be part of the marketing description, just as he did for his Tele clone and the references to Leo Fender's specs for the bridge and saddle design.

I've played a couple of Lemon Drops and they're full of tone. If you haven't checked out this line, do yourself a favour, they really do it well. I'm a big fan...I now have 2 Vintage guitars. Both are well made and terrific players. Good value.

anaerobe on Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:52 pm

Rory Gallagher - Bad Penny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSzsDWTc4mY

His performance in Montreux is as passionate as any. I realize that this guy has been mentioned somewhere above.. but as a result of this forum, I've been listening much more to his stuff.

colt933 on Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:30 pm

Gary Moore, owner of Peter Greene's LP:

bowenjaybee on Fri Sep 10, 2010 10:45 pm

I try not to have too many guitar heroes it just frustrates me how naff I actually am on guitar! I personally prefer non guitar heroes like Bjorn from Abba, David Rotheray from the Beautiful South or Robert Smith from The Cure

**corsair** on Fri Sep 10, 2010 10:58 pm

Yeah; I'm with you, bowen... Paul Hewson from Dragon for me, or Don Walker from Cold Chisel....

Jeff Healey does a fine 'Red House' at Montreux, too...

Guest on Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:19 pm

Technical ability does nothing for me - I couldn't care less if someone can play a million notes a minute if they don't move me at all. Classic example - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rutyA12z3Ok

Incredible technique, but to my mind musically worthless. (Almost as bad as his solo on a guitar with four necks. )

I prefer more economical guitarists - ones who can evoke a mood, (favourite has to be Steve Hackett) or who play simpler solos, but where you can tell the player feels every note - like David Gilmour.

Sometimes it's not about the guitrist though - they can be better (In a band situation) if they don't stand out too much. Check out the Concrete Blonde cover of Hendrix' Little Wing - it's the combination of understated guitar and vocals that makes it work so well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwE1zNDhh0I

bowenjaybee on Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:23 pm

Thorn wrote:Technical ability does nothing for me - I couldn't care less if someone can play a million notes a minute if they don't move me at all. Classic example - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rutyA12z3Ok

That is not guitar playing it's masturbation

Guest on Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:26 pm

Exactly. Technically flawless, but it doesn't make him a good guitarist.

bowenjaybee on Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:29 pm

Spinal Tap springs to my mind.. I just can't take that sort of stuff serious at all.

Guest on Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:38 pm

Ah, to take it seriously you need to see Anvil - the Story of Anvil. Seriously.

DuoFuzz on Sat Sep 11, 2010 12:54 am

Completely agree with you guys.

While I respect people like Vai and Satriani for their abilities, but I couldn't bear to listen to a whole album of that stuff, It's too cold and sterile. It's got no soul, it just sounds like one long exercise to me.

I read somewhere that it's the space between the notes that was more important than the tune itself, it lets the music "breathe". B.B. King does this so well on THIS track. No sweep picking or fretboard fireworks, just an amazing touch. Cool

DAN.