Carlos & Buddy

Carlos Santana joins Buddy Guy onstage at the Montreaux Jazz Festival.

More blues in 6/4 at MeFi.

You know those guitars that are, like, double guitars? (AKA the ICFBTHDG's 138th200th episode spectacular)

Zack Kim plays the Simpsons theme.

Two guitars not enough for you? Okay, then, double it with the Aranjuez Guitar Quartet:


Also, in lieu of intelligent commentary on last night's Rush gig, I direct you to the estimable Sir Mark de Zaugg, with only the additional comment that the sound managed to suck in an entirely different way where Melvin and I were seated. Yay for the acoustical properties of western novelty-shaped hockey arenas! The show itself, though? Frickin' sweet, man. I wish they'd have gone as deep into the '70s stuff as they did on the Vapour Trails tour, but the swing era tribute Neil ended his drum solo with and the South Park and Bob & Doug Mackenzie cameos went a long way towards making up for it.

The Wizard of Waukesha

An hour-and-a-bit long documentary on one of the true giants of the twentieth century, jazz guitar virtuoso and inventor Les Paul.

No such thing as too much reverb

Grab yer board, hop in yer woodie, and hit the beach, because the fine folks at Surf Guitar 101 have released an mp3 compilation of the fine, fine noises made by a passel o' vintage Fenders and Mosrites with the reverb and presence knobs set to "kill" and the whammy bars set to "twangulate." I'm pretty impressed with Chris Fesker's "Deadwood Beach", dp's trippy "The Red Sea" and the Close Outs' "Hella" with its "Wipe Out"-style drum roll insanity. Get it on archive.org.

Simply amazing

Quebec acoustic guitarist Erik Mongrain combines tapping and slap harmonics to unique, hypnotic effect. The last acoustic player to blow me away like this was probably Kaki King, and I think I'm feeling Mongrain's compositional sense a little more. Might be the next Leo Kottke.

[via WFMU's Beware of the Blog]

UPDATE! There's a good MeFi thread on Erik Mongrain right now, with some links to other fantastic guitarists as well.

Tommy Emmanuel's "Day Tripper/Lady Madonna" lesson


Mark Wilson's "New Horizons"

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It's rainin' down in Texas

Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Texas Flood" (live at Montreaux Jazz Festival, 1982)


[via MeFi]

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Strum it like a polaroid picture

Matt Weddle of Obadiah Parker finds the bittersweet acoustic centre of the Tootsie Roll that is OutKast's "Hey Ya":


Ladies, I didn't blog this thing for nothin'. I wanna see y'all on your baddest behaviour. Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbour.

[via mefi]

Also, for those of you whose minimum daily requirement of F-bombs has not been filled, Nina Gordon (formerly of Veruca Salt) Lilithises NWA's "Straight Outta Compton":


And now, Interweb, I command you to cover Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" in the talkin' blues style a la "Bob Dylan's Dream".

Satan's Fingers, The Killers or the Hospital Bombers

Continuing the impromptu metal theme today, here's my current musical obsession, The Mountain Goats, rocking out with (most of) "The Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton". Throw the horns, people, throw the horns. It's like we're celebrating National Day of Slayer early.

From the crystal ice cathedrals of a mystic land called Sweden

Yngwie F***ing Malmsteen unleashes the f***ing fury
on "I'll See The Light Tonight".



(Note: I mock, but it would take seven or eight of me in perfect synchronization to play that fast. Presumably it's because I don't have a guy in a furry viking helmet waving a sword in front of a radar screen to inspire me. Somebody wanna get on that?)

Putting the "uge" in Nuge

No, I don't know what I meant by that either. Still, behold the glory that is "Journey To The Centre Of Your Mind" by The Amboy Dukes...



..then wonder what made Ted Nugent the man he is today. Apparently, this is what happens when you say no to drugs.

1UP PRESS START

The Mario and Zelda Big Band and friends in concert, covering Nintendo videogame themes. Keep watching; after the first few songs this manages to transcend the novelty value and actually become mesmerising.