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Post by lonelyjelly on Feb 14, 2024 11:32:23 GMT
Ha ha !!! Yes, of course ! Lewis does seem to nudge Ian McWee along to get my slides finished & posted. AND when that doesn't work, Lewis sells me some he decides he doesn't want - and then within days he asks me send back any ones I don't want, as he has decided he shouldn't have sold them, ha ha !! Not to mention pick them out for you at his workshop and guitar shows 😂😋 Glad you like them lol
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Post by tomgiemza on Feb 14, 2024 11:59:57 GMT
What a great playing!
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Post by twang1 on Feb 14, 2024 13:35:39 GMT
Today I've been messin' around with a slide version of "I am a pilgrim". Frank
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Post by blueshome1 on Feb 14, 2024 14:30:15 GMT
Canned Heat by Sloppy Henry/Bell Street Lightning Willie McTell. Same song. I'll post a video shortly.
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Post by mrstrellisofnwales on Feb 17, 2024 19:50:03 GMT
I can’t pretend to be getting even 1% of this but we can all dream can’t we? Mrs T
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Post by snakehips on Feb 17, 2024 20:10:56 GMT
Hi there !
I find the backing band playing is very bland, safe & pedestrian - and this may be partly why Roy Bucannan’s guitar playing does nothing for me.
What I would be interested in (mildly) is what he could play along to Elmore James’ crack band of Odie Payne on drums, Little Johnnie Jones on piano, JT Brown on sax (and possibly Biyd Atkins on sax too) and someone on double bass. Elmore’s band is partly what makes Elmore’s records so good.
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Post by blueshome1 on Feb 18, 2024 9:54:23 GMT
Hi there ! I find the backing band playing is very bland, safe & pedestrian - and this may be partly why Roy Bucannan’s guitar playing does nothing for me. What I would be interested in (mildly) is what he could play along to Elmore James’ crack band of Odie Payne on drums, Little Johnnie Jones on piano, JT Brown on sax (and possibly Biyd Atkins on sax too) and someone on double bass. Elmore’s band is partly what makes Elmore’s records so good. Agree, sounds like a rock band trying to play blues. Just going through the motions ~ that subtle swing is missing.
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Post by snakehips on Feb 18, 2024 15:57:10 GMT
Subtle swing ? I'd call it a solid groove with a lotta cool stuff going on !
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Post by mrstrellisofnwales on Feb 19, 2024 18:17:12 GMT
Subtle swing ? I'd call it a solid groove with a lotta cool stuff going on ! I’m playing it as a driving version of the classic Elmore James riff with slide in open D. For a novice acoustic reso player like me it’s good fun to try and weave the lead into the thumping bass. Roy Buchanan was the first guitar gig I ever went to. Liverpool Stadium 1972. Mrs T
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Post by davetracey on Feb 19, 2024 18:46:46 GMT
He had an incredible tone. The first time I heard anything off that Roy Buchanan album was on a sampler around 1973 - a track called "After Hour"s I think. Hair raising stuff, and a million miles away from the heavy rock I was obsessed with at the time.
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Post by Michael Messer on Feb 20, 2024 8:48:16 GMT
Roy Buchanan was an extraordinary musician and his playing was a beautiful thing. His career started when as a teenager he joined the Johnny Otis band as the steel player and Roy made his recording debut at Chess Records playing for Dale Hawkins in the late 50s. Shortly after that he joined Dale's cousin, Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, along with Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Levon Helm.... His music gained him the respect of many of the greats of the time, including Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, John Lennon and the Rolling Stones, who asked him to join the band when Brian Jones died. His career and life were cut short by demons and alcohol. Roy Buchanan died in 1988, he was in his late 40s.
In the late 70s my girlfriend and I used to love to listen to Roy Buchanan's music.
He played in London in 1973 and 1985, but sadly I didn't see either of those shows.
This is beautiful.... Hey Joe, filmed in Austin, TX, in 1976.
Shine On Michael
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Post by Michael Messer on Feb 20, 2024 9:19:20 GMT
oops.... we have gone off the thread subject of "What Are You Playing On Reso Right Now"....
Well, my playing time is currently being taken up with working on live performance arrangements of the material on my new album. I have also been writing two new pieces, one is a bluesy lap steel/Dobro instrumental in G minor and the other is a blues song that I am writing and searching for my own twist on a blues arrangement.
Shine On Michael
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Post by tomgiemza on Feb 20, 2024 13:34:06 GMT
Hey Joe from Austin is my favourite Roy's performance. He surely could play the blues (Roy's Bluz from Austin, TX is a great example), although I agree with Snakehips on his Elmore James Tribute.
Yesterday I was playing around with kind of Robert Johnson/Elmore James licks around 12 fret (open G). Those are very simple licks, but it's not that easy to get them right, sometimes details are everything.
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Post by snakehips on Feb 20, 2024 13:42:13 GMT
Weird !
Whatever greatness you are hearing, I'm not ! Not trying to be controversial here but I wonder if others are hearing what I am hearing ?
The first 2 mins & roughly 45 seconds, they are all over the place, not in time with each other. Just awful. Then he starts noodling a repetitive riff, over & over, slightly off-key bends, high up the neck. Couldn't listen to any more than about 3 1/2 minutes, then had to stop it.
The Hammond player seemed really good - but the bass player I think was the worst - especially his timing - no real musical "support" for what Buccanan was doing.
Well, if we all had the same taste in things, life would get boring, I suppose !
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Post by bonzo on Feb 20, 2024 14:24:56 GMT
I'm with you on this one Snakey. Maybe a new thread is needed on guitarists we just can't get! But that's us I guess!
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