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Main influence on electric these days is Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown – 50+ years and still going strong
Main influence on acoustic has always been Brownie McGhee – very advance player of his day
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My listrning varies quite a lot, some of the kids of today are as impressive as some of the greats, i do tend to drift back to Peter Green though if im being totally honest.
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My listrning varies quite a lot, some of the kids of today are as impressive as some of the greats, i do tend to drift back to Peter Green though if im being totally honest.
Peter Green was great for sure. Shame that he got side-tracked as he did but at least he made a comeback in his latter years
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Aye, poor old greeny.strange how so many talented people seem to be tortured souls with huge demons which blight their lives.
Reading back on what has been written about greeny and so many others, who played, sang, acted or danced because it was their lifes passion. Could it be that success was their downfall, doing it for the love of it has surely got to be different to doing it for the accolades…..Billy..
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I’m of the thought that mimicking those I admire is only a start to finding my own voice.
In art school one of my instructors taught me that knowing the rules and styles of those who came before you is just the start, then is is your job to break those things in interesting ways.
I was born with songs inside of me, they have been locked up and I’m looking for the tools to let them out.
I look for that in people that I listen too, those who felt compelled to let the music out.
Jon D
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Jon I always felt the same but could not make the breakthrough when I was young but now the internet and Brain in particular have changed all that for me, save Ive hit 68!
but certainly better late than never. And yes of course one would like to leave ones own mark in style but getting sufficiency good to be an entirely free form player may prove long challenge.-
Yes, you are right, the internet has changed the way we learn and given us access to things that we did not have access to before the internet.
At this point I am a 15 year old kid, with almost 3 years of playing under his belt, who has some gear and wants to find some friends to play with.
I’m shy, and have never played in a band, never sat with a drummer or a singer or a bassist or keyboard player but I have jammed with a friend of mine one time, about a year and a half ago.
All this is happening in my 51 year old mind, a mind that is full of life experiences and I have resources a fifteen year old me never had, the one thing I don’t have a lot of is time.
But it’s a different world now, I have cameras, mics, and a full recording studio in my computer. The music industry that required me to find an agent, book gigs, go on tour and make records for the music executives to get rich on no longer exists.Perhaps there is a new way to perform, get recognition and produce music from right where I’m at, perhaps that is already what you and I are doing, perhaps we are already making more of a mark than we realize.
I choose to believe this is only a small part of something much bigger, and I’m gonna run like hell at this thing.
It’s all part of my rock and roll fantasy.
What are your thoughts on that?
Jon D
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Surely they all have that trait, they are all telling us a story only the words have been replaced by musical notes.
I recall Brian saying in one of his lessons( yes i sometimes do sit long enough to take in what he says, though not very often hahaha) that licks are a language, words or little phrases that go together, a bit like the alphabet, no one talks in the alphabet they use it to make words and phrases.
So imho learning the language has got to be more beneficial to your story telling than mimicking how others play/sound..no?...Billy..
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Yes, you are right, you may have had the experience of raising children, I have raised four children and they all learned their vocabulary by mimicking the words and phrases that come out of my mouth and the mouths of my family members, now those kids say the damnedest things, things I never taught them, because now they express their own ideas.
Even the last song I posted is full of my own phrases, things I am making up on the fly because I am not good enough to fully mimic the things I’m learning.
Brian says- Learn to play, not memorize ActiveMelody provides original lesson material each week designed to help guitar players improve their ability to improvise lead, rhythm, and fills. That is on the front page of this site, and his teaching has brought me to where I’m at.
I started by mimicking Brian’s teaching, my YouTube channel shows this, then I quickly transitioned to learning songs and trying to apply the theory and techniques that Brian teaches, these things work and the proof is in my playing.
So yes you are absolutely right that the language of music is more important to telling a good story than mimicking others.
Have you ever been moved by music but not understood what the Artist is saying, this artist speaks the language of music and touches my heart.
Jon D
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My favourites are jimi Reed, Howling Wolf, Bo Didley, John Mayall, Keb Mo, Taj Mahal, Willie Dixon, Alexis Korner, Steve Marriot, Rory Gallagher, the early Rolling Stones and a local Blues man Martin Philippi.
Dieter
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Jon,
My most favorite and most inspiring blues players are people like Tab Benoit, Taj Mahal, Keb Mo SRV, the late great Smokin’ Joe Kubek and Bnois King. Here’s is a video of the late Smokin’ Joe Kubek. I like people who are under the radar. Joanna O’Connor is a gal from Chicago who when I lived there I would go see every weekend. She can cover Allman Brothers like nobody else. A great player and entertainer. -
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