ricoboc
Moderator   Posts: 278 Registered: 4/27/2004 Status: Offline
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 posted on 5/26/2004 at 08:01 |
I'm writting this side note in hopes of getting other members and users
involved with the slingers post.
First I would like to say " I hope members dont pass by the slingers forum
just because they may not recognize a guitar slinger,and or listen to that
guitar player."
The reason for the slinger forum is to help young and old players alike
gain new insite to all aspects of music. By browsing the slinger forum
you'll find many players you may not have heard ... This is a very good
oprotuinity to broaden your ear and take a look beyond what you may be
locked into as a player as of now.
I once had a guitar teacher many years ago....My first day at lessons he
asked me what I wanted to accomplish...I being very young gave the response
" I want to learn how to play Sabbath and Zeppelin." he then asked me why?
I told him I wanted to start a band and play these songs.
He looked at me for a minute, nodded , then said "Fair enough. But let me
ask you one more question before we move on." I looked at him and said
"Ask."
So he asked me..." Can you define a mucian without a soul?" I looked at him
for a minute...thought about it...I really couldnt come up with an
answer....so I replied " How about a dead musician?" He told me I was very
close....then started laughing.
He then gave me the answer to his question...he said " A musician without a
soul is a man or women who lacks imagination and or curiosity...a person
who refuses to move out of the box and choses to stagnate." I being very
young didnt catch on to what he was saying until a few years later....his
words came back to me....and I thought .."WOW!!" I did learn something from
my first guitar lesson.
[Edited on 7/2/2004 by ricoboc]
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pontiac
First Lieutenant   Posts: 13 Registered: 10/15/2004 Status: Offline |
 posted on 10/15/2004 at 17:39, Reply 1 |
Thanks, ricoboc. I'm new to guitar files but I was already skipping the
guitar slingers section because I'd never heard of any of them. I'm 13
years old and a very beginner guitar player. I'll look at the guitar
slingers to broaden my musical horizon.
P.S. I liked your "1st guitar lesson" story. It made me think.
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tattoo
Captain   Posts: 270 Registered: 7/31/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 10/15/2004 at 18:42, Reply 2 |
Were on the hunt for Ricoboc you see he's booked town with all the guitar
slinger ideas.
By the way welcome pontiac
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ricoboc
Moderator Posts: 278 Registered: 4/27/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 10/23/2004 at 03:34, Reply 3 |
Hi Pontiac,
I hope your still around.....hope your checking in at this forum and
discovering new players and music. Best of luck to you... :3pieceband:
[Edited on 10/23/2004 by ricoboc] ____________________
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desi
First Lieutenant Posts: 1 Registered: 7/22/2006 Status: Offline |
posted on 7/22/2006 at 13:39, Reply 4 |
o.k hi everyone.my name is desiree' apolonio bassett i'm a 13 yr old girl
guitar prodigy, really, check me out atmyspace.com/desireebassett i want to
encourage all young guitarists to reach for there dreams. i have meet and
played with some of the best players on the planet. iam currently being
produced by doug wimbish of living colourand endorseded by peavey . watch
for me in the future as i will be touring in the next few years
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brian
Moderator  Posts: 1042 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 7/22/2006 at 14:22, Reply 5 |
cool... rock on!
Stay Humble 
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stinkybeagle
First Lieutenant Posts: 8 Registered: 12/20/2007 Status: Offline |
posted on 12/20/2007 at 06:52, Reply 6  |
I cant seem to post a Topic but............ What about Phil Keaggy.
Personaly hes the reason i picked up the guitar and the story goes like
this...........
Were could I start? I remember Back when i was young, like mabye 13 or 14.
Now at this time heavy metle was all that mattered as far as music was
concerned in my mind. SO, I remember chillen at my best friends house when
his older brothers friend, showed up with a acoustic guitar. Of course
this was a fasenating thing to see this guy walk into the room with a
guitar, couse well these things dont grow on trees, right? Anyways, he starts
playing this song Adison's Walk and I had to pick my jaw up off the floor
couse I never really heard anything like that before out of an acoustic
guitar. He exlaimed, "I spent many hours and days learning just this small
peice". He added, (ref#1)"when they asked Jimi Hendrix what it was like to
be the greatest guitarist in the world? Jimi said, "Go ask Phil Keaggy"."
So in disbalif I had to ask who this Phil keaggy guy was. So he barrowed me
his Phil Keaggy tape. I listened to it and listened to it. From that day
forth I sought to learn how to play guitar and one day beable to play as
fluently and effertlessly as Phill keaggy. Vahn Halen , Metalica or even
slayer did not have that effect on me. In short just watching this guy play
makes you think, hes so **** good he could just stare at the guitar and the
music would come through. In short the music comes from him not the
instrament and that is beauty in a verey honest and pure form.
Ironicly I didnt really start learning the classical styles of guitar
untill a decade after starting to play guitar. Pretty much went straight to
metel becouse it was far easier for me to play than classical. hehe power
cords nd scales.... but it seems to have come full circule.
But yes I see no reason at all why Phil keaggy is not up here on this list.
(ref#1)X1X Rumors have followed Keaggy for years that Jimi Hendrix had
supposedly named him as his answer to the question Johnny Carson asked him,
"who is the best guitarist in the world?" while making an appearance on The
Tonight Show. Another version of the story goes something like, "Jimi, how
does it feel to be the world's greatest guitar player?" To which Jimi
supposedly replied, "I don't know, you'll have to ask Phil Keaggy!" which
according to some was from an interview in Rolling Stone or Guitar Player
Magazine. Sometimes, the rumor is that it was Eric Clapton, or that it was
on the Dick Cavett show. A recent variant has it that it was Eddie Van
Halen on Letterman or with Barbara Walters who was asked the question.
During live performances, Keaggy has mentioned it but personally thinks the
rumors are untrue. However, due to the fact that many of these shows did
not keep archives of many of their early shows, it is nearly impossible to
either confirm or disprove the rumors completely. Some fans have claimed to
have seen the show in question, or read the interview but to date, no one
has presented a tape, a magazine article or any kind of evidence to confirm
it. Phil was asked this at one of his guitar clinics he held in California
a few years ago and his answer was simply, "I don't think there is anything
to it at all. I doubt that Jimi ever heard me play as he had died in
England before I recorded with Glass Harp at his Electric Ladyland Studios
in New York City. Someone told me years ago that when asked that question
he replied, 'Phil Keaggy is the shortest guitarist in the world,' which is
more believable." X1X
All letters between X1X are Cited From wikipedia copyrights may apply.
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