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Location: SoCal | This is way off topic, but any of you that have listened to and loved the guitar playing of Barney Kessel, might want to take a look at this link.
http://www.gould68.freeserve.co.uk/bkesselpage.html |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Paul
It sure seems relevant to me, players like Barney Kessel made the guitar a legitimate instrument. If you didn't live in the big band era, you don't realize how much guitars were looked down upon. Only hillbillies and negroes (the polite term at the time) played them, and there was no place in polite society or radio airtime for either. The great jazz players caused many a young person to buy a guitar, and then find out about blues, country, bluegrass, leading to rockabilly, beatles, and Ovation guitars. Also, in the photographs is a magazine cover of him and Django, how much more relevant can you get? I suggest that anybody on this board that hasn't heard Django Reinhardt, search the net and find a CD or tape and have your eyes (ears) opened to what a guitar can do, played by a man whose left hand was badly burned so some fingers lacked full motion, you won't believe it. Without these masters, we would all be standing in front of a music stand in a 50 piece orchestra, playing our anonymous notes and thinking how much more fun we'd have working in a coal mine and making some money.
Bailey (that was relevant, I am irrelevant) |
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Location: NJ | hmmmm a post about a great guitarist or a post about a calendar of OFC girls gone wild? which is more relevant?????? |
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Location: NJ | Why not combine the two?
We could have a calendar comprised of hot OFC girls posing as great great guitar legends!
Both Barney AND Django were awesome!
There was another guy too who was one of Django's contemporaries who was really good too, but the synapses in my brain aren't firing correctly today to allow me to recall his name. I wanna say "Panama Red" but that's NRPS.
The guy kinda looked a little like Peewee Herman, but played some really tasty guitar. |
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Location: SoCal | Rhubarb Red was the name. At the time it was a stage name for Les Paul. And yeah, he played very tasty licks. Still does. |
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Location: NJ | No. That's not the guy I'm thinking of.
This guy was from like Django's era.
It'll come to me. |
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Location: NJ | TAMPA RED!!! (F*#%^&g Panama! - what a dope I am!)
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