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chuck berry
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Chuck Berry is one of rock & roll's great lyricists and developed some of its earliest trademark guitar licks; represented by CMG Worldwide.
Born in St. Louis on October 18, 1926 Berry had many influences on his life that shaped his musical style. He emulated the smooth vocal clarity of his idol, Nat King Cole, while playing blues songs from bands like Muddy Waters. For his first stage performance, Berry chose to sing a Jay McShann song called "Confessin' the Blues." It was at his high school's student musical performance, when the blues was well-liked but not considered appropriate for such an event. He got a thunderous applause for his daring choice, and from then on, Berry had to be onstage....
Chuck, Berry, rock, roll, music, guitar, singer, Johnny B. Goode, Maybellene, Memphis, Roll Over Beethoven, No Particular Place To Go, Beach Boys, Little Richard, St. Louis, duck walk
Born in St. Louis on October 18, 1926 Berry had many influences on his life that shaped his musical style. He emulated the smooth vocal clarity of his idol, Nat King Cole, while playing blues songs from bands like Muddy Waters. For his first stage performance, Berry chose to sing a Jay McShann song called "Confessin' the Blues." It was at his high school's student musical performance, when the blues was well-liked but not considered appropriate for such an event. He got a thunderous applause for his daring choice, and from then on, Berry had to be onstage....
Chuck, Berry, rock, roll, music, guitar, singer, Johnny B. Goode, Maybellene, Memphis, Roll Over Beethoven, No Particular Place To Go, Beach Boys, Little Richard, St. Louis, duck walk
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Clarc Colborn:
Christmas, 1966
My parents gave me an inexpensive AM radio (with a clock & loud alarm) for Christmas that year. It was not the main gift, and I really don't remember what it was I had hoped to find under the tree. I do remember that the radio had probably the most profound impact on my life of any gift I ever received. I would listen to WLS from Chicago at night as I was supposed to be going to sleep. I would hear these magnificent sounds that were totally new to me (okay, so my life was a bit sheltered in certain areas!), these awesome guitar driven songs by the Yardbirds, the Beatles, the Ventures, and the Rolling Stones. Within a week I knew that somehow, someday, I was going to play guitar. My parents, on the other hand, were quite certain that I should not become a guitarist, and this is illustrated by what happened the following Christmas.
Christmas, 1967
After nearly a solid year of talking about playing guitar, I was sure I would get some kind of guitar for a gift. My parents had alluded to "music" being part of the holiday, and would wink at one another whenever I began my daily tirade. Christmas morning came, and the musical gift turned out to be a rather bizarre little "chord organ." As an adult, I can now appreciate the gesture; I'm sure the cost of that thing put a strain on their very limited budget. But back then, I reacted in true teenager fashion: a graceless, ungrateful display of whining and moaning peppered with pouting and anger. On the "up" side, I did begin learning to play keyboards with it, as well as starting to learn to read music. It also increased my determination to be a guitarist at least tenfold. So for the next 6 months I saved what I could from my allowance, I shoveled snow from neighbors' walks, and I even took a paper route which required me to get up at (gasp!) 5:00 A.M., so that I could buy myself a guitar.
Summer, 1968
At least it looked like a guitar... I'm not really sure that the thing I bought deserved to be called a guitar. This thing was a huge, crude acoustic, and I paid about $25 for it, new. It was spray painted red, with a "simulated" pickguard that was painted on with black spray paint. The frets were the size of wooden matchsticks, and the high E string was .020 gauge. (For you non-guitarists, that is really fat, too fat for any normal human to play!) You could not play a fretted note without discomfort. Up to the 3rd fret the discomfort was minor, at the 4th fret it was significant. Only a burly masochist could actually finger a note at the 5th fret. By the 10th or 11th fret you could literally drop a pencil between the strings and the neck! (I am not exaggerating... this is true!) It was quickly dubbed The Beast. But it was mine, and I began to learn. Within a few weeks I realized that I could not go on with The Beast for long. So I scrimped, continued the paper route, scrounged for "deposit" pop bottles, did whatever I could until I accumulated another $25. This fortune was used to buy a red sparkle electric, with 3 pick-ups, 3 rocker switches, and 4 knobs! Wow. But this one was playable up to about the 15th fret, and I began formal lessons using this marvel of modern technology. By now Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Iron Butterfly, Blue Cheer, and Jefferson Airplane were part of my musical diet, and I could actually imitate a few notes from their songs here and there, thanks to the playability of the red glitter guitar. I knew I was meant to go on …
Christmas, 1966
My parents gave me an inexpensive AM radio (with a clock & loud alarm) for Christmas that year. It was not the main gift, and I really don't remember what it was I had hoped to find under the tree. I do remember that the radio had probably the most profound impact on my life of any gift I ever received. I would listen to WLS from Chicago at night as I was supposed to be going to sleep. I would hear these magnificent sounds that were totally new to me (okay, so my life was a bit sheltered in certain areas!), these awesome guitar driven songs by the Yardbirds, the Beatles, the Ventures, and the Rolling Stones. Within a week I knew that somehow, someday, I was going to play guitar. My parents, on the other hand, were quite certain that I should not become a guitarist, and this is illustrated by what happened the following Christmas.
Christmas, 1967
After nearly a solid year of talking about playing guitar, I was sure I would get some kind of guitar for a gift. My parents had alluded to "music" being part of the holiday, and would wink at one another whenever I began my daily tirade. Christmas morning came, and the musical gift turned out to be a rather bizarre little "chord organ." As an adult, I can now appreciate the gesture; I'm sure the cost of that thing put a strain on their very limited budget. But back then, I reacted in true teenager fashion: a graceless, ungrateful display of whining and moaning peppered with pouting and anger. On the "up" side, I did begin learning to play keyboards with it, as well as starting to learn to read music. It also increased my determination to be a guitarist at least tenfold. So for the next 6 months I saved what I could from my allowance, I shoveled snow from neighbors' walks, and I even took a paper route which required me to get up at (gasp!) 5:00 A.M., so that I could buy myself a guitar.
Summer, 1968
At least it looked like a guitar... I'm not really sure that the thing I bought deserved to be called a guitar. This thing was a huge, crude acoustic, and I paid about $25 for it, new. It was spray painted red, with a "simulated" pickguard that was painted on with black spray paint. The frets were the size of wooden matchsticks, and the high E string was .020 gauge. (For you non-guitarists, that is really fat, too fat for any normal human to play!) You could not play a fretted note without discomfort. Up to the 3rd fret the discomfort was minor, at the 4th fret it was significant. Only a burly masochist could actually finger a note at the 5th fret. By the 10th or 11th fret you could literally drop a pencil between the strings and the neck! (I am not exaggerating... this is true!) It was quickly dubbed The Beast. But it was mine, and I began to learn. Within a few weeks I realized that I could not go on with The Beast for long. So I scrimped, continued the paper route, scrounged for "deposit" pop bottles, did whatever I could until I accumulated another $25. This fortune was used to buy a red sparkle electric, with 3 pick-ups, 3 rocker switches, and 4 knobs! Wow. But this one was playable up to about the 15th fret, and I began formal lessons using this marvel of modern technology. By now Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Iron Butterfly, Blue Cheer, and Jefferson Airplane were part of my musical diet, and I could actually imitate a few notes from their songs here and there, thanks to the playability of the red glitter guitar. I knew I was meant to go on …
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2. chet atkins
MisterGuitar - The Official website of Chet Atkins.
Chet Atkins, c.g.p.
Bio Written by Bob Oermann:
One of the most striking things about the architects of the Nashville Sound is that their music has stood the test of time so well. Chet Atkins is one of those architects. The works of Chet Atkins have remained in print to touch era after era of music lovers with their freshness, spark and inventiveness.
Known as "Mr. Guitar," Chet Atkins is the most recorded solo instrumentalist in music history. As a studio musician, his string-tickling work has gilded the records of Elvis Presley, Kitty Wells, The Everly Brothers, Hank Williams and dozens of other Nashville legends. His style influenced such pop greats as Mark Knopfler, Duane Eddy, George Harrison, The Ventures, George Benson and Eddie Cochran, as well as thousands of country pickers. He has won nine CMA Awards as Musician of the Year, four Playboy jazz poll honors and thirteen Grammies, more than any other artist in the history of country music.
As the head of RCA Records, he propelled an entire generation of country stars to fame -- Dottie West, Waylon Jennings, Bobby Bare, Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Skeeter Davis, Charley Pride and Eddy Arnold were all signed and/or produced by Chet. He built RCA Studio B, said to be the most hit-generating studio in the history of Music Row. The name of Chet Atkins is synonymous with The Nashville Sound ...
Chet Atkins, c.g.p.
Bio Written by Bob Oermann:
One of the most striking things about the architects of the Nashville Sound is that their music has stood the test of time so well. Chet Atkins is one of those architects. The works of Chet Atkins have remained in print to touch era after era of music lovers with their freshness, spark and inventiveness.
Known as "Mr. Guitar," Chet Atkins is the most recorded solo instrumentalist in music history. As a studio musician, his string-tickling work has gilded the records of Elvis Presley, Kitty Wells, The Everly Brothers, Hank Williams and dozens of other Nashville legends. His style influenced such pop greats as Mark Knopfler, Duane Eddy, George Harrison, The Ventures, George Benson and Eddie Cochran, as well as thousands of country pickers. He has won nine CMA Awards as Musician of the Year, four Playboy jazz poll honors and thirteen Grammies, more than any other artist in the history of country music.
As the head of RCA Records, he propelled an entire generation of country stars to fame -- Dottie West, Waylon Jennings, Bobby Bare, Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Skeeter Davis, Charley Pride and Eddy Arnold were all signed and/or produced by Chet. He built RCA Studio B, said to be the most hit-generating studio in the history of Music Row. The name of Chet Atkins is synonymous with The Nashville Sound ...
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3. lo woods
Loren 'Lo' Woods is a guitarist of some renown. This is the site to hear and purchase his music.
Born in a little log cabin by some railroad tracks on January 20, 1955 to a mother who was a Nun and a father who was a wino, it has been an uphill battle ever since. My growth was stunted at first due to a regular diet of crawdads, water bugs and dirt. In my early teens I went searching for secluded places to learn to play guitar while most of my friends were stealing cars and knocking over Coke machines. Hey, they had their ways of expressing themselves and I had mine. Occasionally I would give in and hang out with my friends but I quickly realized that Juvenile Center and Jail weren't exactly my idea of peaceful secluded places, the ambience wasn’t conducive to art.
By the time I was 15 the Hippie thing was in full swing, which was perfect for me because my second hand clothes and failure to make it to the barbershop were automatically in style. 1970 through 1976 took me through a variety of mostly three-piece Rock n’ Roll bands and some nightclubs where murder, mayhem, mischief, debauchery and record-breaking alcohol and drug consumption were the norm. If I had a dollar for every time I survived a murder attempt, I would have about five bucks ...
Born in a little log cabin by some railroad tracks on January 20, 1955 to a mother who was a Nun and a father who was a wino, it has been an uphill battle ever since. My growth was stunted at first due to a regular diet of crawdads, water bugs and dirt. In my early teens I went searching for secluded places to learn to play guitar while most of my friends were stealing cars and knocking over Coke machines. Hey, they had their ways of expressing themselves and I had mine. Occasionally I would give in and hang out with my friends but I quickly realized that Juvenile Center and Jail weren't exactly my idea of peaceful secluded places, the ambience wasn’t conducive to art.
By the time I was 15 the Hippie thing was in full swing, which was perfect for me because my second hand clothes and failure to make it to the barbershop were automatically in style. 1970 through 1976 took me through a variety of mostly three-piece Rock n’ Roll bands and some nightclubs where murder, mayhem, mischief, debauchery and record-breaking alcohol and drug consumption were the norm. If I had a dollar for every time I survived a murder attempt, I would have about five bucks ...
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Rainer Rohloff Songs und Projekte. classical guitar player:
“…It must be a special feeling to be a German guitarist, to sit in an International orchestra and play Greek music.
Rainer Rohloff, born in 1959, had already been given guitar lessons at the age of seven and finished his studies at the University of Music”Musikhochschule Weimar”from which he graduated with diploma in 1981. Not only his educational background but his ability to have a distant view at the conventional classic guitar music allowed him to be engaged as permanent member of the orchestra of the Greek componist Mikis Theodorakis in 1988. Rohloff had stayed there for about ten years and joined a number of tours and recordings. During that time his idea to do a brave project grew which also shows deep admiration of Theodorakis: the arrangement of some of his songs and works for classic guitar music as a solo program in order to add it to the guitar repertoire…”
GITARRE aktuell, No. 86
“…It must be a special feeling to be a German guitarist, to sit in an International orchestra and play Greek music.
Rainer Rohloff, born in 1959, had already been given guitar lessons at the age of seven and finished his studies at the University of Music”Musikhochschule Weimar”from which he graduated with diploma in 1981. Not only his educational background but his ability to have a distant view at the conventional classic guitar music allowed him to be engaged as permanent member of the orchestra of the Greek componist Mikis Theodorakis in 1988. Rohloff had stayed there for about ten years and joined a number of tours and recordings. During that time his idea to do a brave project grew which also shows deep admiration of Theodorakis: the arrangement of some of his songs and works for classic guitar music as a solo program in order to add it to the guitar repertoire…”
GITARRE aktuell, No. 86
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