Συμπηκνωμένη γνώση είναι τα άρθρα της λίστας...
Για τον John Lee Hooker ας πούμε, το κειμενο που τον συνοδεύει είναι κυριολεκτικό name-dropping
"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar," John Lee Hooker once said. "I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks." Hooker's style couldn't be defined as urban or country blues – it was something entirely his own, mysterious and funky and hypnotic.
On monumental classics like "Boogie Chillen" – a Number One R&B hit in 1949 – "Boom Boom" and "Crawlin' King Snake," he perfected a droning, stomping groove, often in idiosyncratic time signatures and locked on one chord, with an ageless power.
"He was a throwback even in his own time,"
Keith Richards said. "Even Muddy Waters was sophisticated next to him."
Hooker was a critical figure in the Sixties blues boom; his boogie became the basis for much of
ZZ Top's early sound; his songs were covered by everyone from the
Doors to
Bruce Springsteen; and then, well
after turning 70, he won four Grammys in the 1990s. "When I was a child," said
Carlos Santana, "he was the first circus I wanted to run away with."
Και για τον Keith Richards...
Nobody does alternate tunings better than Keith. I remember playing the chorus to "Beast of Burden." I'm like,
"These are the right chords, but they don't sound anything like Keith." He had some cool tuning, a beautiful chord so well-tuned that it sings.
That is the core of every great guitar part on a Rolling Stones record. Keith finds the tuning that allows the work – the fretting, muting strings – to get out of the way of what he's feeling.
I went to see Keith with the X-Pensive Winos. In the dressing room, Keith started practicing a Chuck Berry riff. I'd never in my life heard it sound like that. I love Chuck Berry. But this was better.
Not technically – there was an emotional content that spoke to me. What Chuck is to Keith, Keith is to me.
(αυτά τα γράφει κάποιος Nils Lofgren από κάποιους E Street Band)
Για τον κιθαρίστα του αμετροεπή κυριούλη με το μακρύ φτυάρι που όλους τους θάβει και που εκτός από τον εαυτό του τώρα άρχισε να εκθέτει και τα μέλη του γκρουπ του, δεν λένε τίποτα να πάρει :
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