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How come Sugarfoot from the Ohio Players isn't respected as a guitar hero Sugarfoot Bonner, lead guitar player and singer of the funk unit Ohio Players is one of the best guitar players in popular music. He is the master of distorded rock solo's,chicken skratch funk licks even Wes Montgomery like jazz guitar. How come nobody mentions Sugarfoot when they talk about best guitar players?
rock guitar solo by Sugar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qXDpdWydaE [Edited 7/26/10 18:00pm]
jazzy solo : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLMKj9E58k4&feature=related
funk rock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODKbcPFBC2Y
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I think a lot of guitarists that play music that doesn't fit into the "American standard of Rock n Roll music" are disregarded. See: Prince. "For those who know the number and don't call...Fuck all y'all" | |
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I think it's him doing the intro on this track from a former fellow-Ohio Player
And this infectious slowjam produced by the great late Roger Troutman :
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Because when the Ohio Players were cutting their teeth (back in the 70's) the "guitar hero" mags pretty much wrote them off as "another R&B/disco" band (much like Slave and the Isleys). They couldn't find anything worthy to write about Sugarfoot, Ernie or Drac.
Sugarfoot really didn't start getting noticed (by the young college crowd) until The Chili's and Soundgarden started to cover their songs. Then they started getting props. Just like the Chili's did with P-Funk.
But any guitar players that grew up hearing the Players as kids already knew what Sugarfoot was capable of. Just like they knew with Ernie, Drac, Prince, Curtis and the P-Funk guitar army.
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He's an excellent guitarist. I have OP Honey and Angel on repeat in my truck. Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint | |
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I know what you, Sugarfoot is a dangerous man on vocals and guitar. Someone needs to do an autobiography on this man. We gonna come on with the come on, gonna get down with the get down! | |
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Much love to the Ohio Players. Sugar is THE MAN! I even hear Sugar/OP during the adlibed part near the end of Future Soul Song. ThankUPrince! | |
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Sugarfoot wasn't flashy and he didn't play those "amazing soaring solos" | |
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. . . with two to three chords or the music notes in pentatonic scale. I'm serious. 
oh yes he did TD3 and he did a lot of flashy amazing soaring solos | |
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Maybe I didn't make myself clear . . .
Sugarfoot wasn't fake flashy.... you know the ones who hands zip up and down the fret-board know damn well they are only playing three chords C, D, E or "power chords" two chords and the scale. | |
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I always wanted Sugar to to do an all out blues album 'cause he has the soul for it | |
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The genre he was in musically.
Which is the same reason The P Funk Guys and Ernie Isley never got their due in so-called mainstream media. "The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
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Also, don't forget Johnny Guitar Watson. PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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