Analogman

Set list from lat night:

I was watching some of Mike Campbell Guitar Collection videos today. That guy has some nice guitars. Too bad you have to pay some bucks and sign up at the website to see all the videos. I guess there are 15 segments all together.

I was listening to all their albums today for the first time in a long time (well, up through New Adventures in Hi-Fi ). I was curious to see if they still had an active website. And sure enough, there is all sorts of stuff being posted on it. That is how I ran across the news about that re-issue. Oddly enough, I was listening to Green at the time.

Music writing is so bad these days - Lester Bangs must be spinning in his grave. It should be:

Ryan Adams Plays New Songs In London, Album Coming

I love the take of Happy and Tumbling Dice from that film. You can see Keith yelling at Mick Taylor - pretty funny.

I would like to have seen them back in the day, but I wouldn't bother now.

I think I can see your point. I just always saw them as a get in there and knock it out sort of band. Of course, that may depend on which era we are talking about. I suppose Sticky Fingers may be the first polished sounding Stones album. When I listen to live albums from that time I try to recall that most bands did have that great of a sound system to work with. But the power and energy that makes the Stones sound comes through on that album.

That is interesting and weird. I never thought of the Stones as much of a studio band.

I am guessing since Eric sold all of his guitars, he just uses stock Fenders now? From what I have seen in various videos, the ones he plays look new. I've been under that bridge in a ship a time or three.

He also played one (an ES-335) of those towards the end of Cream.

I would think her tirade had to do with the demons in her head, and her holy roller belief system. Plus - everything gets recorded and shared these days.

Here's one of them: Greatest Guitarists of All Time. It's nice to see Carlos on your list. A joke now, but at one time he was the man.

Max Johnston is Michelle's brother.

That is how it is for me. Probably due to the fact that is what I started out listening to those dudes way back in the last century. Plus - Robert Johnson records are too dam scary to listen to in the dark.

You forgot Jeff Beck and Peter Green (and a whole bunch of others that other people can name). I suppose what I was thinking of was the trinity - Page/Beck/Clapton.

I don't know about all that, but Eric was Jimi's hero. It's one of the reasons he came to England. Chas told him him knew Eric, and could arrange a meeting/jam.

I think that is a good way to put it - laid back and mellow. I think that is called "The Tulsa Sound". I was going to say I don't own any Clapton solo albums, but I actually have a copy of Backless that someone gave me years ago. Speaking of sound, one of things I don't like about the Layla album is that some of the songs were "sped up".

I believe you are right.

And he used a Telecaster (sometimes a Les Paul) during the Blind Faith era.

I don't think it's about guitars. I think he just changed with the times. And he probably had a record company on his back to produce hit records at various points along the way. I just listen to the stuff of his I like and go with that.

A couple of other great albums - Derek and the Dominos Live At The Fillmore East album, and The Rainbow Concert album.

Steve Earle was there the other night also.

I have the following albums, but I don't think I have listened to any of them in a long time. That's about it for me.