I always love watching Sonny. Amazing technique. Inspiring.
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Posts: 184 August 21, 2009 16:44:23   |
I always love watching Sonny. Amazing technique. Inspiring. |
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Posts: 1850 August 21, 2009 18:02:34
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Yeah, he's an amazing & versatile player.
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Breedlove Cascade; Victoria, B&J New York ; Washburn 215 bowl back, cr.1906-07; Flatiron by Gibson pancake(in hospital for neck surgery). Guitar: Guild D-25NT. |
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Posts: 2054 August 21, 2009 21:16:04
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That is some amazing slide work.
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Posts: 2797 August 22, 2009 05:51:45
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He is truely one of the greats. His skill level is sickening and he makes it look so easy. His slide looks homemade to me...
"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~ C.S. Lewis |
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Posts: 184 August 22, 2009 17:11:17 |
Almost too much to watch. Slowhand and Sonny. Class is in session. |
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Posts: 1114 August 22, 2009 20:57:36
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Friggin Bill Murray! The Mahi Mahi orchestra! Now that's funny! Oh yeah, those other two guys weren't bad either.
PR "All Music is the Blues. All of it!" --- George Carlin |
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Posts: 2797 August 23, 2009 07:04:33
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Oh that was a great vid and would have watched it again if I wasn't so darn busy right now. And to me it looked like school was in session for a bit with
Mr. Clapton the way he was watchin Sonny do that voodoo he do so well.
"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~ C.S. Lewis |
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Posts: 2054 August 23, 2009 11:07:43
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Great stuff. That all I got to say.
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Posts: 1850 August 23, 2009 13:47:47
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Portland Rain wrote:I like Bill Murray as a comic actor, but when I've tried to watch this docu-concert, he almost ruins it for me; I wish he'd stayed home.
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Breedlove Cascade; Victoria, B&J New York ; Washburn 215 bowl back, cr.1906-07; Flatiron by Gibson pancake(in hospital for neck surgery). Guitar: Guild D-25NT. |
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Posts: 1114 August 23, 2009 14:28:33
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MandoSquirrel wrote: Which concert is this MS? Anybody? I would like to see it. And I agree with you. Along with the Pebble Beach golf tourney every year. He is a brilliant comedian, but it seems like there are times when he feels like he needs to be "on", and it's almost like he presses a little too hard. It doesn't come out naturally. He's still one of my favorites though. PR "All Music is the Blues. All of it!" --- George Carlin
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Posts: 184 August 23, 2009 17:14:06 |
Fingerpicker wrote: Thats what I was thinking too, for a while. Watching it a second, (& third) time one notices the sublte mastery of Clapton. One can see how he earned his slowhand nickname. I think It is just somewhat shadowed by the explosive slide work of Sonny in this performance. It even looks like Eric noticed this as well, Sonny came to play.. |
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Posts: 771 August 23, 2009 20:19:26
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MandoSquirrel wrote: I agree MS. I've seen this concert before, but I had to watch it a couple of more times cause Bill just turned me off. So I turned IT off. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." |
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Tommie wrote:Uh, sorry. Nope. He did not earn his nickname because of his playing. Its easy to understand how so many of us could think that. But E.C. earned the nicname "slowhand" from his manager at the time. When he would break a string, the audience would start a slow hand clap as he was changing it. Here is how E.C. is quoted; "My nickname of Slowhand came from Giorgio Gomelsky. He coined it as a good pun. He kept saying I was a fast player, so he put together the slow handclap phrase into Slowhand as a play on words." I was going to use that as one of my "contest" questions, but decided against it at the last minute. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." |
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Posts: 2797 August 24, 2009 05:19:18
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Tele wrote: But E.C. earned the nicname "slowhand" from his manager at the time. When he would break a string, the audience would start a slow hand clap as he was changing it.Nicknames are funny like that. For the most part you don't pick a nickname it picks you. Sort of the opposite of a moniker or handle. Teachers in school probably give out more nicknames unintentionaly to poor students with the slip of a tongue. Just like that the kid has a new nickname for life. Anyways that is sort of cool about Mr. Clapton, never knew how he was labeled such. Thanks Tele. "You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~ C.S. Lewis |
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Posts: 1850 August 24, 2009 17:35:51
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Portland Rain wrote:Crossroads benefit, Chicago.
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Thanks MS. I will check it out. I know it's blasphemy, but I don't worship at the altar of slowhand. Probably why I haven't seen it yet. Before
the flaming starts, I acknowledge that he is really good. I just don't get him I guess.
PR "All Music is the Blues. All of it!" --- George Carlin |
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Posts: 2797 August 25, 2009 05:06:01
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Portland Rain wrote:I know it's blasphemy, but I don't worship at the altar of slowhand. Probably why I haven't seen it yet. Before the flaming starts, I acknowledge that he is really good. I just don't get him I guess.You're not alone, move over and make room for me. Have had people I work with get mad at me and others who cannot believe I am serious. Oh well... Everytime I see a Sonny video it astounds me what he is doing and the how laid back he is doing it. Not putting on a show or pretending, he is just in his element. "You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~ C.S. Lewis |
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Posts: 1114 August 25, 2009 10:33:02
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Just throwing up an idea on the Sonny vs Clapton showdown on this vid. First, I'm not familiar with the song. Is this a Sonny original?
This reminds me of a quote by John Coltrane when talking about his performance on Giant Steps. This song is regarded as (arguably) the most difficult jazz song to play. In the song he has a solo that completely annihilates his piano player McCoy Tyner. Tyner was chosen to play this song because he was regarded, at the time, as one of the best improvisational pianists out there. When you listen to the song, you can hear him struggling to keep up. Coltrane just floats in and out of his solo and hammers nails in Tyner's coffin over and over. I have seen sheet music that notates Coltranes solo, and it is hard to read while the song is going on, much less play. It is genius (imho). Anyway, someone asked Coltrane about how fluid and perfect his solo is on such a difficult (and fast) chord progression. Apparently he laughed and said that what most people don't understand was that he had been practising that solo for two years while he was composing the song. That would explain it. My point is that if this is a Sonny original, he should be able to take anyone to school in a showdown. Anybody except Esteban maybe 
PR "All Music is the Blues. All of it!" --- George Carlin |
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Posts: 2797 August 25, 2009 11:04:17
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Portland Rain wrote: Anybody except Esteban maybe.Esteban laughs for he knows no one dares to challenge him except perhaps Chuck Norris. "You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~ C.S. Lewis |
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Posts: 771 August 25, 2009 13:52:12
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Portland Rain wrote:This is the most difficult aspect of music to understand. (for us mere mortals anyway) I don't remember who said it, but I think it was Miles, or maybe John McLaughlin. Here I paraphrase; "The thing about music is, you have to learn everything. And then when you play, you have to forget everything you've learned. That's when it really starts to flow. That's when you are at your highest level. The direct connection between your soul, and your music." Thats exactly where I strive to be. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." |
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Tele wrote:Thanks tele I did not know that. I guess it just made sense to me with his style of focus on less is more. Maybe also because compared to Sonny (in that performance) he kinda looked slow. |
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