paul
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Post by paul on Jun 15, 2009 18:23:03 GMT
Hello Roddy, Who is your favourite Rockabilly guitarist? Scotty Moore and Paul Burlison are a couple of mine. By the way looking forward to Margate in November!
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Post by roddy byers on Jun 16, 2009 12:17:22 GMT
Yep those two are great, and that bloke who played with Buddy Holly and gave his seat to the Big Bopper "lucky son of a gun yes sirrie bob"* Saw a Welsh bloke at the Cov rock,a,billy club last saturday who was pretty good but ild had a few and cant remember his name ....
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Post by stevo on Jun 16, 2009 16:25:09 GMT
Tommy Allsup was Buddy Holly's guitarist at the time of the crash, and it was Richie Valens who tossed a coin with Allsup to see who would get the seat on the Plane. The Big bopper took Waylon Jennings seat, who was playing Bass for Buddy.
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Post by roddy byers on Jun 16, 2009 17:06:22 GMT
Thats it Tommy! its me age its against me! Should know really bought all the books ,saw the film ,watched the DoBanana Milkshakeentry and listen to the music regularly..
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paul
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Post by paul on Jun 16, 2009 19:40:51 GMT
Roddy,
The guy who played guitar on Billy Lee Riley's 'Flyin' Saucers Rock 'N' Roll' was pretty amazing. Concerning Buddy Holly, The Buddy Holly Memorial Collection CD that came out this year is a brilliant collection of his songs.
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Post by carefree on Jun 17, 2009 16:37:17 GMT
my fave rock n roller was eddie cochrane, loved cut across shorty.
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Post by roddy byers on Jun 19, 2009 7:46:30 GMT
Yep probably mine too* "Nervous Breakdown" which i covered in the Tearjerkers.
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Post by istanbulrambler on Jan 16, 2010 18:57:47 GMT
from the 50's, the best one was Jerry Reed. I love early jerry reed songs, guitar works are awesome none of the rockabilly guitarist could play like him at that time. and he wrote lots of hits for big shots. gene vincent's "crazy legs" brenda lee's "that's all you gotta do" and elvis' "guitar man" are all jerry's songs.
James burton is a hell of a guitarist too. he played with ricky nelson and elvis.
gene vincent's guitarist Cliff Gallup has a characteristic playing.
nowadays, my favorite one is mr. heath from Reverend Horton Heat. I am glad that he's finally done with the pyschobilly thing. I saw them in San Francisco ones, he has really cool solos in spend a night in the box. and they played some songs from their new album which wasn't reliesed at the time. I Haven't listened the new album after the show. but it sounded like ragtimeish country with lots of travis pickin.
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Post by Hugh on Jan 17, 2010 0:02:00 GMT
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Post by roddy byers on Jan 17, 2010 9:18:08 GMT
I dont think of myself as a rock,a,billy git player..too narrow a term..
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Post by mrclaypole on Jan 17, 2010 15:14:57 GMT
Labels are so unhelpful, I dont consider myself as any type of guitarist, when I was in several bands in the early 90s we always made the mistake of trying to emulate several bands, but what came out was totally different........I think the lesson there for me was be yourself, find your own style.........sadly mine is with a slight lack of finesse. Still im happy bashing away on the old axe. I need a new band..........
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Post by istanbulrambler on Jan 17, 2010 15:36:27 GMT
you are right. if you are a musician you gotta be like a sponge, take whatever sounds good and original.
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Post by Hugh on Jan 19, 2010 2:32:00 GMT
Learn from the birds.
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Post by roddy byers on Jan 25, 2010 9:14:26 GMT
Well Istanbulrambler.. ive been called a sponge before...
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Post by istanbulrambler on Jan 25, 2010 15:37:54 GMT
hope whoever said that meant what I meant!
and I loved the video that hugh sent.
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