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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
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I saw the movie Crossroads which starred Ralph Macchio and Steve Vai in a guitar duel at the end of the movie. Although Steve Vai is an incredible guitarist, I was more drawn to who was playing for Ralph Macchio. It was Ry Cooder playing slide Guitar and the other parts including Paganini's 5th Caprice. I will never be able to play like them and I don't even try but for me, it set the bar pretty high.
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Crossroads is a favorite movie for me, also; I still dig it out from time to time and re-watch it; one of my favorite scenes is when Willie Brown gives Eugene a bit of a down-notching:
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Willie Brown: You got your mind made up about how everything works, don't you? How you gonna learn anything new when you know everything already?
[He picks up Eugene's old, scratched acoustic guitar]
Look at this old guitar you been squeaking on. I bet you saw this thing in a music store and bought it just because you thought it was beat up. Well, you got it all wrong. Muddy Waters invented electricity!
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Here is a link to an article about the guitar playing aspects of the film:
http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-ne...ero-arlen-roth
Ry Cooder is, without a doubt, one of the finest, cleanest, and authentic slide guitar players around today, up there with Bonnie Raitt and Roy Rogers (not the movie cowboy). Back in 1972, the Rolling Stones released an album of takes from a jam session involving Jagger, Watts, Wyman, pianist extraordinaire Nicky Hopkins, and Ry Cooder. Reportedly, Keith had stormed out of a recording session, some say after a disagreement about Cooder; Cooder had played on some tracks for the
Let it Bleed album and was, at one time, rumored to be a possible replacement for Brian Jones who was on the cusp of getting the boot. Also rumored was Eric Clapton, and Ronnie Wood was actually selected by the Stone to replaces Brian in 1969 but he lost out when his band mates in the Faces, fearful of losing Wood without his knowledge, intercepted Jagger's call and told the Stones Wood wasn't interested; Wood, in fact, had for a long time really wanted to join the Stones. Neither Wood, at that time, nor Cooder got the gig, but album of the jam sessions was released as
Jamming With Edward. You sort of have to be a real fan of all things Stones in order to really want to listen to the whole album since it is just a collection of sometimes rambling jams; there is one "real song" on the album, a cover of a slow Elmore James number:
Speaking of Bonnie Raitt and Roy Rogers, here they are together live:
Commander, you mentioned Delbert McClinton, someone who falls into the category of "greatly overlooked musicians". His contributions have far exceed his fame and it somehow seems more than just a little unjust. First heard of him when I won a prize on a radio call-in quiz; the exact prize wasn't specified; days later I received in the mail an LP by a duo named Delbert & Glen. I don't know whatever happened to Glen, but Delbert sure made name for himself...
This last video is by a young lady who plays a mean blues guitar: Samantha Fish...
If you liked this, check her on YouTube; she's just as mean on slide...
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