When ever someone mentions 'guitar heroes', I (and most?) people instantly think of Eric Clapton, Mark Knofler, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and several others
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OK... I'll give you great guitarist, and I am also always amazed at which folks have no idea who he is.. but there is one thing I can never get past with him. I saw him live once (as an opening act with Adrian Belew... it was odd?). For the first 15 minutes I was thinking how great this was, then next half hour went by very slowly. I generally like oddball instrumentals, but it just never ended. Then recently one of my favorite bands released an EP, with Fripp playing on the opening instrumental track. I listened to it once or twice, and I now skip it. I don't really have an explanation as to why... it just is.
On a completely different note, there is an AES event on Circuit Bending tonight. I got an RSVP last night from someone with the email address of 'boothnavy'... I had to ask, and yup! we are getting the synth player of Lifestyles showing up at our meeting.
Heh. We used to crack Michael Hedges string bending jokes back in the late 80s. Both Sonny Landreth and Jimmy Vaughan are well-known and hardly underrated in my neck of the music woods. And it was indeed very sad news about Jeff Healey.
As for other underrated... Dave Grohl? Nah... everyone thinks he's the bees knees. Hrrrm... who else? Todd Rundgren.
Other than Todd, I have a hard time thinking of any great guitarists that are underrated, to be honest. That's probably because I hang with... different folks. My respective crowds definitely think the world of people like Allan Holdsworth and Mike Stern, even though they're not well known in the mainstream.
true... I hadn't thought about the hard-core jazz/blues crowd and them knowing Sonny Landreth & Jimmy Vaughan. I guess since they both had there time in the rock & pop music world I forgot they were known outside of that.
I just remembered that when I saw John Hiatt in concert maybe 8 or 9 years ago, he had brought Sonny along with him on tour. This was the first (and only) time I've seen this man play. John Hiatt gave him the spot light to do a few of Sonny's own songs, and umm... wow! (to top this off, I got to see them in some small venue in Indianapolis, perhaps 200 folks total, all sitting at little round tables on a dance floor. I love seeing great music in an intimate space).
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On a completely different note, there is an AES event on Circuit Bending tonight. I got an RSVP last night from someone with the email address of 'boothnavy'... I had to ask, and yup! we are getting the synth player of Lifestyles showing up at our meeting.
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Also, I love Jimmie Vaughn. He has a relatively new tribute album out. On The Jimmy Reed Highway with Omar Kent Dykes. I highly recommend.
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As for other underrated... Dave Grohl? Nah... everyone thinks he's the bees knees. Hrrrm... who else? Todd Rundgren.
Other than Todd, I have a hard time thinking of any great guitarists that are underrated, to be honest. That's probably because I hang with... different folks. My respective crowds definitely think the world of people like Allan Holdsworth and Mike Stern, even though they're not well known in the mainstream.
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I just remembered that when I saw John Hiatt in concert maybe 8 or 9 years ago, he had brought Sonny along with him on tour. This was the first (and only) time I've seen this man play. John Hiatt gave him the spot light to do a few of Sonny's own songs, and umm... wow! (to top this off, I got to see them in some small venue in Indianapolis, perhaps 200 folks total, all sitting at little round tables on a dance floor. I love seeing great music in an intimate space).
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