At a festival, a guy who had learnt the arpeggiated chordal accompaniment asked me to solo on accoustic over his playing. I was basically a beginner. It was a ludicrous impossibility to remotely approach the beauty of Hazel's solo never mind on accoustic guitar. Soaring, transportative genius.
Amazing that radio station would play that, but that story is exactly why having radio was so important. I used to throw that on the jukebox regularly at this very large college bar I used to spend too much time i during the early 90sāa total palate cleanser no one ever knew what to do with...Hazel should be remembered as easily as Hendrix, way more than a hack like Clapton, or any other guitarist that gets the treatment that 'guitar gods' do. A song like 'Lampoc Boogie' is Exhibit A for how me on how that dude just flowed from his fingers.
I've always loved this song and Hazel's astonishing achievement in it. I have nothing to add to the encomia already bestowed on him for this work. It's just gorgeous and heartbreaking, period. I wish he had lived, he had so much more to contribute. Can a guitar solo make me cry? It can and it has...
When on tour, Prince often followed up a mammoth 3-hour show with a late-night aftershow at a small local venue, with little promotion or advance notice. While touring behind Sign o'the Times in The Netherlands in 1988, Prince and his band performed a killer aftershow deep into the night, including a cover of the Temptations classic "Just My Imagination." This soundboard recording has come to be regarded by many Prince fans as his greatest guitar performance ever, and his finest bootleg recording. The song, one of Whitfield-Strong's most beautiful compositions, is a deeply poignant expression of romantic longing and regret, and the pain of self-delusion. Prince's guitar deepens and amplifies these emotions, taking the listener on an emotional journey from wistfulness to the anguish of thwarted passion and missed opportunity, finally breaking through to something like transcendence, as if to say that no profound love is ever to be regretted. It truly is breathtaking how much can be expressed without words.
At a festival, a guy who had learnt the arpeggiated chordal accompaniment asked me to solo on accoustic over his playing. I was basically a beginner. It was a ludicrous impossibility to remotely approach the beauty of Hazel's solo never mind on accoustic guitar. Soaring, transportative genius.
Amazing that radio station would play that, but that story is exactly why having radio was so important. I used to throw that on the jukebox regularly at this very large college bar I used to spend too much time i during the early 90sāa total palate cleanser no one ever knew what to do with...Hazel should be remembered as easily as Hendrix, way more than a hack like Clapton, or any other guitarist that gets the treatment that 'guitar gods' do. A song like 'Lampoc Boogie' is Exhibit A for how me on how that dude just flowed from his fingers.
I've always loved this song and Hazel's astonishing achievement in it. I have nothing to add to the encomia already bestowed on him for this work. It's just gorgeous and heartbreaking, period. I wish he had lived, he had so much more to contribute. Can a guitar solo make me cry? It can and it has...
When on tour, Prince often followed up a mammoth 3-hour show with a late-night aftershow at a small local venue, with little promotion or advance notice. While touring behind Sign o'the Times in The Netherlands in 1988, Prince and his band performed a killer aftershow deep into the night, including a cover of the Temptations classic "Just My Imagination." This soundboard recording has come to be regarded by many Prince fans as his greatest guitar performance ever, and his finest bootleg recording. The song, one of Whitfield-Strong's most beautiful compositions, is a deeply poignant expression of romantic longing and regret, and the pain of self-delusion. Prince's guitar deepens and amplifies these emotions, taking the listener on an emotional journey from wistfulness to the anguish of thwarted passion and missed opportunity, finally breaking through to something like transcendence, as if to say that no profound love is ever to be regretted. It truly is breathtaking how much can be expressed without words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPCbe_rFwc8