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[CodeMonkey]

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[CodeMonkey]

Fuzzy Duck rules

They only made one album in 1970 and disbanded shortly after. Fuzzy Duck had a very progressive, for the time, interesting sound that to me kinda ranges from funky bassy doors to a kansasish grand funk sabbath. Ha ha. Very talented band! The bass player kicks ass.

Linkage to the whole LP. (This is what I had on tap for pool night Friday. It was well received.)

1. Time Will Be Your Doctor 0:00
2. Mrs. Prout 5:10
3. Just Look Around You 11:59
4. Afternoon Out 16:23
5. More Than I Am 21:21
6. Country Boy 26:55
7. In Our Time 33:00
8. A Word From Big D 39:40
Bonus Tracks:
9. Double Time Woman 41:21
10. Big Brass Band 44:21
11. One More Hour 47:19
12. No Name Face 51:18


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[Ramsey]

Wow Primetime! Wes Montgomery! Steve Howe of Yes's heaviest influence was/is Wes Montgomery... Last month I purchased a Wes Montgomery for real cheap...And I LUV it!

...and then Codemonkey plays Jimi Hendrix...I've heard that ELP almost were HELP. Add Hendrix into ELP, and you get HELP, but alas Jimi passed on, way too early...

Another great guitarist...


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[CodeMonkey]

Good stuff! Interesting sound (spanish guitar on metal strings).

I don't believe either Wes Montgomery or Jimi Hendrix ever had a guitar lesson. Both are completely self-taught. Can you imagine the tragedy if they had been ruined by being technically trained? "Hey dumbass, you are holding it upside down." ha ha

 

[Ramsey]

Good stuff! Interesting sound (spanish guitar on metal strings).

I don't believe either Wes Montgomery or Jimi Hendrix ever had a guitar lesson. Both are completely self-taught. Can you imagine the tragedy if they had been ruined by being technically trained? "Hey dumbass, you are holding it upside down." ha ha

Your funny CodeMonkey! Self taught musicians with torrid drug addictions comprise an enormous section in my album and Cd collection.

Al Di Meola attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. As of 2013, 229 Grammy Awards have collectively been awarded to 99 Berklee alumni. I'm a music trivia freak, so any and all music trivia will be consumed voraciously by me. Feed me trivia!

Here is another guitarist, whom just happens to be a Berklee alumni who attended Berklee contemporaneously with Al Di Meola cont...Another Al! Al Anderson, lead guitarist for Bob Marley and the Wailers... Albert Anderson first joined the Wailers during the 1974 "Natty Dread" sessions.


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PS- I may have to add Fuzzy Duck to my album collection...Luv me my Hammond organ!

 

[DaveFan'51]

When I first got a desire to learn how to play guitar, this was during the beginning of the Beatles era, my parents told me they would buy me a guitar and amp but there was one rule; I had to study the records of Wes Montgomery, learn to play like him, and forget all that hippie crap. Good luck with that.

So on came the guitar, the amp, the teaching books, and the Wes Montgomery albums. Never did learn to play too well in that style but have a huge admiration for the man and his style. Wes didn't use a pick but played with his thumb and was known for his of octaves in his solos. Sadly he passed on at 45.



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Loved Wes Montgomery!! Favorite song by him, "Bumpin' on Sunset! Did think anyone was still alive that remembered him, Let alone the fact he played with his thumbs instead of picks!!

 

[DaveFan'51]

My Favorite song for today (I wish I had video to post it!) "EVIL" by Elvis!!

 

[CodeMonkey]

Here ya go Dave!

Loved Wes Montgomery!! Favorite song by him, "Bumpin' on Sunset! Did think anyone was still alive that remembered him, Let alone the fact he played with his thumbs instead of picks!!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqn3PF_DcSg

My Favorite song for today (I wish I had video to post it!) "EVIL" by Elvis!!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-1qW2xAU4

 

[DaveFan'51]

Here ya go Dave!



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WOW!! Thanks a lot!! Hearing those two songs back to back, WOW! It reminds me of my "Bumpin'!" "Evil!" Youth!! Witch I can't talk about openly here! There's no statute of limitations with my Wife!

 

[Prime Time]

Wow Primetime! Wes Montgomery! Steve Howe of Yes's heaviest influence was/is Wes Montgomery

I did not know that. Recently listened to Siberian Khatru again. What chops Steve Howe has!

I don't believe either Wes Montgomery or Jimi Hendrix ever had a guitar lesson. Both are completely self-taught. Can you imagine the tragedy if they had been ruined by being technically trained?

Don't know for sure about that. Someone must have shown them something. Wes Montgomery played with his thumb instead of a pick to keep the noise down so his neighbors wouldn't complain. He actually figured out that different parts of his thumb gave him a different sound.

Loved Wes Montgomery!! Favorite song by him, "Bumpin' on Sunset! Did think anyone was still alive that remembered him, Let alone the fact he played with his thumbs instead of picks!!

The reason I posted that song is because lately I've been rediscovering my musical roots. I've been recording with a cheap, crappy Memphis guitar. If I had the money I would buy a black Gibson Les Paul with the gold humbucker pickups, like the one Peter Frampton plays, but alas I don't have $5,000 laying around.

So instead I researched to find the best Les Paul copy and bought an Agile guitar which is made in South Korea. It weighs a lot but I love it. Put on a new set of Regular Slinky strings yesterday and now it sounds totally sweet. Will never sound like Wes but it'll be my own sound such as it is.

Here's one from Django Reinhardt who had the third and fourth fingers on his left hand paralyzed from burns in a fire. Not a bad solo for a guy using only two fingers, eh?


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[CodeMonkey]

It would be cool if you could post some of your stuff here PT.

Some of us are just are more naturally gifted. They're able to hear something, record it somewhere in their grey matter, and repeat it back. Others have to work much harder and take the more traditional route.

eg. Paul McCartney was classically trained and Lennon a naturally gifted mocking bird.

The story is that they became fast friends. Paul was enamored that John had a band and John thought it was really cool that Paul actually knew how to tune a guitar. ha

John supposedly stole the harmonica from a drug store on the way to the recording studio for this session:


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[CodeMonkey]

One more personal anecdote on topic. A good buddy of mine is one of the best artists and musicians that I know...One of those naturally talented types. He has a recording studio and has been a member of bands in the past. Working in the studio he can fill in whatever hole may be needed in terms of instruments and he does it all. I'm don't know the full extent of his technical training but do know that it's minimal. He is primarily self-trained. I don't know (doubt) if he can read music but he does understand keys and more importantly what things are supposed to sound like. He knows a good lyric and can sling words with the best too. I admire that it's more natural for him whereas it doesn't all come as easily for me.

It's kind of a right brain left brain thing I guess.

 

[CodeMonkey]

</Psychology rant> Back on track! Tony Iommi was missing finger tips. He made it work. I was never aware there was a real person named Django!!!!


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[Prime Time]

It would be cool if you could post some of your stuff here PT.

Maybe some time over this summer. But be forewarned it's Christian Rock.

One more personal anecdote on topic. A good buddy of mine is one of the best artists and musicians that I know...One of those naturally talented types. He has a recording studio and has been a member of bands in the past. Working in the studio he can fill in whatever hole may be needed in terms of instruments and he does it all. I'm don't know the full extent of his technical training but do know that it's minimal. He is primarily self-trained. I don't know (doubt) if he can read music but he does understand keys and more importantly what things are supposed to sound like. He knows a good lyric and can sling words with the best too. I admire that it's more natural for him whereas it doesn't all come as easily for me.

It's kind of a right brain left brain thing I guess.

I started with classical(trumpet and french horn) where you have to learn how to read music. I play guitar, bass, keyboards, and sing. How well is a matter of opinion.

The right brain/left brain thing is a real problem for me because writing and playing comes easy for me but recording, mixing, mastering requires the technical part of the brain to take over. That's where I struggle. If I could afford it I would hire a producer but that's not going to happen unless a whole bunch of cash drops out of the sky.

Tony Iommi was missing finger tips. He made it work. I was never aware there was a real person named Django!!!!

Tony lost the fingertips of his fretting hand while working as a machinist(the same job I used to do). He then made himself some metal caps to put over them and the rest is history.

Django Reinhardt has been an influence on many guitarists including Peter Frampton,

Here's something for all the Michael Schenker fans here - a recent interview.

http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/show_interview.php?id=1108

Michael Schenker - On a Mission to Rock!

By Jeb Wright

Guitar Icon Michael Schenker has released his latest effort, titled Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock - Spirit on a Mission. The music is flowing out of the German guitar god with surprising ease... and it’s good stuff!

Making music comes easy to Michael; in the past he has been guilty of throwing out a bunch of guitar solos over lackluster rhythm tracks, presumably for a slightly tasty but quick paycheck. Those days, at least for now, appear to be over as Temple of Rock is a tight band and the members love what they are doing.

Schenker has been through the music industry rat race many times over the past several decades, and now with less time in front of him than behind him, Michael is hell bent on putting out solid rock and roll albums as he heads into the twilight of his career.

Joining Schenker on Spirit on a Mission is the Rock You Like a Hurricane rhythm section of Herman Rarebell and Francis Buchholz. The three Germans know each other well, as Herman and Francis recorded tracks with Michael on the classic Scorpions album, Lovedrive. Together, along with long-time Schenker collaborator keys/guitarist Wayne Findlay and vocalist Doogie White (Rainbow), Temple of Rock is bashing out some great tunes.

In the interview below, Schenker discusses where he is with his life right now, what it is like working with his old Scorpions bandmates and his philosophy concerning his musical future.

Jeb: You are back with a new Temple of Rock album. I love the way you name your albums. Tell me about the title Spirit on a Mission.

Michael: I was asked by someone recently how I wanted to be remembered. I said, “As a spirit on a mission.” When it came time to name the album, that is what came to mind.

Jeb: A few years ago, there were concerns about you, your passion for your profession, and your health. You have really embraced the modern day, the spirit of new music and you are more alive then you have been in some time.

Michael: This is the third stage of my life. The middle part was to learn and develop on a musical level, as well as on a personal level. The first stage was my contribution to music that was created in the 1970s for the ‘80s. Now, it is the final third stage and I want to put this incredible era, one more time, to the foreground. My assignment on the musical contribution point of view is the beginning and the final, you know. In the middle was the arena of life, the school of life: the learning, processing and digesting and so on.

Jeb: Would it be fair to say that after you survived all that you’ve survived that you have a good understanding of your time left?

Michael: It wasn’t like I almost died, I just had a few times I was showing up on stage drunk; that doesn’t mean I was dying. The middle section of my life was all about experimenting, musically and on a personal level. The thing is that we need obstacles in order to develop, and they came up. I am hungry for learning and for developing and stuff like that. That mid-part of my life is my teacher.

Jeb: I want to ask you a tough question about your composing skills. You can easily create a guitar solo that will make most guitarists jealous of you. How do you bridge the gap from being able to play that easily to creating songs with meaning?

Michael: It all comes down to being yourself. Anyone can do that… but most people have a problem doing that. To be yourself, and to be okay with that, is where you create originality. You can enjoy it very much rather than being in the rat race and competing with people.

Art is not a competition. It is just an expression and it is who you are. Most people can do that, but most people just don’t choose to do so. Most people want to be part of a trend and they want to get a piece of the pie and that is why that world is a bit confusing. If you have as much fun as I have, just creating, then you have already reaped all of the rewards. That, in itself, is amazing and the rest is all by-products.

Being yourself is endless. Expression is endless. The key is to actually realize that and to do it. If a person is, you know, copying, or being part of a trend, and being part of the rat race, then it puts pressure on you and you don’t have very much freedom to create anything. Real creation is where you’re not part of the rat race and you just simply, you know, have fun putting notes together and enjoying the outcome of it.

For each individual, when people do that then they express their own color, which they only can express. I cannot express your color, or your colors; I cannot express your colors. The moment you realize that, is when you start enjoying who you are, then everything else is a by-product. Everything happens the way you want it to happen.

Each person has their own way of finding. Once a person makes the decision of self-expression they automatically develop their own way of doing things. Basically, it is what I have done since I was 18 years of age. I stopped copying others and I stopped listening to music. I stop consuming, because consuming puts a groove in your head that you cannot get away from.

Copying other people puts a groove in your head that you cannot get away from, especially if you do it for many years. Anyway, it is just basically, you know, I play and discover on a regular basis, and when I bump into something I really like… like a five second piece of something... when it is time to make a record, I put my pieces together, that is what I do. The lead playing I just simply improvise on the last few albums and create out of the moment.


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Jeb: The solos that are on these albums, do you have to go back and learn what you did in the studio?

Michael: Of course, it is not memorized, otherwise I wouldn’t have to make notes of the ideas we have. If I had perfect memory then I wouldn’t have to do it. I don’t have perfect memory, though. When an idea comes out it has a particular shape. If you try to memorize it, maybe in the past when I was younger, I would say, “I will remember that.” Even a half an hour later it is gone and you will never get it back. Now, when something excites me, a little riff that came out of nowhere, I make a note of it and make sure I can refer to it when the time comes that I need it.

Jeb: We will talk about the Scorpion members who are on this album, but first we have to talk about Wayne Findlay. He plays the 7-string guitar and he is growing in importance on these albums.

Michael: Because I already knew that when we did Bridge the Gap, I had been watching Wayne develop on the 7-string. On Bridge the Gap I started to, on purpose, introduce more 7-String and I knew I would feature more on the next album. When my plan worked out, I told Wayne to come up with a few 7-string riffs and he sent them over to me and I edited my ideas on there and the outcome was quite unique. When Doogie White put his thing on it, his vocals, it became really exciting. It is great to know that we have a great chemistry between Doogie, Wayne and myself.

Jeb: You stuck with the six-string.

Michael: I had Dean Guitars build me a seven-string many years ago and I tried it for a month or so. I realized it was a silly thing to do for me. It is not important.

Jeb: It is a like a true collaboration with Wayne.

Michael: I am working on making Temple of Rock stand on its own feet. We are still using the Michael Schenker platform, but we are getting close to being independent.

Jeb: Why is that important? Most guitar players like having their name out there…

Michael: My whole life has been upside down compared to other people. I am doing now what they used to do. You know, to me it looks like the ‘80s and ‘90s was a perfect time for me to be outside of the loop of rock and roll. My place was the ‘70s, so now I can feel that energy coming out and it is meant to be for now. I forgot the question that you asked.

Jeb: We were talking about what you were saying, using the Schenker platform, but how you’re doing this now and collaborating…

Michael: Oh yes, putting my name out there. It is like this. I couldn’t have put this band out calculated. It all started out in steps. We started with Herman Rarebell and then Pete Way and then Michael Voss. We had various different incarnations. Pete wasn’t doing too well and we got Francis in. You know, that chemistry was born. It is not something you can buy in a book. These things happen, or they don’t happen.

I have been with Herman and Francis before in the band called the Scorpions. Maybe that is one of the reasons. Maybe it reminds me that I can create something like that. It is like the feeling of being in the band, or something like that. I have done a lot of things like acoustic instrumentals and jammed with others and I have done who knows how may solo albums. This is something that is showing up and I like being with these guys. It is fun to play together and the outcome is great.

Jeb: Do you see a time Temple of Rock will only play their songs, or will you always play UFO or Scorpions?

Michael: Of course, that is what I mean by saying we’re developing. The idea of Temple of Rock started off like, basically, all of my written music. That is my temple of rock. When I did live performances in the beginning it was the most popular of my involvements from the past and now. That is my temple of rock.

Because we’ve developed step by step, every six months we understand what the next step needs to be. It is developing its own entity which means that after two, or three, albums you have enough material together to actually survive without getting into all of my other stuff. I can play my stuff in the future with Gary Barden, or with Robin McAuley, or whatever. Temple of Rock, sooner or later, will be ready and then we may only play our songs. Well, right now we must play past songs like “Rock Bottom,” or things like that. They are not really for Temple of Rock, but they are at this stage. They are the tool for Temple of Rock to become self-sufficient. That is the goal. We have three albums that have a lot of good songs on there and we can easily put together a set.

If people like what you do--in the beginning if you have only one album out then you don’t have enough material to tour and stuff like that. That period was important to perform the most popular of the past because that’s what that period was, but it won’t be that forever. You go through stages and over the next cycle bits and pieces develop. I can’t tell what is going to happen in the future because it is impossible. I can watch the steps. Once you’ve made one step, then you know what the next step should be.

Jeb: Did you have guitars stolen while recording this album?

Michael: I had four guitars stolen and we had some music stolen. It was extremely annoying, but we just said, “Come on, let’s do it” and we made it through it and the outcome is great.

Jeb: I have to ask you… Francis and Herman… what is working with them like after all of these years?

Michael: The chemistry is something you can’t really explain; it just is. Francis and Herman are family. Doogie, too, and Wayne… you have the chemistry. The first two albums are very much based on my concept. It is like I knew what kind of songs I wanted them to be, energetic, fast and melodic, et cetera. The rest of the guys just had to add their thoughts to it, but the skeleton was basically structured. There are a lot of fast songs on there and Herman had to kick some… he had to go for it. Now he is getting healthier because of it.

Jeb: Francis and Herman are solid. They really allow you room to solo.

Michael: That is the whole thing with Herman and Francis, to be honest. It is a screen that I can paint on. It is very important to have. I have played with the best drummers and sometimes it is very hard to play with a great drummer because there is so much coming from the drummer himself. It is, like you said, it is solid. I can do a lot with it. If you have too many people doing too many things it just becomes a ‘too many cooks’ kind of a thing.

The next album I already know what we will do. We will have an additional improvement…. not improvement… but an idea to involve Doogie more. In fact, on the next album, which is kind of exciting, as it means that something unpredictable can come out of that. I am looking forward to that too.

Jeb: I would like to see you go out and tour and do what you want to do.

Michael: I have a lot of space to be honest. I have a lot of space in this band and I have a lot of family, so I can do all sorts of things so I don’t have to worry. I just love to play music and I have never really done it for money or fame. That is just a by-product.

Everything that happens has just happened that way. I am not really connected to it. I am not connected to any trends. I am not really under pressure, especially now. It is much better now for me to play than it was in the ‘80s as there was too much competition and too much of a rat race and it was too much of a struggle then. That was the universe speaking that was not my place. As the musicians are getting older, I actually enjoy speaking to them more than I used to, as there is much more wisdom involved. It is much more fun to have a conversation with those guys.


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Jeb: How is being in Temple of Rock different than being in UFO?

Michael: I was younger and I was developing then. Being in Temple of Rock I have developed and I have been through the school of life and I am celebrating. It is a different present and it is a different now.

Jeb: Talk about some of the songs on the new album. I really love the song “Communion.”

Michael: When I make an album, for me, it is never one song. For me, an album is like a book and it has to flow from the beginning to the end and it is a whole story. For me, that is number one on how I look at music.

I like all of the fast ones as they are my favorite. I also love all of the 7-string ones, as it is a new element and they remind me of a modern ‘70s, or something like that. There are a couple of mid-tempos that remind me of the UFO days. It is all of the emotions that I have collected over the years to put as many as I can into one album. I really like “Live and Let Live” and “Vigilante Man.” We used that one as a single and I think the second single will probably be “Live and Let Live.” “Rock City” and “Bulletproof” are all good.

For me, every song, when I play the lead guitar, that is my passion. That is where I am going out of the song into a little adventure and then back in. For me, when I listen I listen to the whole album and it has all different types of areas just like a book, where it gets exciting, dramatic, or whatever. That is how I look at it. I don’t really visualize individual songs, to be honest.

Jeb: Last one: I have something I’ve just got to know… your brother Rudolf is in a famous band. They are soon celebrating their 50th anniversary soon. You were in that band a couple of times. Is there any chance Michael Schenker might show up at one of these gigs?

Michael: UFO, Scorpions and my band are all putting out an album at the same time. I’ve been asked to do things, but I’m in the middle of promotion for my own album. The whole point is this: Scorpions… I have been doing a lot of helping out over the years. My place with Scorpions, if I look back over the years, is all about helping out. It is like, here and there, and it is spread over the years. Once in a while I show up and help out. It is the same with UFO. In ’93 they approached me and then I let them go again.

I don’t really know what the Scorpions are up to. Schenker Brothers album was going on too long with nothing happening, so I am focusing on my own thing. All I can say is that I absolutely admire my brother’s success. It is unbelievable how he did it. It is almost like from the jungle to the moon. It is great stuff and it is fascinating. I do my thing that I love doing with my own dreams of developing into a great guitarist. We both do our own thing. I am just amazed how he did everything.

Jeb: Any last words to close with?

Michael: This is the first time we are coming over to the USA with Herman and Francis, the Rock You Like a Hurricane rhythm section. We have been trying since last spring and we’ve got it together and we are excited to play the States with this lineup and we are all looking for it. Keep on rocking and we will be there soon!

http://www.michaelschenkerhimself.com/home.php
https://www.facebook.com/MichaelSchenkerRocks

 

[Thordaddy]

 

[RocknRam29]

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[DaveFan'51]

Just the song title suits your image,@Thordaddy!

 

[CodeMonkey]

Just the song title suits your image,@Thordaddy!

That is some hilarious footage. Those tuxes and that set. Ha. Groovy music though.

 

[Mojo Ram]

 

[PA Ram]