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More interviews from the UK 'Guitar' magazine in the 70s with the following:
Ritchie Blackmore, Jerry Donahue, B.B. King, Alvin Lee, Gary Moore, Johnny Winter.
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06-18-2020 06:45 AM
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Thanks!
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Thanks.
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Thanks so much for sharing these
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So Johnny Winter liked John McLaughlin. Who knew? I like them both.
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Thanks, Graham!
I remember BB King writing in his autobiography about the night he met Johnny Winter. Johnny came into the club in a suit with two other white guys. BB thought they were from the IRS!
But he agreed to let Johnny sit in, having no idea what to expect, and to say the least he was pleasantly surprised.
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Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
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Yes interesting how many of the rockers of that generation grew up listening to jazz. Even Ritchie Blackmore said he was into Django and Les Paul.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
"But in jazz you have a very broad construction. You can hit ninths, fifths, flattened ninths; thing like that. In rock you're limited, and that's the challenge. This might sound silly, but I feel jazz is too free. You can be playing with a jazzer and be up, and down that fingerboard and you can hit any note you want, it's going to work out a flattened ninth, a tenth, a thirteenth - it's going to be something. Even in a different key it'll fit somewhere; I've done it. Take a progression like A, F sharp, D, and E, and they're experimenting and hitting diminisheds and augmenteds, so when they hit that A, you can play any note you like and it'll either be a flattened third, a flattened fifth, an added sixth or a suspended ninth. They can get away with murder, some of those guys. Great runs and things but because there's so much going on in the background it's bound to be related somewhere along the line, so it always fits. This is probably what they get off on. Whereas in rock, you can't. If somebody's hitting an A, you've got to stick around that A somehow."
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