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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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Who would you want guitar lessons from if money was no object?
