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Cream Reunion Youtube – Sitting on Top of the World

Tony Hogan — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:29:07 +0000

Here’s a great recent version of the Cream doing the old Blues Classic – Sitting on Top of the World at their reunion concert in 2005.

Spencer Davis Group Youtube

Tony Hogan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:42:52 +0000

Here’s a great old Spencer Davis Youtube Video

Pick who the guitarist is?

Robert Cray Albert Collins Youtube

Tony Hogan — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:43:54 +0000

Robert Cray and Albert Collins together, both are exceptional blues players. Very different in style, Albert plays a Fender Tele, what is unusual about his playing is he often uses a capo. Albert Collins’s playing seems to have sweetened over the years, he has an extraordinary bite in his playing. Robert Cray, the silky voiced bluesman achieved great commercial success in the eighties. Robert would probably be the smoothest blues player getting around. Robert first started playing because he liked the Beatles music. He mixes the the brilliant blues of the past with the production quality of the present.

If you want to hear an exception album, have a listen to the Showdown album, it included a third great blues player Johnny Cougar.

Joe Bonamassa with Danny Gatton Youtube

Tony Hogan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:06:08 +0000

This is going to hurt you people who have been playing for years, once you’ve seen Joe Bonamassa at 12 years old playing.

Thanks o Jon from Guitar Noize for the heads up on this

BB King Jimmy Vaughan Buddy Guy Clapton Youtube

Tony Hogan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:16:33 +0000

Ooooh, now this is good. What a mix, four very great players together doing Rock Me Baby. I love Buddy Guys playing, I first heard him about 1971 and he was in a dream I had at the time at 14 years old, and at that time I didn’t know who he was. Now every guitar player should know him. Jimmy V is Stevie Rays brother, the other two don’t need an introduction, only respect. Great to hear another version of a blues.

John Lee Hooker Youtube

Tony Hogan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:31:47 +0000

Here’s a guitar video of the incredible John Lee Hooker doing the tune Bad Like Jesse James, with his trademark vocals and simple repetitive riffs. His sound is recognisable after a couple of notes. The dialogue prior to the tune is Ry Cooder. Cooder’s has been responsible for supporting and exposing numerous musicians from various cultural backgrounds.

John Lee Hooker’s music is simple, but he plays exactly what is required, a lesson to guitar plares everywhere.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Youtube Voodoo Chile

Tony Hogan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:24:10 +0000

Here’s a great electric guitar video on youtube of Kenny Wayne Shepherd performing at the Fender Frontline Live stage at the NAMM music show 2008, doing Hendrix’s Voodoo Chile. This is awesome, if you haven’t seen it get ready for a treat.

Buddy Guy and Carlos Santana Youtube

Tony Hogan — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:20:36 +0000

Buddy Guy is one of the legends of Electric Blues Guitar. This electric guitar youtube video is a performance of Buddy Guy at Montreux Jazz Festivalin 2004. He invited Carlos Santana to the stage to play a blues with him. It starts slowly with Buddy trading lines with the sax player. Then Santana plays a slow blues and then heads into his trademark stlye. It then pulls backand there’s some swapping of licks between Buddy and Carlos, then they start howling, then they settie back for a brief moment… then they go bananas just before the end. I love it!

David Gilmour and B B King Youtube

Tony Hogan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:35:24 +0000

Here’s a great youtube electric guitar video of B B King and David Gilmour from Pink Floyd performing live.
This will be of great interest to a lot of guitar players that have only ever heard Gilmour in a Pink Floyd setting.

Duke Robillard Youtube

Tony Hogan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:24:58 +0000

You may know the great blues guitar player, Duke Robillard. Well here’s Duke in another setting playing a semi acoustic guitar solo. Some players might think this sort of thing is easy to do. Try it, see if you can play solo single lines with a few double stops and chords every now and then, just solo through a blues or simple jazz tune without stopping. Joe Pass, Martin Taylor, Kenny Burrell and others are great (or were) at this. This a a great way to strengthen your playing, stay with in the paramaters of a blues guitar progression and keep going. I lie this Duke Robillard on Youtube Video, it displays another aspect of his playing