Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Posts: 107 Location: Long Island, NY
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:10 am Post subject: Recent Guitar player magazine
I saw the latest Guitar Player magazine. They rate the top 50 guitar DVDs; performance not instruction. I was very dissapointed to see that our man did not make it. Not the Paris DVD nor the Robben and Larry DVD. Larry and Luke made it however as did Neil Young (PUKE) .
I felt better when I saw there was an interview with Robben in the front of the magazine. It was short but good. Great questions and answers. I especially like Robben's reply to the last question about being a guitar God.
Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 197 Location: San Jose Ca.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:24 am Post subject:
The United States is a nutty place for artists sometimes. I put Kings X in this same category, unrecognized genius. The Beatles said it best when they first came here. The reporters asked them who they wanted to meet and they said "Muddy Waters" and a lot of the various blues artists. The reporters said "who"? John Lennon says "don't you even know your own most famous people? It would seem the European people still know more about great art than the majority of us Americans do. It's great for me, but not so much for these two great artists that I can still see them in the confines of clubs versus huge arenas.
Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Terra Firma, Ether Sea
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:02 am Post subject:
Red Suede wrote:
...unrecognized genius. The Beatles said it best when they first came here. The reporters asked them who they wanted to meet and they said "Muddy Waters" and a lot of the various blues artists. The reporters said "who"? John Lennon says "don't you even know your own most famous people?...
If you've never seen it, I HIGHLY recommend the documentary-movie "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown".
It is the story of the most recorded band of all time, the Funk Brothers, who, tho they recorded more hit records than any other band in history, went virtually unknown until someone realized this and finally told their story in the late 90's after several of them had passed away without recognition (and a couple of them were on their last legs as the documentary was filmed... never seeing the final results. Joyous, yet heartbreaking, to see them so happy to FINALLY be receiving the recognition they so richly deserved in their final performances for the movie, after so many years of obscurity).
You heard, loved, memorized, played, and grew up on their multitude of hits without ever knowing who they were or what their story was.
An extraordinary film documenting the story of extraordinary unsung musicians.
I know I came away from viewing this film respectful, enlightened, and a bit sad & guilty that I too, music lover and officiendo that I like to think I am, had never in all these years asked myself... "who are these guys?"
Seek it out... you won't be sorry. _________________ B C-ing U!
( }:-Daved
"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:38 am Post subject: music & love
Well Daved don't feel guilty about not acknowledging these ones , you seem to have such good tales with others, i must say i have this DVD , can you believe it ; it was a promotion in my local " ralph" , here in france i presume we do are romantic , kinda' cheap thrills................
Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 234 Location: Hartlepool, U.K.
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject:
I've watched that DVD countless times - I love Joan Osborne singing "Heatwave". What a gem! _________________ "Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were only thought up a little more than a century ago?" - Bernice Fitz-Gibbon 1894-1982
Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 1504 Location: Methuen, MA
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:
Daved wrote:
Red Suede wrote:
...unrecognized genius. The Beatles said it best when they first came here. The reporters asked them who they wanted to meet and they said "Muddy Waters" and a lot of the various blues artists. The reporters said "who"? John Lennon says "don't you even know your own most famous people?...
If you've never seen it, I HIGHLY recommend the documentary-movie "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown".
It is the story of the most recorded band of all time, the Funk Brothers, who, tho they recorded more hit records than any other band in history, went virtually unknown until someone realized this and finally told their story in the late 90's after several of them had passed away without recognition (and a couple of them were on their last legs as the documentary was filmed... never seeing the final results. Joyous, yet heartbreaking, to see them so happy to FINALLY be receiving the recognition they so richly deserved in their final performances for the movie, after so many years of obscurity).
You heard, loved, memorized, played, and grew up on their multitude of hits without ever knowing who they were or what their story was.
An extraordinary film documenting the story of extraordinary unsung musicians.
I know I came away from viewing this film respectful, enlightened, and a bit sad & guilty that I too, music lover and officiendo that I like to think I am, had never in all these years asked myself... "who are these guys?"
Seek it out... you won't be sorry.
Classic example of why this the most greatest forum on the net, universe, etc. Thank you Daved, and Blobby, for your insights!
Joined: 21 Feb 2004 Posts: 243 Location: Rochester, MI
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject:
Daved wrote:
Red Suede wrote:
...unrecognized genius. The Beatles said it best when they first came here. The reporters asked them who they wanted to meet and they said "Muddy Waters" and a lot of the various blues artists. The reporters said "who"? John Lennon says "don't you even know your own most famous people?...
If you've never seen it, I HIGHLY recommend the documentary-movie "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown".
It is the story of the most recorded band of all time, the Funk Brothers, who, tho they recorded more hit records than any other band in history, went virtually unknown until someone realized this and finally told their story in the late 90's after several of them had passed away without recognition (and a couple of them were on their last legs as the documentary was filmed... never seeing the final results. Joyous, yet heartbreaking, to see them so happy to FINALLY be receiving the recognition they so richly deserved in their final performances for the movie, after so many years of obscurity).
You heard, loved, memorized, played, and grew up on their multitude of hits without ever knowing who they were or what their story was.
An extraordinary film documenting the story of extraordinary unsung musicians.
I know I came away from viewing this film respectful, enlightened, and a bit sad & guilty that I too, music lover and officiendo that I like to think I am, had never in all these years asked myself... "who are these guys?"
Seek it out... you won't be sorry.
Yes, that's a great documentary. I grew up (and still live) in metro Detroit. I knew of some of the musicians growing up and later in life. I just never realized it was such a small group of guys who played on all that great music. I once did a gig with Beth Griffith (Johnny Griffith's daughter). I was hoping to do some more gigs with her and some day meet her dad, but he passed away right when the movie came out. I've been trying to track down Joe Messina to meet and hang out with him. It would be a real honor to do so and hear more stories of what they went through in those days. If I ever do, I'll be sure to let this group know.
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