Speaking of guitarists...

[280plus]

This is good, especially for the players around here. Plus it lists a bunch more lessons of to the right there. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRYy4OBEvHE

[Silver Bullet]

Very cool.   

I love ZZ Top.

I remember listening to a radio interview of them, where they talked about how they would write a song and then run it by the drummer to see what he thought.  Billy and Dusty said that sometimes Frank would misunderstand the lyrics but his misinterpretation would be more interesting than their original intent !   

An example was an old blues song called Real Gone Lover.  Billy and Dusty had a variation of it they ran by Frank, but Frank thought the song was Real Gun Lover ! "Real Gun Lover.  Yeah !  I like that !"  Billy and Dusty looked at each other and knew they had something.   They changed the lyrics to fit that idea.  One of my favorite ZZ Top songs.

She likes to shoot her gun,
Shootin at the target of love.
She likes to load her chamber,
Hot and tight like a black leather glove.
Shes a little freak, but shell take you in.
You might be sittin at the end of a firing pin.
Gun love, gun love, gun love,
Shes a real gun lover,
Gun love, gun love, gun love,
Shes a real gun lover tonight.

Shes so particular, she likes a smith and wesson or colt.
But shell give you some lovin as long as shes cockin the bolt.
Better hold on when shes up to her tricks
Playin russian roulette but shell load all six.
Gun love, gun love, gun love,
Shes a real gun lover,
Gun love, (gun love) gun love, (gun love) gun love,
Shes a real gun lover tonight.

She likes the punch deep down in her pistolero.
Running with the wild bunch, makin like a robert dinero.
Shes kinda shy but make no mistake,
Shell shoot you full of love till your love bone aches.
Gun love, gun love, gun love,
Shes a real gun lover,
Gun love, (gun love) gun love, gun love,
Shes a real gun lover tonight.
Shes a real gun lover.
Shes a real gun lover tonight.

[James Fitzer]

Great player, phenominal tone...


and legendary beard.


I'm getting back into Eric Johnson again.... man.... awesome.


You know who else is a great guitarist??/

http://www.trashyandthekid.com

Me! :-)

[280plus]

You need an aspirin warning for us old farts you know...

Maybe we could use that as a rating system? "I give it THREE aspirin Dick!"

 

[James Fitzer]

Sorry bout that, 280. Next time i go to a blues jam i'll record that for ya. I'm a big fan of any and all guitar.

This band is very "modern." I have fun with it, but I am a big fan of older stuff as well. If you listen carefully, you can pick up definate van halen-esque nuances in some things, like "Run for your life" and "dar al-harb"

but, much of it is just good ol' bang-around-ery.


:-)

[280plus]

Awww, no apologies necessary, I was just yankin' yer chain. Being a curmudgeon and all I felt it was my duty...