Flames1950 wrote:It is fun and funky.....
....I'm just having a hard time reconciling your Marshall fetish with da funk.
But that groove should get the titties jigglin' at the party.
Plexi's are frigin amazing for funk.
I wish I could get the guys I play with now ,
to play "what is hip". To me it's a standard
that any serious club pro should have in his repitour.
For now I just play it with backing trcks to keep up my chops.
Boo Hoo... I know
Warning this just brought back some memories, and this is a little long.
When i think about some of the great funk players
I've played with, I feel ashamed that I didn't appreciate
it like I can now (17 years later)
Back then when I was giging in So Cal, our lead singer/Guitarist/leader of the band...Johnny could play and sing everything. Even Tower of Stuff. He just wasn't flashy with the VH tricks (which was my lead guitarist joke job) he could play Tower of Power stuff
(and sing it at the same time) all the old Motown, Country,Jazz,Rock, kick ass blues, and Top 40 from the 50's to the present. He played through a little Fender with a couple stomp boxes, and was playing in a 3 piece, and pulled it off well. I don't know what he saw in my playing, maybe it was just foriegn to his style, and I was a quick learner. He liked my "I know a little" leads, for some reason. they weren't exact to the record though.
Then I joined, (I kept sitting in, so they figured they might as well start paying me) we also had a keyboard player sometimes, who had a B3
ammong his arsonal. He played with the Guy who sings for ToTo
We would play all kinds of gigs. daytime or Night. Company parties.
Sometimes with strippers. Sometimes we played in some scarry places.
And you better know the funk. Johnny kept a pistol is his Guitar case.
other times we might be early in the night, and some old farts come in.
And we''d have to turn it down and play some old fart music. We played like 400 songs back then. Most of the time it was midle of the road type top 40 rock music. We also had a Female singer ( his Girlfriend)
He also had the friggin Elvis suit. And you know what? I learned the 2001 Show, and got paid 100 bucks for an hour show. I was embarrassed at the time. But I learned something. I even sat in on bass, when the bass player was gone. Talk about learning on the job. I didn't even get a a song list book for 3 months after joining.
I giged with that band for a year and a half. With 6 month stints at the Live Oak Inn, and the Place That use to be called the Black Stallion. In Corona, Ca. I never got laid so much in my life. It forced me to play stuff I hated sometimes, and it opened my eyes to what I was missing.
When we played at the place formerly known as the Black Stallion, we started having jam night on thursdays, and sometimes some really good player would sit it. I was playing 4 nights a week back then, and working construction full time during the day.
That experience opened this white boys eyes to other styles.
It's also cool as hell to get paid to do something you would do for free.
Like playing guitar, and looking at naked women.
Not too many people can say they saw a stripper, while they were on the clock, with the approval of the boss.
I feel lucky as hell.
