Electric Guitarist

Cream Reunion Youtube – Sitting on Top of the World

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.

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Joe Pass Youtube Video

Here’s a great video of Joe Pass playing in a jazz combo in 1964.  Thankyou to Dan Adler for making me aware of this recording

If you like acoustic guitar check out The Acoustic Guitarist Site

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Lesle West Mountain Youtube

Anyone that was alive and really listening to rock guitar in the 1970′s would know of Leslie West from the band Mountain.  Leslie’s sound was second to none, he played a Les Paul junior and an interesting thing was he wasn’t really interested in using his little finger on his fretting hand, regardless of that his tone was sensational and sends chills down the spine.

For another great guitar video, check out Jeff Beck

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Jeff Beck Youtube – Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers

I’ve been a fan of Jeff Beck’s playing since the days when he played with the Jeff Beck Group, I think it was the song Definitely Maybe which first convinced me of what he had to offer which was different to others.  His tone is fantastic.  This is the classic song ‘Cause we’ve ended as lovers’, one of my favorites.  Note, there is a slight intonation issue later in the song, which is not surprising considering his use of the whammy bar.

Here is my favourite Jeff Beck Song called Nadia

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Adrian Belew Youtube Electric Guitar

Adrian Belew is one of the most innovative guitarists.  He played with King Crimson and also did some exceptional work with David Bowie.  He also recorded with Talking Heads on the Remain in Light album and David Byrne’s Catherine Wheel project.  His early work on his solo albums Twang Bar King and Lone Rhino seperated him out from other guitar players because of his ability to create fascinating  sound effects.

Here is the Adrian Belew Website - Adrian Belew

And here is a link to Jeff Beck’s beautiful recording of Nadia

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Jeff Beck Youtube – Because We’ve Ended as Lovers

The guitar in this performance is incredibly beautiful, it also features the young Tal Wilkenfeldon on bass.  Jeff Beck manages to make his guitar cry like no one else. I’ve never realy understood how or why, and frankly I don’t want to know. My other favorites by him are Definitely Maybe and Nadia.

Click hear to experience Nadia

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Michael Jackson Electric Guitar Tribute

Just saw a great post of some Guitar Players that Michaeol Jackson used on recordings

Go to GuitarNoize

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Jazz Guitar Youtube Joe Diorio Pat Metheny

Here’s a great Jazz Guitar Youtube of Joe Diorio and Pat Metheny.  The tune they are doing is a jzz/ blues classic called Blues in the closet.

Joe Diorio is a very well respected guitar player amongst jazz guitar players, in fact he is held in the highest regard.  To hear him here with Pat Metheny is a real treat. 

Here is a link to Joe’s Myspace page Joe Diorio MySpace

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Jimi Hendrix Live Youtube

JIMI HENDRIX on Youtube Video

Keep in mind this is 1969 on the Lulu British Television Show .  Jimi Hendrix does nine minutes of Voodoo Chile and Hey Joe and then they do Sunshine of Your Love

Considering what else was on television at that time.  Lulu was very young at the time, she had top 40 hits at about 17 years old.

  
This was a missing tape for a number of years, this is music history

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Pat Martino and John Schofield Youtube

I was sitting at home listening to the Pat Martino CD We’ll be Together Again and then I realised that there maybe guitar players thatdon’t know this great jazz guitar legend.  Pat has had a very interesting journey in life and recovered from a very serious illness.  He is probably one of the most fluent players in the history of guitar.  Here is is on Youtube video with another great contemporary jazz guitar player John Schofield.  I saw John Schofield play in the early eighties in a guitar duet,  I still haven’t recovered. 

Truly remarkable guitar playing if you care to look at it closely.

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BB King Jimmy Vaughan Buddy Guy Clapton Youtube

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.

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Charlie Christian Youtube Jazz Guitar

When Charlie Christian first played the electric guitar in the late 30′s anbd early 1940′s, when most people heard it they did not realise that it was an electric guitar, it was a new phenomena.  This youtube video is not Charlie Christian playing live, it is a series of photographs, but the recording of him playing Stomping at the Savoy live in 1941 is of great historical interest to guitar players.  So many of the great jazz plays fashioned their style on Charlie Christian.  He died very young, just like Hendrix did.  His impact is not widely recognised outside of jazz guitar circles.

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Focus with Philip Catherine Youtube

Anyone that was alive and listening in the early seventies would have been aware of the Dutch band Focus, and many would also realise that their music extended way past the hit single Hocus Pocus, complete with yoddeling.  I have posted about the following electric guitar video because it is of historical value.  The original guitar player with Focus was the unbelievable player Jan Akkerman, second to none in his day.  After he left, another player called Philip Catherine joined the band.  Philip Catherine is an incrdible jazz guitar player, I have heard him working with Niels Henning Orsted Pederson, the virtuoso Danish jazz bass player and also the legendary Stepane Grapelli, and Larry Coryell.  In Europe, Philip Catherine was really pushing ahead in the areas of jazz rock.  Philip Catherine and Coryell, recorded a couple of the worlds best acoustic guitar duets ever, fast,  sensitive and very scary. In fact, I think Coryell sounded his best when he played with Catherine.

So here is Philip Catherine with Focus, yes a little dated but well worth seeing him in action, remember it is 32 years ago.

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Man who Named Fender Guitar Dies

Fender Stratocaster

Don Randall, the man who named the Fender Stratocaster, one of the most famous guitars in the world has died.  To see the story about his life go to Don Randall Story

The Fender Stratocaster over the years has been associated with many great players such as:

Jimi Hendrix who played it left handed and strung it upside down. 

Hank Marvin from the the Shadows, the band that had numerous instumental hits at at a time when vocal music was extremely popular.

Stevie Ray Vaughan, the electric master of Texas Blues who died in a helicopter crash with the famous rock promoter, Bill Graham.

Eric Clapton, the British Blues player and member of the classic psychodelic rock trio Cream, who was admired by Hendrix. In fact Hendrix had at one point stated that Tales of Brave Ulysses by the Cream was his favourite guitarist.

Buddy Holly, pioneer of sixties rock and roll who died in an aeroplane crash in 1959 also was one of the early strat players.

Jeff Beck, formerly of the Small Faces with Rod Stewart, the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Group,  and Beck Bogart and Appice,  who went to be one of the great rock and (for lack of words) jazz rock players of our town  still plays a stratocaster and like Mark Knopfler of Dire Strits fame, Beck plays fingerstyle. 

Stratocasters have an instantly recognisable sound to most guitar players.   And are much sought after and played by thousands of players globally.

So on behalf of the guitar players across the world:“Don Randall, thank you for giving such a beautiful instrument, such an exquisite name”

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John Lee Hooker Youtube

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.

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Wes Montgomery Youtube Jazz Guitar

When people have said Wes Montgomery was the worlds best jazz guitarist, very few jazz guitar ;players question it.  When Wes played Round Midnight set the benchmark for all other jazz guitar players to be measured against.  I’ts 36 years since I first heard this, and still today I’m in awe.

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Buddy Guy and Carlos Santana Youtube

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!

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David Gilmour and B B King Youtube

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.

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Jimi Hendrix Youtube – All Along the Watchtower

There are very few songs that stop me in my tracks and send a shiver down my spine when I hear it.  When I was in my teens I was a Hendrix fanatic.  I’m now 52 years old and although I dedicate most of my time to acoustic guitar when I hear All Along the Watchtower the song that Jimi Hendrix redefined I’m reminded why I spent years as an electric guitarist and how brilliant Jimi Hendrix was.
So here’s a Youtube Video of Jimi Hendrix live at the Isle of White.

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Jeff Beck Youtube – Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Charlie Mingus the legendary bass player wrote a song called Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.  Over the years I’ve heard many great players record it, John McLaughlin, Ralph Towner, Joni Mitchell did a vocal version as well, but the most strking version I’ve ever heard is Jeff Beck doing his electric version which he recorded on Wired in 76.

This youtube guitar video is Jeff Beck playing Pork Pie Hat in 2006. It’s part of a medley, the other tune is called Brush with the Blues.

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