Eric Clapton

To these ears, as a pure blues player, Stevie Ray Vaughan (RIP) lapped Clapton. Jimmie Vaughan ain't no slouch either. And I could listen to Eric Johnson's "Cliffs of Dover" a dozen times a day.

Another phenomenal talent whose music can get way out there: Vernon Reid.

 

who is derek trucks? did you man BUTCH trucks? or is this yet another name i'm misrembering? OOPA~ my bad,,, just googled derek to learn he's butch's NEPHEW and indeed a fine guiitarist...

oh, and at the risk of ticking off 'jam band' haters, after duane allman was jilled dickey betts more than held his own stepping into the 'lead' lead guitarist role for the ABB. i make no apologies for adding dicky to our discussion...

 

Derek is Butch's nephew.

Was basically a prodigy. Has played with the Allman Brothers, Clapton and hi own band.

Saw Derek and Warren Hayes both open for the Allman Bros. with their own bands, while both were also in the Allman Bros.

He's married to and tours with Susan Tedeschi. There stuff is great.

At the 2007 Crossroads Festival, I believe he got his own set, and also played with Tedeschi and Clapton.

The guy is unbelievable. Pull him up on YouTube.

 

thanks, yf. i googled and learned this myself... show how outta touch i've grown as i crawl on towards my senior years... i'm waaaay out of the loop. my bong days are outta range of any rearview mirror.

 

Warren Hayes plays with The Dead/Further.

Jamming and long-form improvisation is not necessarily an indication that a group can't play. Following in the jazz tradition, it often means the players are really good.

 

That's a tough call.
I'm sure smelly is ahead by a long margin, but stoner and facial hair are probably in a dead heat. I started smoking pot very young, before I ever smoked a cigarette or drank a beer, both of which I started very young.

 

I just can't stand The Grateful Dead; therefore, as the quintessential jam band, I hate that term.

It's an odd mix at GM shows. Lots of older fans who were into the Allmans and gravitated toward Warren and his band, lots of older fans who found Warren through their love of blues music and generally bad-ass guitar playing and lots of college kids who can't dance, although they try to really hard. And those kids, for whatever reason, are more of the frat boy ilk than the stoner ilk. They're still on acid, but they don't have the general hippy vibe.

 

As a teen in the second half of the 1980s, drugs were the great unifier.
That's why the portrayals of the John Hughes films always seemed so weird to me. Pretty kids, hippies, punks, nerds, jocks - we all liked to get high, so we all got along in high school and college.

 

That's the problem with today's youth - not enough social drug use.

 

Different styles can make it hard to compare.
Metal fans love guys who can shred. Much of their opinion is based on the speed of the player.

I'm not a metal fan. I can respect the talents of a lot of metal players, but it's not my taste. Further, there's more to technique than speed.

 

I thought that was part of the plot in The Breakfast Club

 

It was. Hughes' movies always had a lot of high school cliquishness in them.
'The Breakfast Club' showed the unifying power of pot.


Everybody likes to get high.