Quoted from Biscuit_Power

I get by, as long as I don't try to do solos.  

We're like opposites. I'm great at solos but bad at rythym.

I like her technique!! hehehe

thats ruyter....pronounced rider...she rocks...here is the link....http://www.nashvillepussy.com/index2.html

Ian Buchanan



"Ian was a student of the Rev's (Rev. Gary Davis). We lived in this house together, and it occurred to me much later that my playing was probably so obnoxious that, out of pure self-defense, he just took me under his wing. And I pretty much quit going to classes the next quarter and played eight hours a day."

"The first song he taught me was 'West Coast Blues,' which is the first song I use in my (instructional) video. My secret of teaching beginners is pretty much the way he taught me."

Jorma Kaukonen


Ian was my teacher too.

Adam Jones

Great posts from underwear guitar playing chicks to Blind Gary Davis.   Love to hear more about Ian Buchanan--I've got a buncha BGD music and always liked "Twelve Gates to the City."  Not to mention Jorma.  "Embryonic Journey" is one of the all-time greats for me.  

I've bought a couple Rory Gallegher albums at the junk store--Irish Tour '74 and an album from 79.  Like em both alot, though they're a little too hard for me to make it all the way through.  I like his Celtic roots blues--reminds me of Richard Thompson and Jimmie Page.  With a little AC/DC thrown in.  Any Rory fans?

Quoted from adamzero

Great posts from underwear guitar playing chicks to Blind Gary Davis.   Love to hear more about Ian Buchanan--I've got a buncha BGD music and always liked "Twelve Gates to the City."  Not to mention Jorma.  "Embryonic Journey" is one of the all-time greats for me.  

I took blues guitar lessons from Ian Buchanan from 1972-1975.  He was a student of Blind Gary Davis in the mid-to-late 1950s.  He recorded "Winding Boy Blues" for the 1962 compendium blues album "The Blues Project" and had a band called the Pigmeat Blues Band in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  Ian and Jorma Kaukonen were roomates at Antioch College in the late 50s and Ian taught him the Delta Blues style which Kaukonen made famous with Hot Tuna.

I learned many of those standards from Ian.  Ian was taking jazz guitar lessons at the time.  Ian also played classical music on guitar.  He would always open his sets with various Bach inventions.

He had quite a collection of blues records and albums, much on hundreds of reels of tape.  I would warm up with some Beatles pieces before my lessons.  Although not a Beatles fan and having no Beatles albums, Ian would show me the proper chords and arpeggios.  This always amazed me because it was chord-for-chord and note-for-note what the Beatles played.  I was lucky to have him for my teacher.

Very cool.  

I found this link which you probably already know of: http://www.guitarseminars.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/006301.html
and
http://www.wirz.de/music/buchafrm.htm

Excellent reading.

Quoted from adamzero

Very cool.  

I found this link which you probably already know of: http://www.guitarseminars.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/006301.html
and
http://www.wirz.de/music/buchafrm.htm

Excellent reading.

Yes, adamzero, I'm familiar with those sites.  Mine is the last post in the first thread you indicated.  I gave a more abbreviated account in this forum.  The second site you mentioned is Stefan Wirz' beautiful tribute page to Ian.

Ian Buchanan was a unique individual.  Very talanted, sensitive and dedicated to his music and also very intense.  As I said here and on the other site, I consider myself fortunate to have had the opportunity to study under him. When I go through my blues guitar repertoire, I usually get comments like "Hot Tuna, man!" I just answer: "No, Ian Buchanan."

I'm glad you enjoyed the reminiscings posted on the International Guitar Seminars site.

Regards,
Barry

I listened to the full concert of Allmans at the Fillmore recently.  Of course Duane is amazing, but Dickie Betts gives him a damn good run for his money (pretty close to Clapton though their styles are different).  

And to think of how many great songs he wrote: Elizabeth Reed, Blue Sky, Jessica, and Rambling Man (Dylan once told Dickie that he should have written that song--pretty high praise!).

I listened to the full concert of Allmans at the Fillmore recently.  Of course Duane is amazing, but Dickie Betts gives him a damn good run for his money (pretty close to Clapton did on Derek and the Dominoes though their styles are different).  

And to think of how many great songs he wrote: Elizabeth Reed, Blue Sky, Jessica, and Rambling Man (Dylan once told Dickie that he should have written that song--pretty high praise!).

I think one of the most uncelebrated rock guitarist of all time would have to be Angus Young from AC/DC.  When critics & some fans think of Angus, they think of his trademark school boy outfit & playing his blistering riffs, moving around onstage.  He puts a lot into his guitar playing on every album & on every tour, even though he's not technically great like Clapton, Page & Van Halen.