choice_of_meat
Joined: Oct 04, 2013
Posts: 42
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Posted on Dec 17 2016 09:50 AM
IMHO - The "Welcome to Nerdville" interview the Reverb Site did (posted above) is really great. It really contradicts a lot of the statements made in this thread I'd say. He decided when he was a kid to play music, and he's done it, and looks for all appearances to have done it through hard work and touring and dedication (over 35 years!); not as some "industry guitar puppet". One might not like his playing, but he sure as hell can pull out a large history of guitar music at his command, and knows who made the licks, when they created them, etc... etc... He's a guitar history fanatic; on par with the most obsessive of the surf historians on this site.
Good quotes on the Brownface reverb... he mentions a lot of the blues guys used it... prob more than is given credit.
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JObeast
Joined: Jul 24, 2012
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Finknabad, Squinkistan
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Posted on Dec 17 2016 02:46 PM
I guess I heard about Smokin' Joe when I was a young man in the 90s, because my impression of him was as a kid blues prodigy. Seeing him talk about his obsession is endearing. He's really not a rock star at all. He's really not 'popular' and I don't see anything phony about him.
I thought his comment on Jeff Beck's playing shows that he doesn't understand it. He called it "angry" - specifically Jeff Beck Group's rendition of "Let Me Love You" from Beck-ola. I've loved that record since I was 15 and would not call Jeff's playing angry as much as it is pornogrpahic and playful. I guess Joey and I have different tastes in blues guitar. But I would never call Beck a blues guitarist anyhow. He's a player's player and learning his solos is super instructive, light years beyond what Clapton ever did.
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Frelonvert
Joined: Sep 21, 2009
Posts: 275
Toulouse
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Posted on Dec 18 2016 04:12 AM
Around 15.
— http://noskons.bandcamp.com/
Last edited: Dec 18, 2016 04:16:40
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