The History Book Club discussion

By popular demand, here is a thread for Guitar.

Thanks, Bentley! Let's see who I can come up with...


Cornell Dupree, master studio and session guitarist has died May 8th.
He played with Stuff, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, Jimmy Hendrix, B.B.King - you name it.
Jazz, Blues, Soul, West Coast, anything - often with King Curtis, Steve Gadd, Eric Gale and Richard Tee.

Some videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B3Gol...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q_c16...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUhxcN...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Loy55...

Any guitar - so I thought I add Chic - Nile Rodgers' guitar changed entire careers when he started working for others (f.e. Diana Ross)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TBubl...

Sao Paulo, my all time favorite Chic song:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzxDIm...

Eric Gale added a more jazzy feel to Stuff (and to many West Coast jazz/fusion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvpEGj...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Go4-...

Here he adds his licks to Grover Washington playing Bill Withers' Just the Two of Us:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EapcVS...

and on Sad Samba:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJSCRY...

Freddy King,one of my favorite blues guitarists:


Big Legged Woman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BXZbv...

Have You Ever Loved A Woman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJAtXf...

Ain't No Sunshine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi9_NG...

and Bill Withers singing his own song (watch the drummer having fun leading the rhythm on the I know part):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqb...

With Freddy King being from Texas, here is another Texas great: Stevie Ray Vaughan:

Tin Pan Alley (Pt.1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uZ3Pk...

B.B. King: The Thrill is Gone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt2c9I...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC4DDk...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4GfRQ...

Having fun doing the song with Eric Clapton and Phil Collins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gDeG...

with Gary Moore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqAuuI...

Sorry people - love that song, so here we go again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4allm...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o813qy...

Robert Cray:

Smoking Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8orzLE...

Bad Influence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8eTOv...

Phone Booth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bupbE...

Wes Montgomery:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXOrj7...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBGZgy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLdcBq...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEayXT...

George Benson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QjTK0...

Buzzy Feiten:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijN5G5...

together with Neil Larsen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OPT_A...

and with Ricky Lee Jones (with whom they played a lot):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33n3bl...

with Paul Butterfield:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnb_EJ...

J.J. Cale:
Magnolia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUgF-...

Call Me The Breeze (with Eric Clapton):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8uk7v...

Walter Becker (from Steely Dan):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkENeu...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFKSyP...

Howlin Wolf:
The Red Rooster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHS-ua...

I couldn't find one of my favorite versions on YouTube.
It's from the London Howlin' Wolf Sessions with Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts
Howlin' gets irritated because those greenhorns just won't get it...

Carlos Santana (with Rob Thomas):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-y2LU...

some old stuff: Black Magic Woman (Alex Ligerwood on vocals):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTqsln...

Both are live sessions - though (sadly showing the limits of both vocalists...)

another version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPGbi3...

and Samba Pa Ti:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzSayx...

Johnny Guitar Watson:

A Real Mother For Ya:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMrd3Y...

Gangster Of Love (the best version ever!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk3124...

Mister Magic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBg0Y...

Django Reinhardt:
Sweet Georgia Brown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpO5xI...

Joe Pass:

Autumn Leaves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=795sG1...

Joe's Blues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQfjm1...

ZZ Top - well, I don't know about those "cloudy" guitars but hey, it's the Gibsons...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EXXZV...

Joe Perry (from Aerosmith) together with Steven Tyler in a Gap commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fGg6x...

Sweet Emotion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO2N3Y...

Walk This Way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Irvt...

Peter Frampton:

Baby I love Your Way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7goFHM...

Show Me The Way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLgeTt...

Some years later:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_vvgx...

How about some classical guitar? Here's Segovia playing Asturias by Albeniz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efHwn...

And here is the Romeros quartet (father and 3 sons).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyYFeH...

Vicki wrote: "How about some classical guitar?..."

Niiiiice, Vicki!

This will keep us busy for awhile.

Garret wrote: "This will keep us busy for awhile."

I'm hard to stop once I get going with the music... surely there's tons more to add here, but that's for another time.

What great additions all.

Now a little something else (smile)... Anybody like Ferrari?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9V8oA...

My ears are bleeding (lol). The Ferrari is OK.

Now that the end is near all kinds of freaks seem to be poppin' up around the world...

For sure.

Bentley, just for fun click on the link underneath the video. You get to the guy's blog.
What can I say?
He's really into it, rrrrrrrrreally.
I love the picture where he's driving his own Volkswagen or whatever, in exactly the same pose as Alonso in his Ferrari...

This guy has some real fantasies.

One of my favorite Summer Songs, somehow uniting the Provence, Tuscany and California:

Sun Song by Stuff

Guitars: Eric Gale, Cornell Dupree
Keys: Richard Tee
Bass: Gordon Edwards
Drums, Percussion: Steve Gadd, Christopher Parker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdO9lk...

James Burton

Terrific playing, a fabulous guy - hey, what more do you want?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKBQdv...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EjIp1...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7DwU5...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL5Q10...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzZLiV...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiuGGa...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la2H9O...

Love or hate Heavy Metal you have to admit that some of the guitar players in this genre are some of the most technical proficient player around. Here is an interesting mash up of two of the greats Dave Mustane from Megadeth and Kirk Hammett from Metallica.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjVvS6...

And to mellow out here is my all time favourite guitarist Dave Gilmour from Pink Floyd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-j3xI...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11UUVz...

Thanks Andre and Michael.

Michael wrote: "Love or hate Heavy Metal..."

Hi Michael, thanks for the post and links!
As you will have guessed I'm not that much of a Metal fan but you are so right. These guys can play.
It's all about music - any kind.

Cesar Rosas at the Grammys. Unbelievable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz2daj...

(Link now edited. Note to self: Never try to link from iPad.)

Stevie Ray Vaughan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0zy0l...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEJh2F...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRlFKi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOF8Qm...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-_ii2...

together with BB and Etta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHFJJM...

BB King

The Thrill is Gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPlsqo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ifr4...

This is some amazing guitar playing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cGTsX...

In Holland we have a saying: "a truth like a cow", meaning an unshakable truth...
That said, I wonder what cows would do to his guitar (smile)

The old master himself, Les Paul joined by another, Chet Atkins. So sweeeeeeet!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByGsHT...

Jill wrote: "The old master himself, Les Paul joined by another, Chet Atkins..."

Ah, the good stuff!

The late great Duane Allman doing a little "Whipping Post" in 1970.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6up07...

And of course, his outro (with Bobby Whitlock on piano) on "Layla" is so familiar that most of us can hear it in our sleep. Someone said that "Layla" has the most identifiable seven note intro in rock history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KSaS6...

Awesome, Jill.

Jill, how come I'm not surprised it's you adding Duane....
I can't remember where but didn't we discuss Layla somewhere else before?

Anyway, another version:

Eric Clapton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtxO1g...

a little faster:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNAwWc...

Eric Clapton

I think we did mention "Layla" somewhere. I remember when the "Unplugged" CD came out I thought......ooh, I am not going to like a slow acoustic version of the song but of course, I did.
My sister says" How can you like that song? It is such a cliche, like 'Freebird' or 'Stairway to Heaven'". But it remains in my top ten of rock songs, regardless of her opinion!!!
I think that "Layla and Other Love Songs" is a great album and their cover of Henrix's "Little Wing" isn't too bad either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLPHz8...

Jill, as you know I'm a huge fan of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Little Wing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0zy0l...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zSYwX...

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

As am I, Andre. He is missed.