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Here is someone you all might know, who came from my neck of the woods. I remember the Glass Harp performing everywhere in the area and I never heard them. I was not into rock music as a teenager and never took it seriously. I began taking it seriously only for about the past 20 to 30 years. This guy has been featured in many guitar mags Ladies and Gentlemen; Phil Keagy, enjoy

http://rutube.ru/tracks/920075.html

Killer vid!!

I had a friend a long time ago who LOVED Phil. He was a drummer, and raved about him all the time. I did listen to his music here and there. Definitely a great guitar player to say the least.

One-touch reverb talk box haha sweet!
That was pretty cool actually. Thanks for sharing.

One of the best uses of the E-BOW I've heard! From "Hall of the Mountain King" through "Amazing Grace" to general noodling? Love it! Never heard of him, but I like his stuff.

Thanks, Mary!

No doubt that Keagy and his mastery of the E-Bow is in a class by himself.
true creative genius.

Some other great unorthodox guitar players are....

Stanly Jordon with his super sensitive touch neck guitar technique.

Peter Green with his tasteful mastery of feedback.

Mark Knopfler with his awesome pickless style

The late George VanEps, Seven string pioner

Thanks for the vid, Mary
Howlin'

Nice, thanks.

HowlinJ wrote:No doubt that Keagy and his mastery of the E-Bow is in a class by himself.
true creative genius.

Some other great unorthodox guitar players are....

Stanly Jordon with his super sensitive touch neck guitar technique.

Peter Green with his tasteful mastery of feedback.

Mark Knopfler with his awesome pickless style

The late George VanEps, Seven string pioner

Thanks for the vid, Mary
Howlin'

I am attempting to study composition with Stanley Jordon, another inspiration. There are many guitarists who inspire me. When I think about it ,most of my inspiration comes from the world of guitars. I purchased a guitar 5 years ago and have yet to take a lesson on it. I vaguely recall hearing of Mark Knopfler but other than that I am not familiar with the others. I will look into them. I attend regular fingerstyle concerts in Dana Point. Most notably Lawrence Juber,former Lead guitarist with Paul McCartney and Wings. Billy McLaughlin, of Minnesota, has a similar style to Stanley Jordon. In otherwords they both use fingerstyle concepts.

Stanley Jordan is insane. I watched his videos and felt like I just started playing guitar a week ago.

Kramerguy wrote:Stanley Jordan is insane. I watched his videos and felt like I just started playing guitar a week ago.

He was a music major in college and I believe he went to an ivy league school. Don't know which one.

I saw a video once of Stanley Jordan playing two guitars at once. I didn't admit I even played guitar at all for two weeks...the guy is incredible. Mark Knopfler is the main reason I finger pick so much now, that and the fact that I just got sick of not being able to play when I dropped a pick onstage, I'd have to run back to my amp and grab another one and try to get a note or two out in the meantime. Even after learning to play Sultans of Swing...So I got fed up one day and sat down at home to practice and didn't touch a pick all day. Been doing it ever since, now if I drop one onstage I just keep going and you can barely tell it. I practice more without a pick now than with one...

A couple others I've been impressed with.

Van Wilks. If you've never heard Austin's favorite guitar player, well except for Eric Johnson, definitely check Van out. website here I always plug Van when I get a chance, excellent rock and blues player. He and Eric Johnson are good friends, by the way and have played together several times. I was present for one of those shows, in Austin, great night.

Eric Johnson...nuff said...

Al diMeola

John McGlaughlin

John Mayer

Steve Howe of Yes

Paleopete wrote:I saw a video once of Stanley Jordan playing two guitars at once. I didn't admit I even played guitar at all for two weeks...the guy is incredible. Mark Knopfler is the main reason I finger pick so much now, that and the fact that I just got sick of not being able to play when I dropped a pick onstage, I'd have to run back to my amp and grab another one and try to get a note or two out in the meantime. Even after learning to play Sultans of Swing...So I got fed up one day and sat down at home to practice and didn't touch a pick all day. Been doing it ever since, now if I drop one onstage I just keep going and you can barely tell it. I practice more without a pick now than with one...

A couple others I've been impressed with.

Van Wilks. If you've never heard Austin's favorite guitar player, well except for Eric Johnson, definitely check Van out. website here I always plug Van when I get a chance, excellent rock and blues player. He and Eric Johnson are good friends, by the way and have played together several times. I was present for one of those shows, in Austin, great night.

Eric Johnson...nuff said...

Al diMeola

John McGlaughlin

John Mayer

Steve Howe of Yes

Something happened where Stanley Jordan took a sabbatical and he became interested in music therapy. He is very philosophical and interested in the environment.

"Round About by Yes has been one of my utmost favorites.
I also like John Mclaughlin. I also like John Mayer.

Paleopete wrote:website here
John Mayer

Fixing the link. And I agree. Once he stops singing and plays a blues bit, he sounds really good with lots of feel. I remember seeing a video of him playing Stormy Monday. I liked it.

Van Wilks sounds pretty cool. Don't like his singing though.

Ehh... I didnt care for it much. If you want that kind of thing why not just play keys?
Stanley Jordan is a freak, but he basically just plays piano on guitar... so why not just play piano?
I guess I just like more traditional guitar playing.
Or maybe I'm just a negative creep?

(I'm sure someone will come along and blast me for my comments)

Zip. I agree to an extent, it is a bit like playing piano, but at the same time he did explore new guitar territory. Nobody I know of had tried to play two at once until Jordan. Tremendous technical ability, but the overall style wasn't something I'd go out of my way to see live.

I've met Van Wilks several times, he used to come over and talk to me and my brother in Austin when we both lived in that area, pretty nice guy and of course a great musician. I like his vocals myself. VAn was one of those I liiked first time I heard him. Radio station in Austin played a siong I'd never heard, (turned out to be "Living on Borrowed Time", from the Bombay Tears album) and didn't announce who it was. Same a few days later when they played "Boystown", then finally a couple of weeks later I found out who that was, but I loved that guitar the very first song and then tried to find his albums for years. I didn't know he was a minor player and record stores just didn't have it, Mercury didn't promote Van, they had bigger fish to fry and left him to his own devices. I finally got a copy of Bombay Tears and was disappointed that Boystown was not on it, that's my favorite Van Wilks song.

I have all his stuff now, except the new one, and can't think of any I don't like. I've been trying to get evey band I play with to do one of his songs, since some of it is really good stuff, we were working on a couple of them when I left Lufkin TX and had to quit the band. A few months later I was playing some of his stuff for a friend and someone else walked in...Who is that? I want a copy...was the first thing she said. I ordered them both copies of one of Van's CD's along with my order for Texas Jukin that same day...That's how Van comes across a lot of the time. Both of them immediately wanted a CD. If you ever get a chance to see Van onstage, GO...you'll be a Vanatic before the night's over.

Hey Mary! Here's a flautist I'd like to share with you - http://www.yikers.com/video_bicycle_pump_flute.html

Do you have one of these? If not, you need to get one right away!