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The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete
It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete
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Roy Buchanan is a big part of the reason I bought a Tele.
There’s a lot of great Roy Buchanan footage on YouTube but quality and fidelity don’t always equal his playing. Here’s a clip from the 1985 Carnegie Hall concert with Albert Collins and Lonnie Mack. His Second Album is the one to get if you’re going to buy something and wonder where to start (it was his second Polydor album, there was one he produced and released on his own before that). All of his albums have bright moments (I have just about all, two or three I need to get, the recent releases), his playing always shined brightly, but I didn’t care for some of the slick production, especially the later Atlantics.
There’s a great book about him, Roy Buchanan: American Axe, by Phil Carson where I acquired most of these anecdotes, or verified things I’d heard elsewhere. He came up playing in roadhouse rock ‘n’ roll bands, including Ronnie Hawkins’ Hawks (same one as The Band alumni). There are some 45s from those days (a couple have been on YouTube, here’s one, “After Hours,” will add others as I find them); when he was on a session, he’d sometimes make a deal to get the B-sides. He practiced unamplified on a Tele, shows what kind of great ears he had.
He died in police custody in 1988 and was then accused by the police of committing suicide; his family said there were bruises on his head and body that are inconsistent with self-inflicted injuries.
He wasn’t as well-known as he deserved to be, although I think I may have actually ignored earlier mentions, I became aware of him in the early ’90s when a friend pointed me in his direction. I wish I’d listened to earlier tips.
Don D.
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