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who were the big American guitar
> stars during the seventies? The Eagles? It was all about the
Brits.
Ummm...Hendrix was late 60s early 70s. Don't give me that shit
about him starting off in Europe either! :)
Mike Bloomfield! Mr. Sunburst Les Paul himself, he could play
circles around Beck and Clapton, oh yeah, and he was REALLY playing
the blues.
>Can't provide it, sorry. But hopefully if you do some research on
>your own you'll see that I'm right.
Don't have time or really care enough too, and I DON'T think you're
right. This would need more research than this to sway my opinion.
>Shadows were as big or bigger than the Beatles (I have
>a rock'n'roll history book from '68 that makes this exact point).
>In all the former British colonies, so South Africa, Canada, India,
>Australia, New Zealand, etc. the Shadows were KINGS! Nobody gave a
>shit about the Ventures. The Ventures did very well in Japan,
>Phillipines, maybe Australia, but where else?
Your history book is from '68? Jeez update your books, history is
often proven to be different with more research.
But really I'll argue the point anyway, if you're history book is
correct, then the same thing could be said about the Shadows in
America, people here really didn't "give a shit" about them, they
did the Ventures. Whether you like it or not making it in America
is the key. The Beatles were able to, oh and by the way they had
massive tours in India, Australia, and New Zealand. Did the Shadows?
>Knopfler has a style that was, at least initally,
>clearly influenced by Hank (Hank was one of the first to use that
>in-
>between pickup setting in England, the first time on record back
>in '64 - though he used it with a Burns Marvin model, which is very
>similar sounding to a Strat anyway).
Ok, if we aren't talking about Stratocasters, James Burton predates
Marvin with Rick Nelson's "Travelin' Man" Hank Marvin wanted to
sound so much like Burton he ordered a Stratocaster thinking that
was what Burton was using.
>Again, most Americans that tend to be very American-centric, have no
>idea how the rest of the world feels about these things.
Yet the rest of the world can't keep their hands off our guitars! ;)
