| Author |
Topic: World's best guitarist? |
Stefan Robertson
From:
Hertfordshire, UK
|
|
|
|
Damir Besic
From:
Nashville,TN.
|
Posted 17 Feb 2017 11:50 am |
|
it is awesome for 10 minutes... just like listening smoking tele players down town Nashville, its interesting for a couple songs, but I get tired very quickly listening lightning fast scales up and down the neck ....
_________________
https://steelguitarsonline.com/ |
|
|
|
Darvin Willhoite
From:
Roxton, Tx. USA
|
Posted 17 Feb 2017 1:16 pm
|
|
Exactly Damir, that's why I don't care much for bluegrass music, after 2 or three songs it all sounds the same. Most of these lightning speed "songs" are so far from the melody it's unrecognizable. Joe Pass was asked once what his advice to young players was, he said "Learn to play songs". I'm amazed at the guitar players I've ran across that could play a lot of licks etc, and had a reputation for being "good" but couldn't sit down and play a song if their life depended on it.
_________________
Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, as well as some older MSAs, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Recently added a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored blue Rose, named the "Blue Bird" to the herd. Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic again that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also added a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks. |
|
|
|
Damir Besic
From:
Nashville,TN.
|
Posted 17 Feb 2017 2:32 pm
|
|
yes, I love bluegrass, but it has to be a band with great vocals, and with mixture of slow, medium and fast songs...I can listen lightning fast banjo or fiddle tune, but not 3 or 4 in a row...
_________________
https://steelguitarsonline.com/ |
|
|
|
Tony Smart
From:
Harlow. Essex. England
|
Posted 24 Feb 2017 2:36 pm
|
|
| It's all very well, but is Grasso any good on banjo ????????? |
|
|
|
Tony Smart
From:
Harlow. Essex. England
|
Posted 26 Feb 2017 9:10 am
|
|
In all seriousness Pascal's playing is incredible.
Those run downs he does where he includes a harmony note all the way down are phenomenal.
JMO |
|
|
|
David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
|
Posted 4 Mar 2017 9:51 am
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKsuQbOg9oM
Lage has just exploded on me, and I find that above interesting; Martin Taylor and Lage in his still stuffy-fat guitar bit. They each play a separate intro becuase they can't play together! At one point many moons ago I got all whack about learning how to play jazz guitar chords, the substitutions and superimpositions n'stuff (I still think crawling up somewhere wierd via that tritone thing and/or dim7 chord's, then popping a half-step up to the V chord or root is uber-slicker than turtle grease). So I got a pile of videos, Danny Gatton, Scotty Anderson, yer Martin Taylor, even Eric Johnson, Joe Pass etc. They have those b5 and dim-7 chords banging all over the place. But they'd say, "This is one way I would lead out of the V section to the II" - And they were ALL completely different. Like if you painted yourself into a corner there was still no way to do it WRONG; because if you A) Look confident; B) pretend you know what you're doing and repeat the last clunker, you're only a half-step away from SOME kind of better world so twang something/anything and C) git the hell outta there. People who know exactly what they're doing are about as exciting to watch as plumbers.
In that regards I CANNOT hardly believe this Julian Lage doesn't hit clunkers all the time. That Telecaster has somehow made him FEARLESS about... EVERYTHING. He's sure uncaged the beast here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3qAp81vY8
When the inmates blow the door and come tearing out of the asylum (1:02 or so) I know that Lage is running some ten-note groupings then warps into some nine-ish clusters and then... I'm completely lost, gaping and drooling. I forget to BREATHE watching this kid. He's 29 years old. He was raised in San Francisco and he went to the Ali Akbar music school, which might account for some of his talent at hiding the "One" or sort of, actually, kind of destroying the need FOR a "One" at least here and now? It's clear he's even a little shocked HIMSELF, the snake ripped up his spine and blew the top of his head off without an invitation... those old guys are used to a bit of fun - Kenny Wollesen and Scott Colley are Bill Frisell's regular BFF's and even they seem a little bit stunned. Were the heck did they find that Telecaster anyway? |
|
|
|
Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
|
Posted 4 Mar 2017 11:17 am
|
|
In jazz music, there's no current plectrum-style jazz guitarist who floats my boat as much as what I hear from Lage. The clip you posted is incredible. The kid is just fearless; unafraid to paint himself into a corner.
I was at this gig back in 2010 ... Lage's solos were like Eddie Lang on LSD ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3qAp81vY8
_________________
Steel Guitar Books! Website: www.volkmediabooks.com |
|
|
|
Martin Abend
From:
Berlin, Germany
|
Posted 7 Mar 2017 2:38 pm
|
|
Wow,
I've never heard of Lage before but he's just fantastic. I hear some Nels Cline, but he totally has his own thing going. Thanks for the heads up.
_________________
'78 Sho-Bud Pro III Custom |
|
|
|
Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
|
Posted 7 Mar 2017 3:01 pm
|
|
Likewise. Starts out slow, and deceptively simple.
I haven't been listening long, but I gotta say, nice spaces.
You don't usually hear spaces being played that fast.
So I was considering my opinion, if we're just talking about favorites, and it occurred to me that the best play in the round with each other, like with Frisell, and this guy, whoever he is and where he came from. |
|
|
|
Glenn Suchan
From:
Austin, Texas
|
|
|
|
Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
|
Posted 9 Mar 2017 6:27 am Re: World's Best Guitarist?
|
|
| Glenn Suchan wrote: |
| Jimmy Rosenberg: (This YouTube also features the great Frank Vignola on guitar and Joe Ascione on brushes and phone book) |
Great stuff! |
|
|
|
David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
|
Posted 11 Mar 2017 10:51 pm
|
|
Well A-Okay; but/z... ummmm... But then, can't like everybody be just a hair worse than M'Boy Julian L.?
Cheezball DooWop changes: assassination courtesy of J. Lage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbMsbpypECU
(And itza FAT hair) |
|
|
|
Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
|
Posted 12 Mar 2017 4:47 pm
|
|
Seems to me that playing a Tele has totally opened up his playing. He's a monster on any guitar but Leo's creation takes the poetry to the next level.
You can have your Strats, ES 335's, L5's etc, etc, etc. For money, the Telecaster is the most perfect translator of feelings into hardware and back out as feelings as any electric guitar ever made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B7_s8N04gs
_________________
Steel Guitar Books! Website: www.volkmediabooks.com |
|
|
|
Wayne Carver
From:
Martinez, Georgia, USA
|
Posted 18 Mar 2017 5:45 pm Re: World's best guitarist?
|
|
| Andy Volk wrote: |
After Pat Metheny said of Grasso ""The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso. This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficult." people on the jazz guitar BB are tying themselves into knots with praise. He has amazing technical command of the instrument and, for a guitar player, horn-like facility with the bebop language but there is no "best" in art and his playing doesn't move me half as much as one sustained chord on a steel guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgJiWC1sSfM |
Well as they say sometimes less is more. I don't think he compares to Reinhardt, Lang, or Romano. |
|
|
|
