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nomination - best WHITE blues guitarist (1 Viewer)

tommyboy said:
Harvey Mandel, good pull
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ez pour moi, for he played a significant role in my life, even tho i only met him briefly. winter '72-3 i was dating a very political chick and it was just barely worth it that she soooo well rewarded me for sitting thru all her for-the-cause meetings & rallies. anyways, we were at a Zero Population Growth - sexytime, yes?! - thing when kim suddenly volunteers me, cuz i hung around w a lot of musicians, to help put together a benefit concert for ZPG, pref as close to the ghetto as possible (cracked me up even then). a family member worked for boston parks&rec and got us white stadium - roxbury/jamaicaplain's closest thing to a venue - and, all of a sudden i, not yet 20yo, was in charge. had a friend connected with the hottest local band, James Montgomery Blues Band, and got them to volunteer. this gave us an in when we banged on musicbiz doors and eventually a band called Pure Food and Drug Act (w the great don 'sugarcane' harris and mr mandel) decided to do it as an exposure gig. my uncle printed 1500 tickets for early summer '73, few of which sold until the Montgomery Band blew the Eagles off the stage (a story i've told b4 in these pgs) in May. sold out, oversold to the fire limit, cool.

must say i surprised myself with how many details i had covered, when i had never really done anything actually ever, but me, kim, a gigantic kid named wayne silva who'd been my gofer/bodyguard since 7th grade, my sound guy, my uncle and like 3 stadium staff were completely unprepared for what happened on show night. there were only chainlink fences at the endzones and almost 10,000 boston partyheads decided to crash in to see the hottest act in town. less than $1000 dollars damage was done, kim turned trash barrels into donation receptacles and we actually made some significant dough and, best of all, there were no serious incidents and my uncle got props from cityoboston for reaching the young people.

best of all for me, one of the biggest talent mgrs in boston was in the PF&DA trailer for this and offered me a job as a result. i formed a company w my sound guy, cut a deal w this bigcheez and within a yr was on tours w Bonnie Raitt and Orleans ('still the one') and Little Feat and things were never the same. nufced

 
Maybe not the best yet, but maybe the "next: one.

He is a Buddy Guy protégé, and was discovered at like  years old.  Now he is making a name for himself.  I have seen him live, and he is damn good:

Quinn Sullivan

Quinn plays Little Wing

 
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I have yet to hear a Joe Bonamassa piece that has half the emotional power of an SRV, Clapton at his best, or even that Julian Lage track.

I say that not to be judgmental, but in hopes that someone will take this as a challenge to post something to refute it!

 
Parmcat said:
Maybe not the best yet, but maybe the "next: one.

He is a Buddy Guy protégé, and was discovered at like  years old.  Now he is making a name for himself.  I have seen him live, and he is damn good:

Quinn Sullivan

Quinn plays Little Wing
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He's great.  Remember seeing him a few years ago and wondering if he'd flame out or become the next Bonamassa-esque prodigy.  Buddy Guy is a pretty good mentor I guess.

Here he is at 17 in June playing Little Wing again.

 
Apple Jack said:
okay
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That cat is a great guitar player but he does not fit into the blue category. He's more of a jazz fusion player, reminds me a little of Wayne Krantz. If you really want to pick a dark horse you could have gone with  J.D Simo. Funny thing is you already know this. I've seen enough of your post about music. For me the answer if Jeff Beck, but SRV is the other acceptable answer IMHO. Anyways. thanks for turning me onto another guitar player. 

 
wikkidpissah said:
sry - same opinion i've had of him for 40 yrs. damn fine soloist. don't care for soloists - Satriani, Bonnamassa, child guitar wizards, ya boyee. soulless. soloists are soulless. no matter how evil your sound, takes songs to sing, not solos to string, to convince me you've licked the devil's ground.
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While I agree with you on the two you cited, this comment is nonsense pardner. You might not know the language and that's cool, but you are definitely out of your depth if that's how you view soloing on spec.

 
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Apple Jack said:
While I agree with you on the two you cited, this comment is nonsense pardner. You might not know the language and that's cool, but you are definitely out of your depth if that's how you view soloing on spec.
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and that's what i've admired so much about you all along - your depth.

 
wikkidpissah said:
sry - same opinion i've had of him for 40 yrs. damn fine soloist. don't care for soloists - Satriani, Bonnamassa, child guitar wizards, ya boyee. soulless. soloists are soulless. no matter how evil your sound, takes songs to sing, not solos to string, to convince me you've licked the devil's ground.
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There is so much soul in this little Tyrone Davis number by Roy - that there is enough left for the rest of the world..all 10 zillion billion people. So ####### soulful....

https://youtu.be/wlRW2TV3u9o

 
ffldrew said:
There is so much soul in this little Tyrone Davis number by Roy - that there is enough left for the rest of the world..all 10 zillion billion people. So ####### soulful....

https://youtu.be/wlRW2TV3u9o
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Sorry, brother - not phyllin' it. Tasty enuff licks and all, in a Dead-ly sorta way but, even clearing my head best i could, i knew where he was going every bar. And i never cared for that trebly tone of his. It's OK, I don't have to love him for you to. Glad you do - that's what it's for.

 
Dope said:
Tommy Sowell

BTW...The guitarists who always reached my soul were Stevie Ray, Duane and Jerry Garcia.
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Comin to ya  

At a symposium

Don't make the numbers

I just mosey 'em

And when you got it

You get money

So don't worry

Cuz i gots, honey

I'm a Sowell man, diddit da diddit da

 
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wikkidpissah said:
sry - same opinion i've had of him for 40 yrs. damn fine soloist. don't care for soloists - Satriani, Bonnamassa, child guitar wizards, ya boyee. soulless. soloists are soulless. no matter how evil your sound, takes songs to sing, not solos to string, to convince me you've licked the devil's ground.
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"Now you play a pretty good fiddle, boy
But give the devil his due
I'll bet a fiddle of gold
Against your soul
Cause I think I'm better than you."

No singing of songs mentioned so I'm going to have to disagree. :violin:   :violin:

 
Leroy Hoard said:
No singing of songs mentioned so I'm going to have to disagree. :violin:   :violin:
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Hendrix, along w Willie Mays, are my secular gods, but my favorite album of his is Axis cuz i like him, and everybody, most when he shoots his sundust most closely within the context of songs.

 
so far we have:

Johnny Winter
Jonny Lang
That Mayer dude
Tyler bryant
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jackie Greene
Sonny Landreth
Duane Allman
Joe Bonamassa
Derek Trucks
eric Clapton
Roy Buchanan
Neal Black
Gary Moore
Ian Moore
Jimmie ray vaughan
Peter Green
Mike Bloomfield
Kenny Wayne Shephard
Jack White
Rory Gallagher
Billy Gibbons
warren haynes
Harvey Mandel
Elvin Bishop
Quinn Sullivan
Walter Trout
Danny Gatton
Robben Ford
Jimmy Page
Trey_Anastasio
jerry garcia
Alvin Lee
Jeff Beck
Tommy Sowell
jj cale
Jeff Healey

 
 
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