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Location: Chicago | We all can name a guy just locally who deserves to be a "BIG NAME"; someone who we KNOW is world-class but has not yet "broken".... Anyone in your neck of the woods that has knocked your socks off? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Wayne Henderson.... |
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Location: big island | willie k
willie k ~ "oh holy night" |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Sorry, can't help locally. But cyber-wise, Damon!
It's truly a JOY to see a member blossom as he has! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Well, once upon a time, before they became famous, Johnny Ramone, David Byrne and Bruce Springsteen. And the lead Guitarist for a band that played their own tunes, the Band, The Dead, Joni Mitchell, Bluegrass and Blues ... the Bear Brother's Band, I can't remember his name and the band is no more. Gone long long ago. |
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Location: Jet City | Ha! Thanks Johnny.
There's a local guy here named Carl Tosten
Plus not long ago we had a local gal hit it semi-big. Brandi Carlile |
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Location: Jet City | Man Willie's music is just full of energy! I like.
Must suck for you living over in paradise there Randy. It still hitting the 80's for the highs? |
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Location: closely held secret | Gary Ogan |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Scott Miller
Only Everything |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | And This
And My current fav |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Here is a little info on Wayne Henderson:
Wayne Henderson and Friends
More Wayne and Friends (check out the OM-45 #400 he built and plays...WOW)
Building a Henderson Guitar
Building a Henderson Guitar Pt. 2
I spent yesterday evening at Wayne's guitar shop...I sat around picking on the '48 Martin D-28 and chewing the fat w/Wayne about guitars and touring...although invited to come, I can't be at the infamous Christmas Party and Jam at his home, so we had a great evening together...He inspires me to play more often and reach for new horizons in music, playing, and how to treat others...He is a special person and I'm proud to call him my friend! |
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| In NY City in the early seventies there was a guy named Barry Drake. Watching him perform I realized I was not restricted just to folk and country simply because I was playing an acoustic guitar; anything was fair game. I immediately started to put jazz and standards into my sets. The world opened up. |
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Location: NJ | Matt Smith. |
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Location: big island | love the wayne henderson stuff, mike. thanks for sharing. i see his guitars selling for $25K and higher, even on the bay. his instruments sound incredible, sonically pure, balanced and warm even in the videos. they must be a delight to behold in the flesh. wow! wayne talks just like my dad who lives near the roan mountain, nc, not too far from rugby, va. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Funny they go for that much money... He'll build a new one for a couple grand ( . . . and a few years) |
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Location: New Hampsha | Johhny A - Saw him last Friday night and was swept away. Wow.
http://www.johnnya.com |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | In Boston (Cambridge actually), there were many street-musicians that I knew that inspired me.
There was Stratocaster-Mikey, a white dude with a white Strat who could play any Hendrix tune, long before SRV or anyone else.
There was Shakti's Old-Man (whose name escapes me) who could play any request on an old acoustic guitar.
Keith-with-the-Blue-Gibson, who played Jazz and refused to play Hendrix even tho' he looked just like Jimi.
All of these people played better than people you heard on the radio but played on the street instead.
The internet had not been invented yet, so no downloadable TAB, they had to figure their songs out the Hard way. If it was a new song they would sit in the park with a cassette player, trying to get it right for the Evening Rush. Then go out and play on the street.
[Obviously this is not 'Local' to Portland, but I ain't really From here... Oh well.] |
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Location: Jet City | Arthur,
Go to the flea market there under the bridge on the weekends. Last time I was there, there were several street performers. SOme were even good. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Funny they go for that much money... He'll build a new one for a couple grand ( . . . and a few years)
Jeff, his waiting list is over 10 years...each guitar is handmade and built according to prewar specs...Wayne doesn't build the guitars for the money...it's the art and love of building the instruments that keeps him going...
He built two for Clapton...one was auctioned for chairity at Christies in '06 for $32 grand and change... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I just started reading the book about the building of Clapton's guitars last night. Should be an interesting read. |
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Location: San Ramon/Canandaigua | Some guy by the name of stonebobbo heard he's a rockin' guitar player... ;)
My brother Dane too, The band Guns of Autumn always did good things... |
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| I always looked down on anybody local who couldn't play as good as me and totally hated anybody who could play better (which was most).
It's this attitude that made me the inept swine I am today. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by schroeder:
I always looked down on anybody local who couldn't play as good as me and totally hated anybody who could play better (which was most).
It's this attitude that made me the inept swine I am today. And you think you're different than the rest of us because????? |
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| The Voice told me I was better than all of you. |
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Location: SoCal | Is that Voice stronger than the one you're now using? |
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Location: Michigan | Lets see, I guess back when I was in High School there were several. Some made it & some didn't.
Very early 70's, used to go to lots of concerts at our local ice arena, when they had the ice out of course. Cost was $3.50 to see people like
Ted Nugent, Bob Seger, Mitch Ryder, Dick Wagner & the Frost, Fridged Pink, Iggy & the Stooges, Three Dog Night, Brownsville Station, MC5.
Then of course there was Alice Cooper & Grand Funk Railroad.
Those were the locals, then when I got a drivers license we hit the college towns like Ann Arbor got to see more national stuff & the cost for a concert was $6.50
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Location: Indiana | Carolina Charlie Wiggs was a celebrity in the Tidewater area of Virginia in the late sixties/early seventies. By day, he was a disc jockey at the #1 country music station in the state. When the sun went down, he and his top notch band of outlaws were a major draw in lounges, festivals, and theaters from Norfolk to Richmond. He was also the default warm up band for most of the big names that played the region.
Charlie heard me at the ripe old age of 12 and began to hire me as his opening child/dog act. Throughout my early teens I received quite an education, played big shows and smokey bars, snuck my first taste of whiskey, and generally had the time of my life.
One of my life's most unforgettable characters.
There's a song dedicated to Charlie on my Ning jukebox. A faux radio broadcast clip at the beginning features an actual recording of he and "The Heavy Cowboys" circa 1972.
We were an O band too. Typhoon bass, my Pacemaker and Charlie's Balladeer... |
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Location: Chicago | The best guitar team in town: Goran Ivanovic and Andreas Kapsalis. Ivanovic has done some great CDs with Fareed Haque (THE best guy around here) and with his Balkan fusion band "Eastern Blok" Hats off! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
Funny they go for that much money... He'll build a new one for a couple grand ( . . . and a few years)
Jeff, his waiting list is over 10 years...each guitar is handmade and built according to prewar specs...Wayne doesn't build the guitars for the money...it's the art and love of building the instruments that keeps him going...
He built two for Clapton...one was auctioned for chairity at Christies in '06 for $32 grand and change... |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I know that this isn't the intent of this thread, but......
There's someone who inspires a lot of us for entirely different reasons: his name is Brian, and he's a young man who's developmentally-challenged. He cues up the music for the church puppet team, can play keboard some, and he sings with an enthusiasm and purity of spirit that most of us 'non-challenged' people will never experience. His life blesses us in a completely different way, and knowing Brian has been a joy--and a privilege.
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LOCAL musician that has inspired you?