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Location: Chicago | What is your favorite but VERY OBSCURE acoustic guitar masterpiece? Gotta augment my music library, guys.
("Obscure" can mean hard-to-get, bootleg, forgotten or simply not known!)
Found this last month: ZEN HOUSE Shawn Lane and Jonas Hellborg on Ovations acoustics: beautiful!
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Dobro/v "who put the #4 in my minor soup?"
1974 Legend
2005 DiMeola Signature (Custom Legend) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I have been looking for ZEN HOUSE!
Where did you find a copy? |
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Location: NJ | Batdorf & Rodney "Home Again" |
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Location: Chicago | Try this Stephen,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00002EIUK/qid=1142004628/sr=1-9/r...
Dobro/v
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Thanks Dobro/v.
I see it is listed under Hellborg. That would explain my lack of success because I have been seaching under Shawn Lane. |
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Location: N.J. | Google video search for Shawn Lane brings up awesome results!!! Such a shame he's gone... :(
Also check Michael Romeo. He's a good friend and one hell of an amazing guitarist! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Call me unexperienced but I immediately think about the song "Oh well" in an early Fleetwood Mac album. I think Peter Green was the guitarist.
Cliff? Help? |
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Location: closely held secret | Yup. |
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Location: closely held secret | I've got a live version of that recorded in Boston, 1970 around somewhere. Something like 32 or 33 minutes. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Yup, Yup, Yup |
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Location: chicago | Larry Coryell, Phillip Catherine Twin House
Anthony Phillips-The Geese and the Gost |
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Location: closely held secret | Phil Keaggy - Acoustic Sketches |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Chocolate Kings by PFM |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo"
Written By Orazio Vecchi arranged by R. Thompson |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | oh yeah and...
I've said it before and I'l say it it again...
"From Ankara to Izmir" and/or "Big Bug Shuffle"
by Russ Barenburg, Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer |
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Location: NJ | " . . Anthony Phillips-The Geese and the Ghost . ."
egad! . . Haven't heard THAT one in QUITE some time!! I've got an importCD of it (somewhere) that I'll have t'dig out . . .
Steve Hackett's "Please Don't Touch" is another good one . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by cliff:
" . . Anthony Phillips-The Geese and the Ghost . ."
egad! . . Is that the Uke tuning?? |
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Location: Warwick, RI | "Maria Elena," as done by Los Indios Tabajaras. |
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Location: NJ | The Pete Townshend/John Williams tracks on the 1st "Secret Policeman's Ball" . . . .
(Brad. . you gotta a copy of that??) |
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Location: Chicago | I totally agree about Peter Green, especially "Oh Wekk"; I guess I just don't think of that as obscure: it's one of the most beautiful guitar passages in 60s rock. Give me the shivers.
long live the Green Manalishi!
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Location: Tennessee | "Don't Let Your Goodbye Stand" by Honk from the soundtrack to Five Summer Stories.
Aside: Moody or anyone else in southern Orange County ... Honk was a great band out of Laguna Beach and redefined the surf sound in the mid '70s. They still play together as a group from time to time and do an annual reunion concert, usually at the Coase House in San Juan Capistrano. |
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| Malaguena, by Roy Clark |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Valse de Samois by John Jorgenson, which I think is a Django tune.
Possum Goes To Prague by Blackmore's Night
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T.O.B by Jerry Douglas |
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| Not masterpieces, but check out if you get the chance the playing of a guy called Cacho Tirao who played on the live Astor Piazzolla album "adios nonino". Great player.
As is a guy called Ferenc Snetburger (I am not joking) who is that rare thing a Sinti gypsy (like Django) but from Hungary. He is signed to Enja Records in Hungary, but I've never been able to find anything to buy with him as a leader. I have a great album called Gypsy Colours by the gypsy sax player Tony Lakatos which I'm sure you would find interesting. Ferenc puts in some wonderful fills and trills. He can obviously really play. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | A couple of pieces whose names I can't remember by Bruce Cockburn, recorded in the mid-70's when he was the first high profile Larrivee endorser. He had an extraordinary Larrivee cutaway with a tree of life fretboard inlay and the kind of headstock inlay that I have only seen on Jean's guitars. I think his wife did the abalone work. That guitar was ahead of its time, and Bruce could do amazing things on it that I don't think he has approached on any projects released to the public since.
I also saw Phil Keaggy live a few years ago, and he did some unbelievable things using alternate tunings with an Olson guitar.
Speaking of which, David Wilcox -- another Olson endorser AKA 'the poor man's James Taylor' (but a far better player) -- does some dazzling things in alternate tunings.
There are a lot of fine players who aren't even as well known as those guys. |
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Location: closely held secret | Paul, were the Bruce Cockburn pieces on "Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws"? In spite of all the great stuff he's done, I've always felt that album was his best all around. |
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Location: south of munich, Germany | i add the complete album
"Whatever happened to Jugula" by Roy Harper and Jimy Page
especially the tracks
- Hangman
- Twentieth Century Man
- Advertisement (Another Intentional Irrelevant Suicide)
the last is the most obscure track ....
but.. I like it ;-)
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Waskel - no, earlier than that. Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws was his first real American success due to the airplay of 'I Wonder Where the Lions Are.'
I think the project in mind of was a double album live release named Circles in the Stream.
I'm still enough of a fan to buy everything he releases. |
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Location: Chicago | I think that Larry Coryell's "RESTFUL MIND" (with the Oregon guys) is underrated...
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Location: Hicksville, NY | I'm not sure if this fits the "obscure" category. I was listening to CD 101.9 (smooth jazz station in NYC) when heard this song that has a nice and steady hip-hoppish beat and a strong Spanish guitar flavor. For a while, I thought I was listening to an Acoustic Alchemy tune, but to my surprise, former Guns N Roses guitarist Slash was the artist behind the song! The title of the song was "Obsession Confession" as per announced by the DJ at the end. I find it unusual, considering that this does not come close to the hard and heavy melodies associated with Slash. I tried to do a search on the net, but found no info about it. Any info that anyone can provide about the song will be greatly appreciated.
It's strange that even though I don't know anything about it (yet), it is becoming one of my favorite acoustic tunes.
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- speaking of Acoustic Alchemy tunes, I like "Mr. Chow." It's perhaps the only time I ever heard of "Chinese reggae." |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | You may have to log in to get to this:
Slash song |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Thanks BruDev! I'll check out the link. |
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your favorite OBSCURE Acoustic Masterpiece?