God doesn't need to know what time it is.
Value of anything is a most fascinating subject to me.
Eric Clapton hasn't owned this Rolex Daytona for nearly 20 years. It 's probably been in storage since he dumped it and is expected to fetch north of $1.6M?
For that much I'd want his playing ability AND his stereo system.
God doesn’t need to know what time it is. But he gave to Pat Martino the right beat impulse... And time here redefine itself as some auto-adjoint operator in Hilbert space...Thanks to Alain Connes a God servant .... Music for sure retained even before it was discovered by mankind some flavor from quantum mechanic in his heart... I apologize to all but i could not resist this "metaphor".... 😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉☺
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@stuartk: Yep, love Gurf Morlix. I saw Lucinda and her original L.A. band (including not just Gurf, but also drummer Donald Lindley and bassist John Ciambotti, a great trio) play around town after her Rough Trade album came out in 1988, once at a pizza parlour to an audience of about a half-dozen! I met Lucinda at Club Lingerie, introduced to me by the manager of her then-husband’s band The Long Ryders (he was their drummer), whom I knew. She was very sweet, shy. I later saw her behind the counter at local indi record store Moby Disc (in Sherman Oaks, where I lived), staring off into space in between ringing up sales on the register. Writing lyrics, no doubt. ;-) A lesser known Tele player is well known in the Midwest---D. Clinton Thompson, of the great Springfield Missouri band The Skeletons (aka The Morells). Big fans of the band include Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, and Elvis Costello. Thompson was also at times a member of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, and played guitar in Steve Forbert’s road band. Great player. The Skeletons’ drummer was Bobby Lloyd Hicks, later in Dave Alvin’s band The Guilty Men. A fine drummer who unfortunately was, like Levon Helm, a 2-pack-a-day man, and died of Cancer a few years back. In the late-80’s Foster & Lloyd put out two really good albums, and when I saw them at The Roxy Theater on Sunset they had a really good Tele player in their band. I don’t know who it was, but I’d love to find out. Speaking of the Northwest: A coupla years ago I recorded one track in the same Portland studio in which Bill Frisell has done a lot of his albums, a studio better than almost all the ones I have been in in L.A. I brought my own snare drum and cymbals to the session, but the owner/engineer had a set of DW’s that were very well tuned, and some nice Zildjians; all sounded great on tape. He knew the secret to getting a great ride cymbal sound (the very percussive "click" you hear on great Jazz recordings): lots of compression on the overhead mics! |
I've never heard of D. Clinton Thompson but am familiar with Foster and Lloyd. How very cool that you got to see Lucinda so early in her career. I have the DVD of her first ACL performance with that band and it serves as an excellent informal tutorial for guitarists on how to tastefully back up a singer. Forbert-- what a talent. Are you familiar with his "Young Guitar Days" cd? It's a terrific collection of early previously unreleased material and well worth having. |
@jkf011 said:"This is what happens when people read the Robb Report." Ha. Or Connoisseur Magazine. The Bling Report. Our objective is to find the most expensive, extravagant example of certain "lifestyle" product categories, regardless of the actual merit of the product to perform its intended function. It's really expensive and chances are, you'll be the only one in a ___ radius to own one. Step up and be a player. :) |
Yes OP.... I love him very much....His playing improvisation are extraordinary and all musicians around him play more for him than with him....This says a lot about genius....
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Pat Martino (RIP) was a great under the radar guitarist and from South Philly! . Was a child prodigy and had to reteach himself after a stroke. When George Benson heard him play in NYC he said he had to leave town because he was much better than him. I wish he had more vinyl available in new releases beyond El Hombre (a great album). Other used title go for stratospheric prices. Maybe he will be like most other great jazz musicians - under appreciated until they pass on and then all of the other great stuff will be reissued on vinyl. |
I discovered immediately listening his music he was a genius but listening the interview (which duration is around 1h37 m. not the 3 hours indicated) with him let no DOUBTS about his experience, musical or spiritual and intelligence and humility which is mind blowing.... It is one of the best musician interview i ever listen to because of his deep understanding of music...
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@stuartk - I didn't know about him until he recently passed away and they were playing his music on Sirius. I thought I knew the great jazz guitarists - Wes Montgomery and his disciples (Earl Klugh, George Benson), & Pat Metheny, Lee Ritenour. Not a big fan of John Scofield, but I know he is popular. |
Well it's better to discover him late rather than never! If your taste's can be inferred by the players you've listed, you might enjoy "We'll Be Together Again" (very melodic and mellow duo with keyboardist Gil Goldstein) or "Remember-- A tribute to Wes Montgomery". Scofield has recorded in a wide variety of settings, so if you like Jazz guitar, I wouldn't give up on him until you've sampled a cross-section of his work. Needless to say, Spotify is your friend, in this regard. |
@jpwarren58: Tony Rice was Art Dudley’s favorite acoustic guitarist. I’ve been finding some of Tony’s Rounder Records LP’s lately in local shops, including his s/t debut on the label (cat. no. 0085), The Tony Rice Unit (0150), the Unit’s Backwaters album (0167), and an album with his brothers (0256). Playing upright bass on all but the last is Todd Phillips, who in 1971 was playing a Fender P Bass in the same band as I around the San Jose area. Todd was a member of Psychograss, and has a number of his own albums. I heard his 18th Century German upright bass up close ten years ago, when we played together for an afternoon. I now know what it should sound like when reproduced by a hi-fi system ;-) . Todd left the band to concentrate on studying mandolin with David Grisman up in Marin County. David told him there were plenty of good mandolin players, but a dearth of upright bassists, and advised him to get one. Todd took David’s advice, and ended up playing bass in David’s band! Last I heard he was on the road with Joan Baez, whom I am just now belatedly getting into. Her version of Dylan’s "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Low Lands" brings me to tears. |
Here’s a "timely" occurrence ;-) : I returned home from my drive into Portland yesterday with a couple of LP’s containing music made by some of the names mentioned above: - Robben Ford: The Inside Story (Elektra Records), produced by Steve Cropper. Near Mint condition, $4. On the front cover Robben is shown holding an ES335. - Mary Kay Place: Tonight! At The Capri Lounge, Loretta Haggers (Columbia Records), produced by Brian Ahern (Emmylou Harris’ producer of course). Also in near Mint condition, $5. Loretta Haggers was the character Mary Kay played on the great early/mid-70’s late night sitcom parody show, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman (in which also appeared Martin Mull, whose own albums are worth hearing. Much funnier than Zappa, and musically more to my taste). On this album MKP is provided instrumental and vocal accompaniment from the following, all names familiar to most participants in this thread: Glen D. Hardin, Albert Lee, Hank Devito, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Emory Gordy, John Ware, Byron Berline, Herb Pedersen, Mickey Raphael, Skip Conover, Dolly Parton, and Anne Murray. Wow! I vaguely remember this album, but have never heard it. I was recently reminded of it in a Vinyl Finds review posted by one of my favorite YouTube Vinyl Community members who uses the handle "Another Fat Bearded Man Talking About Records" ;-) . His name is Hedley (how British is that? ;-), and is located in the UK. Great guy, great taste in music. Check him out! |
