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Metheny's getting a customised synth version built.

You should have done the liner notes to the new cd MG. They should have flown you to St Louis for a week of research and partying. Do you know if the VJ sessions survive?

I like to think of them as good players (and Eric Johnson is a very good guitarist) who play a music that is too "good" to be Popular yet too "accessible" to be "art" for a market that is too small to be Big yet too big to be Small. They're viewed as "cult figures" in mainstream circles, but any jazz cult figure would look at them as big stars. It's a whole weird "in-between zone" in every way imaginable. As always, the "truth" depends on where you're standing and what you're looking at. Yes. That's very funny and quite true the way you put that. I was also thinking that this is a particularly 'guitar kind of thing too'. The guitar fans into the 'cult of the guitar player' form a substantial audience/market in the kind of way you describe. Eric Johnson is (or used to be) one of those kind of guitar players that really fit that bill. Robben Ford is another one although his history with Jazz and Blues makes him a little more user friendly to genre fans rather than just the non Jazz or Blues specific guitar market. i don't think the Piano or the Saxophone have this type of 'built in audience'. Although drummers sought of do.

So he didn't do this, then? MG No. The Eric Johnson your thinking of is I think on a fairly recent Gloria Coleman cd. And is a really good Soul Jazz player. The other guy is a Rock player of above average virtuoso skills. He is the type of player that pops up fairly regularly that is not quite Fusion, not quite Blues Rock and becomes beloved of guitar magazine geeks. These kinds of players often have a tune that pays homage to Wes Montgomery by utilising 'octaves' Joe Bonamassa and Derek Trucks (kinda) are the latest in this tradition. Yes, the same guy is on some cuts of Gloria's 'Sweet Missy', with Calvin Keys on the other ones. MG Yep. I was glad to find that cd somewhere I didn't expect too. Hell of a fine guitar player he is too. Have you got this one MG?

So he didn't do this, then? MG No. The Eric Johnson your thinking of is I think on a fairly recent Gloria Coleman cd. And is a really good Soul Jazz player. The other guy is a Rock player of above average virtuoso skills. He is the type of player that pops up fairly regularly that is not quite Fusion, not quite Blues Rock and becomes beloved of guitar magazine geeks. These kinds of players often have a tune that pays homage to Wes Montgomery by utilising 'octaves' Joe Bonamassa and Derek Trucks (kinda) are the latest in this tradition.

Where's the barcode?

Clifford, how's the label in general? I'm intrigued by the sale offer, but don't want to end up with a pile of crap alt rock. Do a youtube search under 'weasel walter' and you'll get the idea. I really like a lot of this guys projects i see on there. Really kind of lo-fi and un-pretentious.

Listening to Robin's Nest again, I can hear he ain't no Tal Farlow, but he sure as hell ain't no Arto Lindsay either. Sounds a bit like a Gutbucket Django to me.

C'mon Allen, have a listen to the Robin's Nest clip I posted.

Enjoying listening to this. Haven't had a chance to really dig in to it yet. Graf is a 'very' fine player. Groovin High has nice lines from both Graf and Grant. Wonder if GG is playing the Gibson he is pictured with from the Forrest session, or the Strat?

That's not a good sign. Hope all's well for those four eventually. Very sad for the driver and family.

Cowboys are the only ones that stay in tune anyway.

my favourite Mickey Baker, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Nauc_mQtw and don't forget Vol.2

Maybe the Stones could get an old effigy of Brian Jones from a Madame Tussauds fire sale and prop him in a recliner with his old Gibson Firebird - by the side of the stage. Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep- He hath awakened from the dream of life

OTOH, The Stones!http://www.guardian....y-fans-reaction Very funny reply from this 'old revolutionary' from back in the day. Spruiking his own gig perhaps. Better get there on the 8th UK members "I bought "Come On " from my paper round money in '63. The Stones back in the 60's had an aura of revolution and mysticism, but now they are just rich and greedy old men going through the motions for yet more money which they don't need. If this had been a charity gig then that would have been a great thing, but the Stones have never struck me as philanthropic, in fact their renowned tight fistedness is quite the opposite. As a pastiche of their former selves they should have retired years ago. Who needs them when there are old men who still rock - and four of them are called the Fleshtones, a band that eats up old farts like The Stones, spits them out in pieces then stomps on them. For a mere tenner you'll be able to see them stomp their stuff at The Dirty Water Club at The Shacklewell Arms in Hackney on 8th December. This is what rock and roll is all about, a great band in a small venue".

I remember reading a very interesting interview with Jim Hall associated with the artists grant he received, he spoke very reverently and fairly directly about the experience of playing with African American musicians and community in earlier days.

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson Jimmy Scott-Emuakpor Public Domain

Deepak Chopra. Leave your brain at the door, and your wallet in his good hands. Oh boy.

Someone should have told the Swami it was already taken

Is he related to Narada Michael Walden.

Hampton and Hound Dog had something in common.

Headbutting that brik-a-brak market stall? Is that when he fell out of the tree?

Ronnie Wood was sounding good though. Maybe he's found his old mojo. Knowing he was going to have Mick Taylor breathing down his neck for this tour might have sent him back to the woodshed

Oh. i didn't pick up on that. In that case - nice idea - bad research. I suppose none of these tunes, like the Ghetto Brothers one, are unknown to fans/collectors?

They're back. It's underway. Look out America. I took a listen to this...and the earth moved. Unfortunately it was Freddie King rolling over in his grave. I can't help it, but Jeff Beck's ornamental twang bar/slide prototechnics increasingly give me the shits. Sorry Beck fans, I know he has a lot of respect from others with good ears.