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Re: Other than Hank...

Postby Iain Purdon » Tue Dec 08, 2015 11:52 am

Indeed. Check out the Dave Edmunds version of Singing the Blues :lol:
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Re: Other than Hank...

Postby Allclaphands » Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:09 pm

Iain_P wrote:Indeed. Check out the Dave Edmunds version of Singing the Blues


I am and always have been a great admirer of Dave Edmunds and his music there was someone who played alongside him for many years:

Michael Richard 'Mickey' Gee (3 July 1944 – 21 January 2009)[1] was a rock and roll guitarist who played alongside some of the most prominent Welsh musicians of the last forty years.

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Re: Other than Hank...

Postby MikeAB » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:44 pm

A glaring omission:-

Steve Hackett
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Re: Other than Hank...

Postby drakula63 » Fri Dec 11, 2015 3:33 pm

OK. I'm not a guitarist, but...

Kevin Peek

Steve Vai

John Sykes

Eddie Van Halen

Lol Crème

Eric Stewart

John Farrar

Bruce Welch

Andy Taylor

Jackie Chambers

Kelly Johnson

Tara McLeod

Martin Barre

and the indestructible...

Wilko Johnson !

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Re: Other than Hank...

Postby Gatwick1946 » Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:34 am

Jerry Wilcock (The Fentones)
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Re: Other than Hank...

Postby GoldenStreet » Mon Dec 14, 2015 1:00 pm

Mike Maxfield (Dakotas)

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Re: Other than Hank...

Postby RayL » Tue Dec 15, 2015 8:22 am

GoldenStreet wrote:Mike Maxfield (Dakotas) Bill


Ah! Takes me back to Thursday 29th of August 1963. Billy J. and the Dakotas were rehearsing for a BBC show at the Playhouse Theatre in London (The Playhouse was a BBC radio studio at that time). As a very junior trainee I was allocated there for the day. The Cruel Sea was the Dakotas recent hit (it had got to No.18 in July) and to play the fast twiddley bit had seemed nothing less than magic to me with my fumble fingers.

I asked, and Mike Maxfield very kindly showed me how it was done. I've always been grateful (though I still can't play it properly!).
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Re: Other than Hank...

Postby GoldenStreet » Tue Dec 15, 2015 1:23 pm

Mike is still active, I gather, running Maximus Music in Stockport. I've just discovered, sadly, that rhythm (later bass) guitarist, Robin MacDonald, died in September.

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Re: Other than Hank...

Postby RayL » Wed Dec 16, 2015 9:17 am

GoldenStreet wrote:Mike is still active, I gather, running Maximus Music in Stockport.

Must be a very low profile business - the only Maximus Music found on Google is in the USA.

Back to the theme of this thread, there's been no mention of Steve Cropper so far. In 1962 we were accustomed to the sound of Hank and The Shadows, and the many UK Stratocaster bands that had followed in their wake, but Green Onions was something very different.

It wasn't just that Hammond riff that ascends and descends at the same time, but those spare, edgy, stabs from Steve Cropper's Telecaster. Before 'fuzz boxes' made distortion the 'must have' effect, Steve's guitar had that slightly distorted edge that demanded attention. No multiple tape echos (just a little studio reverb), no flying clusters of notes (although Terry Clemson turned that principle on its head when The Downliners Sect recorded Green Onions for At Night In Great Newport Street) and no tremolo arm, just note bending with fingers on very light guage strings.

The influence of Steve Cropper on the UK's 1960s rhythm & blues guitarists is under-appreciated.
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Re: Other than Hank...

Postby GoldenStreet » Wed Dec 16, 2015 12:07 pm

To my mind, Cropper's highly distinctive and idiosyncratic fills made Otis Redding's Dock Of The Bay.

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