She really played a lot of acoustic in her heyday, but she was influential on electric players for sure. And when she switched to electric she killed it.
This channel could really use a 20 minute deep dive on Muddy, his life, and his enormous impact on rock. The catalogye is frankly incomplete without one
Muddy Waters was Elvis before Elvis in a sense. It’s all in the presence, and he’s just that bluesman, the Hoochie Coochie Man. Elmore James was also a pioneer of electric guitar, his rendition of Dust My Broom makes me think what Robert Johnson would have sounded like with an 🎸
Elvis ain’t s*** compared to the greats that came before him. He did to blues what Greta van fleet did with Zeppelin… or Zeppelin with aforementioned blues lol
@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245Elvis was really talented. He played the music he loved and ultimately even most artists that he imitated were fans. I also disagree about Zeppelin, they were blues masters of their own. However their plagiarism is well known and should be criticized. That said they played that heavy blues that gave birth to Metal and their own influence isn’t contested.
Young people, if you want to see the full Jimi Hendrix performance (along with the rest of woodstock) I recommend Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music. I have the special edition bluray with my Mego jimi hendrix next to it.
Henry Diltz would be an amazing character to do an essay on. He’s the photographer responsible for the photography done of Hendrix at Woodstock and has photographed dozens of iconic groups in a very personal way. He’s also wide open to collaboration
Good video, but should definitely have talked about T-Bone Walker, probably the most important electric blues guitarist. "Stormy Monday" is one of the greatest blues songs ever.
How utterly appropriate to begin this vid with Jimi's StarSpangledBanner! Born/raised in Cali, I didn't make it to Woodstock (NY), BUT did see Hendrix's Experience play a very long version of same song at the helLA Forum in '69... That performance changed the trajectory of my life, right on the cusp of teenhood! Thanx for this, as usual, exceptional vid!
I really do love your channel, but we've got a couple errors/misunderstandings worth mentioning... On Charlie Christian: 1) While "Solo Flight" was recorded in 1941, not 1944, Charlie's impact on the national scene was felt as soon as he joined Benny Goodman in the fall of 1939 and was featured on live radio broadcasts, with "Flying Home" (likely a Charlie Christian composition despite not being credited) being so popular it had to be repeated on the radio just three weeks after it's first broadcast, a month before it would be recorded in the studio. 2) Also, it's worth mentioning that Charlie joined Benny's "Sextet", not the full orchestra. Benny had used his "small groups" to feature black musicians Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton starting in 1935, with the BG Trio and Quartet at time when they wouldn't have been able to join the orchestra. And by 1941 Benny did have black musicians playing full time in the orchestra, Charlie was still only playing with the sextet, and then joining the orchestra for his feature piece, Solo Flight. But of course, it was a big deal to have a feature piece with the orchestra. 3) Charlie's national career only lasted from August 1939 until July 1941, after which Charlie took ill with tuberculosis, and died in Feb 1942. 4) So many historians only talk about the "proto-bebop" part of Charlie's playing and celebrating the way it influenced and foreshadowed bebop, but that completely ignores how great the "Swing" part of his playing was. And it was that part of Charlie's playing that influenced people like Chuck Berry and B.B. King, among many others. There's a ton of vocabulary in Charlie's playing that is straight up rock and rock as early his first recordings in 1939. Eddie Durham was a notable arranger, trombone player and guitarist with Jimmie Lunceford and was famous before well joining Basie. Since the early 1930's he'd been trying to find ways to "amplify" the guitar, such as by using resonator guitars and playing directly into microphones - his amplified acoustic guitar solo break on 1934's "Avalon" with Lunceford was something that Charlie Christian quoted verbatim on "Gilly" in 1940. He was a mentor and influence to Charlie before he made the switch to the magnetic pickup "electric guitar" as we think of it. Finally, it's also worth noting that jazz, blues, and country musics were all far more intermingled that we think of now. George Barnes was swinging jazz musician who happened to be playing with Broonzy. All of the early electric players in Western bands were influenced by Charlie Christian, and there's no doubt that while living in Oklahoma City, Charlie was also influenced by Western musicians like Leon McAuliffe. In fact, it's kind of important to mention that T-Bone Walker (who was recording electric blues records before Muddy Waters) was a buddy of Charlie's, and they would perform together on the street in Oklahoma City. For a fascinating history on the separation of "the Blues" into a distinct genre (by white record producers only wanting to record that one part of their black artist's repertoire) check out the "History of Rock and Roll in 500 Songs" podcast episode on Cream's "Crossroads". The people we think of as "Delta Blues" musicians would have been playing a much wider variety of genres than what was documented, including ragtime, country music, and other popular song. And two of the dumbest and smallest nitpicks... "Sunburst" finish, not "starburst". And it's that specific 1st generation bar pickup that's widely known as the "Charlie Christian pickup", not the guitar model. Charlie played the ES-150, and also the nicer, bigger version, the ES-250 (both in Sunburst and Blonde).
What are you talking about? Are you talking about aerial dive bombing, or dive bombs using the whammy bar on an electric guitar, because Jimi most definitely did the latter.@@spencerludman3915
@campusfive, good post; thanks for the additional context and clarifications; and yes, blues musicians of the period would have played a wider range of music than we give them credit for today, because it made it easier for them to find work. "Songster" Mance Lipscomb is a good example of a well rounded player and singer, capable of far more than just "the blues".
All great information. I appreciate the history. I also think it's really important to consider the first generation of electric steel guitarists of the 30s and 40s. You mentioned Leon McAuliffe of course, notably of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Also, I think we need to think about guitar solos before the electric guitar. The first solo guitarists that caught the public imagination were Hawai'ian steel players like Sol Hoopii. Your remark " jazz, blues, and country musics were all far more intermingled that we think of now" is so very true ( I mean, damn, Louis Armstrong recorded with Jimmie Rodgers!) and the separation of these musics gives a real insight into the culture and race politics of 1920s and 30s US, especially though not exclusively the south.
@@DobroDharma , there's a 4-part PBS documentary titled "American Epic" about the history of early field recordings of the early 1900's. It covers things that were perhaps alluded to in the Burn's country music documentary, such as Hawaiian music, zydeco, blues and other styles, the rediscovery of Mississippi John Hurt, and recording equipment of the time, featuring a lovingly restored 1929 Western Electric direct-to-disc record cutting system with a tube preamp, a single microphone, and a gleaming brassy/gold record lathe. In the final episode, Elton John, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, Jack White, and Beck show up to record 78's direct to disc through one mic. An excellent show.
I'm glad lightnin Hopkins had His image here, but i hope you talk about him someday. he's a pillar of rock and roll history but hes totally forgotten, his music still feels cutting edge and raw to me, i played it for students and they thought it was 10-20 years old.
There are if you search for them. Back when CDs were big, there was a four disc set of his studio recordings and four disc set of his live recordings. Benny Goodman was one of the most popular figures in music in those days, and bands broadcast live on the radio often five or six days a week.
The first really good extended electric guitar solos we have are the ones Charlie Christian did in small-group jazz settings at Minton's Playhouse and Clark Monroes in Harlem, NYC in 1941. Freed from the restrictions of the swing orchestra and the limited solo time we get minutes of extended guitar work that begins to bridge the swing sound with the post-war bebop sound. It's incredibly invaluable stuff as both the war and the musicians strike of the early '40s meant almost nothing of the development of bebop jazz or modern guitar evolution was recorded during this period.
I noticed Polyphonic liked this comment, but when I re-read it, I noticed an error and corrected it, which caused Polyphonic's like to go away. Why does RUclips do this stuff?
@@OuterGalaxyLounge, I have also been frustrated by RUclips's editing software which now requires me to wait quite a few hours before I can go back and fix a typographical error or clarify what I write. Formerly, I could edit it instantaneously, but now it forces me to wait.
I love the bit where he talks at length about Charlie Christian playing the ES-150, while showing a photo of Christian holding an ES-250. The next photo also shows Christian with another ES-250. I also love how he later talks about how Muddy Waters bought an electric guitar in 1944, playing it on 1948’s “I can’t be satisfied”, while showing a photo of Muddy playing a Telecaster - a guitar that didn’t exist until the 1950s.
So glad you highlighted Bob Will and the Texas Playboys. Their music deserves more attention and wider appreciation. T-Bone Walker is another pioneer of the electric guitar solo that every guitarist should be familiar with.
Love Junior Barnard getting mentioned! His playing on ‘Fat Boy Rag’ from the 1947 Tiffany Transcriptions is unreal! Genuine Rock & Roll at least 10 years before it was even a thing!
The version of "Walking The Floor Over You" used at 8:34 on this video is actually NOT the original one, but rather a re-recording by Tubb together with his long-time electric guitarist Billy Byrd and Buddy Emmons on steel guitar, as well as other Nashville session players. The original 1941 one (with Smitty Smith on electric) is much more "essential" in terms of instrumentation and includes an extra verse: ruclips.net/video/FK7HhBZ7b5M/видео.html
Man,your content is so good that i really wanted to subtitle to portuguese just to other brazilians ( european portuguese is a different stuff) could watch as i do. Is by far the best channel about music in the RUclips. Mojo doesnt do a quarter you show with all the reach and money they have.
After all these years of selling big band transcriptions, Solo Flight (it's in the public domain!) is hands down my number one best selling chart. Guitarists around the world all want to play this tune because it's both the ONLY early big band guitar feature AND it's a great composition and arrangement AND Christian's style is so special and colorful that many players feel great just playing his original solo as is.
I went onto Nebula and watched the first two parts of this series... this is awesome man! I can't wait for the remaining parts. As someone who really enjoys guitar solos, I'm really glad to see not just a video like this, but the fact that it's gonna be a full series. I'm gonna show this to some of my friends and family, hopefully they'll be as impressed as me! Great job with this one!
Incredible! Your videos are always of such a high quality and also carry an important message. It's also great to see that you're not being to nostalgic and that you include modern musicians - in this case Mdou Moctar. It would be incredible to hear your thoughts on the "saharan rock" phenomenon, I think it's one of the most exciting forms of rock music right now.
This makes me wonder, what were the first acoustic guitar solos? (In terms of our modern understanding of a "solo") Those early 20th century blues and country records probably have some of the first recorded examples...
As a general rule there is never any first anything in music… as soon as someone finds one, someone else finds an earlier example - but there does appear to be a sole inventor of the single note guitar solo in bluesman Lonnie Johnson… Off the top of my head I couldn’t name his first song with a solo, but it would have been an Okeh records release from the mid 1920s.
The first printed tutorial on how to improvise over a vamp or chord progression was published in1508 and it's not fundamentally different from "modern" solo playing. It was probably nothing new in 1508 either, it's just that there weren't many printed books at all before that and no way to record music.
Well you officially sold me on nebula and I just signed up for the yearly plan. Thank you very much for this fantastic content. Can’t wait to watch the rest
Really excited about this series! Thank You. Hope you will include Jerry Garcia and Michael Houser. Will also be super cool if you are able to cover or touch on other genres of music in upcoming episodes.
Lonnie Johnson, allegedly the first to use the guitar as a lead and solo instrument back in the 10's and the one person to credit for introducing the world to bended notes and hammer ons, did take his playing to semi-acoustic guitars in the early 30s if I am not mistaken. It would be wrong to omit the father of the modern guitar, I think.
As a guitar player for 25 years, i can't explain to you the power you feel as a teenager the first time you get a few chords sounding decent and blast them out through an overdriven amp.
Sadly you've passed by Memphis Minnie's "Me and My Chauffeur Blues" (1941) which features her singing and playing electric guitar (including a solo); surely a prime early example from a blues artist.
Just finished watching both new episodes on Nebula. Almost want to wait for all six parts first! I'll be on tenterhooks until then 😋 Top tier quality content, as always. Keep up the good work guys!
No mention of Elmore James? Or T Bone Walker? Songs like The Sky is Crying, Dust My Broom, Call it Stormy Monday, and T Bone Shuffle would go on to inspire rock and roll being converted by Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Duane Allman and more!
I realize you had to keep it somewhat brief but... leaving out the Godmother of Rock, Sister Rosetta Tharpe? I must admit some very mild disappointment there... ETA: Actually, maybe an entire video on the debate over whether or not she could be considered the true progenitor of Rock and Roll would be good. I personally feel like, at the *very* least, she plays an incredibly important role.
It's insane that Les Paul isn't mentioned in these episodes. Especially with all of his guitar innovations. He also played an incredible, lengthy guitar solo on a #1 hit with Bing Crosby in 1945.
You have to mention dimebag darrell in your series. One of the best guitar players of all time and the one metal guitar hero to come about in the 90s. He picked up where Randy Rhodes left off
I’m reeeeally hoping the name T-Bone Walker gets said. I love Muddy, and in many ways connect with his stuff more. But T-Bone invented the guitar solo as we know it.
Karena yg dibahas video ini PRS yg SE, dan sudah pernah coba beberapa PRS SE, saya menyimpulkan : PRS SE yg korea memiliki neck yg lebih relatif tipis dan kecil dibanding yg indonesia. Entah kenapa PRS SE yg dibuat PT. Cort neck nya sangat tebal. Jangan berharap mendapat kemewahan PRS USA ada pada PRS SE, karena memang beda guys, karena SE adalah entry level bagi yg usa, padahal harganya sudah relatif tinggi untuk kelas entry level. PRS SE tidak jauh beda dengan gitar entry level pada umumnya, hanya saja karena ada embel2 PRS kadang orang2 menutup mata dan telinga dan ngotot mengatakan SE adalah gitar mewah.
Saw Muddy Waters in 1979 or 80 in Houston at Clapton concert. At the time, I had heard his name but didn't recognize him. Just saw a bunch of old black dudes playing slow draggy melancholy blues. Found out years later that was him Clapton was so effed up he could hardly stand. And he played the same stuff. After a half hour or so if that we left. And we weren't alone. No Cocaine or Lay Down Sally or Wonderful Tonight or Layla.
Just a heads up, Robert Johnson was mostly unknown until his works were compiled and re-published in the early 60's. It's very unlikely that Muddy waters was listening to Robert Johnson, specifically, in the 40's.
How on earth could you leave out Les Paul? He was playing electric solos in the 40s and quite flashy one's at that. Maybe you're waiting to cover the heyday of his fame in the 50s and the introduction of his signature model but his breakout "Lover" was in 48.
I'm planning on building a basitar soon and hopefully from there learning bass and guitar proper later on I don't think I'll be as good as any of the people mentioned in this video but hopefully I'll have some fun at the very least
Great video but you really should have given Eddie Durham a bit more than a brief mention. He wasn't only Charlie Christian's idol and mentor, his recordings with the Kansas City Six were literally The First Electric Guitar Solos, or at least the first that were recorded.
While electric guitar solos may have gained popularity in the United States, guitar solos have a rich history dating back centuries, including periods like the Baroque era in European classical music and the Spanish flamenco tradition.
Excellent video Come kick it in Detroit some soon Saturday The Legendary Lee Canady is the greatest record store owner OF ALL TIME I will pray for America. Please pray for me. God Bless you.
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I don’t think you can talk about early electric guitar greats without talking about Sister Rosetta Tharpe. So so so good
I'm hoping she's in part 2 since the next episode is about rock n roll.
3:52 glimpse of rosetta...
He's done a whole video on her. Check out The Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll.
yes he can
She really played a lot of acoustic in her heyday, but she was influential on electric players for sure. And when she switched to electric she killed it.
This channel could really use a 20 minute deep dive on Muddy, his life, and his enormous impact on rock. The catalogye is frankly incomplete without one
Agreed
Thanks to @polyphonic for asking me to score this, this series is a blast to work on ☺️ hope y’all like it! I’m using EVERY guitar I own on it, lol
Nice work!
Rock will never die
I really enjoyed this!
Dude, I loved the "rendition of new rising sun" i, the opening, amazing worck really thank you man
@@quentinorsoni thank YOU for watching!
Unfortunately, I didn't have time to talk about all the early great guitarists in this video. Who are some of your favorite electric guitar pioneers?
Lonnie Johnson, Pat Hare, and T Bone Walker
It's a shame the the creator doesn't know the difference between a solo, a lick and a riff!
Well. You could have made time instead of filling the first third of the video with junk. 33% filler….
@@Malady what is the difference between a riff and a lick?
George Barnes, Allen Reuss
Muddy Waters was Elvis before Elvis in a sense. It’s all in the presence, and he’s just that bluesman, the Hoochie Coochie Man. Elmore James was also a pioneer of electric guitar, his rendition of Dust My Broom makes me think what Robert Johnson would have sounded like with an 🎸
I always assumed Roy Hamilton was Elvis before Elvis.
Elvis ain’t s*** compared to the greats that came before him. He did to blues what Greta van fleet did with Zeppelin… or Zeppelin with aforementioned blues lol
@@tecpaocelotlor that
@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245Elvis was really talented. He played the music he loved and ultimately even most artists that he imitated were fans. I also disagree about Zeppelin, they were blues masters of their own. However their plagiarism is well known and should be criticized. That said they played that heavy blues that gave birth to Metal and their own influence isn’t contested.
Hoochie coochie.... What a terrible phrase..... Gotta love redneck vocabulary..........
Young people, if you want to see the full Jimi Hendrix performance (along with the rest of woodstock) I recommend Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music. I have the special edition bluray with my Mego jimi hendrix next to it.
Henry Diltz would be an amazing character to do an essay on. He’s the photographer responsible for the photography done of Hendrix at Woodstock and has photographed dozens of iconic groups in a very personal way. He’s also wide open to collaboration
Good video, but should definitely have talked about T-Bone Walker, probably the most important electric blues guitarist. "Stormy Monday" is one of the greatest blues songs ever.
T-Bone and specifically Stormy Monday is covered in episode 2 of this series
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How utterly appropriate to begin this vid with Jimi's StarSpangledBanner! Born/raised in Cali, I didn't make it to Woodstock (NY), BUT did see Hendrix's Experience play a very long version of same song at the helLA Forum in '69... That performance changed the trajectory of my life, right on the cusp of teenhood!
Thanx for this, as usual, exceptional vid!
I really do love your channel, but we've got a couple errors/misunderstandings worth mentioning...
On Charlie Christian:
1) While "Solo Flight" was recorded in 1941, not 1944, Charlie's impact on the national scene was felt as soon as he joined Benny Goodman in the fall of 1939 and was featured on live radio broadcasts, with "Flying Home" (likely a Charlie Christian composition despite not being credited) being so popular it had to be repeated on the radio just three weeks after it's first broadcast, a month before it would be recorded in the studio. 2) Also, it's worth mentioning that Charlie joined Benny's "Sextet", not the full orchestra. Benny had used his "small groups" to feature black musicians Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton starting in 1935, with the BG Trio and Quartet at time when they wouldn't have been able to join the orchestra. And by 1941 Benny did have black musicians playing full time in the orchestra, Charlie was still only playing with the sextet, and then joining the orchestra for his feature piece, Solo Flight. But of course, it was a big deal to have a feature piece with the orchestra. 3) Charlie's national career only lasted from August 1939 until July 1941, after which Charlie took ill with tuberculosis, and died in Feb 1942. 4) So many historians only talk about the "proto-bebop" part of Charlie's playing and celebrating the way it influenced and foreshadowed bebop, but that completely ignores how great the "Swing" part of his playing was. And it was that part of Charlie's playing that influenced people like Chuck Berry and B.B. King, among many others. There's a ton of vocabulary in Charlie's playing that is straight up rock and rock as early his first recordings in 1939.
Eddie Durham was a notable arranger, trombone player and guitarist with Jimmie Lunceford and was famous before well joining Basie. Since the early 1930's he'd been trying to find ways to "amplify" the guitar, such as by using resonator guitars and playing directly into microphones - his amplified acoustic guitar solo break on 1934's "Avalon" with Lunceford was something that Charlie Christian quoted verbatim on "Gilly" in 1940. He was a mentor and influence to Charlie before he made the switch to the magnetic pickup "electric guitar" as we think of it.
Finally, it's also worth noting that jazz, blues, and country musics were all far more intermingled that we think of now. George Barnes was swinging jazz musician who happened to be playing with Broonzy. All of the early electric players in Western bands were influenced by Charlie Christian, and there's no doubt that while living in Oklahoma City, Charlie was also influenced by Western musicians like Leon McAuliffe. In fact, it's kind of important to mention that T-Bone Walker (who was recording electric blues records before Muddy Waters) was a buddy of Charlie's, and they would perform together on the street in Oklahoma City. For a fascinating history on the separation of "the Blues" into a distinct genre (by white record producers only wanting to record that one part of their black artist's repertoire) check out the "History of Rock and Roll in 500 Songs" podcast episode on Cream's "Crossroads". The people we think of as "Delta Blues" musicians would have been playing a much wider variety of genres than what was documented, including ragtime, country music, and other popular song.
And two of the dumbest and smallest nitpicks... "Sunburst" finish, not "starburst". And it's that specific 1st generation bar pickup that's widely known as the "Charlie Christian pickup", not the guitar model. Charlie played the ES-150, and also the nicer, bigger version, the ES-250 (both in Sunburst and Blonde).
Also, Jimi didn’t do dive bombs. Though that would have been immensely impressive on a Strat.
What are you talking about? Are you talking about aerial dive bombing, or dive bombs using the whammy bar on an electric guitar, because Jimi most definitely did the latter.@@spencerludman3915
@campusfive, good post; thanks for the additional context and clarifications; and yes, blues musicians of the period would have played a wider range of music than we give them credit for today, because it made it easier for them to find work. "Songster" Mance Lipscomb is a good example of a well rounded player and singer, capable of far more than just "the blues".
All great information. I appreciate the history.
I also think it's really important to consider the first generation of electric steel guitarists of the 30s and 40s. You mentioned Leon McAuliffe of course, notably of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
Also, I think we need to think about guitar solos before the electric guitar. The first solo guitarists that caught the public imagination were Hawai'ian steel players like Sol Hoopii.
Your remark " jazz, blues, and country musics were all far more intermingled that we think of now" is so very true ( I mean, damn, Louis Armstrong recorded with Jimmie Rodgers!) and the separation of these musics gives a real insight into the culture and race politics of 1920s and 30s US, especially though not exclusively the south.
@@DobroDharma , there's a 4-part PBS documentary titled "American Epic" about the history of early field recordings of the early 1900's. It covers things that were perhaps alluded to in the Burn's country music documentary, such as Hawaiian music, zydeco, blues and other styles, the rediscovery of Mississippi John Hurt, and recording equipment of the time, featuring a lovingly restored 1929 Western Electric direct-to-disc record cutting system with a tube preamp, a single microphone, and a gleaming brassy/gold record lathe. In the final episode, Elton John, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, Jack White, and Beck show up to record 78's direct to disc through one mic. An excellent show.
I'm glad lightnin Hopkins had His image here, but i hope you talk about him someday. he's a pillar of rock and roll history but hes totally forgotten, his music still feels cutting edge and raw to me, i played it for students and they thought it was 10-20 years old.
He’s one of my favorites
Man oh MAN you setup that outro solo so well, wanted it to continue and play the whole song.
Charlie Christian was incredible. Shame there’s not too many recordings of him playing.
There are if you search for them. Back when CDs were big, there was a four disc set of his studio recordings and four disc set of his live recordings. Benny Goodman was one of the most popular figures in music in those days, and bands broadcast live on the radio often five or six days a week.
The first really good extended electric guitar solos we have are the ones Charlie Christian did in small-group jazz settings at Minton's Playhouse and Clark Monroes in Harlem, NYC in 1941. Freed from the restrictions of the swing orchestra and the limited solo time we get minutes of extended guitar work that begins to bridge the swing sound with the post-war bebop sound. It's incredibly invaluable stuff as both the war and the musicians strike of the early '40s meant almost nothing of the development of bebop jazz or modern guitar evolution was recorded during this period.
I noticed Polyphonic liked this comment, but when I re-read it, I noticed an error and corrected it, which caused Polyphonic's like to go away. Why does RUclips do this stuff?
@@OuterGalaxyLounge, I have also been frustrated by RUclips's editing software which now requires me to wait quite a few hours before I can go back and fix a typographical error or clarify what I write. Formerly, I could edit it instantaneously, but now it forces me to wait.
I love the bit where he talks at length about Charlie Christian playing the ES-150, while showing a photo of Christian holding an ES-250. The next photo also shows Christian with another ES-250. I also love how he later talks about how Muddy Waters bought an electric guitar in 1944, playing it on 1948’s “I can’t be satisfied”, while showing a photo of Muddy playing a Telecaster - a guitar that didn’t exist until the 1950s.
I also picked up on the fender photo..
Bravo man. You tell a great story. Your visuals are tremendous. All the success in the world to you!
The first guitar solo I know of is Robert Johnson’s “Kind Hearted Woman Blues” (1936).
Truly elite craftsmanship and narrative thrust, Polyphonic. AS GOOD AS MUSIC ANALYSIS GETS. Thanks so much!
So glad you highlighted Bob Will and the Texas Playboys. Their music deserves more attention and wider appreciation.
T-Bone Walker is another pioneer of the electric guitar solo that every guitarist should be familiar with.
Love your videos man, thanks for all the work you and all the collaborators put into it
Love Junior Barnard getting mentioned!
His playing on ‘Fat Boy Rag’ from the 1947 Tiffany Transcriptions is unreal!
Genuine Rock & Roll at least 10 years before it was even a thing!
The version of "Walking The Floor Over You" used at 8:34 on this video is actually NOT the original one, but rather a re-recording by Tubb together with his long-time electric guitarist Billy Byrd and Buddy Emmons on steel guitar, as well as other Nashville session players. The original 1941 one (with Smitty Smith on electric) is much more "essential" in terms of instrumentation and includes an extra verse: ruclips.net/video/FK7HhBZ7b5M/видео.html
You have such a brilliant channel sir
Man,your content is so good that i really wanted to subtitle to portuguese just to other brazilians ( european portuguese is a different stuff) could watch as i do. Is by far the best channel about music in the RUclips. Mojo doesnt do a quarter you show with all the reach and money they have.
Thank you for recognizing the early country western/swing guitar influences.
After all these years of selling big band transcriptions, Solo Flight (it's in the public domain!) is hands down my number one best selling chart. Guitarists around the world all want to play this tune because it's both the ONLY early big band guitar feature AND it's a great composition and arrangement AND Christian's style is so special and colorful that many players feel great just playing his original solo as is.
I went onto Nebula and watched the first two parts of this series... this is awesome man! I can't wait for the remaining parts.
As someone who really enjoys guitar solos, I'm really glad to see not just a video like this, but the fact that it's gonna be a full series. I'm gonna show this to some of my friends and family, hopefully they'll be as impressed as me! Great job with this one!
This is an incredible series, THANK YOU for highlighting some of the great great guitarist that have been forgotten to time by a majority of history.
Very excited for this series! Thank you.
Incredible! Your videos are always of such a high quality and also carry an important message. It's also great to see that you're not being to nostalgic and that you include modern musicians - in this case Mdou Moctar. It would be incredible to hear your thoughts on the "saharan rock" phenomenon, I think it's one of the most exciting forms of rock music right now.
This is a killer video - I learned so much despite already knowing a fair bit on the topic!! Can’t wait for the rest of the series
This makes me wonder, what were the first acoustic guitar solos? (In terms of our modern understanding of a "solo") Those early 20th century blues and country records probably have some of the first recorded examples...
As a general rule there is never any first anything in music… as soon as someone finds one, someone else finds an earlier example - but there does appear to be a sole inventor of the single note guitar solo in bluesman Lonnie Johnson…
Off the top of my head I couldn’t name his first song with a solo, but it would have been an Okeh records release from the mid 1920s.
The first printed tutorial on how to improvise over a vamp or chord progression was published in1508 and it's not fundamentally different from "modern" solo playing. It was probably nothing new in 1508 either, it's just that there weren't many printed books at all before that and no way to record music.
Genius topic idea, amazing visual work as always. Bravo!
Your videos on Music is still unmatched. Those Early guitarists are incredible. Dang RUclips and their Censorship.
Great video. I am looking forward to the rest of the series. Thanks.
Well you officially sold me on nebula and I just signed up for the yearly plan. Thank you very much for this fantastic content. Can’t wait to watch the rest
So excited for this series! Thank you....
11:27am: oh, this is going to be so good
11:45: Damn that was so good!
Really excited about this series! Thank You. Hope you will include Jerry Garcia and Michael Houser. Will also be super cool if you are able to cover or touch on other genres of music in upcoming episodes.
I've been watching this on nebula. Fantastic, and I can't wait for the rest of the series
"Woodstock" did not "spontaneously erupt". And his breakthrough was at "Monterey Pop" in 1967.
Lonnie Johnson, allegedly the first to use the guitar as a lead and solo instrument back in the 10's and the one person to credit for introducing the world to bended notes and hammer ons, did take his playing to semi-acoustic guitars in the early 30s if I am not mistaken. It would be wrong to omit the father of the modern guitar, I think.
As a guitar player for 25 years, i can't explain to you the power you feel as a teenager the first time you get a few chords sounding decent and blast them out through an overdriven amp.
This is such an awesome video. I can't wait to see the rest of the series
been waiting for a polyphonic post!!!
Sadly you've passed by Memphis Minnie's "Me and My Chauffeur Blues" (1941) which features her singing and playing electric guitar (including a solo); surely a prime early example from a blues artist.
Just finished watching both new episodes on Nebula. Almost want to wait for all six parts first! I'll be on tenterhooks until then 😋 Top tier quality content, as always. Keep up the good work guys!
No mention of Elmore James? Or T Bone Walker? Songs like The Sky is Crying, Dust My Broom, Call it Stormy Monday, and T Bone Shuffle would go on to inspire rock and roll being converted by Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Duane Allman and more!
every new video make me more of your your content, aesthetic and way to storytelling!
Very interesting! Looking forward to the next episode! Great job
awesome! can't wait for the rest in the series!!
The sign of a good music doc is when it makes you wanna grab your instrument and start playing.
I'm pretty excited for this series tbh
Excellent work here. In guitar solos, story telling, and editing...thanx.
Wonderful work 😃 always a joy to watch and learn more about an art form I'm so fond of. Thank you sharing with us. Till next time
4:20 my god my ears have been blessed with the intro of it
I need to know what song is that
Chuck Berry is easily my favorite guitarist from the 50's.
this is a wonderful video !
I realize you had to keep it somewhat brief but... leaving out the Godmother of Rock, Sister Rosetta Tharpe?
I must admit some very mild disappointment there...
ETA: Actually, maybe an entire video on the debate over whether or not she could be considered the true progenitor of Rock and Roll would be good. I personally feel like, at the *very* least, she plays an incredibly important role.
It's insane that Les Paul isn't mentioned in these episodes. Especially with all of his guitar innovations. He also played an incredible, lengthy guitar solo on a #1 hit with Bing Crosby in 1945.
So glad you included Tinariwen, theyre such an underrated group
Fantastic work mate. Loved that 🎸 🙏
I'm at work, and already gave a 👍to this video. I know it's gonna be good as the rest of your work! I'll watch later. Thank you!!
This was such a great episode again...
THis video made me subscribe to nebula. Can't have the video without the music.
Awesome video!
happy septemba!
While it's not anywhere near one of the first, my favorite solo of all time is still an early one: Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock
You have to mention dimebag darrell in your series. One of the best guitar players of all time and the one metal guitar hero to come about in the 90s. He picked up where Randy Rhodes left off
I’m reeeeally hoping the name T-Bone Walker gets said. I love Muddy, and in many ways connect with his stuff more. But T-Bone invented the guitar solo as we know it.
Agreed. T bone is the original slayer. Absolute must.
Karena yg dibahas video ini PRS yg SE, dan sudah pernah coba beberapa PRS SE, saya menyimpulkan :
PRS SE yg korea memiliki neck yg lebih relatif tipis dan kecil dibanding yg indonesia. Entah kenapa PRS SE yg dibuat PT. Cort neck nya sangat tebal.
Jangan berharap mendapat kemewahan PRS USA ada pada PRS SE, karena memang beda guys, karena SE adalah entry level bagi yg usa, padahal harganya sudah relatif tinggi untuk kelas entry level.
PRS SE tidak jauh beda dengan gitar entry level pada umumnya, hanya saja karena ada embel2 PRS kadang orang2 menutup mata dan telinga dan ngotot mengatakan SE adalah gitar mewah.
Great video! ✌
Finally you’re back
Saw Muddy Waters in 1979 or 80 in Houston at Clapton concert.
At the time, I had heard his name but didn't recognize him. Just saw a bunch of old black dudes playing slow draggy melancholy blues.
Found out years later that was him
Clapton was so effed up he could hardly stand.
And he played the same stuff.
After a half hour or so if that we left.
And we weren't alone.
No Cocaine or Lay Down Sally or Wonderful Tonight or Layla.
Sounded like a crap experience lol
1:55 Woodstock wasn't free. There were tickets. Some people knocked the fences down early on, but you were supposed to have a ticket.
Somewhere in my soul, there's always rock and, roll
There is a very good mix of Charlie Christian solos on the Save Your Face blog!
YASSSSS! POLYPHONIC IS BACK!!!
Hi Polyphonic can you make a video on George Michael & his artistry & legacy
I would love a video on bob wills
Great video.
Just a heads up, Robert Johnson was mostly unknown until his works were compiled and re-published in the early 60's. It's very unlikely that Muddy waters was listening to Robert Johnson, specifically, in the 40's.
Can someone please tell me who did the version of All Along The Watchtower under the Hendrix introduction? Sounds amazing
May he rest in peace
So insane to think only 30K (ONLY 30K) people of the half a million caught his version of the Anthem live.
How on earth could you leave out Les Paul? He was playing electric solos in the 40s and quite flashy one's at that. Maybe you're waiting to cover the heyday of his fame in the 50s and the introduction of his signature model but his breakout "Lover" was in 48.
1:36 to skip the extremely long commercial.
Robert Fripp's Heavenly Music Corporation recorded in 1972 goes on for 21 minutes.
please where is that riff that stars playing at 1:35 from ! please answer FAST
I'm planning on building a basitar soon and hopefully from there learning bass and guitar proper later on I don't think I'll be as good as any of the people mentioned in this video but hopefully I'll have some fun at the very least
All the best music stemmed from that early blues, with a dash of classical. Thank God they didn't have auto tune then.
@8:16 “He was number one!”
Thank you.
Great video but you really should have given Eddie Durham a bit more than a brief mention. He wasn't only Charlie Christian's idol and mentor, his recordings with the Kansas City Six were literally The First Electric Guitar Solos, or at least the first that were recorded.
You talk about Delta blues guitarists and show footage of Lightnin' Hopkins?
While electric guitar solos may have gained popularity in the United States, guitar solos have a rich history dating back centuries, including periods like the Baroque era in European classical music and the Spanish flamenco tradition.
Excellent video
Come kick it in Detroit some soon Saturday
The Legendary Lee Canady is the greatest record store owner OF ALL TIME
I will pray for America.
Please pray for me.
God Bless you.
do a video about the velvet underground or captain beefheart
u give RESPECT ! 👋
🤘 Long live rock n roll!