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G3: Red House

A little extra in the guitar series. It doesn't quite fit there, since the idea was to feature one guitarist in every post, although in a few cases (Duane Allman being the most obvious) it's hard to isolate one player from a group. And these three will all get their own posts at some point in the year. So I'll just drop it in here, as a follow-up to the Hendrix "Red House" post.

G3 is not a group, but a series of concert tours starringJoe Satriani and a varying cast of two other guitar wizards. I think this is from the first one, which includes Eric Johnson and Steve Vai. Anyone who pays much attention to the world of electric guitar music will recognize the names. Suffice to say that they're some of the most dazzling virtuosos in the field. It's interesting here that they turn the dazzle down some and play good solid blues, technically impressive but not ostentatiously so.

 

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Yngwie or go home.

I don't think it will be his turn till August or so.

I gotta say, even though I have a degree in guitar, a G3 concert puts me to sleep. These guys can play but can't write songs. They work better as hired guns playing for someone else's band.

Yngwie fan complaining about guitarists who aren't good songwriters?!? Though I agree they might be better employed in a band, if it had a good writer or writers and gave them plenty of room to play. I can't see any of them doing "Color My World."

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