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AREN'T WE AFTER MORE CREATIVE AND LESS RETRO DIRECTIONS? Try guys like Samo Salamon, Julian Lage, etc. All I have to say is OY. FWIW, Eubanks' latest is excellent, and if you want to hear some creative guitar playing from years past from him, just pick up any of the ones where he appears with Dave Holland. "Extensions" comes immediately to mind. Whether Malone is "at the top" depends wholly on your definition of that phrase. There are several guitarists out there who are at the top of their games, for instance. I don't know.........someone named "Metheny" comes to mind! Guys like Eubanks and Juris smoke both of these guys IMHO of course. Juris has a lovely soft approach to some very advanced Post-Coltrane modalism for sure (a bit like the Liebman school of Saxophanists), but he's hardly what I'd call a commanding player. Now Malone on the other hand, doesn't really suffer from that problem Eubanks I haven't heard in years though. Please take this within the spirit with which it's intended: you are out of your mind! Maybe, but I'm right. Juris is a Teddy Bear (in a good way) i also think the idea that some players move in more creative directions - especially those employing processed sound or updating Fusion - to be a bit like smoke and mirrors - and ultimately still just a matter of personal taste rather than 'creative breakthroughs'. The guitar is a bastard of an instrument like that.

Whether Malone is "at the top" depends wholly on your definition of that phrase. There are several guitarists out there who are at the top of their games, for instance. I don't know.........someone named "Metheny" comes to mind! Guys like Eubanks and Juris smoke both of these guys IMHO of course. Juris has a lovely soft approach to some very advanced Post-Coltrane modalism for sure (a bit like the Liebman school of Saxophanists), but he's hardly what I'd call a commanding player. Now Malone on the other hand, doesn't really suffer from that problem Eubanks I haven't heard in years though.

Leadbelly Haystacks Calhoun Vernon Reid

I had a couple of the early sessions. Along with a couple of Russell Malone's. I don't think I kept any of them, accept maybe one of the Malone's. And a later one of his with a bonus song/video. Still love Whitfield's playing however. A particular favourite is his run through of Grant Green's Green Jeans, on the Grant Green Tribute Album. It's such a great tune anyway, but Whitfield is really loose and 'blowing'. Perhaps the 'tribute album' environment made him relax a bit and he really indulges his 'Bensonisms' on that one. And I always love to hear guitarists indulge their 'Bensonisms". I did buy a discount DVD of a collaboration with some 'White Strat' player, which was an excrable' Smooth Jazz outing of the worst kind

I've given up worrying about it all by now. Anything this deep archive wise, in the hands of these so called majors, might as well be notated as... lost... forgotten about...not in the interests of the listening world at large....

I felt like a deviant watching that. It must be good.

Adam Hills Lance Hill Hoyt Axton

If Bowie is well regarded in the musical consciousness of a figure like Shipp, he is far from an irrelevancy. And if you've ever been around any old farts in the Visual Arts, you'll know Bowie is 'a sacred space' C'mon, how good was Scary Monsters? Pop-Art, Art-Pop,, Art-Rock? It was a great moment in Mainstream music. Young Americans? If Bowie was 25 years younger, Meldhau would be covering him. The Thom Yorke of his generation

What a never less than interesting discussion going on in that interview. I can't ******* believe it though! He's a Bowie fan I was thinking I'm just about to chow down on 'Shipp on The Art Ensemble' ...and he's actually talking about DAVID Jones. C'mon, we all know that the REAL David Jones was in the Monkees! But they both shared an edgy flirtation with the Androgynous

It could be worse, it could be a Coltrane 'sheets of sound' type of tune, and you get 'the Cold Duck Time' solo.....actually come to think of it, I think I've got a few of those types of albums.....and quite like them

Great achievement Soul Stream. Personally I find Jimmy Vaughan a little to far towards the Rockabilly spectrum on my Blues Rainbow to really have much of an interest per se. But one thing for sure, any guitarist will eventually come across those Crossroads performances one way or another, if you're a guitarist or got guitar friends, you'd have to be on the moon to avoid it. Re- Jake Langley, I have come across his playing a lot in the YouTube universe, he is a great player and has a really earthy approach. One of my favourites who is not maybe so well known 'yet'. By the way, did you ever come around to liking Blood Ulmer's playing on Accent On The Blues and Memphis To New York Spirit? I remember reading many years ago on the board how you would have preferred 'any' other guitarist on those sessions They're some of my favourite Organ/Guitar recordings and I can't see how any Patton aficionado could see it any differently

What a never less than interesting discussion going on in that interview. I can't ******* believe it though! He's a Bowie fan I was thinking I'm just about to chow down on 'Shipp on The Art Ensemble' ...and he's actually talking about DAVID Jones.

Feed The Wombats is funny. Have you seen one in the flesh? They aren't around down my way that much, but if you want Kangaroos and Echidnas, we've got em FTW!!! Blue Train, have you heard Ozzy's speaking voice? Dont you know about DSOTM and The Wizard Of Oz? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow Yeah. Don't you know what FTW means? I must have been having a dyslexic acronym moment, I mistranslated as roughly WTF? I was still laughing at jsngrys post further back in the thread But I didn't know for sure what FTW means? It has been google translated for me, but could be pejorative if you are a Biker?

FTW!!! Blue Train, have you heard Ozzy's speaking voice? Dont you know about DSOTM and The Wizard Of Oz? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow

It might now be a bigger seller than Dark Side Of The Moon, but it'll never win a place in my heart unless you can sync this one up with The Wizard Of Oz as well - and here a Prog-Rock Directors Commentary. Her speaking voice would be more weird, if she played European Speculative Improv

Bowie really gives me the shits I'll read about it on wikipedia. I added a bit more, David. I do think he is over rated and he is perhaps seen as more important than he was because he was very clever and had a lot of interest beyond being 'just a Pop hit maker'. But ultimately his contributions may be revered more for the fact he was very 'arty' in an insightful way. above and beyond the call of duty for a Rock star. Anyway back to your scheduled topic.

Bowie really gives me the shits I'll read about it on wikipedia. I can remember so much of his stuff because it was rammed down my throat as part of the 'pop' music world. I like most of the 'hits' though. His 'arty' conceptual pop is a bit wanky though. He lost his Mojo because he is really a Pop musician, not a true artist.

Not as memorable as Bowies in-'sane' clip for Let's Dance? What a true 'innovator' Bowie is. So cool to be a part of the 'Berlin' set

The Omega Man Mantovani Reg Varney

Why don't you ask Sonny? I'm sure he'd be ultra-pleased to answer your question. How many gigs would Sonny have to remember to answer your question accurately? 'Oh yeah! That guy! How could I forget him'

Seems a fair enough question to want to find out who was playing piano in the band.

Nick Drake John Constable Tracey Emin

Why don't you ask Sonny? I'm sure he'd be ultra-pleased to answer your question. ? Just logging on Jetman

Here is an interesting interview with the Director of Dingo about meeting and filming with Miles. It's a little bit more verbose than Chuck Nessa's recollections but still fun to read. http://www.thelastmiles.com/interviews-rolf-de-heer.php

there was an interesting thread started up there a few nights ago about 'Soul' music. Looked forward to following it up the next day. Next day......GONESKIIIII