My father blamed my demise on Jimi Hendrix, I went to the Isle of Wight festival in 1970 to see him(along with the rest of the worlds finest bands) and came back a 'changed person'. I went downhill in his eyes after that, although he did say to me before he passed away that I'd turned out alright.
It has to be joe bonamassa. Not just a blues player either. You can all do yourselves a huge favour and check this guy out.
join the queue unfortunately. ive been in the game 20+ years, degrees and diplomas hangin out of arse..im done with it. As regards Andy Mckee, he couldnt get a break for years until his friend posted 'Drifting' on youtube. If youre into Mckee/Michael hedges type playing then a truly fantastic and undiscovered talent was Eric Roche..An incredible acoustic player, teacher, writer..usually found scratching a living, although to his credit he managed to get some albums behind him. I have the priviledge of saying that i knew him personally. He sadly died a couple years but check out some of his music...he was one of the players who inspired Mckee et al....and yet, he died an unknown outside the industry. Now THIS is a cover Eric Roche: She Drives Me Crazy - YouTube but check out his other material. His original material is outstanding. These are just 2 of his covers, but his other material is very well known in guitar circles. its very sad for me to watch this video as know how ill Eric was....a great talent and a lovely man. RIP Eric x There are so many (of us) that are nobodies..whose the best player in the world? Possibly the disillusioned bloke sitting in a Primary school somewhere trying to teach disinterested kids if my experience in the music industry is anything to go by, thats who.
MAB Speed Kills by Michael Angelo Batio - YouTube or maybe Gary Moore Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways - Live HD - YouTube
this is why im not going to contribute to this thread anymore. Grandad with a wig and a taste bypass smothered in the fizziest stereo ping pong delay and pitch shifter....all that glitters aint gold... has anyone heard Blue Bossa?? (the original jazz standard that Gary Moore plagurised?)
To many to mention but i always liked randy rhodes, would have loved to hear what he came up with if he had managed to finish his classical training
Here's the thing though. John McLaughlin, widely acknowledged as a consummate guitarist, even had a song named after him by Miles Davis FFS. Almost no emotional response from me, for all the songs I've heard him play on. I haven't heard the majority of his tracks, only a sample - Bitches Brew, Mahavishnu stuff - and I hear mad skills, yes, but it does very little for me. Then there's Steve Hackett - solid, competent - and his playing has reduced me to tears on occasion. Tears of joy, I add, before anyone rushes in with the wrong interpretation. Some of the tones he uses ... almost no attack to the notes, just a stream-of-consciousness soaring and diving. He can also pick and pluck with the best of them, plays a decent Spanish guitar. Exhibit A Exhibit B How the hell do you measure "best"? I'm also going to mention Todd Rundgren. I don't expect anyone to agree with me here, but he gets a mention from me as a brilliant guitarist and for many years now, my favourite recording artist/guitarist.
I would just like to add imo the best drummer is Stewart Copeland (King of the off beat) followed by Andy Gangadeen. Respect goes out to Steve White too. Someone will also add Keith Moon and Sandy Nelson Im sure
Keith Moon was the equivalent of Hendrix in a way....He was told he couldn't play the drums and would never be able to.......But...... ...if you watch and listen, he does something that no other drummers appear to do......he doesn't actually keep time as such, he trys to play the actual tune instead of just adding a beat..... .....Sandy Nelson wasn't much more than an average drum player of his era (he comes nowhere near Buddy Rich or Eric Delaney, who incidentally was one of the first drummers to have a two bass drum set up)......but he was one of the first to get a drum solo in the charts..... Nobody so far has mentioned Jon Hiseman, Fito De La Parra, Anysley Dunbar, Mitch Mitchell (-- the nearest to Keith Moon's style), Karl Palmer....all far superior drummers to today's current lot.... ....but don't mention Cosy Powell......pleeese... AL
OK. I was going to suggest Robert Fripp on the thread this morning, as a master of both style and just plain kookiness - "the presence of tape recorders in the audience can effect how well the live performance goes", etc. Oh, and being married to Toyah. How does that work? Anyway. Well, I happened this morning on the BBC website which informed me that Sylvia Kristel has sadly died, aged 60. I remembered sneaking into a cinema showing of Emmanuelle 2 when it was released, at the tender age of about 14. Good times. I then recalled that I have never seen the first Emmanuelle. I found an on-line copy to watch, which I did for a time. Well, as an erotic film, it's about as sexy as Bognor Regis on any night of the week. As a porno flick, it's about as arousing as Bournemouth. As a voyage of discovery, it was a lot like my old MZ TS125 before I swapped out the crap original electrics. The point of all this though was, a few minutes into the film, we get some instrumental music suggesting growing tension, etc, etc. Fuck me diagonally if it wasn't a direct rip-off of Lark's Tongues In Aspic Pt 2, a song Fripp and King Crimson released around that time. I nearly pissed myself laughing. I can imagine the Frippster's face when someone told him his latest masterpiece was on a bit of French soft-focus-soft-porn. Not a bad version, either. (Fripp settled out of court when he sued the film's producers.) I love days like these. :smile:
+1........one of the worst.....the effing gorilla did it better, but highlighted the exact sh*te style of drumming I can't stand.... ...There's a current TV ad running on some channels where some tart sits down at a kit in a warehouse........absolute cr*p drumming.......everything they do these days is all 'left' 'right' 'left' 'right' etc as fast as they can......and the other bl**dy thiing I cannot stand is the 'left' 'right' 'left' 'right' etc etc on the high hat while dropping down (with the wrong hand) for the down beat on the snare...... ....first time I saw it used was the ....................bay city rollers......:redface: PS.....Funky I have sitting here on vinyl, the original King Crimson album........ ...but I bet you never saw I AM CURIOUS YELLOW......
The drummers today would class that as a fill. Its only so they have time to look for there ear piece is thats providing them with the click!
