His playing has shaped electric guitar music like no one else’s. Chuck Berry’s music is the essential guide to Rock N Roll and every branch of music that has evolved since the mid 50’s. Vintage clips of Chuck at the top of game is like is like watching an American vintage car in...
Playing a gorgeous jumbo Gibson acoustic guitar Clara Rose delivered a fine mix of tunes with a roof lifting vocal on Big Mama Thornton’s Ball & Chain that in all probability left a few goldfish homeless around Portobello Steely Dan – Deacon Blues 1977 Looking forward to seeing Steely Dan ...
Even a band as revolutionary as the Beatles was known to borrow various ideas and motifs from other artists. Case in point, the bass line for “I Saw Her Standing There,” which was lifted from Chuck Berry’s “I’m Talking About You.”“I played exactly the same notes as he did, a...
Gold was a multi-instrumentalist who played guitar, bass, keyboards, accordion, synthesizer, harmonica, saxophone, flute, drums and percussion, and more arcane musical instruments such as ukulele, musette, and harmonium. He was also a producer, sound engineer, film composer, session...
Santana (1970): Carlos Santana's shamanistic guitar served as the lodestar as his band brilliantly stirred in elements of rock, salsa, jazz and blues -- completely transforming Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va" and Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman" along the way. ...
The guitar work got him noticed, but his modern take on the blues is something special too. Don Henley, Building the Perfect Beast Geffen Don Henley, 'Building the Perfect Beast' Henley was the Eagles' most outspoken political voice. He was also their best singer and songwriter. His second...
We’ve done it many times before like that, just Pete [Townshend] and I, with him on acoustic guitar and me singing. Then, I start to enjoy myself with it. You can explore the melody and you can jazz it up. You can do all kinds of movement in it. But once it’s on the ...
She then moved on to Clapton, who played guitar on the Harrison-penned Beatles song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” in 1968. Boyd noted the two musicians were close friends who played and wrote music together and that she was always aware of Clapton’s attraction to her. It was flattering...
Embracing their inner Led Zeppelin, most blatantly on the grinders “Heaven’s Trail (No Way Out)” and “Be a Man,” guitarists Tommy Skeoch and Frank Hannon grew into their own as players and comrades, while the rest of Tesla stretched themselves artistically without going outside of the...
for keeps; Nicks’ tough, swirly songs about fragile and wicked women; and the experiments the group can’t stop indulging in (near-classical and metal-inclined guitar, teen pop, an incoherent number about the media). And when this accumulation of chops rallies for a single, the result is...