Bob Bain, Mr. Cool

[Woody Sound]

Man, those were the days. Every once in a while there was a young guy with 70's hair filling in who played a LP Standard Burst, or sometimes a 335-ish guitar. I never figured out who he was.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faAiClzObwY&list=RDfaAiClzObwY&start_radio =1

[Woody Sound]

[Mick-7]

Call me culturally deprived (I may deserve it in this instance) but I'd never heard of Bob Bain.....

Remembering Bob Bain: 1924 – 2018 - Fretboard Journal

TV shows used to be good employment opportunities for jazz musicians, a guy with whom I went to high school had a steady gig on the Arsenio Hall show.

Guitarists who played in the Tonight Show band: Gene Bertoncini, Herb Ellis, Kevin Eubanks, Mitch Holder, Tony Mottola, Bucky Pizzarelli, Paul Woodford.

Every once in a while there was a young guy with 70's hair filling in who played a LP Standard Burst, or sometimes a 335-ish guitar. I never figured out who he was.

Not sure what you mean by "70's hair," but Mitch Holder was not known to play archtops, here's a pic of him when young.

[Woody Sound]

Interesting, but for the famous high note "screechers," I always though Doc had a much more beautiful tone up there than Maynard (Not to take anything away from the great MF of course). But even when Doc reached up soooo high, he still had a nice round tone. MF, well he hit the notes screeching.

[Woody Sound]

Here's Bob in his disco wah pedal days.

[Aiq]

Good place to pull this out again, Tonight Show brass joins in @4:20

Johnny Neel at piano, likely the best keys man in the Allman Brothers including Leavell.

[Mick-7]

Here's Bob in his disco wah pedal days.

Yeah, a wah-wah pedal was considered a mandatory accessory back in the 70's if you played in a big band, the arrangers were all writing "comp with wah-wah" on the guitar part, I didn't have a wah-wah pedal so did something else.

[Woody Sound]