Calling All Music Fans...

[Xplantdad]

Blue...look above...it's the first name on the list

The rest of that list kicks a$$ also.

[ohhawk]

Can't pass up an opportunity for old time sake to mention that when Tommy Bolin was just a youngster in the business back in Sioux City, IA he was in a band at the time (Patch of Blue) that was using the same booking agency as the group I was with. Didn't really know him but would see him often in passing. Just knew he was a very good guitarist for his age. Didn't know how big he would (or could have) become. He could have gone on to be a really big name if he hadn't lived life so carelessly.

Check out the 2005 Music Festival recently held as a tribute to him. This was held in Sioux City, IA. Check out some of the attendees. Also see they're grooming another guitarist in the family!

www.tommybolin.com

[MosportGreen66]

Hey guys... what about some smooth sound of the Credence Clearwater Revival? Proud Mary is just Around the Bend...

I am in awe... keep the soul alive!

[Chevy454]

I know you guys won't believe this being as most of this music came along before I did, but you guys are practically listing my collection! For no older than I am, I play a pretty mean game of name that tune...

I think what intrigues me most is how one artist or band ties into another and takes you somewhere else in the musical scheme of things...like Clapton...he did Cream, and then Blind Faith with Winwood, which takes you to Traffic or Winwood's solo stuff...then Derik & the Dominos he did with Duane Allman, which takes you somewhere else...then he was with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, in which John Mcvie played bass, and of course was in Fleetwood Mac...and he was in the Yardbirds with Beck and Page, who open up entire musical chapters of their own...and Clapton even did the solo on my favorite Beatles' tune "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", and those chaps knew their music...that's the kind of stuff I eat up. I mean, look at who/what all Clapton has influenced! Musical genius...

[VintageMusclecar]

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If you want to go with some moe recent stuff...this name has to be on the top of the list...Stevie Ray Vaughn

And if you're talking instrumental (for the most part) guitarists...you've got Carlos Santana, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Gary Hoey, Eric Johnson, Steve Moore.....

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Superb taste in music.

I've been playing guitar 25+ years, and I cut my teeth on SRV. I had the priveledge of seeing him twice live before his untimely passing...words can not describe the talent that man had. It wasn't just music eminating from his guitar & amp, it was his very soul pouring out.

I still get chills whenever I hear "Riviera Paradise", "Life By The Drop", "Voodoo Child", and most of all, "Little Wing." On Little Wing, if you have your stereo cranked up to about 14 ( ), you can hear the faint buzzing of his tube amp in the background.

Gone, but never, ever forgotten.

[Belair62]

SRV is awsum......Seattle Sam....I still have the Cricklewood Green album..

[Charley Lillard]

If you like guitarists and have not heard Rory Gallagher find a copy of his "Irish Tour 74" live album. Walk on Hot coals is pretty cool. I heard he died a few years ago.

[Belair62]

Anyone collect guitars out there ? I have 2 Tye Dye Les Pauls...#19 and #69...

[Chevy454]

I've got 3 that I bang around on, but nothing worth anything...think we've been down this road before, but do you play Bob? It's a darn shame not to use those babys...

[Belair62]

Nope...but I did stay at a Holiday Inn once !