Stephen Hawking Kept Alive by Demons?

[Magpie]

I think Steven Rothery is a tragically underrated guitarist.

[GUT]

I myself am a player...since the age of 6...and I play many different styles, but I guess consider myself a "Jazz guitarist" however I have played with blues bands (traditional and the "modern play really fast" blues" ) rock bands, did studio work for Hip Hop and country and let me tell you.. every thing is different... and guitarists respect the hell out of one and other no matter the style (true guitarist.. as in people who truly make a study of the instrument, not just people who learn a few chords and start a band....and I am in no way putting that down.... that is great, and I wish more people did...some of my favorite music to listen to comes from that mentality for sure)
My Favorite guitar players to watch play are (and I mean watching video of them to just sit in awe of their technique)
1-Pepe Romero (if you never saw him please look him up...amazing Spanish guitarist!!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLtBJcaY1kw

2- Chet Atkins- I will never in my life get sick of watching him play!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ZMoymgqbU
3- Stanley Jordan- just mind blowing!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeooHiX4oH0

4- Pat Martino- this man gets the most SMOOTH sound!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COyOxqyEeTs

5- Ed Bickert- seriously.. he gets that sound from a Telecaster!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxPBvDYVX2w

there are so many more... but just a taste

Steadmund Brand

What about this bloke

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CSCaOn96Et0

[Herlock Sholmes]

There is a theory that Robert Johnson didn't die of strychnine poisoning, but was secretly removed from Mississippi to work on the fledgling Manhattan Project.......

Graham

Graham, I think that it illustrates the sad state of the world when I find myself thinking “has Graham made that up as a joke or is there a real conspiracy theory abour Robert Johnson and The Manhattan Project!”

[Graham]

We were out listeniing to a ska singer/player last night - really great performer. Sounds simple, until I tried it....

Graham

[Steadmund Brand]

I myself am a player...since the age of 6...and I play many different styles, but I guess consider myself a "Jazz guitarist" however I have played with blues bands (traditional and the "modern play really fast" blues" ) rock bands, did studio work for Hip Hop and country and let me tell you.. every thing is different... and guitarists respect the hell out of one and other no matter the style (true guitarist.. as in people who truly make a study of the instrument, not just people who learn a few chords and start a band....and I am in no way putting that down.... that is great, and I wish more people did...some of my favorite music to listen to comes from that mentality for sure)
My Favorite guitar players to watch play are (and I mean watching video of them to just sit in awe of their technique)
1-Pepe Romero (if you never saw him please look him up...amazing Spanish guitarist!!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLtBJcaY1kw

2- Chet Atkins- I will never in my life get sick of watching him play!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3ZMoymgqbU
3- Stanley Jordan- just mind blowing!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeooHiX4oH0

4- Pat Martino- this man gets the most SMOOTH sound!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COyOxqyEeTs

5- Ed Bickert- seriously.. he gets that sound from a Telecaster!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxPBvDYVX2w

there are so many more... but just a taste

Steadmund Brand

[Graham]

It's all plucking and strumming to a rookie like me, Graham Just checking out Brooks Williams, BTW, and he's most excellent; thanks for the intro.

This is going way off thread, Sam, but my wife and I run a guitar and singers' club in the Midlands. Players at all levels and from all branches of music perform. I have heard a very good blues player ask a classical guitarist, "How the hell did you do that?" and vice versa.

I'm glad you like Brooks Williams.

Graham

[Graham]

Of course, the devil is a trickster. Hawking wanted to be a great guitarist and Johnson wanted to be a genius physicist.

There is a theory that Robert Johnson didn't die of strychnine poisoning, but was secretly removed from Mississippi to work on the fledgling Manhattan Project.......

Graham

[Robert]

Of course, the devil is a trickster. Hawking wanted to be a great guitarist and Johnson wanted to be a genius physicist.

[Sam Flynn]

Yes Sam, but believe me Blues guitar is almost a completely different technique to classical.

It's all plucking and strumming to a rookie like me, Graham Just checking out Brooks Williams, BTW, and he's most excellent; thanks for the intro.

[Graham]

I'd add Andres Segovia and Julian Bream to that list. OK, they were/are "classical" guitarists, but musicians of unrivalled technique... and Bream played jazz and swing really well, too: https://youtu.be/g69B5S7t_lA?t=35.

Yes Sam, but believe me Blues guitar is almost a completely different technique to classical. One of my top modern guitarists is a guy called Brooks Williams, whose acoustic technique in my opinion is almost unrivalled; yet he isn't what you'd call world-famous.

Graha,

[Sam Flynn]

I always loved how people keep repeating that "story" first off.. it isn't true.. and 2nd... Johnson wasn't the best guitarist in the world...by a long shot ( don't get me wrong.. I love Johnson..but just being honest)...just off the top of my head I will name some contemporaries of his that were arguably better players...in Jazz you had Bill DeArango, Oscar Aleman and of course Django Reinhardt. I know, not fair to compare Jazz and blues... ok then 2 blues players of the same era come to mind.... Big Bill Broozy and probably the most underrated and forgotten great ever Charley Patton...anyone not familiar with any of these names I encourage you to look them up... all amazing players.

I'd add Andres Segovia and Julian Bream to that list. OK, they were/are "classical" guitarists, but musicians of unrivalled technique... and Bream played jazz and swing really well, too: https://youtu.be/g69B5S7t_lA?t=35.

[Abby Normal]

I always loved how people keep repeating that "story" first off.. it isn't true.. and 2nd... Johnson wasn't the best guitarist in the world...by a long shot ( don't get me wrong.. I love Johnson..but just being honest)...just off the top of my head I will name some contemporaries of his that were arguably better players...in Jazz you had Bill DeArango, Oscar Aleman and of course Django Reinhardt. I know, not fair to compare Jazz and blues... ok then 2 blues players of the same era come to mind.... Big Bill Broozy and probably the most underrated and forgotten great ever Charley Patton...anyone not familiar with any of these names I encourage you to look them up... all amazing players.

As for the thread.. sickening...and sadly this is what "faith" teaches...and folks don't get all up in arms.. not saying every believer thinks this way... but it IS what is taught, and what the true "believers" believe..and the comments....disgusting and just flat out wrong...why do people of faith have to put their fingers in their ears and whine when they are presented with FACTS!!!!


Steadmund Brand

Hi stead
of course its not true!!! i know that LOL. cool legend though.

Django!!!! also Son House was at least as good as johnson as a contemp.

OK back on topic.
sorry

[Graham]

I always loved how people keep repeating that "story" first off.. it isn't true.. and 2nd... Johnson wasn't the best guitarist in the world...by a long shot ( don't get me wrong.. I love Johnson..but just being honest)...just off the top of my head I will name some contemporaries of his that were arguably better players...in Jazz you had Bill DeArango, Oscar Aleman and of course Django Reinhardt. I know, not fair to compare Jazz and blues... ok then 2 blues players of the same era come to mind.... Big Bill Broozy and probably the most underrated and forgotten great ever Charley Patton...anyone not familiar with any of these names I encourage you to look them up... all amazing players.

As for the thread.. sickening...and sadly this is what "faith" teaches...and folks don't get all up in arms.. not saying every believer thinks this way... but it IS what is taught..just most people have the brains to get past that crap

Steadmund Brand

Being well into the blues, and a fairly crap-to-lousy guitarist myself, I agree with what you say. The blues guitarist Son House, who knew Johnson, laughed at the 'crossroads story' (which is nevertheless a damn good story) and said that Johnson just went away and practised very, very hard. I wouldn't be so eager to dismiss him as a very good blues player, if not the best then certainly towards the top of the tree. And also according to Son House, Johnson had more women than he could handle, at any time in his short life.

Off-thread a bit, but some time ago there was a website which played some of Johnson's numbers at slower speed, and to my ear they sounded a damn sight better than most of the rather frenetic recordings which have come down to us. This website suggested that the masters had to be speeded up to fit the songs onto a standard 3 minute disc. Clapton slows the tempo on his 'Me and Mr Johnson' c.d., and the songs sound all the better for it. Well, maybe, maybe not. I still like his stuff.

Another Johnson legend is that he's got two graves......

Graham

[Steadmund Brand]

Like Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil to be the best guitar player in the world, which in turn got him more women, which got him killed by a jealous husband.

But your all right these people are troglodytes.

I always loved how people keep repeating that "story" first off.. it isn't true.. and 2nd... Johnson wasn't the best guitarist in the world...by a long shot ( don't get me wrong.. I love Johnson..but just being honest)...just off the top of my head I will name some contemporaries of his that were arguably better players...in Jazz you had Bill DeArango, Oscar Aleman and of course Django Reinhardt. I know, not fair to compare Jazz and blues... ok then 2 blues players of the same era come to mind.... Big Bill Broozy and probably the most underrated and forgotten great ever Charley Patton...anyone not familiar with any of these names I encourage you to look them up... all amazing players.

As for the thread.. sickening...and sadly this is what "faith" teaches...and folks don't get all up in arms.. not saying every believer thinks this way... but it IS what is taught, and what the true "believers" believe..and the comments....disgusting and just flat out wrong...why do people of faith have to put their fingers in their ears and whine when they are presented with FACTS!!!!


Steadmund Brand

[Abby Normal]

I would guess he was kept alive, certainly in the early days, by the treatment offered by the NHS, which, with the possible exception of my dentist, isn't particularly demonic.
Anyway, everybody knows if you do a deal with the devil, you die in an ironic way somehow related to the thing you sold your soul for.

Like Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil to be the best guitar player in the world, which in turn got him more women, which got him killed by a jealous husband.

But your all right these people are troglodytes.