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masterhacker
Post subject: Your hometown guitar gods
PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:05 am
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Who is the guitar player(s) that you go out and listen to in your town? I'm not talking about the guy from your hometown that is now in the big league, but the local guy who you admire and steal lics from.
In the Quad Cities (Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois) mine are Ron Wilson (who plays a Strat), Scott Whitehall (also a Strat player) and Chuck Thompson (a Tele man). These guys can play it all. Ron can make his Strat sound like a pedal steel and is the blues king, Scott is a rocker, and Chuck is a well rounded player and Pedal Steel guy. I learn something everytime I see these guys play.

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Fingers Pete, Snake Johnson, Mad Frank and Howlin' Wilf are some. :roll:

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Rab McCullough........he plays The Empire Music Hall on Botanic Avenue here in Belfast every Thursday and even better, its free!!!!

I had the honour of jamming with him a few months back, even Clapton is a fan.

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im the guy everyone comes to watch in my town.. :lol: :P

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For me it's Ted From The Mad Caps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Fxg7R53TM

Shot the vid myself. Danelectro through a Vintage Fender Amp. Ted just has a great vibe and always gets the crowd movin.

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There's a blues band that plays Long Beach, CA I go and see once in a while. The band is BluzWest and my Bro in Law took lessons from the guitar player, Chris.

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Randall Meade, Tim Emery,Bruce Jones
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Cool Thread!

Blues-Rock: Alan Mirikitani (BB Chung King with the Buddaheads)

Folk-Americana-Rock: Dave Alvin

Gone but not forgotten: Buddy Blue

If interested these guys are from SoCal. Mirikitani and Alvin from LA; and Blue was in San Diego.
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Bob Bachda..phenominal blues man and all around great guy. Always takes time to show guys stuff...really down to earth fella


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This guy, Roy Simmons. He's Blues/Rock all the way and man, can he play! He refuses to play in bands any more and 'convenient' session work is all he'll commit himself to. I'm sure he must turn down a great working band at least once a week. And believe it or not, he's the furthest thing from being, "stuck-up", He just says that he's gigged since the late 60s and he no longer wants to put up with the crazy hours or the traveling. Rather, he prefers nowadays to, "sleep in his own bed".

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Dan Peters, a local Chicago guitar player/singer currently with the West Sidewinders and in the Blues Guitar Contest Finals on the west coast somewhere.

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Hello Masterhacker,

Harry McGonigal,
AKA, Flamin Harry.

Hard workin man in my neighborhood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7_VM2z19r4

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Post subject: here on Maui
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Here on Maui for all around guitar playing, hands down Tom Conway. By far the best guitar player in the state. For more of a Latin feel Joe Cano... For the blues, Vince Esquire (fender strat). Just my thoughts. We have a lot of guitar player come Thur the island. But these guys live here.. Markdaivd
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Post subject: Re: your hometown guitar gods
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Yavuz Çetin is the guitar god in Turkey. I'be posted one of his videos so here is an new one...

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

Enjoy!!!

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