Who's your favorite band, players, etc...

edwardz · Post by **edwardz** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:53 am

Who are youse guys into? Who's music, playing, songs, etc.. get you off?
Who are your influences? Who got you into playing the electric gee-tar?

I've been reading a lot of these posts, and I'm interested to know what you are really into. Do your live just revolve around music, or are you a little more well-rounded than that? Some of you guys have kids, real careers, and more going on than weekend 10 to 2 dance jobs. Probably MOST of you do.

Me, I'm really into the Allman Brothers Band now and all the guys that have been connected with them over the years (Sea Level, Gov't Mule, Delaney and Bonnie, The Derek Trucks Band, et al) A couple of my bros that dabbled in bluegrass and folk got me into playing in the early 80s. I used to be way into Ted Nugent, AC?DC, & Van Halen back in the day, but soon I started tracing their roots. In college I started listening to Cream, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Floyd (no, not Floyd Lawson from Andy Griffith), The Beatles, Stones, and Neil Young. Eventually I got turned on to The Allman Brothers, The Meters, Taj Mahal, Dr. John, and all those old "real" blues guys. I also dig Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and a host of those jazz cats. Hell, I'm into a lot of really cool music.

Okay, I've rambled on enough. I want to hear from YOU.

Let's really get this forum cooking with a broad spectrum of info. If that's okay with Velvet George Metropoulos...

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bluefuzzguitar · Post by **bluefuzzguitar** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:15 am

Edwardz,

The late 60s/early70s influences you mention are WAAAAAAAAAYYYY cool

! I love Zep, Cream, Free, Allman Bros, Skynyrd, Bad Co, Outlaws, etc. As you can see there's quite a bit of southern rock there too. That's on the rock side. The psychedelic era also brought forth some cool funk and soul stuff: Meters, Chambers Bros, Curtis Mayfield, Sly & Family Stone, George Clinton, etc. And then there's Hendrix straddling the fence between all styles.

My other love is blues guitar, particularly of the Texas variety. So besides the original blues masters (T-Bone Walker, the three Kings (BB, Albert, Freddie), Otis Rush, Johnny Guitar Watson (I like his funk stuff too!), Magic Sam, Howling Wolf, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, the list goes on and on) I especially like the Vaughan Brothers (Jimmy and Stevie Ray), Mike Morgan, Ronnie Earl, Anson Funderburgh, etc. Jimmy Vaughan inspired me to learn to play guitar and SRV gave me another shock a few years later.

There's currently one guy who I think combines the classic/southern rock thing with Texas blues perfectly. His name is Doyle Bramhall II. I share a similar musical background to DBII. I too come from Texas blues originally and played Fender amps. I too rocked out the blues and always wanted my Fenders to sound bigger and so modded the shit out of them. I too discovered the magic of Marshall plexis, especially that dark, cleanish Super Bass sound I associate particularly with Paul Kossoff and Duane Allman. To me that sounds like a giant Bassman and is therefore very Texas blues. I currently own a purple '94 plexi reissue halfstack with Celestion Vintage 30 speakers, KT66 tubes, Metro Amp ptp board, MM OT, Heyboer PT, and MM 10H choke. It sounds to die for and is VERY, VERY loud! Guitarwise I'm strictly strat and strictly maple neck ones at that. I prefer early 80's Tokais over Fenders because of the high-quality woods used and the way the necks feel and play.

I'm currently 100% active in music. I'm a booking agent weekdays and a musician on weekends. My band is called The Mellotones (www.nubluz.com). That's pretty much it, I guess. Who's next?

Mike

edwardz · Post by **edwardz** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:21 pm

Checked out your web site. Very cool. It's great that music is such a universal language that we can both dig the same stuff half a world away.

Doyle Bramhall II is definitely a smoking player, and the last time I read he was using an old Super Bass head. I always thought the Allman Brothers used Leads and Super Leads.. I'll have to do some more investigating on that. Maybe I'll set up a 7/22 Commission and give you a report...

Just listed my Super Reverb Reissue on ebay.
I need to get it and some other stuff sold so I can get a Metro head. Wish me luck..

Kendall915 · Post by **Kendall915** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 3:25 pm

For me, music is more of a hobby/love than anything else. The most involved I get as far as being a 'job' would be trying to book gigs for a friend of mine to play, and running his sound, and occasionally providing my talents to back him up. I jam in a small band I put together, but its more of something to do for fun instead of trying to be serious.

As far as favorite guitar players and bands, thats such a tough question, cause it really depends on mood. SRV is my guitar inspiration, I can listen to him anytime, anywhere, over and over and over, because it never gets old.

I also really like a alt-country/alt-folk/rock player, Ryan Adams, when in certain moods.

I can never go wrong with Cream, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Free, love Johnny Cash, CCR, Alice In Chains, RHCP, Sublime.... the list is endless I guess, thats probably why I like music so much.