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Location: Brisbane Australia | Some comments in Lanaki's post about winning the $10mil made me think.
If we could afford it who would we want guitar lessons from?
Clapton, Gilmour,Les Paul, Santana????
Bill Haley? :D
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Location: indianapolis | Mark Knopfler, but I'd need five years of lessons to get good enough to understand what he was teaching me first. |
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Location: UK | A guitar boot camp with David Rawlings in one of the places where Brokeback Mountain was filmed with Gillian Welch offering follow up lessons |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | And Nigella Lawson with cooking lessons
You can't have all the fun! :D :D |
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Location: big island | no question. the famous aussie named tommy emmanuel. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Tommy or Knopfler would be great, if I could figure out what they were doing. Both can do incredible things with both acoustic or electric guitars. For that matter Glen Campbell might be a decent teacher.
I'd be afraid that no matter how much money I had, any of those guys wouldn't have the patience to teach me anything. Money can't buy talent. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | True, but we are talking about buying the time.
Not miracles :D
Yes Tommy would be my first choice. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | I have admired Matt Smith's style and easy going nature since I came here a year ago. Main reason I signed up for Amelia Isle. I would say that the opportunity to learn from him will be priceless. Hope he doesn't throw me out by Friday afternoon. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Jennifer Love Hewitt.
What's that? She doesn't play guitar?
How is that important?
Jennifer Love Hewitt it is. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Matt Smith, no question.
Although some other great players mentioned, do we even know if they can "teach?" And what would the result be? Play like them? I'm sure spending any amount of time with Matt, one-on-one with guitars in hand, would absolutely have the most long term positive impact on my playing. And it would be just plain fun.
Oh yeah... and +1 for Jennifer Love Hewitt too. |
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Location: UK | I have admired Matt Smith's style and easy going nature since I came here a year ago. Main reason I signed up for Amelia Isle. Sorry , that just wont wash ,over 4000 posts have been generated about that clinic and as far as i could see only about 3 related to guitar playing , golf , yes , alcohol consumption , yes , room sharing , yes , morning dumping habits , yes, need i go on ... :eek: |
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Location: Vermont USA | I would like to spend a week hanging with B.B. King
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Location: Indiana | I'm not sure if some of they older guys mentioned will live long enough to teach me what I need to know. I need someone younger. I'll go with Eric Johnson. Then when he's taught me everything he knows(if I'm still alive) I want Kaki so I can say "I'm in the OFC with your daddy". I would love to be able to just play one song like she does. Just simply amazing
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Originally posted by Andrea:
I have admired Matt Smith's style and easy going nature since I came here a year ago. Main reason I signed up for Amelia Isle. Sorry , that just wont wash ,over 4000 posts have been generated about that clinic and as far as i could see only about 3 related to guitar playing , golf , yes , alcohol consumption , yes , room sharing , yes , morning dumping habits , yes, need i go on ... :eek:
As to the other goins ons in Amelia, I doubt I will participate. I am sure that there is a nice quiet corner in the hotel lobby for me to sit and read a long novel. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | If cost was no object, and if perhaps timing was also no object, I think I'd go with Marcel Dadi. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Originally posted by Andrea:
I have admired Matt Smith's style and easy going nature since I came here a year ago. Main reason I signed up for Amelia Isle. Sorry , that just wont wash ,over 4000 posts have been generated about that clinic and as far as i could see only about 3 related to guitar playing , golf , yes , alcohol consumption , yes , room sharing , yes , morning dumping habits , yes, need i go on ... :eek: |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Tommy or Knopfler would be great, if I could figure out what they were doing. Both can do incredible things with both acoustic or electric guitars. For that matter Glen Campbell might be a decent teacher.
I'd be afraid that no matter how much money I had, any of those guys wouldn't have the patience to teach me anything. Money can't buy talent. Enough of it should buy tolerance! :)
I'd have to go along with Tommy E and with that much coin (from the Lotto win, of course), you're all invited to an all expences paid clinic. Timeline to be determined; 1, 2, 3 months? :) |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Oh, and to answer the question, I would have to say TE as well. Others in consideration would be SRV, Eric Johnson, Roy Clark, Knopfler, Lukather and maybe even that Brit RT but I would jump on a TE lesson first. Oh, wait, I have!
In May, Tommy's going to be passing through town and he's putting on a workshop and I'll be in the front row! Ohh yeah...(now if I can only work on that attention disorder of mine...) |
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Location: NJ | well
I think it would have to be freddie green or one of those guys. walter becker would be cool but more for his songwriting skills than playing
but most importantly they would have to be able to make all those chords scales and modes make sense to me. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You know, for me, any of these suggestions would be like paying Michael Jordan to teach me how to play basketball. I thought about a Tiger Woods/golf analogy, but my 25 handicap game is closer to Tiger's than my guitar playing is close to any of those guys. One reason I didn't sign up for Amelia, besides the lack of time, is that Matt's time would be much better spent on someone who brings a little more to the table to start with. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Professor BB wrote:
If cost was no object, and if perhaps timing was also no object, I think I'd go with Marcel Dadi.
I agree completely and I did something abut it: $59.95 - they are outstanding! :D
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
One reason I didn't sign up for Amelia, besides the lack of time, is that Matt's time would be much better spent on someone who brings a little more to the table to start with. That's why they have put me on the back row Mark. I am sorry ya didn't sign up, I would have enjoyed the company. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Let's see if $10 million could bring them back from dead ... probably
Horn lessons from Louis Armstrong
Song writing lessons from Hank Williams, Sr. and Brian Wilson (I know, he's alive, it's a joke).
But realistically, I think they're a couple members here I could learn loads from. I don't think I would need $10 Million though. |
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Location: big island | jose feliciano is my #2 choice |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Satan. |
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Location: Vermont USA | Satan a quarter says he doesn't play an all wood guitar. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Jeff W...satan doesn't want your money.....and Charlie Daniels aready won his git fiddle... |
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Location: Scotland | Miles makes a very valid point. Great players are not always great teachers. In fact many great players just do it because that's what they know, and are lost if asked to analyse it. Matt Smith is an exception. Not only is he a great player, he is one of the best teachers I've ever seen. I've learned a ton of stuff about how to teach, from seeing Matt teach.
To answer the question... Sonny Landreth, David Lindley, Lowell George, David Grissom, Stuert Smith. And Satan. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by AussieJames:
Some comments in Lanaki's post about winning the $10mil made me think.
If we could afford it who would we want guitar lessons from?
Clapton, Gilmour,Les Paul, Santana????
Bill Haley? :D
Let's hear em!! Outta them choices, I think that I would go for Gilmour. He has a nice slow melodic style I would love to emulate.
But also Matt Smith. Cuz he does wonders with them chubby fingers-tips. Something that would be good for me! :cool: |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Paul, I'd take slide lessons from you anytime! It was a pleasure to hear you at the tour (and your band sounds really great). I just wanted to tell ya you're appreciated: hope you have a great holidays! |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Guitar lessons would be nice, that's true, but...I'd love to study mandolin with our own Country Artist.
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Location: Scotland | Thanks MIke. Hey, I need to send you my new address for that Jerry Douglas TV thing from months ago. I'll send a PM. |
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Location: enid, ok | I'd go with either John McLaughlin or Pat Martino. Both are outstanding players, and have proven that they're also great teachers. Just to watch and try to pick up tips I'll take Paco De Lucia and Jeff Beck. Another great player/teacher whose brain I'd like to pick would be Scott Henderson. Or Regi Wooten. Steve Morse and Paul Gilbert also come to mind. OOOH!-and Jennifer Batten. There, that should do it. |
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Location: SoCal | Jerry Reed. Glen Campbell. Django Reinhardt. |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Since I am a big fan of the 50's/60's Surf guitar sound and never figured out how to play it the way it should be:
1. Jim Masoner - The Lively Ones
2. Tony Andreason - The Trashmen
3. Dick Dale
Other than that, it would be Bob Dylan, just because of wishing that some of his genius could swap over to me.
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Location: NJ | if "money was no object", I could afford time to learn on my own . . . |
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Location: south east Michigan | Pete T.
Matt Smith
Cliff, Clive, & Temp |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | Tommy Emmanuel,
Michael Chapdelaine,
John Petrucci. |
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Location: closely held secret | Phil Keaggy, Alex DeGrassi and Temp.
I'm already going to get lessons from Matt. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | How about a lesson from someone who got lessons from Satan:
Robert Johnson.
Also, excluding people from this board, I'd have to add Bob Brozman, Django Reinhardt, Merle Travis, Bo Diddley and Sonny Landreth too.
These lists are silly, but fun. |
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Location: enid, ok | MY list was NOT silly. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I would try to find the perfect balace of skill, thrill, relationship and location.
January - Talk about guitars and such with W2 and company on the greens in someplace-warmer-than-here.
February - Visit Bailey and learn the rythym of the desert winds in NM. I bet we could sit and talk for hours and not say a damn thing. Probably pack into something shiny, fast and rented and drop in on Serge for some "Real" Mex-Tex-New Mex mess! Then hear how real men play the Mandolin!
March - Take a tour of the Casa Del Witko in AZ and see if he has any O's and A's left ;) Our Wives could probably write a book on living with obsessive guitar Freaks, probably titled "But He's Always Home by Evening".
April - Need to spend some more time with GGG, Karen and those that I met at the 2006 OFC Tour. We'll be working on the Easter services.
May - Let us not forget about Paris in Spring! Time to go on the "Atkins" diet if you know what I mean! I can already play a mean "Windy and Warm"!
June - A little tour of New Zealand, Tazmania, Sydney and such should be in order! Hopefully I won't pick up a "Strine" accent. Learn if the scale goes backwards when Down-under!
July - Avoiding the East Coast, I'm thinking a little quality time learning how to Fly Fish in Alaskan waters whilst (I love that word) finger picking by a Lodge Fireplace would be nice. Heard there are some nice guitars up that-away.
August - Learn how they drink beer and tell stories in GB, Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man! I'm thinking something short-scale and easy to walk the hills and countrysides with. Drop in on few Music Stores as well.
September - Spend time with the worlds worst salesman and get his Old Ford Pickup on the road again! Then drive away in same pickup with a load of parts...
October - I'll have to split this one between Leaf-Peepin' in Colorado and Octoberfest in Germany! Need to attend Kurt's Kollege!
December - Home in the Great Northwest with a couple of drop ins by Ann Wilson for voice lessons and arpeggio's by Roger Fisher.
Y'all are invited to the New Year's Eve party so we can plan out next year's agenda... |
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Location: Indiana | Darn, forgot all about Steve Morse. Best thing about him, he could teach you to fly, too. Big planes.
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Tommy Emmanuel is one of my MANY picks. Here's a You Tube for anyone who hasn't watched or heard him before. I really like his style and personality, which make it seem like he would be a very good teacher. Check out the way he uses his harmonics in the middle of the piece and it sounds just like a harp ...
Tommy Emmanuel YouTube
... Kinda' like the Lays potato chip commercial ... You can't just watch 1. |
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Location: big island | mwoody,
you flew right overhead twice and didn't stop in to visit. what a guy! |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Amended Wish List: After Matt Smith, I would like Lanaki to give me some slack key lessons! :cool:
And Music to give me a few Blues Lessons! :D
And Cliff to give me a few RocK lessons Two...errr...One Man style! :)
And....
And....
And....
OT: and a few of each of y'alls guitars!!! You know tha ones... ;) |
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Location: Utah | James Taylor. He makes it look easy, but it sounds good. My fingers, especially on the right hand, just don't know how to do that kind of stuff.
Richard Lloyd. Yes, he has a column in Guitar World and lessons up on his website, but I think there is a lot more he could teach in person. His online and magazine lessons always lead to an "aha!!!" where some pieces come together.
Peter Frampton, because he plays well and seems to have a lot of fun while doing so. His last album is exactly the kind of stuff I like to play.
Kaki. I don't know that I could learn anything from her because she is so far beyond me, but it would be awe inspiring just to have her try to show me a few things. |
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Location: Stow, Ohio | Yngwie Malmsteen
George Lynch
Ritchie Blackmore
Vivian Campbell
Micheal Schenker
Ted Nugent
Charo!!!!!!
and of course
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Ah, Charo got me thinking ...
Charo
Shakira
Joan Jett
Nancy Wilson
Raquel Welsh (I think I saw her play a guitar in movie)
One of those Dean Guitar Girls from the late 70's or early 80's.
Jewel
Victoria Spice
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Location: CA | Jimmy Page |
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Location: CA | Oh, and David Gilmour. But actually I'd rather hear him play. |
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Location: Chicago | I'd love to hear the insights of a really seasoned cross-over guy like Larry Coryell who is also known to be a GREAT teacher. BTW my main inspiration all these years has already laid lessons/lecutres down for all time: "This is the way I do it". |
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Who would you want guitar lessons from if money was no object?