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If you're such a guitar fan, pick us a guitar master piece with full orhestration whydoncha? (Original Post) The Polack MSgt Sep 2019 OP
Hendrix at Woodstock. Santana, BB King, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan brush Sep 2019 #1
Glen Campbell keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #2
He was such a fantastic player. nt The Polack MSgt Sep 2019 #6
Longest and greatest guitar performance ever Cartoonist Sep 2019 #3
Charlie Christian DBoon Sep 2019 #4
That seems to be a commercial DBoon. The Polack MSgt Sep 2019 #8
And without the confined arrangement of Benny's Sextet he was even more amazing The Polack MSgt Sep 2019 #9
I thought the commecial ended after 5 seconds. DBoon Sep 2019 #10
when Charlie died in 41, music suffered a massive setback The Polack MSgt Sep 2019 #11
Mason Williams "Classical Gas" redstatebluegirl Sep 2019 #5
Also, this The Polack MSgt Sep 2019 #7

The Polack MSgt

(13,192 posts)
8. That seems to be a commercial DBoon.
Wed Sep 4, 2019, 11:53 AM
Sep 2019

My Grand Father had a couple dozen benny Goodman 78s so I knew who Charlie was since I was like 10.

Great under appreciated (by folks under 60 anyway) player

This is a very pretty melody with a tasty Charlie Christian solo

DBoon

(22,395 posts)
10. I thought the commecial ended after 5 seconds.
Wed Sep 4, 2019, 12:52 PM
Sep 2019

Did I copy a video URL for only the commercial?

Damn, YouTube is sneaky

I figured Charlie Christian first commercial use of amplified guitar, with a big band backing fits

Well ahead of Jethro Tull by decades

The Polack MSgt

(13,192 posts)
11. when Charlie died in 41, music suffered a massive setback
Wed Sep 4, 2019, 01:34 PM
Sep 2019

The electric guitar was an infant when Charlie started cutting records but he was already working tones and phrasings and sustain ...

If he had lived American Music would have been completely different

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