Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of my main influences and guitar players to listen and watch was one of the leading blues and rock guitarists of his generation, coming from obscurity to immediate success in the early 1980’s. Mr. Vaughan was a technical guitar virtuoso who played with fingers of lightening and was a master of [...]
Category Archives: Guitar Players
All I ever talk about is Guitar Players and Guitar Lessons.
February 14, 2010 – 11:18 am
I like to look through the New York Times music and arts section in the morning while I eat breakfast. Along with the Washington Post, those are the best Newspapers for me. The New York paper is full of concert reviews from some heavy performers. It seems like it never [...]
My Favorite Guitar Players were My First Guitar Lessons.
February 13, 2010 – 10:44 am
You’ll won’t find many lists of guitar players or guitar gods that doesn’t include Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck near the top. To make it an even dozen, here are a total of 12 guitar giants whose work has endured.
To make it manageable, we have stuck to the blues [...]
Roy Orbison Singer and Guitar Player Gets Walk of Fame star.
January 31, 2010 – 10:16 am
The late rock’n’roll legend Roy Orbison, the one with the beautiful voice, has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Enjoy for a minute:
Orbison’s widow Barbara accepted the star on his behalf on Friday at a ceremony attended by Eric Idle, Chris Isaak and Dan Aykroyd.
Roy Orbison was born in Vernon, [...]
Guitar Player, Singer, Songwriter Neil Young Honored.
January 31, 2010 – 9:43 am
“It’s been a great night, It wore me out. Now I’ve got to go back and try to write some songs”
Neil Young, at the end of the MusicCares event celebrating him as Person of the Year.
Neil Young sat in the audience as 20 of his best known songs were performed on stage Friday.
Elton John, James [...]
Guitar Players: Insiders Jimi Hendrix Vibe…
December 20, 2009 – 9:21 am
Painting by Clifton Smith
As you know, I have a deep passion for Jimi Hendrix, and have written a few possibly controversial or perhaps somewhat mythical posts that include some of the deep ‘mysteries’ of Hendrix, however it never occured to me that I would attract such a passionate, emotional and experienced vibe or comment from [...]
Americas Favorite Guitar Player….
December 18, 2009 – 10:34 am
Who are Americas favorite unknown guitar players? What a great show that would be. I have been watching very closely the show “So You Think You Can Dance”. The last episode was on Wednesday. I picked the winner when it got down to the top ten finalists. When they announced him, Russell, I jumped with [...]
Young Guitar Player, Tallan Latz, Proves My Point…
October 9, 2009 – 10:57 am
I don’t go looking for this kind of stuff. By the time I do my blogging for an online automotive engine and transmission supply company and then try to put together a blog for Guitar Players Center, my brain is worn out. So when I get done with business, I look for some NFL Washington [...]
Can Older Guitar Players learn new stuff?
October 6, 2009 – 11:15 am
Where to start? If you read my blog, you know that I have been playing the electric guitar now for 4 and a half years. I took up the electric guitar when I was almost 53 years old. I had and still have every intention of playing Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. My musical [...]
Guitar Players, want your site to rank?
October 5, 2009 – 11:23 am
I started my blogging in mid 2006, in October of 2007 was when I found a company who knew how to get a site ranked in the top 10 queries of a Google search, (relatively speaking) fast. Before that, the only bloggers that got noticed or made any money from their blogs, were the ones [...]
Guitar Players, You Gotta See This…
September 26, 2009 – 8:44 am
Cecilia Siqueira and Fernando Lima (Duo Siqueira Lima) performing TICO TICO NO FUBA (Zequinha de Abreu) during the Brazilian Music Institute in Gainesville, FL.
It’s hard to create any viable content for this performance. I literally Stumbled across this video on YouTube. I was speechless at the time. I still can’t think of much to [...]
Guitar Players: Before you buy that collectible guitar…
September 14, 2009 – 10:12 am
Guitar players guide for buying collectible guitars.
Exercise caution when speculating on collectible guitars. Retail dealers will sell them at market price and buy back the collectibles at pennies on the dollar depending on the market.
Insurance and storage costs can eat up the investment gains over a period of many years.
Do not buy into collectible markets [...]
Guitar Player: Chris does “Lenny” ala SRV…
August 26, 2009 – 12:07 pm
Check out Chris Playing Stevie Ray Vaughan “Lenny”. This was from a comment I recieved recently on my “Lenny” guitar post. Sorry, the actual video HTML has been disabled, but the video is a must watch however you get to it. The link works.
There is not much to say about it, just listen and have [...]
Guitar Player James Burton hopes to break world record..
August 22, 2009 – 8:22 am
Guitarist James Burton, known for his work with the Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson bands, plans to celebrate his 70th birthday Friday with a party, followed by an attempt Saturday to break a world record for mass guitar ensemble.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists the world’s largest guitar players ensemble as 1,802 participants led [...]