Robben Ford Discussion

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One more in the continuing series!!!!! Laughing

Robben...sometimes
Pat Martino
Wes Montgomery
George Benson
Joe Pass

This should get us started!
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Aeolian · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:18 pm Post subject:

Charlie Christian? At least they weren't guitar lines when he played them.

But most of all, Django. I would love to hear someone play that stuff with a Robbenesque tone. I heard one thing on the radio once that was attribituted to an Ellington small combo that had Django on an electric taking a big cadenza in the middle of something. At first I thought it was Joe Pass but then there were these long melodic lines that the phrasing sounded Django like. The sustain of the electric brought stuff out of him like I've never heard. I've never been able to find that recording. Just imagine what Django would have done if the had the sustain of a solid body and a Dumble!
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elizabeth · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:38 pm Post subject: Don't know much about...

I don't know about guitar lines, but Captain, you have great taste in music. You too, Aeolian...got all those guys on vinyl!
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fingerlakes · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 9:03 am Post subject:

Not being a guitarist I'm not exactly sure what you mean. But if it's doing other neat stuff besides playing melodic lines I like some of these guys :

Andy Summers
Alex Lifeson
Jeff Beck
Robert Fripp
David Gilmour

bluesman · Senior Member Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 219 Location: UK

One and only - Allan Holdsworth! Very Happy

srammell · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 7:57 am Post subject:

Eric Johnson, Francis Dunnery, James Grant - not sure if I understand the question completely but all of these guitar players, tend to emphasise the 'song' whilst adding to and being extremely capable of letting fly when required, or just for the hell of it sometimes.

I know its a bit of a cliche, butr the real test of a player and the song is when you can do it unplugged and still achieve the same level of emotion, intensity and recognition - which of course Robben can do at will ref: authorised bootleg album for one!

midc74 · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 8:32 am Post subject:

How about Steve Cropper, Arlen Roth, and Danny Gatton. Those guys were always playing horn/organ lines... and all of them excellent players!

Speaking of which.... I think I'll have to listen to some of them this week. Very Happy

Patrick

P.S. - How many of you knew that Steve Cropper produced Robben's first solo album in '79 (The Inside Story). Some of Robben's early fusion, and the session that "formed" The Yellowjackets.

PierreL · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 9:03 am Post subject:

Frank Gambale... I know he's got a reputation as a shredder kind of player, and to be honest I am not really a fan of his playing or his music, but there are some solos I heard him play that really sound like sax lines , especially when he slows down a little Smile

Aeolian · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:58 pm Post subject:

iamthewalrus · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 9:11 am Post subject: un-guitaristic guitarists

Daved · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 10:46 am Post subject:

Walrus, If you are still in touch with John, please tell him 'Hello' for me. I haven't seen him in ages... since around the time I studio teched for Joe on the first attempt to record the "Extremist" album, in and around San Francisco.
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nineacres · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 4:54 am Post subject:

Anyone listen to Blind Blake? It's often been said he sounded like a piano player. Amazing stuff! Check out "Police Dog Blues" (of which Ry Cooder did a nice version)
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