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I'm sure you will find answers to all your questions here

I would reccommend first checking out the Beano album, great blues from our dear EC


Good luck with playin' them blues 

Last edited by elborgo (Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:56:26)

to the Forum. You've found the right place if you want to learn the blues.

I hope you enjoy your time here. It's become my musical family and friends and I love it here.

Welcome, you found the right place.

Welcome, GR....  as a fellow "newbie" to the forum, believe me, you will find this site the most useful on the web.  Loaded with great links, information, and above all...  access to the most knowledgeable players in the world.  Great to have you...  I am sure that with your experience you will be a valuable addition to the group.

Chuck

Thanks for the warm welcome guys, it's really great!!

12bar wrote:

and Buon giorno!

1) BB King and Buddy Guy both have websites with tour dates, nearest BB concert is in Morocco, Buddy is not on this side of the pond.

2) We had some threads on this topic - try the forum search

I looked at their sites.. but I thought that there are some rumors about possible dates that I don't know.
I'll search for this in the right section of this forum!

elborgo wrote:

I would reccommend first checking out the Beano album, great blues from our dear EC

tombstoneblues wrote:

Five essential blues albums?

1) Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings
2) B.B. King: Live at the Regal
3) Mr. Eric Clapton: From the Cradle
4) Stevie Ray Vaughan: The Sky is Crying
5) Mr. Eric Clapton: Unplugged or Buddy Guy: Skin Deep


Also, +1 for Dire Straits. Mark is one of the greatest guitar players of all time.

I got Slowhand and 461 Blvd. Ocean today from a friend of mine!!
And Skin Deep is a great album.. I boght it the first day it came out in Italy. I forgot to say that, but I consider myself a Buddy Guy fan.. I really like him, I have Sweet Tea and Skin Deep (bought new for a crazy price of at least 18€ each, which is a lot for me!), I missed him when he played in 2008 because of an exam and I really enjoy his warm voice and his soulfull bendings!

I'll look for some Robert Johnson's CDs, for the B.B. King one and the one by SRV (a great player, his version of Little Wing is incredible, but because of this song a lot of guitarists -especially the ones who come from rock\metal- know him only because of this song.. I know some other songs and I can tell he was seriously great. And I admire his use of heavy gauge strings! My fingers hurt if I don't play with .09-.10 gauge strings!).
Perhaps I'll buy the Beano album soon, too.. one song was cover in the mag. Guitar Techniques with a transcription of one song with another from Jeff Beck (another guitarist whom 'Sony 5 CD box-set' is on my to-buy-soon list).

And kudos to Mark Knopfler, I have an old cassette with some music from some Dire Straits albums. He's crazy.. one of the most beautiful tone I have ever heard. And he plays without a pick, and can go fast as hell, and have an incredibly expressive sound.. I like playing fingerpicking (even more than with a pick), but I feel naked without a pick.. it's difficult not to use it.

I went to a super market that sells some discounted CDs.. I've only found the Unplugged album by EC and Live at the Regal (B.B. King) but those were 17+ € CDs, so I didn't buy anything.
But I found 'Couldn't Stand the Weather' by SRV.. I don't know if, as many bluesmen say, he's got the blues, but damn, this guy is INCREDIBLE!!

All right, I got 2 tickets in my pocket! Can't wait to see Riley live!