Mr Badger
Practically Family
- Messages
- 545
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- Somerset, UK
repeatclicks said:I am left handed, so naturally the first time I picked up a guitar I held it left handed. My brother gave me his old guitar, which was right handed, so I forced myself to learn this way, after seeing the options available for lefties!
I don't blame you, mate, it's a real pain. However, as a southpaw, you never have the problem of other bands borrowing your guitar and screwing it up, or being asked to jam *shudders*!
Silver Dollar said:Great collection Mr Badger. I've got a few Three Cats and a Fiddle recordings myself. Eddie Condon is another great tenor player but I haven't been able to find much of his work since he worked mostly as a side man.
Thanks, still hasn't made me any more talented, though! About a year back, I went thru a period where I was just totally fed up with guitar players, and got really into jump blues saxophonists - what led me back to liking guitarists again was digging stuff like Three Cats & The Fiddle and some western swing. Those players are faves of some of the greatest 1950s guitarists - James Burton, Paul Burlison and, yes I'm gonna include him, Luther Perkins. It's their mix of economy, swing and adventurousness that gets me. Funny how you can follow the thread of this era of guitarists all the way from Condon thru Burton to someone like the late, great Robert Quine, who added some free jazz to the mix, in order to create some really, really way out playing. I mean, what's Quine's solo on "Blank Generation" but a mix of jazz, western swing and hillbilly thru an amphetamine haze?
But I digress...
BTW, check Rod McKuen's "The Beat Generation" to see where Richard Hell appropriated the melody and lyrics for "Blank Generation" - 'un homage', I believe our Gallic brethren would call it...