Anyway I digress.

Welcome to the Second Installment of Guitar God Friday. This week we’ve got yet another dead legend (we’ll try to get to Clapton before he dies).   In order to create some sort of flow to the proceedings, we thought we’d honor Stevie Ray Vaughn, because not only is he most definitely a Guitar God (Rolling Stone ranks him as the 7th best guitarist of all time). But also because some say that he embodied Hendrix’s skill…..  Stevie was also a massive fan, and would always put a Hendrix Cover as a track on each of his albums.

So without further ado, lets watch Stevie talking about Jimmy!

So there you have it… just throw Jim Morrison into the dream as the lizard king, add Wayne and Garth and you’ve got the makings of Waynes World 3 (working title WW3).

Ahem.

Am i digressing again?
Sorry.

Next up is Stevie Ray Vaughn doing justice to Jimmy Hendrix’s Voodoo Chile.

Nice huh?
Next up, in the interests of those of the younger persuasion, I thought i’d include someone you all may know (he’s still alive!), passing comment on the late great SRV.
Ladies and gentle persons i give you John Mayer.

Second Last is a bit of treat – S R V talking guitar styles, drugs, Stevie Wonder and a sort of guitar lesson – well worth watching!

And last but most definitely not least one of Stevie’s own masterpieces Texas Flood.

That’s it for this weeks Guitar God Friday, check back next week to see who we have in store??!!

If you want to find out more about the incredible Stevie Ray Vaughn try this Wiki link

Click here to check out our growing Guitar God Archive.

We’re going to create a page on our parent website, where you’ll be able to find each clip we put up every Friday, plus any others we put up along the way.

We plan on showcasing every guitar style, but as you know musical taste is subjective, and no one person’s knowledge is complete, so if we seem to be missing out on amazing players/solos comment and lets us know!

So who’s get’s the Honorary first Spot?

Jimmy Hendrix of-course!!!

I’m not not going to do a bio on this god of guitargods (just yet)
If you want a quick rundown, try this wikipedia link

But what we do have is a little bit of a treat!
We’ve got 3 clips.

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Being in a mellow mood I  thought we’d start with Hey Joe, it’s one of his shorter clips but not only is it a killer song, YOU HAVE TO WATCH HIM PLAY WITH HIS TEETH.
…while chewing gum….
For those just starting out, this may not be a technique you want to try at the start ;-]

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For the next clip I thought you might enjoy hearing the man himself speak -  A rare interview with the great Dick Cavett!

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And Finally for the next clip we’ve got a clip that is a sort of mini Bio Doco – Warning! its 9 mins long but well worth watching.

Have great weekend everybody, Happy Strumming!
Marcus

P.S
Have you got any Favorite Hendrix stories? Why not leave them as a comment below!

Keyboards don’t last very long when your addicted to scrabble…

I was chatting to a friend of mine the other day about this new site and she said something that made me realise that many people may have the same concerns..

She said;

“I’d love to learn guitar, and i like the idea of doing it in the privacy of my own home, but i’m not that computer savvy, do i need to do a course to teach me how to do the guitar course?”

Of course she was making a joke about it, but the point still stood.

Modern technology is only successful in it’s application when it make life easier, simpler, or saves you time.   What use is having s crackberry if it means you’re chained to you email 24/7?

The  most powerful program in the world is useless if you need a Doctorate in Applied Robotics to use it.

When we reviewed the leading Guitar Software or Online Courses out there, we took all of the above stuff into consideration.
I’ve just posted an Article about the advantages and disadvantages, as well as what you should look for in an Online or Home Guitar Course.

it’s called;

Can A Computer Teach You To Play Music?
The Real Skinny About Guitar Software.

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT!

If you want to discover which courses we recommend then click on the link below.

THE REVIEWS PAGE!

Now if only we could get the computer  to reply
“I’m sorry I cannot do that Dave”
When we request it teach us the theme song to “2001  A Space Odyssey”

Happy Pluckin’
Marcus!

P.S – for those music trivia buffs out there,  the 2001 theme song is actually called  “Also Sprach Zarathustra – which is named after the rather  heavy book of seminal philosophy by Friedrich Nietzche and was composed by Richard Strauss in 1896..

But enough of that trivia – My favorite all time version is by Eumir Deodato and thanks to the magic of Youtube i present it to you now!
There is some major guitar work going on

Does anyone know if that’s John Tropea playing the lead guitar?

If you haven’t seen or heard this, get ready for a treat, especially if you love your Funk/Jazz.