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Re: What person/band motivated you to pick up the guitar?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:48 pm
by strings2wood
hawaii121 wrote:single song that makes me want to be a better player - Lindsey Buckingham playing "Big Love" live - sounds like 3 guitars and he is doing vocals on top of it all.


He is such a great "picker"- especially when you try to do what he does!
Never Going Back Again
Bleed to Love Her etc.
I love the dynamic of that live version- blistering start-slow arc- killer bridge and the screaming at the end.
Perfect live performance.

I'd give a vote for LOTS of Pat Simmons acoustic work:
e.g. Slat Key Soquel Rag
South City Midnight Lady
Black Water

or Jimmy Pages:
Bron-Yr-Aur

Lets hear it for the guy who
showed us Open D or G weren't the only interesting open tunings!
C6 tuning. KILLER.

Joni Mitchell- Amelia and all Larry Carlton"s fills.
It's too hard to name just one for me Donnel. :study

Re: What person/band motivated you to pick up the guitar?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:28 pm
by thesjkexperience
I went back and listened to some CSN&Y and CSN and it reminded me of the Byrds "Mind Garden" which I think is Crosby and what a huge influence that song and "What's Happening?!?!" (which isnt Crosby singing, but the song feels like him).

I have been on an acoustic feel/mood all summer and have been opening some long forgotten influences. I also finally tried DADGAD tuning (a Jimmy Page favorite). If you haven't do it now. I bet you write three songs in the first hour :music

We all know who our influences are, but in the late '80s I had formed a new band in California and the drummer loved how I switched between a Hendrix/Trower feel to a psychedelic mid '60s sound all the way to Neil Young. Which was funny because I had never listened to Neil let alone study his style. He loaned me a few CDs and sure enough! One of the songs I brought in the day he said something was a dead ringer for for a NY tune I had never heard. And all this time I thought I learned from Jimi and Jimmy during the midnight movies :mrgreen:

Re: What person/band motivated you to pick up the guitar?

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:20 am
by strings2wood
thesjkexperience wrote:I went back and listened to some CSN&Y and CSN and it reminded me of the Byrds "Mind Garden" which I think is Crosby and what a huge influence that song and "What's Happening?!?!" (which isnt Crosby singing, but the song feels like him).

I have been on an acoustic feel/mood all summer and have been opening some long forgotten influences. I also finally tried DADGAD tuning (a Jimmy Page favorite). If you haven't do it now. I bet you write three songs in the first hour :music

We all know who our influences are, but in the late '80s I had formed a new band in California and the drummer loved how I switched between a Hendrix/Trower feel to a psychedelic mid '60s sound all the way to Neil Young. Which was funny because I had never listened to Neil let alone study his style. He loaned me a few CDs and sure enough! One of the songs I brought in the day he said something was a dead ringer for for a NY tune I had never heard. And all this time I thought I learned from Jimi and Jimmy during the midnight movies :mrgreen:


Nice post and DADGAD is great- used in a lot of Irish stuff too.

I know Crosby and Young used: DADDAD for
"Music is Love"from Crosby's first solo album
"I I Could Only Remember My Name."ImageImage
I used to have a great Crosby chord book where all the chords and open tunings were actually right,
lent it to someone who conveniently forgot to give it back before moving away :angryfire

This site is pretty good:

http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/ ... unings.pdf

it's great to get on an acoustic binge.
can also be lucrative in the right duo/ trio combination. :music

Re: What person/band motivated you to pick up the guitar?

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:30 pm
by hawaii121
Mentioned before... Seemed like a good place for this... Larry Carlton trio playing this weekend on Oahu! I feel inspired just holding my tickets! Sorry for gloating!

Re: What person/band motivated you to pick up the guitar?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:00 pm
by zornshorn
Actually, "B-Sick" sounds like an awesome name for a DJ/MC!

Re: What person/band motivated you to pick up the guitar?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:27 pm
by strings2wood
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or Bill doing a cameo on t.v. with Jennifer Garner.

Sydney: "Do u think ewe meyet B sick with that thing up ur noze?'

Bill: "Purrhaps. Hvn't I scene ewe sumwear b4?
Rn't u 1 of the chix that put me in hoztibul?"

Sydney: "N odog, eets the drugs. Ur dlerious.!"
Bill: "I hav dayzha voo now and zahn and my Hans r trem bling,
but I kud sware eye no u......"

Sydney: "I'll page for Dr. Stiv. He shud b hear sune enuf."
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Re: What person/band motivated you to pick up the guitar?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:38 pm
by melodichaotic
Ahh Simon, you are a master with mis-speeled wurdz, and a poet with pictures...I must say, inspiring enough to make ME want to do sum hans zhtans, mice elf. :mrgreen:
But seriously, this great thread has unfortunately gone :sign_offtopic , that 4z shorn.

Having said that, I will absolutely agree and commend Donnel for bringing up Lindsay Buckingham--a HIGHLY under-rated player, singer, songwriter, AND, a someone who is a bit trickier to detect who his influences are, and that says a lot.

Without question, a highly original improviser who is sensitive 2 sonic space and nuance. :thumbup:

Re: What person/band motivated you to pick up the guitar?

PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:07 pm
by zornshorn
zornshorn wrote:Actually, "B-Sick" sounds like an awesome name for a DJ/MC!


And of course a Google search reveals that there already is one.

Re: What person/band motivated you to pick up the guitar?

PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:58 pm
by Johnson