--Does it show?--

Just a tad.

--I agree, Ted's the most overrated. But he's only overrated because he's louder'n everyone else--

And his guitar playing is loud, too.

----do not know where he is last time I saw him anywhere he was the devils Haircutter in "CROSSROADS" the movie with ralph Macchio.--

Crossroads wasn't a bad movie. Ry Cooder did the music score for the movie.

--he is on tour right now with a band called the breed. but the fucker is only doing europe. waaaaaaaaa!!!!--

--Señor Jorge Orozco

and some others...classical or Spanish guitarists, I've felt have always been cut differently from blues guitarists.--

I've heard some spanish guitarists but I never heard of him. Will have to check him out.

Believe it or not, the reason I got into spanish guitar was from listening to Tesla. A girl I knew said the beginning of one of their songs sounded like a spanish guitar. So I bought some tapes cause of Tesla. Yeah right, who am I kidding? I bought them cause of the girl.

I agree, Ted's the most overrated. But he's only overrated because he's louder'n everyone else....lol

Ok, I know I'm loud, but "Overrated"? I didn't even know I was "rated". ;~D

Who's Pete Glover's friend

pete glover was a guy who once asked me to help him sell his gibson byrdland (which i did), insisting i give the money to a priest who had been holding the guitar and who'd hold the cash cuz pete didn't trust himself (i was 22 at the time and pete hadda been at least 40.)

a couple years earlier, pete and these two guys i never saw before or afterwards showed up at the pad i was watchin for a woman named marian. outside it was a bitter cold detroit january wednesday midnite. they were a bit disappointed to learn marian and her friends weren't around (she was workin some kinda wickedness in ann arbor). i guess they were so sure we couldn't help them find whatever it was he (or they) wanted the question was never asked.

in any event, we had a couple guitars, and at least one was in constant use whenever there was someone at home and awake. my friends and i had been watchin tv while playing and talking for a couple hours when these guys showed up. we all talked about the weather and learned everyone was doin okay, etc. and then, after they'd warmed up for a bit, pete mouthed something to one of the guys and asked us if they could check out the guitars.

someone--maybe glover hisself--had told me he played bass, but i'd never heard him. they got comfortable and began running scales and warmed up their fingers while everyone kept making small talk. after a few, they stopped talking and a lil bit later so did we cuz--without saying anything to each other--they'd begun playing seriously.

somewhere over the rainbow.

but not any 'rainbow' i'd ever heard.

i really can't describe it any better than to say it floated around and over the rainbow taking on different textures and tempos without ever wandering too far from the original melody that they couldn't go home again.

this went on for what seemed like hours, but was really no longer than 15-20 minutes, and there was never anything outta place. it was a totally impromptu performance that couldn't have been more in sync if they'd been rehearsing for weeks. pete did mostly chordwork while his friend scatted and improvised with four fingers on both hands.

when they stopped playing, it was really quiet for a couple beats...like we were in a trance...and then my friends and i finally exhaled at once. none of us could say much more than 'wow'.

pete said somethin bout how he wished he could go over that mfing rainbow. both of em laffed and they put the guitars up, stood up and slipped into their coats. we were still flipped out, sorta stunned by what theyd done.

i was trying to tell the other guy how impressed i was at his playing. he seemed sorta embarassed and was grinning just a lil bit.

'hey man,' he said. 'i don't really play guitar. i play piano. keyboard is my instrument.'

i told him if guitar wasn't his instrument, i wasn't sure i could handle hearing him play piano.

he laffed and all three of em hit the door.

I've played guitar now for over 30 years. I've had many favorite players in that time, but only a few have stayed my favorites. I realize now that not only are they my favorites, but also my biggest influences in my own style. Here is my list, a mixture of living and deceased artists, starting with whom I believe is by far the greatest player ever:

Lenny Breau

Randy Bachman

Charlie Christian

Johnny Smith

Tal Farlow

Chet Atkins

Howard Roberts

Jimmy Brunno

Django Reinhardt

Wes Montgomery

Eddie Van Halen

Lionna Boyd

And one of their fights was over who was a better rhythm guitarists - Steve Cropper or Keith Richards.

that's sorta like arguing over whether galileo or kepler was the better astrologist.

richards does berry better than berry. none of those three (chuck, keith and steve)really needs/needed a 2nd guitar on stage cuz they were/are that good.

Is he playing with Double Trouble?

dunno what he's doin now. i think he did a solo album. i saw him in a couple small clubs when he was with the thunderbirds.

Ry Cooder's soundtrack work is good

one of my current fav tunes is cooder's 'across the borderline' with freddy fender doin the vocal (altho i have 6 other versions as well). cooder co-wrote it with john hyatt and jim dickinson for the film, 'the border'.

last time I saw him anywhere he was the devils Haircutter in "CROSSROADS" the movie with ralph Macchio

headcutter you mean.

cooder wrote the tunes which appear on the crossroads soundtrack release. arlen roth created and played almost all the blues things macchio 'plays'. steve vai is a good guitarist but having him show up in that movie was as ludicrous as the duel which macchio wins by 'playing' classical music. originally it was a slide duel between cooder and roth but that was junked in favor of the other ending. i wonder if it's included on the dvd?

in any event, that film pretty much killed any chance of another blues film gettin a greenlight...at least til everyone who was at columbia then is finally gone.

Most of my favorites are already mentioned, but I'm surprised that no one mentioned Duane Allman, Jimmy Page or Pete Townshend.

To me Keith Richards is a contradiction, I love his guitar work, but I'm not that big a fan of the Stones music.

A lot of the solos I and intros I play for fun are his.

To me Keith Richards is a contradiction, I love his guitar work, but I'm not that big a fan of the Stones music.

the first four stones us album releases ('england's newst hitmakers', '12 x 5', 'outta our heads' and 'rolling stones now') are fulla really great stuff. still amazes me they were at all familiar things like 'down the road apiece'...much less able to do it so well. while richards continued to do some pretty cool stuff, to me those four are real treasure.

dammit i forgot one more:

boz scaggs. if you've ever heard 'lend me a dime' you know why

--Ok, I know I'm loud, but "Overrated"? I didn't even know I was "rated". ;~D--

Ouch

--To me Keith Richards is a contradiction, I love his guitar work, but I'm not that big a fan of the Stones music.

A lot of the solos I and intros I play for fun are his.--

My best friend loves playing him. He always wished Lennon and Richards played together.