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#2452855 - 11/29/12 08:01 AM RIP Mickey "Guitar" Baker
Fred_C Gold Member Registered: 06/12/10 Posts: 590 Loc: PA	Mickey Baker, author of the famous book on Jazz Guitar has passed away at the age of 87. Baker was best known for the 1956 hit "Love Is Strange," which he recorded with Sylvia Vanderpool in 1956. "Another guitar picker gone home." _________________________ If you play cool, you are cool.
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#2452860 - 11/29/12 08:11 AM Re: RIP Mickey "Guitar" Baker [Re: Fred_C]
desertbluesman MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 05/22/07 Posts: 2500 Loc: Near Phoenix Az	Mickey and Silvia, Love is strange, I remember the tune clearly, I was a young teenager back then. RIP Mick you done good. At 87 he had a real good run. I live in a retirement community, and not many men make it that far......... _________________________ dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music
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#2452872 - 11/29/12 08:57 AM Re: RIP Mickey "Guitar" Baker [Re: desertbluesman]
whitefang MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 05/13/02 Posts: 5298 Loc: Lincoln Park, MI, UNITED STATE...	So...HE was the "Mickey" in Mickey and Sylvia. Good job, my man. Have a good rest. Whitefang _________________________ I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left!
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#2452902 - 11/29/12 11:00 AM Re: RIP Mickey "Guitar" Baker [Re: whitefang]
Eric Iverson MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 08/03/05 Posts: 4794 Loc: Jackson Heights, NY	Farewell, Mickey. I studied out of his jazz guitar book as a kid, and learned lots of basic jazz chording from it that I still use. And I remember "Love Is Strange". I'm about to see if there is anything on You Tube by him where he stretches out on guitar more. Larry Coryell stated in an interview that he learned a lot from that book, too.
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#2452910 - 11/29/12 11:25 AM Re: RIP Mickey "Guitar" Baker [Re: Eric Iverson]
Caevan O'Shite 20k Club Registered: 04/05/02 Posts: 21612 Loc: The Great Spirit's Handprint o...	Another milestone... _________________________ Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _
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#2452949 - 11/29/12 02:12 PM Re: RIP Mickey "Guitar" Baker [Re: Caevan O'Shite]
Larryz MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 4391 Loc: Hwy 49, California	RIP Mick...
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#2452952 - 11/29/12 02:18 PM Re: RIP Mickey "Guitar" Baker [Re: Larryz]
Bill@Welcome Home Studios MP Hall of Fame Member Registered: 08/23/03 Posts: 9613	Yeah a lot of us learned from that book. _________________________ "I believe that entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot." Steve Martin Show business: we're all here because we're not all there.
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