rgs2001uk just got me into this band:-

The original ....

Jimmy Dewar at his best, carrying this passenger.

Anyway enough boring hippy music, dont know what to categorise this as, apart from amazing.

A bit of country, nice vistas.

The Clash - Police On My Back

Dancing to this with beautiful teenage girlfriends, such fun when we were 16.

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The first Thai tape I bought in 1994, 16 sweet songs sung by Yew Pempeyom. Lovely singer, but not the friendliest. None of the songs are her originals, all famous ones before she recorded this.

BN, Gibsons or Strats?

I am a Gibson man, played through a stack of Marshalls,

Wow what a tone, sorry about poor sound quality.

Why for the sake of everything that is sacred did Clapped Out ditch his Gibson?

http://youtu.be/tO2aLtDNe20

You don't get better than this.

BN, Gibsons or Strats?

I am a Gibson man, played through a stack of Marshalls,

Wow what a tone, sorry about poor sound quality.

Why for the sake of everything that is sacred did Clapped Out ditch his Gibson?

I live the thick sound of a Les Paul but then again look what Rory and Hendrix did with Strats.

Here's Slowhand talking about why he switched, though some say post Cream and Blind Faith he was trying to get away from the guitar god image and fitting in with a band as a rhythm guitarist- Delaney and Bonnie, the Strat was better.

or many years, fans wondered what prompted Eric Clapton's transition from Gibson Guitars to Fender Guitars. Many still maintain Clapton had his best tone / sound when playing a Gibson Les Paul through a Marshall Stack.

In The Yardbirds, Clapton sometimes played his Cherry Red Gibson ES-335 (although it was frequently on loan to bandmate Chris Dreja) and a Fender Telecaster. From mid-1965 he became exclusively a player of Gibson guitars, when he purchased a 1960 Cherry Sunburst Les Paul. He played Les Pauls almost exclusively until 1967, when he acquired a Gibson SG (The Fool Guitar). A year later, he began playing a Gibson Firebird and started using his Cherry Red ES-335 once again. Late in 1969, the transition to Fender Stratocasters began and it was complete by 1970.

In his introduction to the BOOK The Stratocaster Chronicles, Clapton himself explained it:

I never did meet Leo Fender, but I wish I had. If I could go back and somehow talk to him about the Stratocaster, I'd say, "You've created something that can't be bettered, really. How did you do that?" I know there were prototypes with the Telecaster and the Esquire, and some early experimental stages, but nevertheless, the fact that he got to this conclusion so quickly is remarkable, isn't it? Leo Fender was so far in advance of anybody else, developing the Strat to the point where it just can't be bettered, even now. My hat's off to him.

One reason why I hadn't played Strats earlier was that the necks always looked so narrow I thought, I won't be able to bend any strings, noROOM, but in fact I was wrong. And any Strat that I'd seen up until that time had a rosewood fingerboard, and I had an aversion to rosewood fingerboards — don't ask me why — even though some of my earlier guitars had them. I'd always preferred ebony. I liked that silky finish. Of course, when I got my hands on a maple-neck Strat with the white fingerboard, I was surprised at how easy it was to play.

I had a lot of influences when I took up the Strat. First there was Buddy Holly, and Buddy Guy. Hank Marvin was the first well known person over here in England who was using one, but that wasn't really my kind of music. Steve Winwood had so much credibility, and when he started playing one, I thought, oh, if he can do it, I can do it.

Picking up a Stratocaster makes me play a bit differently. I find that over the last few years I play more with my fingers because of the way my hand sits on the guitar. I don't feel the need to use a pick quite so much as I would with any other guitar, where the bridge sits higher off the body. With the Strat the bridge is almost flush with the guitar, so my hand rests on the body, part of my heel rests on the bridge, and then my fingers rest on the scratchplate. It's really easy to play either way, but I've found more and more that I'm using just my fingers.

It's got those famous lead tones, but it's so versatile you can use it in any kind of rhythmic sense as well — great big power chords, or that really light kind of Tamla/ Motown chord sound with very little volume. Unlike most other electric guitars, it sounds almost better when the guitar's volume knob is on 2 or 3, really under-amplified and quiet.

Eric continued,

I keep coming back to the Stratocaster because it's so practical. It doesn't move very much, it's stable, it stays in tune, and has a great sound. It's fairly invincible, quite difficult to damage. I really like the old coil pickups, especially that middle and bridge combination. I used that for the solo in "Bell Bottom Blues," which would be a classic example of that sound. But I've got those new Noiseless pickups now, and active circuitry, and I get so many different sounds coming out of the Stratocaster that it's hard to compare it to any other guitar. My other guitars, I only visit them from time to time. I very rarely use anything else but the Strat.

My feelings about a perfect design is that it has to be functional, and with the Strat, its functionality really steers it. That's what makes the design so beautiful. It's superbly thought out. At first I thought it was odd to have only one volume control, but that's only because I was used to a different set-up. All the things I love about it aesthetically are there for a real purpose, like the contoured back. If those things were based just on the way they looked, that would be fine, but everything on that guitar is there for a reason. Like the pegboard, with all the tuning pegs on the top. That's such a logical thing to do when you think about how accessible it is.

I come back to the fact that I don't think there's anything on that guitar that doesn't come from pure logic. I would challenge anybody to come up with a better design for a guitar. The Stratocaster is as good as it gets, isn't it?

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^^^^^,

just about sums up what I have already heard, Reg got lazy as a guitarist.

Claptons finest hour, never again did he reach these heights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjz1gAeF1do

Not been enough Traffic posted on here, is this boring hippy music, is it heck, its brilliant stuff.

Tell JG and his bunch of hippy west coast boys, check this out, sublimanal.

Heck, what tf, dont bother pissing about, one of the best albums ever released.

The sound quality of the studio version is far better but alas I can't find it on youtube

Simple Apples - Missin You

https://soundcloud.com/silver-apples/02-missinyou-2014

A boring hippie west coast band (almost, Cardiff doesn't quite make it)

Micky and Deke on form....

More boring hippie music

Extremely dull hippie music that requires some attention...

The Nightingales - Don't Blink

Some tremendously boring West Coast hippy music here.John Cipollina dominates the entire 25 minutes with a performance that takes the music on a roller coaster ride. Listener discretion is advised, patience is a virtue

http://youtu.be/xgKIifVi8eg

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Neil on fire

THE HITCHERS - STRACHAN

biG JOE TURNER FLIP FLOP AND FLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWoNMhAB9gc

BN at post # 3738.

Giving your age away with that one, a bit before my time.

Werent Budgie also from the land of the trog, great album covers, great song titles, just a pity the music sucked, always the bridesmaid, never quite made it to headliner status, always the support act.

However I digress, werent this lot also from Wales, too late to ride the wave first time around, and too early for the NWOBHM that followed.

No fan of The Beatles, but I can listen to this.

After the first album they changes style and still didnt quite make it,

BN at # 3739.

Far fom it, some of the most influential music ever played, its influence can still be heard today.

Early, Tangs, Neu, Kraftwerk, Ashra Temple, Cosmic Jokers, heck even the Japanese got in on the act, with The Far East Family Band.

Even Hawkwind ripped Neu off, listen to this,

Now listen to this, the original by Neu.

Carrying on with the krautrock theme, this is a short version of their opus, that can be jammed out to at least 30 minutes.

Wow, these guys dig it.