New Project: Guitar Players

[king ubu]

Allen Reuss is the other mostly rhythm guitar player I meant.

[AllenLowe]

thanks for the continued suggestions - as for:

"Given your previous projects, why devote time and energy to the most overused, over-hyped, and cliched instrument on the planet?"

actually, I want to do it for that very reason - like with a lot of jazz and blues histories, guitar history tends to be written over and over in the same cliched way -

Edited September 12, 2009 by AllenLowe

[marcello]

Pete Cosey

Al Gafa

Bill DeArango

[ep1str0phy]

thanks for the continued suggestions - as for:

"Given your previous projects, why devote time and energy to the most overused, over-hyped, and cliched instrument on the planet?"

actually, I want to do it for that very reason - like with a lot of jazz and blues histories, guitar history tends to be written over and over in the same cliched way -

I agree with this statement.

Allen, I'm assuming this is a book/text document rather than a compilation? I can't imagine what a licensing nightmare that would be.

[7/4]

thanks for the continued suggestions - as for:

"Given your previous projects, why devote time and energy to the most overused, over-hyped, and cliched instrument on the planet?"

actually, I want to do it for that very reason - like with a lot of jazz and blues histories, guitar history tends to be written over and over in the same cliched way -

How about a project about bass players?

[Jim R]

I've been following this discussion, but so far I don't think I fully understand the premise (is the idea to educate people about under-appreciated players?... A comprehensive history connecting the dots in terms of importance/influence?); and I'm a bit puzzled as to the scope (is 1970 the cutoff point, or not?).

[AllenLowe]

I intend it as a listener's guide to guitar players, to cover through what I consider the beginning of the modern era of rock and roll, which I believe had a cataclysmic effect on the sound and use of the instrument - and in the way I do things, I try to avoid what is usually called "the canon," meaning, basically, the usual suspects. So it's not a guide to the under-appreciated but to the reality, which is that music history is always much more complicated than popular histories indicate.

Edited September 12, 2009 by AllenLowe

[Teasing the Korean]

How about a project about bass players?

Or jazz bagpipers?

[7/4]

How about a project about bass players?

Or jazz bagpipers?

Great minds think alike!

[Teasing the Korean]

...through what I consider the beginning of the modern era of rock and roll...

I think you mean the "end" of the modern era and maybe the beginning of the "contemporary" era. It's very jarring these days when people interchange those two words.

[AllenLowe]

well, no actually - I consider the modern era of rock and roll to have begun around 1964-65 - I am using the term modern in the classic (sic) way, as in the modernization of the form, which began in that era.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Teddy Bunn !

You're back too, Brownie! Hi!

And I agree 100% about Teddy Bunn.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Knowing how you approach this stuff, Allen, this sounds like a worthwhile project. Just don't do yourself in.

A few suggestions:

GEORGE FREEMANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Calvin Newborn

Paul Weeden

Barthelemey Attiso (of Orchestre Baobab)

Billy Butler

Boogaloo Joe Jones

GEORGE FREEMANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Melvin Sparks

Thornel Schwartz

Bill Jennings

Floyd Smith

Al Casey

GEORGE FREEMANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Link Wray

Bucky Pizzarelli

Sekou Bembeya Diabate (of Bembeya Jazz National)

Keletigui Diabate (Orchestre National "A" de la Republique de Mali)

Roy Gaines

GEORGE FREEMANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you HAVE to put in Duane Eddy, make sure you use either "Stalkin'" or "Peter Gunn".

MG

[Tom in RI]

Wild Jimmy Spruill

[AllenLowe]

more good stuff - thanks guys -

can't tell the wife about this project as the last one almost killed me. Will do this one slightly less ambitiously -