Larryz Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Glen and Roy were two of the greats...I really dig Roy's music as do many of the people in this vid: [video:youtube] One of my favorite Orbison songs... Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmac Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I was thinking the same thing fang. I would of guessed Orbison was older. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share Posted April 24, 2018 I'd guess that would be because public awareness of Roy came years before anyone heard of Glen as a musician or singer or what... Like, Roy's earliest singles went out about '56 or so, and Glen didn't get one of his own out there until '61 or '62. And then Roy's efforts were heard on multiple formats while at first much of Glen's stuff was heard only on country stations. And he spent much of his time earlier as a member of some singing group or as a top session man. It wouldn't surprise me if Glen could be heard on some old Orbison recording doing some of the "overdub" work. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 And today is the 101st anniversary of ELLA FITZGERALD's birth, and The 95th anniversary of ALBERT KING's. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted April 26, 2018 Author Share Posted April 26, 2018 JOHNNY SHINES, a blues picker never mentioned by ANY of the "experts" here, would be 103 if still alive. [video:youtube] Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted May 8, 2018 Author Share Posted May 8, 2018 Today marks the 107th anniversary of ROBERT JOHNSON's birth. and RICKY NELSON would have been 78 today. imagine..... Those two sharing a birthday! Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 Ricky's lead player James Burton, is still around. He's one of my all-time favorite guitar players. A session man much like Glen Campbell that played for many of the greats... Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted June 7, 2018 Author Share Posted June 7, 2018 Today SHOULD have been TAL FARLOW's 97th birthday. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted June 9, 2018 Author Share Posted June 9, 2018 And I GOTTA mention LES PAUL's 103rd anniversary of his birth today! Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 A real guitar legend...RIP Les. [video:youtube] [video:youtube] Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted June 13, 2018 Author Share Posted June 13, 2018 Well, these two weren't musicians, but truly music lovers... And it makes my conscience feel better to... Wish "Happy birthday" to my Mother and her Mother( Grandma) who both were born on this date. Mom in 1926; (d: 1999) and Grandma in 1907.(d: 1993) Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted June 21, 2018 Author Share Posted June 21, 2018 Well, because of what was going on yesterday, I couldn't fittingly mention CHET ATKINS' 94th birthday yesterday. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmac Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 One of my guitar hero's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 Chet Atkins one of my all-time favorite guitar players. He's right up there with the best... Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted June 22, 2018 Author Share Posted June 22, 2018 Aw, HELL.... I can recall back in the "day" that even among guys who never heard any of his music or even PLAYED guitar a little that Chet was LEGENDARY! Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmac Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 I have a CD and I think I used to have the record of Chet and Jerry Reed together. Awsome talent both of them. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted June 23, 2018 Author Share Posted June 23, 2018 Today though, and although NOT a "giant" among guitar players or the guitar world---- It's the 78th anniversary of the birth of STUART SUTCLIFFE, often noted as THE BEATLES' original bass player, and mostly just a good friend of John Lennon. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted June 28, 2018 Author Share Posted June 28, 2018 Bluesman DAVID "Honeyboy" EDWARDS would have been 103 today. Actually, he did come close to the hundred mark! left us at age 96 in 2011. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 While lookin' up info on others, found today (7/6/18) would have been the 93rd birthday for BILL HALEY; Who I didn't know WAS older( by just a year) than Chuck Berry, but was born up here in HIGHLAND PARK, MI.! I for some reason long thought he came from somewhere down south. Highland Park is an adjacent Detroit suburb and for some reason it seemed Detroit "oldies" and "classic rock" DJs never bothered making mention of the Michigan origins of "the father of rock". Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picker Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Chet Atkins one of my all-time favorite guitar players. He's right up there with the best... I never thought much of Chet's playing until I heard the Chester & Lester albums. WHEW! What a picker! Quote Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Quote Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 Tenor guitarist LlOYD "TINY" GRIMES would be 102 today if still with us. He played with Art Tatum for a time. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 Because he was such a HUGE influence on Chuck Berry, I'll mention that today is the 110th anniversary of LOUIS JORDAN's birth. And the 94th of Chuck's piano compadre JOHNNIE JOHNSON. However, I won't be celebrating with Beans 'n' Cornbread. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted July 14, 2018 Author Share Posted July 14, 2018 And today marks the 106th birthday of singer/songwriter/activist WOODY GUTHRIE. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 Today marks the 97th anniversary of guitarist GEORGE BARNES, who at 17 became the "staff guitarist" for DECCA records, which meant he did a lot of session work with a lot of different artists. It's also claimed he was the first to commercially record a song with an electric guitar ("Sweetheart Land"--Big Bill Broonzy, '38) which of course, is disputed, but nontheless, Barnes remained playing in his typical "happy" style until his death in '77. And too, probably yet ANOTHER "father" of rock'n'roll. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted July 18, 2018 Author Share Posted July 18, 2018 And sadly too, I'll mention that today would have been the 77th birthday of LONNIE MACK. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted July 28, 2018 Author Share Posted July 28, 2018 Somehow fitting, with today being the birthday of guitar great STEVE MORSE, it too, marks what would have been the 75th birthday of "blues guitarist extraordinaire" MIKE BLOOMFIELD. That I too, share the same birthdate somehow makes me feel both humbled and proud. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted July 29, 2018 Author Share Posted July 29, 2018 And often cited as the earliest( and sometimes first) proponent of the electric guitar, today is the 102nd anniversary of CHARLIE CHRISTIAN's birth. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted August 1, 2018 Author Share Posted August 1, 2018 And I think it worth mentioning that today would have been JERRY GARCIA's 76th birthday. Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 How about today being what would have been LEO FENDER's 109th birthday? Whitefang Quote I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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