When hair bands made the scene I really started to embrace the older music......Procul Harum was one band that I really used to listen to a lot. Trower was spectacular then and when he broke from the band he really came into his own.
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Well its the next day. Everyone always talks about Hendrix, and rightfully so, but here's my vote for the white Hendrix. Robin T.
Makes you want to break out the Bong
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I just listened to them again. If you don't listen to anything I put up please listen to this guy it doesn't get any better than this. One more, 1 guitar and 1 little amp what else is needed
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Well its the next day. Everyone always talks about Hendrix, and rightfully so, but here's my vote for the white Hendrix. Robin T.
Makes you want to break out the Bong
HELL ya Paul....love Trower....underated for sure....reminds me of the bong days is right ...thanks for posting the link
a man that truly plays with feeling...cresendo...vibrato....feeling....
I bought BigFish a trower disc...ever listen to it Larry???
Yeah Matt you would have to say underrated. Hendrix got all the acclaim for pioneering that style, sound, as he should but I always thought Trower was right there with him. IMO he is just as good. Took his greatest hits to work last nite but too much concentration needed on job for that type of music, tonite I will be drowning out the guy next machine overs Jimmy Buffet, god I hate that music.
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
Trower was amazing no doubt!-- but I know who would've been the "white Hendrix" had he ONLY lived past age 23 or so...
I'm the #1 Hendrix fan I guarantee you! Love Clapton, Beck, Duane, Ronnie V.Z., David Gilmour, etc., etc. But I've never heard "heavy Metal" guitar- playing... OR gorgeous acoustic mellow pieces... like I heard on the first two Ozzy solo albums dominated by Randy Rhoads!
This kid went from unknown, to revitalizing Ozzys' career by a very young age! (Zack Wilde dreamed of being Randy-- didn't come close!) He was a child prodigy trained by his parents for a future in Classical music... 'till he decided the Electric guitar was his instrument... & that "Metal"/ power- Rock turned him on! His music on those 2 albums was not "Metal" really-- but the power chords & thunderous double- tracking solos produced some of the greatest guitar sounds ever heard certainly in the "hard" rock genre!
Talk Deep Purple... Iron Maiden... and Metallica or Eddie V. all you want-- in only 2 albums Randy blew them away!!-- and imagine what his 12th album WOULD have sounded like! Don't take my word for it: just put it on & play it loud! "Blizzard of Oz"... & "Diary of a Madman" are easily found. Tell me how many were better than he after hearing both!
Little known, is how Randy died so young: most figure drugs, choking on his own vomit, etc. Randy was a totally- clean California health- food/ wholistic- type raised by hippie parents... who didn't even drink! He was afraid his whole life of airplanes/ flying (as I admit am I too!)... yet he accepted a dare to go up in a small plane with others from the Ozzy tour to prove his bravery. He made the fatal mistake of overcoming his fear to say "yes," not knowing then that the pilot was (legally) drunk! That's what it took to stop the true next "modern/ white Hendrix"...
It just blows me away no matter how many times i listen to his stuff. I just tried to get my daughter, 6yersold, to listen to him and she said he looks weird. I said so what listen to that it is heaven. She left to listen to Hanna Montana.
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
No speakers set up on my computer, Professor... 'else I would love to listen...
Who cares what a Guitarist looks like?-- I'd ask her... (Though Frank Z. was indeed a "looker!"). Who's uglier than Geddy Lee?-- yet he's the best bassist in modern "rock"...
If she wants a good- looking AND great guitarist-- again, that's Randy! Talent aside... I only wish I looked as good as he!
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I kind of agree with comment of the the person who posted it. Never heard him like this on the radio. I think it is pretty good. I always kind of liked his redition of light my fire.
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Had to read it twice just to let it all sink in.
(The bastards in work are actually making me work. Putting a serious dent in my paid surfing time.They will be punished.)
Ronnie Van Zant?
Singer,vocalist,songwriter.
No comparison to R.R.
And my question (Lecounts99) is have you ever seen an all acoustic show in a club by Zakk Wilde? You should. Impressive.
Clapton,Beck,Floyd,Deep Purple, and probably Black Sabbath.
If it wasn't for at least one or all of them R.R. would probably have stayed with classical music.
He heard something that started him off.
And Ozzy revitalizes his career every few years. He's the best at it.
First it was R.R.
Then Zakk Wilde.
Then Ozzfest. Black Sabbath reunion.
Now it's free Ozzfest.
best guitarist I ever had the pleasure to see in person, up and close. at the Ritz, NYC New years eve 1989, just before his untimely death
that is one night of my life Id like to relive over and over.
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Voodoo Child
crossfire
Neil young and Crazy Horse
Cortez the killer
Like a Hurricane
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The godfather:
Jimi Hendrix
Rt Hand - Stevie Ray------------Lft Hand - Buddy Guy
The Brit Holy Trinity
Beck - Clapton - Page
Test of Time Stalwarts:
Santana - M. Knopfler - Angus Young - Joe Perry
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Duke Robillard
Harrison was a great musician but hardly a great guitarist and as for Kieth Richard, any time he can stay upright for a whole preformance, it's a good day.
It's hard to imagine that Eric Johnson isn't listed on any top lists. He is about as clean and fast as anyone I've ever seen. Great live performance if you ever get the chance.
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It's hard to imagine that Eric Johnson isn't listed on any top lists. He is about as clean and fast as anyone I've ever seen. Great live performance if you ever get the chance.
He's on my list. Right near the top.
Bernzy
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Got to see him w/ tautog01 at the call when I was 18..
great blues show! the late Son Seals.. not the best guitarist by far but he definetly lived the blues!
Bryan
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"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
, Joe Satriani
Everyone always talks about Hendrix, and rightfully so, but here's my vote for the white Hendrix. Robin T.
...thanks for posting the link
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