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Post by GnLguy on Jan 9, 2014 20:05:37 GMT -6
Would love to see things patched up between the Brothers and Dickey Betts and the living members of the ABB return to their 'family roots'. Don't know that will happen but it would good
www.guitarinstructor.com/blog/2014/01/09/warren-haynes-and-derek-trucks-to-leave-allman-brothers-band
Good Time Feeling from 1978. Mix on this wasn't the greatest but Dickey's interaction with Dangerous Dan Toler was outstanding to say the least. I've seen recent video of Betts playing and trust me,
the guy still has it.
The 2nd song is 'Duane's Tune', another one of Dickey's great instrumentals
The 3rd is "The Blues Ain't Nothin' But A Good Man Feelin' Bad'
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Post by matonanjin on Jan 10, 2014 9:51:14 GMT -6
This really isn't surprising do you think? Warren Haynes is so busy with Gov't Mule and other projects. Derek Trucks is so busy with the projects with his wife. Something had to give with both of them.
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Post by GnLguy on Jan 10, 2014 10:54:59 GMT -6
This really isn't surprising do you think? Warren Haynes is so busy with Gov't Mule and other projects. Derek Trucks is so busy with the projects with his wife. Something had to give with both of them.
One possibility to replace Warren would be Jack Pearson. Jack was with Gregg on the CD Searchin' For Simplicity and worked with the ABB before Dickey was ousted. Dickey told Gregg that they either needed to hire Jack or take lessons from him. Yeah, he's that good. Jack is on of those unheard players that their talent knows no limit
www.jackpearson.com/?pg=home
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Post by GnLguy on Jan 10, 2014 11:00:01 GMT -6
This really isn't surprising do you think? Warren Haynes is so busy with Gov't Mule and other projects. Derek Trucks is so busy with the projects with his wife. Something had to give with both of them.
One possibility to replace Warren would be Jack Pearson. Jack was with Gregg on the CD Searchin' For Simplicity and worked with the ABB before Dickey was ousted. Dickey told Gregg that they either needed to hire Jack or take lessons from him. Yeah, he's that good. Jack is on of those unheard players that their talent knows no limit
www.jackpearson.com/?pg=home
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Post by Phil on Jan 11, 2014 16:37:52 GMT -6
"Jack is one of those unheard players that their talent knows no limit."
Well said. I never heard of him until a few months ago when I bought a Blues instructional DVD by a Nashville session guitarist named Steve Krenz. On the DVD Krenz jams with and interviews Pearson. Pearson is phenomenal. He's very laid back and makes it look like he's not even putting forth any effort. How can anybody play the Blues and not make extreme facial contortions? :-)
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Post by Marc on Jan 13, 2014 16:27:30 GMT -6
This really isn't surprising do you think? Warren Haynes is so busy with Gov't Mule and other projects. Derek Trucks is so busy with the projects with his wife. Something had to give with both of them.
Wasn't Warren Haynes filling in for Jerry Garcia in the Dead when they got back together. That is actually how I first came to hear of Warren Hayes. I used to be a huge Dead Head. It's good that Warren and Derek keep busy and hopefully some fresh blood in the Allman Brothers Band will be a good thing.. |
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Post by GnLguy on Jan 14, 2014 11:15:11 GMT -6
"Jack is one of those unheard players that their talent knows no limit." Well said. I never heard of him until a few months ago when I bought a Blues instructional DVD by a Nashville session guitarist named Steve Krenz. On the DVD Krenz jams with and interviews Pearson. Pearson is phenomenal. He's very laid back and makes it look like he's not even putting forth any effort. How can anybody play the Blues and not make extreme facial contortions? :-) The Allman's seem to be able find talent whenever they need, but my vote would still go for Jack.
This is a tune from Gregg Allman's Searchin' For Simplicity CD and I think that Jack is the lead player. He's got the BB King sound going on for sure |
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Post by matonanjin on Jan 14, 2014 14:28:20 GMT -6
Well said. I never heard of him until a few months ago when I bought a Blues instructional DVD by a Nashville session guitarist named Steve Krenz. On the DVD Krenz jams with and interviews Pearson. Pearson is phenomenal. He's very laid back and makes it look like he's not even putting forth any effort. How can anybody play the Blues and not make extreme facial contortions? :-) Steve Krenz (and I know I shouldn't probably be talking about competitive products here) is the instructor on several products beyond the Spotlight Blues Series, which I have but haven't started yet. The main course that Steve teaches is Legacy Learning Learn and Master Guitar. This is a tremendous course and is what I am using as my main study material. I am using BYCU as my material for my weekly personal lessons with my instructor. I guess I should say "we are using". Steve has an almost-weekly live lesson on UStream: www.ustream.tv/gibson-learn-and-master-live-lessons. These are really interesting and fun. I know that Jack Pearson was a guest on one of these. And everything you say about him is true. I'm sure that Jack will be back at some point on one of these and I'll try and remember to post here when that happens. January 28 is Phil Keaggy who is a great fingerstyle guitarist. I'm not all that interested in fingerstyle but the live lessons are still really interesting and fun. And free! lol Back to Steve, he is a really good teacher and a great guy. I have taken several Skype lessons with him. And in November he was in Chicago teaching at one of the universities and I flew there and took a one hour lesson with him. He and I have spoken about my flying to Nashville on occasion for personal lessons. |
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Post by Phil on Jan 14, 2014 14:49:56 GMT -6
To GnLguy,
I hardly recognized Greg Allman's voice on this song. I guess I haven't heard him since he was much younger. I like it, he lost something, but gained something else (a hard bluesy edge)- although he always was a good blues singer with great timing.
If that is in fact Jack Pearson, I agree, very BB-like. Some great playing there. I found the youtube video that matanajin mentioned above. Over an hour with Pearson just talking and jamming - very interesting and educational.
Phil
Phil
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Post by GnLguy on Jan 14, 2014 15:35:29 GMT -6
** Earlier matonanjin said: (and I know I shouldn't probably be talking about competitive products here)
I'm glad to see this kind of respect for John. I think that we would all agree that we've learned a lot of his line of books and when we release our first million selling album, we will put a 'Thank You' to John Ganapes for his influence and willingness to share.
At the same time, I think in John's replies back to this forum, I've seen that he would agree that we need to learn from any source we can. With that in mind, as long as someone remains respectful to BYCU, I don't have a problem with mentioning other material.
I've commented on Steve Krenz You Tube videos and he would respond back to them. You don't see that very often. Gibson has come up with a treasure trove of info for us to learn from. Being almost 59 now, I look at the material that is available now as opposed to the late 60s & early 70s, its so much easier to find dependable lesson material now. Most material when I was in my teens and early 20s was from Mel Bay and there was no audio to hear until Happy Traum came out with Homespun Tapes.
Phil Keaggy was mentioned earlier too. If you have the chance to see Phil play live, GO!!! Yes, it will be Christian music but Phil never forces his beliefs onto the audience, he does reinforce them as he is playing but no one will force anything. That being said, when I've seen Phil play live,, it would be him 2-3 acoustic guitars and his Jamman looper. Every time, he would play non-stop for nearly 3 hours and never repeat himself. He is nothing short of incredible
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Post by matonanjin on Jan 15, 2014 18:31:03 GMT -6
** Earlier matonanjin said: (and I know I shouldn't probably be talking about competitive products here) I'm glad to see this kind of respect for John. I think that we would all agree that we've learned a lot of his line of books and when we release our first million selling album, we will put a 'Thank You' to John Ganapes for his influence and willingness to share.
At the same time, I think in John's replies back to this forum, I've seen that he would agree that we need to learn from any source we can. With that in mind, as long as someone remains respectful to BYCU, I don't have a problem with mentioning other material.
I've commented on Steve Krenz You Tube videos and he would respond back to them. You don't see that very often. Gibson has come up with a treasure trove of info for us to learn from. Being almost 59 now, I look at the material that is available now as opposed to the late 60s & early 70s, its so much easier to find dependable lesson material now.
I was just wanting to qualify my bringing in to the conversation a competitive source. I didn't think that there would be any problem in that BYCU is a specialized course for blues for slightly more experienced players. (Which I am marginally qualified as!) As the L&MG course, by Steve Krenz is more of a "start from square one course". The thing that is interesting is Steve Krenz also often comments on the importance of learning from multiple sources. I suspect the quality that is common to both John and Steve is that when one is very self confident in one's ability to teach one isn't threatened by competitive sources. Wow! 59! You are really old!!!   I'll be 66 this year. My problem is information overload! I have downloaded and/or more so many materials it's really embarrassing. I'll never be able to study them all and am actually confusing myself by going too many different directions. |
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Post by GnLguy on Jan 15, 2014 20:45:04 GMT -6
** Earlier matonanjin said: (and I know I shouldn't probably be talking about competitive products here) I'm glad to see this kind of respect for John. I think that we would all agree that we've learned a lot of his line of books and when we release our first million selling album, we will put a 'Thank You' to John Ganapes for his influence and willingness to share.
At the same time, I think in John's replies back to this forum, I've seen that he would agree that we need to learn from any source we can. With that in mind, as long as someone remains respectful to BYCU, I don't have a problem with mentioning other material.
I've commented on Steve Krenz You Tube videos and he would respond back to them. You don't see that very often. Gibson has come up with a treasure trove of info for us to learn from. Being almost 59 now, I look at the material that is available now as opposed to the late 60s & early 70s, its so much easier to find dependable lesson material now.
I was just wanting to qualify my bringing in to the conversation a competitive source. I didn't think that there would be any problem in that BYCU is a specialized course for blues for slightly more experienced players. (Which I am marginally qualified as!) As the L&MG course, by Steve Krenz is more of a "start from square one course". The thing that is interesting is Steve Krenz also often comments on the importance of learning from multiple sources. I suspect the quality that is common to both John and Steve is that when one is very self confident in one's ability to teach one isn't threatened by competitive sources. Wow! 59! You are really old!!! I'll be 66 this year. My problem is information overload! I have downloaded and/or more so many materials it's really embarrassing. I'll never be able to study them all and am actually confusing myself by going too many different directions. Actually I'm 58, 6 months and 27 days old but who's counting!! 
Sons are raised and moving on, I'm no longer able to work thanks to an inebriated driver, I'm out of debt so I have time to start working thru all of the educational material that I've accumulated. Also starting to repair guitars and will try my hand at building once I get my work shop built.
For me, I've heard all of those voices that have told me that 85-90% of playing will be rhythm and comping so I've accumulated a lot of material relating to rhythm. I hear the words of Herb Ellis, one of the greatest jazz players of all times, telling people to listen to 'his little melodies'. Herb would voice lead with his chord and play harmonized line behind his singers. Listen to Duane Allman, Slide guitar extraordinaire! Yet as he played behind someone, the was supporting that melody every step of the way.
As far as mentioning other authors and instructors, I've been on forums that the owner asked me to not post certain material b/c of they were direct competitors of theirs. I've been on forums of companies that build guitars and amps and the knuckle heads that were on those boards were vicious in their attacks of others and even of the company whose boards they were posting on. I think that respect goes a long way
Look at where you were when you started Blues You Can Use and look at where you are today. Yes, you worked hard but people like John has provided quality material for us to learn from
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Post by Phil on Jan 16, 2014 16:30:18 GMT -6
Wow! 59! You are really old!!! I'll be 66 this year. My problem is information overload! I have downloaded and/or more so many materials it's really embarrassing. I'll never be able to study them all and am actually confusing myself by going too many different directions. I'll be 62 in 2 weeks. Maybe this forum should be called "Blues Old Men Can Use".  I also suffer from information overload and going in 13 directions at once. When I got back into playing guitar a few months ago one of the 1st things I bought was BYCU. I promised myself that I would concentrate on that and not download any other materials or watch youtube until I mastered it. Well, I soon bought More BYCU, Blues Licks YCU, Blues Rhythms YCU, bought other misc. stuff, and have downloaded an ungodly amount of free stuff, - I still haven't mastered or even finished BYCU.  However, my exploration of other learning materials actually gave me a better appreciation of BYCU and the approach that John uses. I went back to BYCU the other day and plan to stick with it to completion and than on to MoreBYCU. I've come to realize that John Ganapes's material is very well laid out and progressive. Additionally, each study is a complete 12-bar piece of music rather than individual riffs played out of context. And with More BYCU you get the bonus of lead AND rhythm tabbed out in one reasonably priced book. (Of course, like I said - I'm not opening that book until I can play what's in BYCU.)  Phil |
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Post by GnLguy on Jan 16, 2014 16:55:12 GMT -6
I just added Rhythm & Blues You Can Use to my collection this week. The music that I hear in my heart and soul is blues and 60s/70s R&B and that is what I'm committed to studying.
I do have some material that is a collection of licks that could be taken out of text but what I've found with this particular series, it has given me little chunks of what I want to play in the future and also a sense of accomplishment
I agree that John's material is very well laid out and progressive, as good as anything that is available
I have the tab and plan to buy a video demo of Key To The Highway that Clapton did live during the Derek & The Dominos era that I plan to work on 12 bars at a time while I'm working on my instruction material
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Post by Phil on Jan 17, 2014 16:09:03 GMT -6
GnLguy,
You gotta play what YOU like and what makes YOU happy. That's the important thing. Look at Brian Setzer, for example. I personally don't really like that big band stuff at all, but he plays what he likes and he's found an audience for it. I respect that, and appreciate that he is an exceptional guitarist even though I'm not crazy about the type of music he plays.
Clapton does a real nice version of "Key to the Highway" on "Riding with the King". That's the the first time I ever heard B.B. King play acoustic. It's a catchy tune and it introduced me to 8-bar. (After having it pointed out to me this forum that this is an example of 8-bar). I now have a good grasp of what an 8-bar blues is.
I've gained a whole new appreciation for Eric Clapton recently by listening to his blues recordings. I was not a big fan of his after his Cream/Layla days. Check out his live version of "Voodoo Chile" with Steve Winwood on youtube. His playing is incredible. I actually like it more than Hendrix's original. *=(I'm talking about 'Voodoo Chile' NOT 'Voodoo Child Slight Return' which is a different song and the one that Stevie Ray Vaughn and others have covered).
Phil
Phil
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Post by GnLguy on Jan 17, 2014 22:16:57 GMT -6
I've gained a whole new appreciation for Eric Clapton recently by listening to his blues recordings. I was not a big fan of his after his Cream/Layla days. Check out his live version of "Voodoo Chile" with Steve Winwood on youtube. His playing is incredible. I actually like it more than Hendrix's original. *=(I'm talking about 'Voodoo Chile' NOT 'Voodoo Child Slight Return' which is a different song and the one that Stevie Ray Vaughn and others have covered). Phil --------------------------------- I've always considered Derek & The Dominos to be one of the finest blues/rock bands ever. Clapton decided to leave Cream b/c for the same reason that he left The Yardbirds - to focus more on the blues. Duane Allman energized the recording session that produced the Layla album; the songs on the album are in the order in which they were recored and Nobody Loves You When You're Down & Out was the first tune that Duane played on. You can hear the definite difference and shift in the overall spirit of that recording
The 1st video the version of Key To The Highway that I was speaking of in an earlier post. The 2nd video was the original version which was on the Layla album. Producer Tom Dowd walked into the studio as Eric & Duane were jamming and quickly turned on the recorder. These 2 versions aren't a repeat of each other. Duane was dead by the time the live version came about and Eric had adapted the song to fit the Dominos abilities.
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Post by matonanjin on Jan 26, 2014 17:01:11 GMT -6
Warren Haynes concert is going to be on Palladia in about an hour. I've got it set to record. Should be interesting.
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I'll be 66 this year. My problem is information overload! I have downloaded and/or more so many materials it's really embarrassing. I'll never be able to study them all and am actually confusing myself by going too many different directions.
