I love how in a video that, on the surface seems a straightforward chat about guitar records, takes a massive detour into your relationships with your parents and how that clearly influenced you all just a much if not more than the music you were discussing. Videos like this with such personal insights are the best thing about RUclips.
My baby boom hippie parents did an amazing job of exposing me to not just 60s & 70s classic music but my dad also took me back through the 40s & 50s and ma exposed me to 80s.... I was able to appreciate the 80s, 90s, 00s & 10s. I am a firm believer that people need to be exposed to oldies & classics to more fully appreciate what comes out now! Thank you daddy, grandma & ma
Right on! Emilio Costillo in Tower of Power said if his Dad had not grounded him to his bedroom for a week, (with nothing on the room but a saxaphone) he would never have pursued a musical career.
Some personal favourite GUITAR albums: Let There Be Rock - AC/DC Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin Aerosmith - Aerosmith Prounouced Leh Nerd Skin Nerd - Lynyrd Skynyrd The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers ...hundreds more!
For me personally: - BB King Live at the Regal - BB King Live at Cook County Jail. - Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton. - Incredible Jazz Guitar - Wes Montgomery - king of the delta blues singers - robert Johnson - every hendrix album. - every Led zeppelin album - every jeff Beck album. - every john mayer album. - Thickfreakness - Black Keys - Gary Clark Jr live 2016 - Elephant - white stripes
I remember trying to play Thickfreakness when I first started playing... Nope. Fast forward 2 years and I revisited all the songs I found hard and learned it.
Hey guys, I am from India and just devoured this video. It was a brilliant episode. My father bought me my first stereo system and the only cassette of Beethoven. And I turned into a blues and rock aficionado. Lost my dad four years ago and this reminded me so much of him
I'll throw a song in... Duane Allman & Boz Scaggs 'Loan Me a Dime' TBH, it's 1 of the songs that inspired me to learn to play guitar. The other being Layla, the studio version. Duane being my favorite guitarist. I'm sorta named after him, too, so I think I might be kinda biased lol The funniest part about this is that I hated the name Duane when I was a kid. I had no idea what it meant to be named after him. Finally, I understand and I'm proud to be named after him. *PROUD* 😎
I wore out these LPs when I started playing guitar: Abbey Road - Beatles The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin Who’s Next - The Who Love You Live - The Rolling Stones The Wall - Pink Floyd Exit Stage Left - Rush
Abbey Road. Yes! Sometimes I feel like the only person who rates that album. I completely wore it out. If it’s not the best Beatles album ( no one seems to think so) it’s def’ the one I keep going back to. I recon it was the inspiration for dark side of the moon which was recorded there. It’s beautiful production/ long sequencing of song fragments, tells me that’s poss’ true.
@@seabud6408 I have always considered Abby Road to be their best. With the White album almost tied for totally different reasons. AR for it's cohesiveness and WA for it's wonderful chaos.
This video made me break down in tears. I had a good friend with whom I would sit around and talk about our favorite bands, songs, lyrics in my 20s. He passed away at 48 of a heart attack. And seeing the enjoyment that you had in sharing formative musical experiences brought back memories of my conversation with my friend Dave. I didn't realize just how much a part of missed that and missed talking with him. One trademark of doing something well is causing a listen to feel something inside and you did for me.
Amen…and my sincere condolences. There is nothing so precious as like- minded friends just talking bout the things they love and that inspired them to become who they are. We all carry around memories of the best “ pieces” of our dear departed. Most of all it makes me want to try harder to appreciate the best in my friends while we are around and forgive/forget any petty nonsense. Life is short, but it’s long enough if you have a friend or two and you are enjoying it.. and Thank God for music. Some guys bond over sports, or chess, or cars or maybe/ hopefully Lots of things. Good conversation is always a joy to experience, even if it’s “ strangers” on RUclips saying the things that have always been on your own mind. Would love to hang with any of these guys; their joy and inspiration(s) are contagious. Love All ur videos, Rick. Can’t thank you enough🙏☮️AC
I feel your pain, friend. My younger brother was about the same age as Rick. He played bass & guitar, I played guitar. We were always in bands together so, naturally, we spent many hours playing together and talking about music, life, the universe and everything. He took his own life in 2006 and I miss him more than I can say.
When I was in 8th grade, my friend Joseph Lopez who died of cancer shortly after graduating from high school insisted that I stop listening to FM Pop rock and he handed me four cassettes: Led Zeppelin IV, Van Halen I, Cream Strange Brew and Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? To say the least he changed my life, just as those albums changed my life. To this day, I still feel that they're the best albums that inspired me to want to learn guitar. I'm still listening, still learning and God only knows how many times I've listened to those albums after all these years. Thank you Joseph. Miss you buddy. - Manny
In late 70s I learned guitar by listening and deciphering the CCR albums... No internet, no guitar books (Fogarty did not own the music so it wasnt being released). I figured out the entire CCR catalogue.... best guitar learning tool ever!!!
@@gseeman6174 Me too. When I could play along with Willie and The Poor Boys on every song I was on my way. Get this- I retired to Hungary 3 years ago and am now in a band with a classical guitar player who's never heard of the Greatful Dead or CCR or Willie Nelson or Waylon and many others. "Proud Mary" came on the radio and he'd never heard that either. I explained to him how Fogarty reintroduced the rhythm guitar to the world. When the solo came around I made him pay attention to the beautifully composed and simple part it is. I think he got it.
This is such a great visit with you guys. I graduated from H school in 75. So when you talk about 74, 75, 76 it is amazing. I was a big Yes fan. Early Kansas. I saw Jeff Beck, ELP, Leo Kottke. ZZ Top was the hometown band. You talk about your Dads. For me, an incredible memory is when I played Fragile for my son ( now 38 ) when he was 15 or 16. hmmm 2000? His jaw dropped. He was speechless. It was so special to share. Thank you.
I’m 74 and I had my mind blown by the guitar solo off Bill Haley’s “Honky Tonk” when I was six. I used to sneak into my dad’s closet with the first record player he bought after World War II to listen over and over. I’m retired now, and taking guitar lessons to see what I can understand.
Me too. Same age. When I was about 12 I loved Duane Eddy's twangy guitar. First album I bought with my own money was his. Started lessons yesterday for my 2nd attempt at learning to play. Don't know if I'll play Duane's songs but I do have my eye on a nice Gibson hollow-body for when I'm worthy. Best thing about being retired is have time to do all the things you love to do.
Bill Doggett did Honky Tonk, not Bill Haley. But Haley’s lead guitarist was killer. Find Rock Around The Clock and dig the guitar solo. Amazing chops on that guy, don’t remember his name right now, though.
My brother played Beatles and all I use to play were their greatest hits, I wore out the Beatles 1967-1970 (Blue Album) & Beatles 1962-66 (Red Album) on cassette tape. The greatest tone I've ever heard still remains Clapton on Bluesbreakers' Steppin' Out. You can't go wrong learning guitar from Clapton.
Beatles songs (many of them) are actually really hard to play on guitar, many of their songs are in piano keys, a lot of them sound so simple but some of the chords are finger snappers. Regarding Clapton, Hendrix Clapton and Santana made me wanna play guitar as a young boy
I was born in 1985 - the first guitar sound that made me want to learn guitar was Randy Rhoads - the very first time I heard "Crazy Train" - changed my life.
I was born in 1965, by 85 i was in the army with my guitar in my wall locker. My friend sent me this tape of Tesla modern day cowboy. Blew me away. But today I still jam to crazy train as part of my daily practice routine. Usually five songs I like and five jam tracks different styles and keys.
I'm not hearing that any albums are the secret to becoming an amazing guitar player. I'm hearing the secret is to have amazing parents who will encourage in their own way and provide time, space, and other resources for their kids to fully devote themselves to learning all about playing guitar when it is relatively easy for them to do so.
This is exactly what happened with me. Dad loved his classic rock and played guitar (acoustic) all the time. Eventually he got an electric guitar but didn’t end up playing it that often. Years later he told me the only reason he got that electric guitar was because he hoped that if he left it in the corner of the living room eventually one of us kids would want to try it. Sure enough, I picked it up and haven’t stopped since.
@@willlewis153 Such a classic 'Dad' move. Low key and if YOU wanna do it YOU have to do it. Modern women get so involved with their kids hobbies that they start giving orders and dealing out expectations and pretty soon the kids hobby has turned into a chore they resent. If it's not fun then its not fun. Good on your Dad.
Pink Floyd ‘the wall’. Made me want to really learn the guitar. ‘Comfortably Numb’ was the first song I ever learned. Then I eventually learned the entire record front to back. And went from there. i had no idea what a bend even was until I got to the solo section.
You guys talk about this stuff with so much passion. Real musicians and music lovers! Being born in 2001, radio wasnt going to cut it for me. Thank god my mother was a metalhead in her younger days, and thank god to videogames, where i would always dial in the rock and metal radio stations. GTA V's LS Rock Radio was my ultimate step to picking up the guitar. Going from Cash to Pantera, from Metallica to Deep purple, from Pink Floyd to Foo Fighters. Been playing for only 14 months now, but absolutely love it and forever will. Awesome video guys!
Ya, I like hearing all music lovers' stories. Especially Guitar players. These cat's, you can tell, just have that authentic love for it. Humor's there, ego's in check. Every lover's story is interesting for sure.
When I first started playing lead guitar back in the very early 70s I learned every guitar part, lick for lick off of that 20 minute version of Whipping Post. It was a huge influence for me.
This video caught my eye because my oldest son , who is autistic , took up the guitar when he was about 6 and I have tried to give him a balance on different genres for him to listen too. I think it's great to get a feel for what influenced other players and get ideas of things I can introduce him to. What I ended up getting out of this video was really so much more. Hearing you guys talk about how your fathers influenced you , just brought a lot of what I have been trying to do with him home. It was really a valadating thing for me to hear you guys talk and really sometimes we need that , I need it sometimes. Thank you.
I love watching these three guys together. They are so fun to watch because their passion for music feeds off each other. They probably continued with this conversation after the camera shut off. You can tell that they are best friends.
Love these kinds of discussions! I'll list a few of mine (NOTE: a big factor in these choices is that each album is tuned the same all the way through!): AC/DC - Back In Black (standard tuning). A masterclass on rock riffing, groove and perfectly phrased, arena sized soloing. Get a cranked Marshall type tone, select your bridge pickup and that's your sound for the whole record. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (Eb tuning). Tone, phrasing, rhythm, swing....learn this record and you'll have a formidable blues/rock tool kit that'll pay dividends even if you don't end up identifying as a blues player per se.. This record could also be called "HOW TO PLAY A STRATOCASTER"). Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force (Eb tuning) The perfect intro not only to shred, but to the neoclassical language as it applies to raging metal guitar. Even if you don't learn the solos, mastering the main riffs and progressions will provide invaluable insight into classical harmony and expand your vocabulary beyond pentatonic-based rock. The Cure - The Head On The Door (standard tuning). A primer in postpunk guitar parts, sounds and orchestration. Dial in your pedals and go 'round the world on this kaleidescopic pop travelogue. There's acoustic guitar, six string bass and a variety of electric guitar textures (and one song doesn't even have any guitar). There are few solos to speak of, but the range of flavors and sounds provide an exemplary lesson in how to sculpt your parts and sounds in order to most effectively serve the song.
Not a big fan of Malmsteen in general, but Rising Force was mindblowing when it came out. I saw him on that tour in a small theatre and it was incredible, he played it note for note and just killed it.
Ten by Pearl Jam. Pretty much every song has a guitar solo and they’re all basic minor pentatonic. Great to to learn how to figure out how to play songs by ear.
Playing by ear with some scale knowledge beats tablature. People I know who learn songs by tab sound so unnaturally odd. Especially any section that requires a bend/release/bend/ hold vibrato. I can still hear my friend's rendition of a whitesnake song out of guitar for the practicing musician magazine. That's the moment I decided tablature definitely had some limitations.
Bryant Colon god I hate Pearl Jam. And yet, Evenflow. Acoustically perfect for me. So much power. So much talent. Spot on lyrics. Spot on vocals. Orchestration is maybe absolutely perfect. And they sound exactly like that live. God even now it’s flowing through my brain at just the suggestion of it. Who produced that?
I absolutely love that the title of this video got abandoned about 45 seconds in and the three of you just went off and talked about everything but. So much better in the final analysis.
I love these duscussions. It is really encouraging to hear that a lot of your experience comes from the support of your parents but especially your dads. I am watching this while my son plays his drums in the next room on a used kit he bought yesterday with his cash that he worked for. Granted he has my cymbals and hardware BUT he bought his first kit. Proud papa. Thanks for getting a bit more personal on this one and as usual, another killer video. Looking forward to the next one.
Have you listened to Jason Becker or Vinnie Moore. Moore did an album called Time Odyssey which is so beautiful fro the 80s. His melodies and flawless playing is staggering. He also did a revamp of Bach's Air on G String demonstrating his perfect legato and very fast passages without a single mistake throughout. He is on a completely higher level than what went before. He plays like a virtuoso concert violinist.
First "guitar album" I fell in love with was Allman Brothers Beginnings, which was their first 2 records packaged in a double album. Dickey & Duane, arguably the best double play combo in rock history. Duane is still at or near the top of my GOAT list, and certainly at the top of my favorite list. Some say Dickey was underrated since he was overshadowed by Duane's brilliance, but as I listen 40-some years later, I realize how great Dickey is as well.
The Who's "Tommy". And "Quadrophenia," but especially Tommy. The acoustic parts on that absolutely thrilled me, and the electric parts were fantastic. Another one was Neil Young's "Decade" and, of course, Television's "Marquee Moon."
i've been playing a couple months and got the whole song down along with bold as love (john mayer's rendition more so) and got about half of little wing so far. Is Purple Haze a hard song in its entirety? I'm a bedroom player and talk to little to no one who plays so I honestly don't know if my progress is normal or not..
@@emptyarms6113 yeah thats pretty normal. Purple haze isnt a hard song by nowadays standards, however the tough part is getting it to sound good and fluent through an amp, which i can almost guarantee you wont be doing until a couple years of playing
@@nightraven5760 well I can assure you it most definitely sounds good and in time because my family friend who's been playing in bands for 30 years was blown away haha. But yeah I don't find purple haze hard by any means, little wing is a little more tough and so is bold as love.
absolutely delighted to hear you mention jobim and gilbert, mighty bossa nova giants. What I love most about these vides where you guys talk about a wide range of music related stories and influences, it's how open minded you are to music. you don't compare ou pit artists against each other. Rather, you constantly illustrate that music is about connection, passion, and being able to absorb anything and everything you can, from everyone, good or bad, and turn it into something larger than yourself. Glad I came across your channel, albeit a bit late. Cheers from Brazil
I started playing guitar in 85 at ten yrs old because of my cousin. His dad was a phenomenal player and was always around to help me learn. 5 years later after I became obsessed with Stevie Ray Vaughan, he took us to see him in Memphis. Months later he passed in the helicopter crash.
Why, why, why does no one ever mention Irish band Thin Lizzy's monumental album 'Live and Dangerous'? U2 were heavily influenced by it, for starters. Thin Lizzy heard 'Frampton Comes Alive' (mentioned in this video), and thought they could do better. They then put together 'Live and Dangerous' - which was regarded by many, once upon a time, as the greatest live rock album by anyone. But today, it's largely overlooked. I've introduced people to this album and their reaction has always been an incredulous: 'Why did I not know about this?' The answer is partly that they weren't well managed, so their profile never quite reached that of the other great rock bands of the period. And they missed out on a US tour because one of their guitarists, Brian Robertson, severely injured his hand defending a friend who was being attacked by an assailant weilding a broken bottle - the evening before departing on the tour. After extensive emergency surgery, his hand was in plaster. No Robbo, no tour. Queen did pick them up as supporting act for their own US tour soon afterwards, however - apparently they were Queen's favourite band at the time. If you've not discovered Lizzy, start with 'Live and Dangerous', then work through the catalogue from 1974 onwards, when Robbo and Scott Gorham joined forces for the first time, on 'Nightlife'. It's a slightly tentative start, but they started to find their sound on that album and thereafter, steadily grew. A couple of my favourite albums are 'Bad Reputation' (on which Robbo reappeared on a few tracks) and 'Black Rose' (with Gary Moore filling Robbo’s spot). If you want to just sample ONE track to see if Lizzy are for you, check out 'Still in Love with You', from the 'Live and Dangerous' album. Also check out their DVD 'Live and Dangerous at the Rainbow.' Thin Lizzy could be lyrical, they swung, they could be heavy, they could be wistful or profound. Check them out. You're worth it!
Yeah Thin Lizzy never really got the recognition worldwide that they deserved. Most people know know The Boys are Back in Town (and maybe Whiskey in the Jar through Metallica)
Also a massive out put as a band, maybe a dozen studio records in about as many years, and 2 solo albums from Lynott, quality very consistent throughout. And introduced Gary Moore and John Sykes to a mainstream audience.
Their first American tour had to be cancelled because Lynott came down with Hepatitis, the second one because of Robertson's damaged hand. So they never got to tour the Jailbreak album and Johnny The Fox did nothing in America so the record label basically gave up on them over there.
Play to everything ,tv on play along to the commercials, it's about recognizing intervals , and having the ability to pick up on a melody Right ,music is everywhere my guitar is all ways close at hand ,
This was a true treat! I'm so happy to be part of the musical experience shared by you three. I was born in 1960. Your stories mirror mine. Thanks always.
Nirvana - Nevermind. Listen to it in its entirety, and you will find that there is not one bad riff! Beautifully constructed songs using simple power chords for the most part, but using them in creative ways.
Led Zeppelin and Cream are the artists that came first to me for albums. Jimmy Page and Clapton are easily 2 of my favorite Guitar heroes! Great video!
This gives a fascinating insight into individual musical development across thirty years. One of the things that emerges from it, I think, is that popular music history (which occupies a fairly short timespan) is starting to get long enough to develop a canon. Three enthusiasts of different ages discuss (primarily) guitar records and, though the emphases vary, some of them fall most repeatedly on certain names. This happens in all the arts and eventually makes possible genuine criticism. Much of what passes for music criticism isn’t really criticism, just the expression of reactions. This discussion is constantly moving out from reaction to exploration and of course your channel, Rick, is full of very detailed explanations of what makes particular songs and genres great. You guys are all superb players and I thought it might be worth mentioning that sometimes we get sustenance from musicians who are distinguished for expressiveness in spite of technical limitations. Rhett mentions Warren Haynes’s live cover of ‘Cortez’. The Zuma recording of that song is remarkable in part for Neil Young moving in the solo so resolutely past ‘mistakes’ (not fixed in the mix) to create a special atmosphere of emotion. Same goes for Jack White, also mentioned. George Harrison’s solos aren’t like John Mayer’s, of course, but have their own unique melodic quality. All this by way of saying that for some, some of the time, the best albums to learn from may not be the virtuoso ones. Thank you Rick for another open and stimulating discussion.
I could listen to the three of you discussing this subject for hours! Brought back memories of being a teenager going to see Peter Frampton, one of my very first concerts in the early 70's. Great content to listen to and it brings back a lot of memories for many of us for sure!
True. The whammy bar wizardry alone was... not of this world (natural pun here, sorry). He was marking his territory there on this album; a very flashy record, but in a good sense of the word. The melodies, the acrobatics -- unbelievable. And very straight up -- you had a feeling that these are 3-4 guys there, that's it. Cheers, man.
I just listened to the Beano album for the first time. Can’t believe I never listened before being a huge Clapton/blues fan. Will be practicing the licks soon. Love finding old stuff I just never dug into yet.
Rich Hoffman look up a guy called Mike Brookfield on RUclips. He’s making video lessons of every track on the Beano album right now. Check it out and you’ll see what I mean. My favorite riff on that album is “Little Girl.” It’s great to see someone play it note for note and break it down slowly.
Rick, we are the same age. You guys brought many memories flooding back. I grew up on 96 Rock WKLS. The one that got me interested in guitar was Grand Funk Railroad’s first album.
Someone who rarely gets mentioned around here: Leo Kottke.... (Although he is mentioned in the Guitarist's 1970-1979 video.) His 6 and 12 String Guitar, and Burnt Lips albums just blew me away, and made me want to learn guitar even though I never have... Later Michael Hedges redefined what I thought the guitar was as an instrument. Ohh... And I keep meaning to mention: Aquarium Rescue Unit is one of the most unknown and under-rated groups... I remember discovering them via Col. Bruce Hampton back in the 90's.
Agree, as a drummer, he got me on the acoustic, but it was bittersweet as well because he also made me want to hang it up and go back to Eagles and CSNY
1. My father came to get me for dinner whilst I was noodling on my classical guitar, he said “Oh! I thought you were listening to a CD.” Strangely that meant a lot to me. One of two times my father truly praised me. 2. Van Halen’s “You Really Got Me” came on the radio and I remember saying “Who is THAT” followed by “I wanna play guitar”.
Eric Clapton - “EC Was Here”. Good simple blues, great licks. Great for a beginner to play along and practice with. Plus if you don’t have a tuner, like we didn’t in the 70’s, you can tune to A off of Drifting Blues very easily.
VAN HALEN 1! If you're into shred guitar it is a must learn. Amazing album. it took my rhythm and chops to a new level. I'm still trying to get Eruption as fast as the original though. I'm at 70% of the speed. Eddie is insanely fast!
Look up the Dweezil Zappa story on YT about his great story about Eddie VH and his relationship with Frank Zappa and Eddie's influence on Dweezil. Really a good listen, and then Dweezil totally NAILS Eruption.
Ain't talking about love was one of the first things a friend of mine showed me. Man, there was no shortage of talented guitarists in the 80's . There was so many that bands were forced to take in a second guitarist otherwise they would have had to go on unemployment.
i had Wish You Were Here on cassette in my Kombi for many, many years and have probably listened to it a thousand times, both there and at home and everywhere else, and still, every time i listen to it i hear something new - some sonic/acoustic trick that takes you somewhere. i'm still convinced that Roger, being the sound design genius that he was, put a great deal of work into making sure you got a different experience whether you were in your car, at home, on headphones, or however you listened to it, it offered different frequency responses in each environment, and not until you've heard it in all possible configurations will you finally 'get it'... ")
I grew up in Orange County in the late 60's near Fullerton, one of my favorite bands was Spirit, the first time I heard "I Got a Line On You" on the radio I was floored. Randy California was great!
I almost felt as if I was sitting in the room with all of you and having the time of my life reminiscing about past and present musical triumphs and accomplishments , old friends having a beer over old times!
First three albums I bought with money I made mowing lawns at age 11 was Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same (Live), Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic, and Boston. Amazing guitar albums! Had every Zeppelin album, every Rush album, every Yes album, every VH album, every U2 album. Plus Beatles Red, White, Blue albums (very patriotic!). SRV, Skynyrd (Gold and Platinum and One More From The Road, Street Survivors). Pink Floyd (Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, GREAT STUFF!!!), Frampton Comes Alive, I could go on forever! Being born in '65 right smack in the middle of that decade, I had the privilege of hearing all the great music of the 60's and 70's in my formative years. As a teenage kid, my top 3 that I spent the most time trying to learn the guitar parts from were Zeppelin, Skynyrd and Rush. But I love a wide variety of guitar music from classical to jazz to rock to country to anything that has great guitar! I love Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins. Did I mention the Allman Bros, first band I saw in concert. I feel sorry for the kids of today that missed out on all that great stuff. There are many great players out there on youtube and instagram nowadays, I wish that was around when I was a kid trying to learn how to play. I wouldn't have scratched all of my records trying to learn how to play the guitar...
Television: Television and Marquee Moon, 2 absolutely killer guitar albums that doesn’t seem to get a lot of credit. Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd were brilliant on these records.
I just listed Marquee Moon then saw ur comment…sorry mate. I also put Then Play On there too so some clueless muppet might discover Peter Green, but it’ll no doubt be ignored.
1969 as a 6 year old, The Glen Campbell Show - I knew I had to learn guitar. It would be 7 years later at 13 before I would really started, though my parents did purchase me a few "toy" guitars along the way. Took 2 strings off an acoustic and started learning bass lines from Kiss Alive. My uncle got me a Fender Jazz bass at 14. I traded it for a crap guitar at 18 and then my uncle got me Stratocaster. I remember sliding a Fender Heavy pick in his pocket right before he was buried. Been a Fender guy my whole life because of him.
That is almost my exact story too...At about 6 or 7 I would sit in front of the TV watching the Glen Campbell show with a guitar I didn't know how to play....didn't actually start playing guitar until a friend turned me on to Kiss Alive around '76...
When I was growing up Glen Campbell was “squaresville” that only our parents listened to. It was only recently that I realized what a great guitarist he was! I should’ve listened to my parents more.
Jason Bone yessir! I was a tiny tot when the Goodtjme Hour was on. Loved that show. My parents bought me a toy guitar and I “played” along with the show every week. The rest of the week I wore out my dad’s Witchita Lineman and Gentle on My Mind records. Beatles, KISS, Zeppelin, Stones, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Van Halen came later, but Glen Campbell (and all the incredible guests) inspired me first. Couldn’t actually play guitar at 2 years old, but GC put the first one in my hand. Since then I’ve always had one within reach. Honorable Mention: Roy Clark and Buck Owens! 1969 was a great year for guitarists on TV!
I was actually trying to play Lester Young's sax parts on my electric guitar. I thought that was a pretty good thing to do. Or my friend John was teaching me to play note for note Charlie Parker's part on Billie's Bounce on electric guitar. So I think that at least sax solos could be used to learn on electric guitar as well as actual guitar playing.
Soundgarden has some of the best guitar parts. Spoonman is probably my 2nd favorite guitar song of all time. They be just have such a unique heavy guitar sound and phrasing.
Man I just read what you wrote about Badmotorfinger and put it on again and I am playing it while I write. So FN Unbelievable! Just the ultimate album. Kim on guitar is off, off, off the hook! Chris' vocals-what can you say? Inhuman, impossible, beautiful. The bass, drums all of it rock n roll reborn into an utterly familiar yet entirely new art form. When I first heard this when I was 28 it just stopped me in my tracks. The whole thing is just dynamite! thanks for reminding me!
Being kind of basic, for me Nirvana and AC/DC were awesome since they were the bands that made me go "Oh! I could play that... wait, I CAN play that!". Then, after 20 years I'm still trying to play it right. :)
Well it's what you feel about it. I've been playing for 30 years I let my les Paul sit and collect dust for at least 2 years . Then I came across a cover of Metallica intersandman by 3 Mexican sisters about 4 years ago .got inspired I guess . Blew the dust off of it even worked on it something I used to would never do . Then those 3 sisters became the Warning a trio from Monterey. So I kept playing at 58 I'm still learning. Got another guitar came across a 81 model Charvel . Got new maps and I don't know just a little spark can get you going . I never get tired of listening to ACDC and I guess back in the day one of my biggest influences was Steve Clark Def Lep was never the same imop . Just a little spark is all it takes.
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs was the album that taught me to play blues guitar. Standout track - Key to the Highway. Eric & Duane Allman are on fire on that recording.
A very influential album especially here in England was John Mayall's blues breakers featuring Eric Clapton, known as the beano album, has some of Eric's finest playing on it.
I heard Joe Bonamassa say that he (and his dad also) learned how to play blues by learning that record. J.M. & Blues Breakers + Clapton was and still is monumental.
yep, still the best Clapton album if you're just talking about electric guitar. Not indulgent like Cream, or moving across lots of genres like later records. Short clipped soulful blues songs with powerful stinging lead playing
Regarding Red House. Watched Hendrix play it December 23 1967, all-nighter in the vast Olympia, London, 'Christmas on Earth Continued'. Freezing cold night, which meant smaller audience turnout, no seating, just wander around the the simultaneous acts, films, events. J H Experience, Pink Floyd, The Who, Soft Machine, Eric Burdon and the Animals, The Move, Keith West and the Tomorrow, The Move, and others. Hendrix blew me away, Red House unlike anything I'd ever seen. You can read about it on 'Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Traffic & Other Bands Play Huge London Festival “Christmas on Earth Continued” (1967)', Open House, 29 August, 2014.
Loved this video. What an incredible variety of musical taste backgrounds. Inspiring and motivating. I’m 56 this year, have lived music my whole life and just picked up the guitar back in June 2020. I’m hooked aka obsessed my wife would say. Thanks for the videos. 🙏
Rust In Peace is what made me play guitar, Marty Friedman was my guitar god, and then I found my sound on guitar. But trying to play Friedman's solos is the best memory from my past. I was born in 1994.
Growing up, my top 5 were: The Who ~ Live at Leeds Jimi Hendrix ~ Axis: Bold as Love Led Zeppelin ~ III Rolling Stones ~ Sticky Fingers Johnny Winter And ~ Live
The guitar tone on Live at Leeds is the bomb. I got this album when I was a kid and played it to death. Then I didn't play it again for forty years when I switched to CDs. Just got it again recently, and my mind's blown all over again. Epic.
Axis Bold as Love to learn guitar?? that's some serious gymnastics to start off with... after 30 years or so I still can't play the guitar to that album
@@RichusRkr there's a great instructional DVD called How to Play the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis Bold as Love by Andy Aledort. It should answer any questions you have about playing those songs. Personally I think the toughest song to play from it is Castles Made of Sand. .
Rush Permanent Waves. That Lifeson intro on Spirit of the Radio was awesome and I HAD to learn it... which meant learning the rest of the song, which meant learning more stuff and more bands, etc.
Eddie Van Halen made me want to play an instrument when I was a kid, I didn't discover Jimi till I was a young adult. I must've subconsciously recognized it because I taped Jimi Plays Monterey & The JimibHendrix Movie. It sat amongst my vhs tapes for a few years. One night, out of the blue(or Purple Haze for that matter), I popped it in my VCR. I've never had my mind blown so massively by music. After that I heard & played music differently, it was the epiphany I didn't know I needed. People can argue that there's more technically proficient guitarists, & there are, but Jimi played from the soul like the old Delta players, & took it to a level that puts him above any other rock guitarist, in my eyes at least. Nobody has touched my soul like he has, I'm ecstatic to see his legacy live on so many years after his death.
I started with the Ozzy and Randy Tribute album. Rhoads was and still is one of my favorite guitarists. I’m not a metal head either. I just think he brought something very different to the genre and it was a very inspiring something for me.
John McLaughlin was a big influence/inspiration for me also. Love that album. Recommend his Shakti albums, if you haven’t heard them. Still learning from his work there.
It was beautiful how y'all talked about that universal imperative to impress your dad :). I am not a musician, but all through my life my Dad has been the one whom I'd want to tell of my successes and whose approval and validation meant the most. Thank you for being such lovely people!
For me the Beatles, the Stones, and CCR. CCR mainly because it reminded me of going to the state fair. They always had big speakers with music playing all over the fair. CCR was huge, which meant you heard a lot of their music throughout the day. Especially as we headed into 70, and 71.They had a lot of music out. I remember a life guard at our local pool asking me what I thought of the new Beatles song. I thought it was cool that an older person asked me my opinion of a Beatles song. I was born in 1960 so these groups were huge when I was seriously listening. I took my little transistor radio out on Sundays and there was a tree in the park I climbed, and I would sit up in and just listen to music on Sundays. I loved rock music, and wanted to hear it as much as I could.
Fleetwood Mac's Rumors, and ACDC's High Voltage were my favorite albums to learn guitar from. They were simple in their structure, yet created a challenge at the same time.
Johnny Winter played Red House when he played in Courtenay Vancouver island and it was so good ,i thanked him after the show when i spoke with him,i love that song.
Rick you were so lucky. I'M Learning the guitar at 62. My first concert was 1975 The Allman Brothers Band still my favorite Band. The best live album ever Live at Fillmore East. You guys are great. God BLESS RICK RHETT and the Gutiar expert!!!
I mentioned that in my comment as well. It's my favorite jazz guitar album of all time and the Smokin' at the Half Note version of Four On Six is my favorite jazz guitar solo ever. "Smokin'" to say the LEAST!
DuckTalesWooHoo1987 yeah that Four on Six is one of the best! Also the Unit 7 solo, I still play them often and always seem to find something new to learn from them.
@@PaulHofreiter Yeah Unit 7 is so insanely grooving and melodic. He was at his best with the Wynton Kelly Trio I think. Not only is the guitar a star on the album but ALL the instrumentation is mind blowing. When that piano solo comes blasting in with pinpoint accuracy on Four On Six I pretty much lose my mind every single time. It just "gets me" and I'm a guitar player. But still.
Get Yer Ya Ya's Out by the Stones is one of my all time favorites. Keith's open G rhythm + Chuck Berry leads, and Mick T's lead (including slide solo) pack so much into a 10 song album.
As a Boomer the band that seemed custom made to teach us kids how to play and how to arrange for a band (not yet having vocals or mics or a PA) was THE VENTURES.
'Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas' is a 1976 double live album by the Allman Brothers Band with only Dickie Betts on guitar. Simple, melodic solos and simple slide work from Betts at slower tempos which are perfect for the beginner.
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I love how in a video that, on the surface seems a straightforward chat about guitar records, takes a massive detour into your relationships with your parents and how that clearly influenced you all just a much if not more than the music you were discussing. Videos like this with such personal insights are the best thing about RUclips.
My baby boom hippie parents did an amazing job of exposing me to not just 60s & 70s classic music but my dad also took me back through the 40s & 50s and ma exposed me to 80s.... I was able to appreciate the 80s, 90s, 00s & 10s. I am a firm believer that people need to be exposed to oldies & classics to more fully appreciate what comes out now! Thank you daddy, grandma & ma
Exactly! I’m already forwarding this video to my buddies. This video feels so familiar. Great stuff.
Right on! Emilio Costillo in Tower of Power said if his Dad had not grounded him to his bedroom for a week, (with nothing on the room but a saxaphone) he would never have pursued a musical career.
any band that has guitar that you love is the record you should use to learn guitar
Good point generally, but I gravitated towards noise rock at an early age and tried to learn guitar from that and it was a MESS, not recommended
@@mryeezy9162 True. I like Animals As Leaders but Tosin Abasi is definitely not a good starting point lol
Any riff by tony iommi , damnnnnnn
true everyone below is just shouting out their favourite bands, flashing the horns...
Well said J M
Some personal favourite GUITAR albums:
Let There Be Rock - AC/DC
Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
Aerosmith - Aerosmith
Prounouced Leh Nerd Skin Nerd - Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers
...hundreds more!
For me personally:
- BB King Live at the Regal
- BB King Live at Cook County Jail.
- Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton.
- Incredible Jazz Guitar - Wes Montgomery
- king of the delta blues singers - robert Johnson
- every hendrix album.
- every Led zeppelin album
- every jeff Beck album.
- every john mayer album.
- Thickfreakness - Black Keys
- Gary Clark Jr live 2016
- Elephant - white stripes
Thank you.
Good list. I’ve got most of those and now I’ll look for the others.
I remember trying to play Thickfreakness when I first started playing... Nope. Fast forward 2 years and I revisited all the songs I found hard and learned it.
I may be dumb and stupid but, Metallica Black Album
I'm totally with you on Cook County. It's a fabulous record.
Hey guys, I am from India and just devoured this video. It was a brilliant episode. My father bought me my first stereo system and the only cassette of Beethoven. And I turned into a blues and rock aficionado. Lost my dad four years ago and this reminded me so much of him
Rush - Permanent Waves
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, The Wall, Dark Side Of The Moon
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
Yes - Fragile
u R
GDK Opinionator ah yes, finally a Rush mention, my list would look pretty similar!
Have you worked out Different Strings? Been working on perfecting that one for years.
@@pcole11 To some degree.
@Hitler was Vegan: Don't know what twisted logic you used to arrive at that, but ok. But isn't promoting Hitler worse, or is he your hero?
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow, Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East, Dominoes - Layla, Zeppelin 4, and the three Hendrix albums.
Bagman h basically all my favorite albums in one comment
Am also in Atlanta area and 96 Rock was THE radio station back in the day.
I'll throw a song in... Duane Allman & Boz Scaggs 'Loan Me a Dime' TBH, it's 1 of the songs that inspired me to learn to play guitar. The other being Layla, the studio version. Duane being my favorite guitarist. I'm sorta named after him, too, so I think I might be kinda biased lol
The funniest part about this is that I hated the name Duane when I was a kid. I had no idea what it meant to be named after him. Finally, I understand and I'm proud to be named after him. *PROUD* 😎
I wore out these LPs when I started playing guitar:
Abbey Road - Beatles
The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin
Who’s Next - The Who
Love You Live - The Rolling Stones
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Exit Stage Left - Rush
Abbey Road. Yes! Sometimes I feel like the only person who rates that album. I completely wore it out. If it’s not the best Beatles album ( no one seems to think so) it’s def’ the one I keep going back to. I recon it was the inspiration for dark side of the moon which was recorded there. It’s beautiful production/ long sequencing of song fragments, tells me that’s poss’ true.
@@seabud6408 I have always considered Abby Road to be their best. With the White album almost tied for totally different reasons. AR for it's cohesiveness and WA for it's wonderful chaos.
@@seabud6408 Come on, man, I'm sure millions of people consider Abbey Road the best Beatles record. It's not that rare. I'm one of them.
This video made me break down in tears. I had a good friend with whom I would sit around and talk about our favorite bands, songs, lyrics in my 20s. He passed away at 48 of a heart attack. And seeing the enjoyment that you had in sharing formative musical experiences brought back memories of my conversation with my friend Dave. I didn't realize just how much a part of missed that and missed talking with him. One trademark of doing something well is causing a listen to feel something inside and you did for me.
Yeah man, really sorry. Good ode to his memory
This is why we all love music man. He lives on.
Amen…and my sincere condolences.
There is nothing so precious as like- minded friends just talking bout the things they love and that inspired them to become who they are.
We all carry around memories of the best “ pieces” of our dear departed. Most of all it makes me want to try harder to appreciate the best in my friends while we are around and forgive/forget any petty nonsense.
Life is short, but it’s long enough if you have a friend or two and you are enjoying it.. and Thank God for music. Some guys bond over sports, or chess, or cars or maybe/ hopefully Lots of things.
Good conversation is always a joy to experience, even if it’s “ strangers” on RUclips saying the things that have always been on your own mind. Would love to hang with any of these guys; their joy and inspiration(s) are contagious.
Love All ur videos, Rick. Can’t thank you enough🙏☮️AC
I feel your pain, friend. My younger brother was about the same age as Rick. He played bass & guitar, I played guitar. We were always in bands together so, naturally, we spent many hours playing together and talking about music, life, the universe and everything. He took his own life in 2006 and I miss him more than I can say.
When I was in 8th grade, my friend Joseph Lopez who died of cancer shortly after graduating from high school insisted that I stop listening to FM Pop rock and he handed me four cassettes: Led Zeppelin IV, Van Halen I, Cream Strange Brew and Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? To say the least he changed my life, just as those albums changed my life. To this day, I still feel that they're the best albums that inspired me to want to learn guitar. I'm still listening, still learning and God only knows how many times I've listened to those albums after all these years. Thank you Joseph. Miss you buddy. - Manny
Love the Zappa shirt.
I am 57, my guitar playing was forever changed when I heard Carlos Santana play Samba Pa Ti on the Abraxas album.
Abraxas, Caravanserai, Moonflower, all great.
Moonflower!!! That's when I knew I needed to play guitar.
Guys, as far as learning chords, CCR is a great place to start for anyone as a beginner.
In late 70s I learned guitar by listening and deciphering the CCR albums... No internet, no guitar books (Fogarty did not own the music so it wasnt being released). I figured out the entire CCR catalogue.... best guitar learning tool ever!!!
@@gseeman6174 Me too. When I could play along with Willie and The Poor Boys on every song I was on my way. Get this- I retired to Hungary 3 years ago and am now in a band with a classical guitar player who's never heard of the Greatful Dead or CCR or Willie Nelson or Waylon and many others. "Proud Mary" came on the radio and he'd never heard that either. I explained to him how Fogarty reintroduced the rhythm guitar to the world. When the solo came around I made him pay attention to the beautifully composed and simple part it is. I think he got it.
@@gseeman6174 I always think what a shame when artists dont own there music...
What is CCR?
@@fake_tourist John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Look em up.
This is such a great visit with you guys. I graduated from H school in 75. So when you talk about 74, 75, 76 it is amazing. I was a big Yes fan. Early Kansas. I saw Jeff Beck, ELP, Leo Kottke. ZZ Top was the hometown band. You talk about your Dads. For me, an incredible memory is when I played Fragile for my son ( now 38 ) when he was 15 or 16. hmmm 2000? His jaw dropped. He was speechless. It was so special to share. Thank you.
I’m 74 and I had my mind blown by the guitar solo off Bill Haley’s “Honky Tonk” when I was six. I used to sneak into my dad’s closet with the first record player he bought after World War II to listen over and over. I’m retired now, and taking guitar lessons to see what I can understand.
That's awesome :)
Me too. Same age. When I was about 12 I loved Duane Eddy's twangy guitar. First album I bought with my own money was his. Started lessons yesterday for my 2nd attempt at learning to play. Don't know if I'll play Duane's songs but I do have my eye on a nice Gibson hollow-body for when I'm worthy.
Best thing about being retired is have time to do all the things you love to do.
Bill Doggett did Honky Tonk, not Bill Haley. But Haley’s lead guitarist was killer. Find Rock Around The Clock and dig the
guitar solo. Amazing chops on that guy, don’t remember his name right now, though.
My brother played Beatles and all I use to play were their greatest hits, I wore out the Beatles
1967-1970 (Blue Album) & Beatles 1962-66 (Red Album) on cassette tape. The greatest tone I've ever heard still remains Clapton on Bluesbreakers' Steppin' Out. You can't go wrong learning guitar from Clapton.
Beatles songs (many of them) are actually really hard to play on guitar, many of their songs are in piano keys, a lot of them sound so simple but some of the chords are finger snappers. Regarding Clapton, Hendrix Clapton and Santana made me wanna play guitar as a young boy
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@@jacksmith4460 And Brian May, Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Page and Andy Summers for me.
Said Eddie Van Halen…
@@krisyoungsteadt9139 yeah that worked for Eddie
I was born in 1985 - the first guitar sound that made me want to learn guitar was Randy Rhoads - the very first time I heard "Crazy Train" - changed my life.
Jesus when you where two I had cirrhosis.
@@BeauregardHall Wow - how much were you drinking to get cirhosis? Looks like you made it through though? Good nowadays?
I was born in 1965, by 85 i was in the army with my guitar in my wall locker. My friend sent me this tape of Tesla modern day cowboy. Blew me away. But today I still jam to crazy train as part of my daily practice routine. Usually five songs I like and five jam tracks different styles and keys.
Randy tended to make a mark on me also. I like playing his riffs as complicated as they are.
@@takaorobinson8719 ] Any thing that Frank does from Tesla, is worth giving a look at.
Rush - 2112
Montrose first album
Any Zeppelin
Early Aerosmith
Any Van Halen
Pre 1984 Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Good god... I could go on for days...😀
AC/DC
Great list, I still have fun playing Montrose Rock Candy.
2112 is my favorite guitar album of all time.
I'm not hearing that any albums are the secret to becoming an amazing guitar player. I'm hearing the secret is to have amazing parents who will encourage in their own way and provide time, space, and other resources for their kids to fully devote themselves to learning all about playing guitar when it is relatively easy for them to do so.
Agreed, but what I also take from this is whatever inspires you to learn, regardless of genre.
This is exactly what happened with me. Dad loved his classic rock and played guitar (acoustic) all the time. Eventually he got an electric guitar but didn’t end up playing it that often. Years later he told me the only reason he got that electric guitar was because he hoped that if he left it in the corner of the living room eventually one of us kids would want to try it. Sure enough, I picked it up and haven’t stopped since.
@@willlewis153 Such a classic 'Dad' move. Low key and if YOU wanna do it YOU have to do it. Modern women get so involved with their kids hobbies that they start giving orders and dealing out expectations and pretty soon the kids hobby has turned into a chore they resent. If it's not fun then its not fun. Good on your Dad.
@@jimofaotearoa3636 Kia ora, Jim :D
Pink Floyd ‘the wall’. Made me want to really learn the guitar. ‘Comfortably Numb’ was the first song I ever learned. Then I eventually learned the entire record front to back. And went from there. i had no idea what a bend even was until I got to the solo section.
You guys talk about this stuff with so much passion. Real musicians and music lovers!
Being born in 2001, radio wasnt going to cut it for me. Thank god my mother was a metalhead in her younger days, and thank god to videogames, where i would always dial in the rock and metal radio stations. GTA V's LS Rock Radio was my ultimate step to picking up the guitar. Going from Cash to Pantera, from Metallica to Deep purple, from Pink Floyd to Foo Fighters. Been playing for only 14 months now, but absolutely love it and forever will.
Awesome video guys!
Ya, I like hearing all music lovers' stories. Especially Guitar players. These cat's, you can tell, just have that authentic love for it. Humor's there, ego's in check. Every lover's story is interesting for sure.
You have you tube, still even get commercials
No joke, I could listen to you 3 talk about the weather and it would sound interesting. You really have great chemistry and even better stories.
Nice to hear Big Wreck & Muse mentioned, 2 great bands.
AND it's recorded in stereo!
These three are pretty cool.
Allman Brothers live at the Fillmore. First album that got me and the other guitarist in our band to play harmonized lines together in 1973.
Yes! I learned to play "real" guitar by listening to ABB Live at the Fillmore. I wore that record out.
When I first started playing lead guitar back in the very early 70s I learned every guitar part, lick for lick off of that 20 minute version of Whipping Post. It was a huge influence for me.
It was obvious . The Stones and the Almond brothers had it down . You have to have the tight weave.. None came close to both bands. 😎
This video caught my eye because my oldest son , who is autistic , took up the guitar when he was about 6 and I have tried to give him a balance on different genres for him to listen too. I think it's great to get a feel for what influenced other players and get ideas of things I can introduce him to. What I ended up getting out of this video was really so much more. Hearing you guys talk about how your fathers influenced you , just brought a lot of what I have been trying to do with him home. It was really a valadating thing for me to hear you guys talk and really sometimes we need that , I need it sometimes. Thank you.
I love watching these three guys together. They are so fun to watch because their passion for music feeds off each other. They probably continued with this conversation after the camera shut off. You can tell that they are best friends.
“Jazz isn’t dead...” great shirt!
Frank Zappa! Zappa has lots of great quotes. "Politics is the entertainment branch of government."
May the Jazz be with you.
"....it just smells funny."
One of my fave Zappa quotes.
@@chrisrausch9134 beat me to it!
“Jazz isn’t dead...it's only a t-shirt now”
Love these kinds of discussions! I'll list a few of mine (NOTE: a big factor in these choices is that each album is tuned the same all the way through!):
AC/DC - Back In Black (standard tuning). A masterclass on rock riffing, groove and perfectly phrased, arena sized soloing.
Get a cranked Marshall type tone, select your bridge pickup and that's your sound for the whole record.
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (Eb tuning). Tone, phrasing, rhythm, swing....learn this record and you'll have a formidable blues/rock tool kit that'll pay dividends even if you don't end up identifying as a blues player per se.. This record could also be called "HOW TO PLAY A STRATOCASTER").
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force (Eb tuning) The perfect intro not only to shred, but to the neoclassical language as it applies to raging metal guitar. Even if you don't learn the solos, mastering the main riffs and progressions will provide invaluable insight into classical harmony and expand your vocabulary beyond pentatonic-based rock.
The Cure - The Head On The Door (standard tuning). A primer in postpunk guitar parts, sounds and orchestration. Dial in your pedals and go 'round the world on this kaleidescopic pop travelogue. There's acoustic guitar, six string bass and a variety of electric guitar textures (and one song doesn't even have any guitar). There are few solos to speak of, but the range of flavors and sounds provide an exemplary lesson in how to sculpt your parts and sounds in order to most effectively serve the song.
Not a big fan of Malmsteen in general, but Rising Force was mindblowing when it came out. I saw him on that tour in a small theatre and it was incredible, he played it note for note and just killed it.
Ten by Pearl Jam. Pretty much every song has a guitar solo and they’re all basic minor pentatonic. Great to to learn how to figure out how to play songs by ear.
Also great guitar tone for rock solos
Playing by ear with some scale knowledge beats tablature. People I know who learn songs by tab sound so unnaturally odd. Especially any section that requires a bend/release/bend/ hold vibrato. I can still hear my friend's rendition of a whitesnake song out of guitar for the practicing musician magazine. That's the moment I decided tablature definitely had some limitations.
Bryant Colon god I hate Pearl Jam. And yet, Evenflow. Acoustically perfect for me. So much power. So much talent. Spot on lyrics. Spot on vocals. Orchestration is maybe absolutely perfect. And they sound exactly like that live. God even now it’s flowing through my brain at just the suggestion of it. Who produced that?
I absolutely love that the title of this video got abandoned about 45 seconds in and the three of you just went off and talked about everything but. So much better in the final analysis.
Can't believe no one mentioned Dean DeLeo and STP. Phenomenal player and songwriter.
Without a doubt Dean and his brother are masterminds
Check out ANY live STP show; Dean and Robert are amazing.
I love these duscussions. It is really encouraging to hear that a lot of your experience comes from the support of your parents but especially your dads. I am watching this while my son plays his drums in the next room on a used kit he bought yesterday with his cash that he worked for. Granted he has my cymbals and hardware BUT he bought his first kit. Proud papa. Thanks for getting a bit more personal on this one and as usual, another killer video. Looking forward to the next one.
Old school, both of you and you're right to be proud. This is how it was done. Instant gratification never enters the room.
Right on.
I’m a 51 year old guitar player, and red house still blows my mind.
Have you listened to Jason Becker or Vinnie Moore. Moore did an album called Time Odyssey which is so beautiful fro the 80s. His melodies and flawless playing is staggering. He also did a revamp of Bach's Air on G String demonstrating his perfect legato and very fast passages without a single mistake throughout. He is on a completely higher level than what went before. He plays like a virtuoso concert violinist.
Have you listened to red house by walter trout? Amazing cover
All the versions, but especially the one on In The West!
@@ht8083 or by gary moore, amazing
First "guitar album" I fell in love with was Allman Brothers Beginnings, which was their first 2 records packaged in a double album. Dickey & Duane, arguably the best double play combo in rock history. Duane is still at or near the top of my GOAT list, and certainly at the top of my favorite list. Some say Dickey was underrated since he was overshadowed by Duane's brilliance, but as I listen 40-some years later, I realize how great Dickey is as well.
The Who's "Tommy". And "Quadrophenia," but especially Tommy. The acoustic parts on that absolutely thrilled me, and the electric parts were fantastic. Another one was Neil Young's "Decade" and, of course, Television's "Marquee Moon."
Pinball Wizard is deceptively difficult. Doesn't sound too hard until you try it. Townsend is an amazing rhythm player
Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 string guitar. Still my favourite acoustic guitar record. Awesome!!!
100% with you on that Gareth! Leo was an absolute monster on that record!!
Yeah, but there's like one person in America who can play like that.
Ha! Got that one from Columbia House 😉
Not disappointed at all
The first song I learned was Purple Haze, needless to say, it took me a very long time to learn my first full song.
i've been playing a couple months and got the whole song down along with bold as love (john mayer's rendition more so) and got about half of little wing so far. Is Purple Haze a hard song in its entirety? I'm a bedroom player and talk to little to no one who plays so I honestly don't know if my progress is normal or not..
@@emptyarms6113 yeah thats pretty normal. Purple haze isnt a hard song by nowadays standards, however the tough part is getting it to sound good and fluent through an amp, which i can almost guarantee you wont be doing until a couple years of playing
@@nightraven5760 well I can assure you it most definitely sounds good and in time because my family friend who's been playing in bands for 30 years was blown away haha. But yeah I don't find purple haze hard by any means, little wing is a little more tough and so is bold as love.
@@emptyarms6113 KEEP ROCKIN! PURPLE HAZE IS A COOL SONG TO LEARN !
Purple Haze was my first on electric. Good times...
Fresh Cream and Disraeli Gears
Jefferson Airplane
Early Santana
Deep Purple in Rock, Yes Album - Starship Trooper
Very cultured choices my friend.
Steve howe the master
Starship Trooper is definitely on my list too, good call
Machine Head, definitely Machine Head
I’m with you mrfuzzt
absolutely delighted to hear you mention jobim and gilbert, mighty bossa nova giants. What I love most about these vides where you guys talk about a wide range of music related stories and influences, it's how open minded you are to music. you don't compare ou pit artists against each other. Rather, you constantly illustrate that music is about connection, passion, and being able to absorb anything and everything you can, from everyone, good or bad, and turn it into something larger than yourself. Glad I came across your channel, albeit a bit late. Cheers from Brazil
I started playing guitar in 85 at ten yrs old because of my cousin. His dad was a phenomenal player and was always around to help me learn. 5 years later after I became obsessed with Stevie Ray Vaughan, he took us to see him in Memphis. Months later he passed in the helicopter crash.
Why, why, why does no one ever mention Irish band Thin Lizzy's monumental album 'Live and Dangerous'?
U2 were heavily influenced by it, for starters.
Thin Lizzy heard 'Frampton Comes Alive' (mentioned in this video), and thought they could do better.
They then put together 'Live and Dangerous' - which was regarded by many, once upon a time, as the greatest live rock album by anyone. But today, it's largely overlooked.
I've introduced people to this album and their reaction has always been an incredulous: 'Why did I not know about this?'
The answer is partly that they weren't well managed, so their profile never quite reached that of the other great rock bands of the period.
And they missed out on a US tour because one of their guitarists, Brian Robertson, severely injured his hand defending a friend who was being attacked by an assailant weilding a broken bottle - the evening before departing on the tour. After extensive emergency surgery, his hand was in plaster. No Robbo, no tour.
Queen did pick them up as supporting act for their own US tour soon afterwards, however - apparently they were Queen's favourite band at the time.
If you've not discovered Lizzy, start with 'Live and Dangerous', then work through the catalogue from 1974 onwards, when Robbo and Scott Gorham joined forces for the first time, on 'Nightlife'. It's a slightly tentative start, but they started to find their sound on that album and thereafter, steadily grew. A couple of my favourite albums are 'Bad Reputation' (on which Robbo reappeared on a few tracks) and 'Black Rose' (with Gary Moore filling Robbo’s spot).
If you want to just sample ONE track to see if Lizzy are for you, check out 'Still in Love with You', from the 'Live and Dangerous' album.
Also check out their DVD 'Live and Dangerous at the Rainbow.'
Thin Lizzy could be lyrical, they swung, they could be heavy, they could be wistful or profound.
Check them out. You're worth it!
Yeah Thin Lizzy never really got the recognition worldwide that they deserved. Most people know know The Boys are Back in Town (and maybe Whiskey in the Jar through Metallica)
Well said. Live and Dangerous is quite possibly one of the greatest live albums ever recorded.
Also a massive out put as a band, maybe a dozen studio records in about as many years, and 2 solo albums from Lynott, quality very consistent throughout. And introduced Gary Moore and John Sykes to a mainstream audience.
Their first American tour had to be cancelled because Lynott came down with Hepatitis, the second one because of Robertson's damaged hand. So they never got to tour the Jailbreak album and Johnny The Fox did nothing in America so the record label basically gave up on them over there.
Thin Lizzy are from Dublin, Ireland, not the UK. There is a very big and importance difference.
Kyuss - Welcome to the Sky Valley
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Rbnh98 Sky Valley is such a great album
@@DannOfSteel Blues for Red Sun was awesome too. They were so fucking loud live. Great show though. Dinosaur Jr and Kyuss lol
Oh yes! Dirt is one of my favorites from the 90s
Kyuss was pre-QOTSA Josh Homme, right?
@@andrewpappas9311 yeah..only thing is after hearing Kyuss you will say QOTSA as Post-Kyuss Homme !!
Play to everything ,tv on play along to the commercials, it's about recognizing intervals , and having the ability to pick up on a melody
Right ,music is everywhere my guitar is all ways close at hand ,
The strokes “Is This It” has to be the first album I wanted to learn cover to cover. Nothing too crazy but the melodies are the best.
Rick the comments about your Dad are so moving. Everything else is secondary to that wonderful moment with him. Priceless! Thank you for sharing that.
This was a true treat! I'm so happy to be part of the musical experience shared by you three. I was born in 1960. Your stories mirror mine. Thanks always.
The Allman Brothers Band..Live at the Fillmore
I was at the Fillmore when it was recorded
@@tomzetterstrom5529 You were a very lucky man.❤
Stateborough Blues was the first so I ever played live at our University party hall
Live At Leeds. Greatest Live album by the greatest live band, The Who.
Same - "Statesboro Blues.."
Nirvana - Nevermind. Listen to it in its entirety, and you will find that there is not one bad riff! Beautifully constructed songs using simple power chords for the most part, but using them in creative ways.
Led Zeppelin and Cream are the artists that came first to me for albums. Jimmy Page and Clapton are easily 2 of my favorite Guitar heroes! Great video!
RC32 damn! same!
@@GymRat1217 Ahh exactly! They're both legends in everybody's book!
Can't forget about iommi
@@Hevvvyyy Ahh you're not wrong there man
@@ianprescott7924 Same here man. I enjoy just playing at letting my feelings and emotions take the musical lead.
This gives a fascinating insight into individual musical development across thirty years. One of the things that emerges from it, I think, is that popular music history (which occupies a fairly short timespan) is starting to get long enough to develop a canon. Three enthusiasts of different ages discuss (primarily) guitar records and, though the emphases vary, some of them fall most repeatedly on certain names. This happens in all the arts and eventually makes possible genuine criticism. Much of what passes for music criticism isn’t really criticism, just the expression of reactions. This discussion is constantly moving out from reaction to exploration and of course your channel, Rick, is full of very detailed explanations of what makes particular songs and genres great. You guys are all superb players and I thought it might be worth mentioning that sometimes we get sustenance from musicians who are distinguished for expressiveness in spite of technical limitations. Rhett mentions Warren Haynes’s live cover of ‘Cortez’. The Zuma recording of that song is remarkable in part for Neil Young moving in the solo so resolutely past ‘mistakes’ (not fixed in the mix) to create a special atmosphere of emotion. Same goes for Jack White, also mentioned. George Harrison’s solos aren’t like John Mayer’s, of course, but have their own unique melodic quality. All this by way of saying that for some, some of the time, the best albums to learn from may not be the virtuoso ones. Thank you Rick for another open and stimulating discussion.
I could listen to the three of you discussing this subject for hours! Brought back memories of being a teenager going to see Peter Frampton, one of my very first concerts in the early 70's.
Great content to listen to and it brings back a lot of memories for many of us for sure!
I started playing in the 80s so I was influenced by 1984, Zeppelin 1, any Rush, Black Sabbath, Floyd, Boston Srv. Great topic for RUclips!!
'surfing with the alien' came out when I was in high school, & that, my friends, melted my brain quite thoroughly
True. The whammy bar wizardry alone was... not of this world (natural pun here, sorry). He was marking his territory there on this album; a very flashy record, but in a good sense of the word. The melodies, the acrobatics -- unbelievable. And very straight up -- you had a feeling that these are 3-4 guys there, that's it. Cheers, man.
Beano Album- John Mayall Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton, White Album, America’s Greatest Hits, American Beauty
I just listened to the Beano album for the first time. Can’t believe I never listened before being a huge Clapton/blues fan. Will be practicing the licks soon. Love finding old stuff I just never dug into yet.
Beano album is essential for guitarists.
Rich Hoffman look up a guy called Mike Brookfield on RUclips. He’s making video lessons of every track on the Beano album right now. Check it out and you’ll see what I mean. My favorite riff on that album is “Little Girl.” It’s great to see someone play it note for note and break it down slowly.
Thanks for the shout out @@s2seltaeb ... Keep it burnin! :-) 🔥 🎸
@@mikebrookfield Thank you! You've done a great service to guitar players everywhere.
Rick, we are the same age. You guys brought many memories flooding back. I grew up on 96 Rock WKLS. The one that got me interested in guitar was Grand Funk Railroad’s first album.
I just love listen to you guys talking about guitar and music.
Someone who rarely gets mentioned around here: Leo Kottke.... (Although he is mentioned in the Guitarist's 1970-1979 video.) His 6 and 12 String Guitar, and Burnt Lips albums just blew me away, and made me want to learn guitar even though I never have... Later Michael Hedges redefined what I thought the guitar was as an instrument.
Ohh... And I keep meaning to mention: Aquarium Rescue Unit is one of the most unknown and under-rated groups... I remember discovering them via Col. Bruce Hampton back in the 90's.
also John Fahey. ...
Agree, as a drummer, he got me on the acoustic, but it was bittersweet as well because he also made me want to hang it up and go back to Eagles and CSNY
Good talk. Blow by Blow was before Wired though and that was the groundbreaker.
You aren’t “learning“ to play along with back or satriani
1. My father came to get me for dinner whilst I was noodling on my classical guitar, he said “Oh! I thought you were listening to a CD.” Strangely that meant a lot to me. One of two times my father truly praised me.
2. Van Halen’s “You Really Got Me” came on the radio and I remember saying “Who is THAT” followed by “I wanna play guitar”.
You're doing great sweetie! 🎸😋🤘
Keep on rockin'
Eric Clapton - “EC Was Here”. Good simple blues, great licks. Great for a beginner to play along and practice with. Plus if you don’t have a tuner, like we didn’t in the 70’s, you can tune to A off of Drifting Blues very easily.
John Mayer's Continuum is a complete LP - first to final song - in old school sense. Much to learn about phrasing, arranging and space in that LP.
A huge star but does NOT get the credit he deserves. A true modern-day bluesman.
@dave himlin i mean the vids about learning guitar from an album so while that might be true it’s irrelevant for this topic
Chicago. 25 or 6 to 4. Both versions. Mind bending. So brilliant.
Terry Kath was highly underrated
@@gregwest2028 absolutely agree
VAN HALEN 1!
If you're into shred guitar it is a must learn. Amazing album. it took my rhythm and chops to a new level.
I'm still trying to get Eruption as fast as the original though. I'm at 70% of the speed. Eddie is insanely fast!
Look up the Dweezil Zappa story on YT about his great story about Eddie VH and his relationship with Frank Zappa and Eddie's influence on Dweezil. Really a good listen, and then Dweezil totally NAILS Eruption.
Ain't talking about love was one of the first things a friend of mine showed me. Man, there was no shortage of talented guitarists in the 80's . There was so many that bands were forced to take in a second guitarist otherwise they would have had to go on unemployment.
@@bobjones2041 As good a reason as any to avoid Guitar Center.
Sadly it gets sloppy at points if you slow it down to half speed.Try picking 64s and choose an inferred area to finger something will come out lol
Black Sabbath - Paranoid. Killer riffs, killer solos, killer songs, killer album.
"Paranoid" was the first to leap to mind when I saw the title of this.
i had Wish You Were Here on cassette in my Kombi for many, many years and have probably listened to it a thousand times, both there and at home and everywhere else, and still, every time i listen to it i hear something new - some sonic/acoustic trick that takes you somewhere. i'm still convinced that Roger, being the sound design genius that he was, put a great deal of work into making sure you got a different experience whether you were in your car, at home, on headphones, or however you listened to it, it offered different frequency responses in each environment, and not until you've heard it in all possible configurations will you finally 'get it'... ")
I grew up in Orange County in the late 60's near Fullerton, one of my favorite bands was Spirit, the first time I heard "I Got a Line On You" on the radio I was floored. Randy California was great!
I almost felt as if I was sitting in the room with all of you and having the time of my life reminiscing about past and present musical triumphs and accomplishments , old friends having a beer over old times!
Rolling Stones (Keith Richards)
Eric Clapton
Pink Floyd
Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Led Zeppelin
Honestly why do ppl like clapton
Keith is a rolling stone.
@@kukoshkin I know. Maybe I should have said.
Keith Richards (Stones) since he was my favourite when I started to listen to them
Plus one for Hendrix, for his weird experimentation, and Vaughn for being a master.
First three albums I bought with money I made mowing lawns at age 11 was Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same (Live), Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic, and Boston. Amazing guitar albums! Had every Zeppelin album, every Rush album, every Yes album, every VH album, every U2 album. Plus Beatles Red, White, Blue albums (very patriotic!). SRV, Skynyrd (Gold and Platinum and One More From The Road, Street Survivors). Pink Floyd (Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, GREAT STUFF!!!), Frampton Comes Alive, I could go on forever!
Being born in '65 right smack in the middle of that decade, I had the privilege of hearing all the great music of the 60's and 70's in my formative years. As a teenage kid, my top 3 that I spent the most time trying to learn the guitar parts from were Zeppelin, Skynyrd and Rush. But I love a wide variety of guitar music from classical to jazz to rock to country to anything that has great guitar! I love Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins. Did I mention the Allman Bros, first band I saw in concert. I feel sorry for the kids of today that missed out on all that great stuff. There are many great players out there on youtube and instagram nowadays, I wish that was around when I was a kid trying to learn how to play. I wouldn't have scratched all of my records trying to learn how to play the guitar...
Adam Tarr you and I would probably get along fine...we have just about the same tastes!
Television: Television and Marquee Moon, 2 absolutely killer guitar albums that doesn’t seem to get a lot of credit. Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd were brilliant on these records.
I just listed Marquee Moon then saw ur comment…sorry mate. I also put Then Play On there too so some clueless muppet might discover Peter Green, but it’ll no doubt be ignored.
1950's Rock and Roll is a good start for beginners also. Buddy Holly comes to mind for starters.
1969 as a 6 year old, The Glen Campbell Show - I knew I had to learn guitar. It would be 7 years later at 13 before I would really started, though my parents did purchase me a few "toy" guitars along the way. Took 2 strings off an acoustic and started learning bass lines from Kiss Alive.
My uncle got me a Fender Jazz bass at 14. I traded it for a crap guitar at 18 and then my uncle got me Stratocaster. I remember sliding a Fender Heavy pick in his pocket right before he was buried. Been a Fender guy my whole life because of him.
That is almost my exact story too...At about 6 or 7 I would sit in front of the TV watching the Glen Campbell show with a guitar I didn't know how to play....didn't actually start playing guitar until a friend turned me on to Kiss Alive around '76...
When I was growing up Glen Campbell was “squaresville” that only our parents listened to. It was only recently that I realized what a great guitarist he was!
I should’ve listened to my parents more.
Jason Bone yessir! I was a tiny tot when the Goodtjme Hour was on. Loved that show. My parents bought me a toy guitar and I “played” along with the show every week. The rest of the week I wore out my dad’s Witchita Lineman and Gentle on My Mind records.
Beatles, KISS, Zeppelin, Stones, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Van Halen came later, but Glen Campbell (and all the incredible guests) inspired me first. Couldn’t actually play guitar at 2 years old, but GC put the first one in my hand. Since then I’ve always had one within reach. Honorable Mention: Roy Clark and Buck Owens! 1969 was a great year for guitarists on TV!
Oh wow, Jason... Your story really touched my heart. Honestly, I've got tears streaming down my face right now. So moving... Keep on playing!
I was actually trying to play Lester Young's sax parts on my electric guitar. I thought that was a pretty good thing to do. Or my friend John was teaching me to play note for note Charlie Parker's part on Billie's Bounce on electric guitar. So I think that at least sax solos could be used to learn on electric guitar as well as actual guitar playing.
CP's solo for sure but don't sleep Miles Davis' solo when he was 19. Brilliantly constructed and very different from what Charlie plays.
Playing sax solos on guitar is great for teaching yourself "expressive" playing.
I remember hearing Red House for the first time, too. Loved it.
20 seconds in and best channel. Best show on youtube, cable, amazon, netflix, etc. Best show PERIOD.
Born in 68, started the guitar in 84 because of the Smiths first LP, Johnny Marr is not the easiest way to start with but it's a good melodic school
Badmotorfinger is a great album to learn metal and grunge from. Lots of legendary riffs and sweet lead guitar licks
best 90's rock album, arguably, but not much
@@mattmarkus4868 hell yeah, along with Blood Sugar Sex Magik. I know they are different but I love grunge and funk
Sócrates the GOAT Jesus Christ pose is a killer riff
Soundgarden has some of the best guitar parts. Spoonman is probably my 2nd favorite guitar song of all time. They be just have such a unique heavy guitar sound and phrasing.
Man I just read what you wrote about Badmotorfinger and put it on again and I am playing it while I write. So FN Unbelievable! Just the ultimate album. Kim on guitar is off, off, off the hook! Chris' vocals-what can you say? Inhuman, impossible, beautiful. The bass, drums all of it rock n roll reborn into an utterly familiar yet entirely new art form. When I first heard this when I was 28 it just stopped me in my tracks. The whole thing is just dynamite! thanks for reminding me!
Being kind of basic, for me Nirvana and AC/DC were awesome since they were the bands that made me go "Oh! I could play that... wait, I CAN play that!". Then, after 20 years I'm still trying to play it right. :)
I can relate I think I'm stuck in that pentatonic scale hey could be worse.
Well it's what you feel about it. I've been playing for 30 years I let my les Paul sit and collect dust for at least 2 years . Then I came across a cover of Metallica intersandman by 3 Mexican sisters about 4 years ago .got inspired I guess . Blew the dust off of it even worked on it something I used to would never do . Then those 3 sisters became the Warning a trio from Monterey. So I kept playing at 58 I'm still learning. Got another guitar came across a 81 model Charvel . Got new maps and I don't know just a little spark can get you going . I never get tired of listening to ACDC and I guess back in the day one of my biggest influences was Steve Clark Def Lep was never the same imop . Just a little spark is all it takes.
@@Longhorn.Rock_Roll61 100%
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs was the album that taught me to play blues guitar. Standout track - Key to the Highway. Eric & Duane Allman are on fire on that recording.
A very influential album especially here in England was John Mayall's blues breakers featuring Eric Clapton, known as the beano album, has some of Eric's finest playing on it.
I heard Joe Bonamassa say that he (and his dad also) learned how to play blues by learning that record. J.M. & Blues Breakers + Clapton was and still is monumental.
yep, still the best Clapton album if you're just talking about electric guitar. Not indulgent like Cream, or moving across lots of genres like later records. Short clipped soulful blues songs with powerful stinging lead playing
Regarding Red House. Watched Hendrix play it December 23 1967, all-nighter in the vast Olympia, London, 'Christmas on Earth Continued'. Freezing cold night, which meant smaller audience turnout, no seating, just wander around the the simultaneous acts, films, events. J H Experience, Pink Floyd, The Who, Soft Machine, Eric Burdon and the Animals, The Move, Keith West and the Tomorrow, The Move, and others. Hendrix blew me away, Red House unlike anything I'd ever seen.
You can read about it on
'Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Traffic & Other Bands Play Huge London Festival “Christmas on Earth Continued” (1967)', Open House, 29 August, 2014.
Loved this video. What an incredible variety of musical taste backgrounds. Inspiring and motivating. I’m 56 this year, have lived music my whole life and just picked up the guitar back in June 2020. I’m hooked aka obsessed my wife would say. Thanks for the videos. 🙏
How are you coming along Brian?
Still playing?
Rust In Peace is what made me play guitar, Marty Friedman was my guitar god, and then I found my sound on guitar. But trying to play Friedman's solos is the best memory from my past. I was born in 1994.
Growing up, my top 5 were:
The Who ~ Live at Leeds
Jimi Hendrix ~ Axis: Bold as Love
Led Zeppelin ~ III
Rolling Stones ~ Sticky Fingers
Johnny Winter And ~ Live
my top 3 are:
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Jeff Beck - Wired
@@musicplaylists59 Username checks out.
The guitar tone on Live at Leeds is the bomb. I got this album when I was a kid and played it to death. Then I didn't play it again for forty years when I switched to CDs. Just got it again recently, and my mind's blown all over again. Epic.
Axis Bold as Love to learn guitar?? that's some serious gymnastics to start off with... after 30 years or so I still can't play the guitar to that album
@@RichusRkr there's a great instructional DVD called How to Play the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis Bold as Love by Andy Aledort. It should answer any questions you have about playing those songs. Personally I think the toughest song to play from it is Castles Made of Sand. .
Rush Permanent Waves. That Lifeson intro on Spirit of the Radio was awesome and I HAD to learn it... which meant learning the rest of the song, which meant learning more stuff and more bands, etc.
That's when I started smoking pot with my friends. Wasn't a guitarist then but the music made a lasting impression.
Hehe, I wish! That Free Will solo went beyond me, although I could probably fake it with enough practice. ;-)
Rush 2112, Tom Sawyer, and the albums.
When Permanent waves came out was first time getting stoned.
Alex Lifeson said in an interview that the solo he enjoys playing even after all these years is Limelight. There's a certain sadness in it.
Eddie Van Halen made me want to play an instrument when I was a kid, I didn't discover Jimi till I was a young adult. I must've subconsciously recognized it because I taped Jimi Plays Monterey & The JimibHendrix Movie. It sat amongst my vhs tapes for a few years. One night, out of the blue(or Purple Haze for that matter), I popped it in my VCR. I've never had my mind blown so massively by music. After that I heard & played music differently, it was the epiphany I didn't know I needed. People can argue that there's more technically proficient guitarists, & there are, but Jimi played from the soul like the old Delta players, & took it to a level that puts him above any other rock guitarist, in my eyes at least. Nobody has touched my soul like he has, I'm ecstatic to see his legacy live on so many years after his death.
I started with the Ozzy and Randy Tribute album. Rhoads was and still is one of my favorite guitarists. I’m not a metal head either. I just think he brought something very different to the genre and it was a very inspiring something for me.
agreed.
100%
I still feel that tragic loss & imagine what incredible guitar magic he would have been creating these last what 35+ years FFS...
Brutal.
Deep purple Live in Japan
Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East was the album that got me started and kept me going.
mahavishnu Orchestra-the inner mounting flame,you can learn all kinds of ways of using pentatonic scales in that album.
John McLaughlin was a big influence/inspiration for me also. Love that album.
Recommend his Shakti albums, if you haven’t heard them. Still learning from his work there.
Yes!
You can learn all kinds of ways of using lysergic acid in that album too, LMAO!!!
I was in 8th grade when "I want to hold your hand" hit! Changed everything for me.
It was beautiful how y'all talked about that universal imperative to impress your dad :). I am not a musician, but all through my life my Dad has been the one whom I'd want to tell of my successes and whose approval and validation meant the most. Thank you for being such lovely people!
For me the Beatles, the Stones, and CCR. CCR mainly because it reminded me of going to the state fair. They always had big speakers with music playing all over the fair. CCR was huge, which meant you heard a lot of their music throughout the day. Especially as we headed into 70, and 71.They had a lot of music out. I remember a life guard at our local pool asking me what I thought of the new Beatles song. I thought it was cool that an older person asked me my opinion of a Beatles song. I was born in 1960 so these groups were huge when I was seriously listening. I took my little transistor radio out on Sundays and there was a tree in the park I climbed, and I would sit up in and just listen to music on Sundays. I loved rock music, and wanted to hear it as much as I could.
Fleetwood Mac's Rumors, and ACDC's High Voltage were my favorite albums to learn guitar from. They were simple in their structure, yet created a challenge at the same time.
Johnny Winter played Red House when he played in Courtenay Vancouver island and it was so good ,i thanked him after the show when i spoke with him,i love that song.
Big Wreck! What a great band! I am surprised they got mentioned.
Rick you were so lucky. I'M Learning the guitar at 62. My first concert was 1975 The Allman Brothers Band still my favorite Band. The best live album ever Live at Fillmore East. You guys are great. God BLESS RICK RHETT and the Gutiar expert!!!
"Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny" quote on the shirt, made my day! While staying safe at home, y'all have helped! Thanks!
Wes Montgomery - Smokin at the Half Note. There’s a lifetime worth of stuff to work on with that record.
I mentioned that in my comment as well. It's my favorite jazz guitar album of all time and the Smokin' at the Half Note version of Four On Six is my favorite jazz guitar solo ever. "Smokin'" to say the LEAST!
DuckTalesWooHoo1987 yeah that Four on Six is one of the best! Also the Unit 7 solo, I still play them often and always seem to find something new to learn from them.
@@PaulHofreiter Yeah Unit 7 is so insanely grooving and melodic. He was at his best with the Wynton Kelly Trio I think. Not only is the guitar a star on the album but ALL the instrumentation is mind blowing. When that piano solo comes blasting in with pinpoint accuracy on Four On Six I pretty much lose my mind every single time. It just "gets me" and I'm a guitar player. But still.
These guys are rock/pop musicians so MANY amazing guitar albums are being ignored.
So glad you mention Aerosmith! Those early albums were great guitar records. BTO, Deep Purple and AC/DC, too!
Couldn't agree more! Especially early Aerosmith. Perfect.
BTO - awesome! I never knew some of those members were also in The Guess Who till the guy I work with told me.
Get Yer Ya Ya's Out by the Stones is one of my all time favorites. Keith's open G rhythm + Chuck Berry leads, and Mick T's lead (including slide solo) pack so much into a 10 song album.
I would put The Who Live At Leeds up against any live album or studio album. The Who greatest live band.
Yeah!!!
As a Boomer the band that seemed custom made to teach us kids how to play and how to arrange for a band (not yet having vocals or mics or a PA) was THE VENTURES.
'Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas' is a 1976 double live album by the Allman Brothers Band with only Dickie Betts on guitar. Simple, melodic solos and simple slide work from Betts at slower tempos which are perfect for the beginner.