Gary, The Black Keys, Mayer, SRV, Zeppelin, Clapton, Hendrix, B.B.King, Albert King excetra excetra.... We get to listen to them all, and they are all AWESOME! Everyone needs to stop comparing and kick back and dig the groove! Appreciate the styles and their differences to each, this is what makes music great! If everyone played the same it would be boring. Gary will rock your friggen FACE OFF!
Wesley Turner you're so right in every word you said, especially the part about "kick back and enjoy the groove"! I sometimes wonder if guitarists aren't handicapped just enjoying the groove? So concentrating on the technicalities, that some of the spirit might slip by!
denloe721 Check out the late Michael Burks, he was widely regarded the successor to Albert King.. it would have been an unreal collaboration between him and Junior. Also, the sideplayer in this video Zapata is phenomenal in his own right.. I saw him play Compared To What at Friend's weekly blues jam and it blew me away.. also get to hear him experiment with tones and chord progressions, turnaround licks at Austin Vintage Guitars... had the privilege of getting to play after him at Antone's open jam back in 2012..
BB king to Bo Didley to Jimi Hendrix to Eric Clapton to John Mayer... every kinda blues that was made on the cross-roads... started off like this. :) Gary Clark has something "different" to offer... it's not that common that the world comes across not only a great guitar player... but a true blues singer. You can hear it in his voice... he ain't playin' around no more. He want's it bad because he's hungry. That's why i love this guy. I especially hate the video where John Mayer plays live on stage with him and tries to steal the show... unfortunately for Johny... sweet licks run out and so does the inspiration to write music... where there's start so is there an end.
Gary's second guitarist is KING! Gah I saw him live and I was just blown away at how awesome his 2nd guitarists have always been! I know its been a few years and I think he has another guy, but that 2nd guitarist was blowin the whole damn roof off the building! Really SRVish type of vibe! Gary is awesome and is good as a whole, but that 2nd guitarist is really the show stealer in my book
One thing I really like about GC jr. He`s not afraid of a guitarist who is technically better. He`s going to bleed his blues out on the stage anyway.... ( He`ll make up for it with his singing and raw emotion)
I'm halfway through a tab for this performance. The main riff and the main killer solo... If anyone would like a copy I'm happy to email to you once it's finished. Which should be soonish.
Saw him in Milan a few years back, was such a concert not more than 2000 people at the show, me and my mate smoked a spliff in the audience after the first song got caught and managed not to get kicked out. he completely killed the stage. i remember when i was getting the car to leave in the parking space outside the venue after the gig, i've seen 2 of the hottest chicks i've ever seen dressed as they were going on a red carpet comin' straight out of a taxi in the tour bus..
man I played my friends squier telecaster the other day after years of playing epiphone, i felt such freedom with it, might have been the thinner gauge strings but i can see why theyre so popular
you don't need talent to play the blues enjoi6141!!, blues give a damn about talent!, tne only thing your need is to be real!..play the blues with a feeling ...Gary Clark JR is real and is blues!!!!!
I think my old band mate and I were the only ones who understood how he felt when the rhythm guy was soloing, he's looking at him like dude tighten up why you so out of tune the same way I used to look at my bandmate sometimes on stage
Somebody, someday, somewhere will put this MAN on the list of best blues guitarist with John -fucking-Tom-Brady-wannabe-white-hoe Mayer. You, should be ashamed of yourself. This makes me forget about Strat and fuckin get a Tele. Fantastic.
gc jr doesn't have the same talent as srv, hendrix, or even mayer (yeah I threw him in...) but he's got the feels. That's all you need for some good blues! His solos pretty nice in this one
Talent isn't real. It's all about practice, and that is multifaceted. He probably practiced how he felt the solos more than how technical he got with them. Plus, technicality all ends up sounding the same. He's got style. I can tell it's him just by listening.
@Diax1324, Talent is really real, i had played guitar all my life and meet lot of talented people during 30 years and others not as much, yes a great talent without practice is nothing and a poor talent with a wise practice can be a lot, and they are many different talents in music, i.e. some have perfect pitch but they can´t create other have bad ears but are great creators, i´m pretty sure Gary is very talented cause he can sing and he is an artist cause as you said he´s got the style, comparing him to Jimi, that´s impossible to be Jimi, cause Jimi changed the way a guitar could be played, there is a before and after Jimi, also the chords vocabulary of Hendrix is a lot deeper than the one used by Gary, taking in consideration the alternate bass mouvement of Hendrix in one bar the hemdrix harmony is pretty dense as well the rhythm figures in Jimi playing are very difficult to play, but Gary as very good soloing (the harmony he create while singing make him unique), which as well it is very difficult to do with such intensity, to me often better than Hendrix, but Hendrix when he was in good health was unstopable, Stevie also get some great tunes when he was not imitating Hendrix. IMHO it does not mind which one is better, what is important to me is i can listen to Gary´s songs enjoying until it ends what those day is also very difficult to me, due how boring and repetitive are most of the so called artists, few execption appart of courses
Mayer is definitely an outlier level of virtuosic. But I agree - to that point though GC Jr has his own distinct psychedelic blues style (influenced from all those guys) that really makes him stand out. And he's definitely a great guitarist / song writer albeit maybe not as technical or quick as some other legends.
RevWillBreeze Roy Buchanan is the telecaster master of masters! If you don't know he is do a search......he is one of the greatest blues players of all time!
It would be a pretty sad day if I didn't know who Roy is but Fender don't offer no Roy Buchanan Signature Telecaster. The do however off a Albert Collins Signature Telecaster based on the "66. Hell I didn't give Albert the name and Roy's handle is Guitarist's Guitarist's Guitarist
RevWillBreeze Bullshit....the man used no effect pedals. He Roy Buchanan got more tone and sounds out his guitar than any man ever had been able to do with just a guitar plugged into an amp. Nobody comes close.
My my, you are free to have your opinion as is Fender but the nicknames are what they are no matter. Next you will try and tell me Freddie King isn't known as the Texas Cannonball or Eric Gales is not the Raw Dog, because you don't like it that way WTF. Maybe there's only one Sonny Boy cause you never listened to Rice Miller. I ain't makin this shit up it is what it is Now go play with yourself or do some research, I could care less wither way.
CHRIS MARTIN you call it judgement and scrutiny, I say it is just a different opinion than yours. Sure there are things you don’t prefer or like that you judge and or scrutinize.