Was in Alabama in 2017,I live in Manitoba,Canada and was listening to Jim on you tube anyway but while walking with headphones it started to rain so I really started reflecting when that song came on
I still return to this video often. Lenny was utterly unique, and I know of no other jazz guitarist with his level of creativity. Beyond brilliant, and an incredible inspiration.
The greatest fingerstyle guitarist in history. That Italian kid plays fast and uses the chainsaw sound, but the harmonic content of breau is light years ahead.
Lenny Breau was the master of harmonizing. Check out a video of him doing the relatively simple "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright". He was, not just a master, he was the master.
Sent this song to the same song to my partner for 5 years. He’s get mad if I didn’t listen to one of the songs he liked- he admitted 6 months ago he finally looked up the lyrics. 5 years… of sending the same song… because IT LITERALLY MEANT EVERYTHING TO ME- guess it never meant anything to them. What am I talking about here- the song, the realtionship or both? Insert dig, under your scars, pride and joy, hear me now, just breathe.
I doubt the Leroy Brown in Croce's song looked like an Italian-American. People talk a lot about racism these days, but I don't ever recall a black person playing a villain on any TV show from the 1970s or even earlier. .
He is among the ten best jazz guitarists for sure, but he had something more... Something indescribable, a special soul, a deepness, a fragility, with a mistery cloud emanating from his music as well as his personality. Tal Farlow had this aura to my sight too. Well, it's just my perception.
Imagine how much easier this would be if the high strings were on top and the bass strings on the bottom. When George Benson took me to his dressing room to pass his 1955 Gibson L5 back and forth, to help me to decide about playing lefty like Jimi or lefty like me, he said some of the best guitarists he knows plays like that. He said I'm not scrunching up my fingers to play lead and my barre chord finger is over the bass notes already, if I ever get into jazz guitar playing. My guitar was a Fender Stratocaster. We never mentioned holding all the strings for feedback.
I have so much respect for people like Lenny who just figured out things like this by listening to records. How spoilt we are these days with content like this
The guy who made that guitar for Lenny is Kirk Sands. He mentioned that he was working on a double neck with 7 lower and 12 string upper, just prior to Lenny's death. Lenny wanted to have the spaces between the 12 string wide enough to pick them independently with his right hand. Imagine what he could have done with that kind of arrangement!
I know what it's like to have writers block.....Sorry that it happened to you Ed. I still haven't found my Muse......guess you haven't either. Love you as a writer.
He thinks he is so much better than everyone else just because he can play the guitar. At least my hair doesn’t look like that. What’s this dude’s problem?
Are you serious those hammer ons sound like picking, was aeeing his picking hand only and saying thats not in sync cause im hearing melody and hes just picking a bass line, and it pans out and hes doing all that melody just with his fretting hand, out of this world
