jw1914 said:

Victor, Spacey T and myself used to play the "L.A. circuit" years ago.
(Bus Boys, Sound Barrier and Marcus Malone respectively)
The Marcus Malone group I was a part of at one time included Neftali "Fencewalk" Santiago on drums.

Jeff Lee Johnson is on the George Duke "Face The Music" CD.
The pieces i've heard are pretty fierce.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Thumparello said:

Listen 2 this motherf@4ker! Go head on Player! I didn't mention him because I didn't think anyone was hip 2 him. He did some shit with Bootsy and Bill Laswell. I know u all r hip 2 a brotha named Dee Dee. He's the cat that played with Da'Krash. He also did some shows playing in Bootsy's band. I did some shit with him with his band at the time called Dirty Diapers. We both play flying V's, but what was cool is that he plays left handed and I play right, so that shit looked cool onstage. He got in2 production and got tired of gigging, so that took care of that. Nice cat though and good player. More Mike Hampton than anything.

blackguitaristz said:

Hey The Audience? Did u ever see this? And what was the name of your band that u refered 2?

blackguitaristz said:

What I mean is this video tape. Were u in the Black Rock Coalition out here in L.A. or was this before?

blackguitaristz said:

Never saw the video. Sounds hip.
I believe the BRC was kicking off just as our group (Marcus Malone) was breaking up.
Spacey T used to be with an R&B cover group (Kahlua I believe) that used to watch us rehearse at Falcon Studios on Santa Monica Blvd. That group (Kahlua) eventually became Sound Barrier.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

sinisterpentatonic said:

We are indeed kindred spirits.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Hey, theAudience! and Blackguitaristz!

Y'all got any new mp3s or sound files at the moment?
This discussion makes me wanta hear some axe!
[This message was edited Thu Jun 24 13:41:10 2004 by paligap]

theAudience said:

Damn, and I used 2 have a Sound Barrier album. I remember seeing them at The Whisky A Go Go when I was in high school. The cats were bad. I remember seeing all these white heavy metal dudes in the audience looked scared to death. They were holding their girlfriends tight to them too.

jw1914 said:

Man,Jef Lee is amazing! that cat puts out a CD ,what every 6 months?

I mean,these are just the ones I know about:

1. Blue

2. Communion

3. The Singularity

4. Laughing Boy

5. things are things

6. St. Somebody

7.Hype Factory

8.Hellion
(Jef Lee Johnson & the Wordy Mimes )

Not to mention the stuff he's done with Sonny T, and Michael Bland....

blackguitaristz said:

Hmmm. Sounds like Jimi's club gig in England when Eric, Pete, Jeff, Keith were in attendance.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm[/quote]

theAudience said:

Yep, it sure does doesn't it. Shit hasn't changed. I've seen those same faces staring up at me too. I know the look all too well. Black faces too. They look like "Oh shit, here we go again. What r we going 2 do with this little motherf#@ker! First Hendrix, then Prince, now this shit! Urrghhhh!" I know it!

paligap said:

I know huh? I was thinking the same thing. I don't have my shit on mp3. Afraid of theft. Even though it copyrighted.

blackguitaristz said:

I'm doing some new shit right now. I could hook u up.

Nobody digs Drac from Slave? I know he only did that one solo on "Slide" and "Son Of Slide", but what a solo! I think that solo influenced the solo from "Get It Up".

blackguitaristz said:

I always loved Mark "Drac" Hicks's solos...actually, my favorite of his is at the end of Just Freak (from the Slave album"The Concept")....that shit is Dangerous!

....But the thing that really tripped me out was that I always thought that was His solo on Stone Jam, when it turned out to be keyboardist Ray Turner (leanin' on that Pitch Wheel!) THAT tripped me out!!
[This message was edited Thu Jun 24 15:10:41 2004 by paligap]

paligap said:

Probably after the gig in Africa during August.
Going to the source of the rhythm.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Oh boy! This thread makes me wanna hear some Isley Bros. and Slave right about now.

UptownDeb said:

Where have YOU been hiding?

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

Hey, homey! I'm here, there, everywhere! (Okay, I'd need a couple of clones to be all o'that!)

(Old schooler that I am, I like paliqap's avatar!)

paligap said:

Sorry player. I 4got about that one. Yeah. I like his 'Slide" solo though.

UptownDeb said:

I think Deb is ghosting me though. R U Deb?

Are You Experienced? Well, I am.

Jimi Hendrix

blackguitaristz said:

I really like the solo from "Slide", the edited down version that was on the 45. Years later when I got the Best of Slave cd & heard the full length solo I was a bit underwelmed. One of my pet peeves is when any guitarist just stops playing melodically & starts cramming notes. it might sound & look cool live, but when it's a recording, it's the equivilant of running off at the
mouth. Also the liner notes from the "best of" cd mention that the solo was processed through an eventide harmonizer, which was new at the time.

Maybe it's just me, but the synth solo from the tune "Stone jam" sounds alot like the type of guitar solo a early 80's Alan Holdsworth might have played.


How about Jon Butcher, he's another great guitarist who very rarely gets mentioned.
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I must have left my head in the ocean for not mentioning Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner.

besides Hendrix, Eddie Hazel is one of my favorites of all time, you ever hear a guitar player that touches a nerve, you get a chill when you hear it, you feel connected to them in some sort of way? That's Eddie for me.....

blackguitaristz said:

I know... I feel silly,too....

paligap said:

I agree. Ernie is tops on my list!
[This message was edited Tue Jul 6 19:29:59 2004 by RipHer2Shreds]

RipHer2Shreds said:

Yeah, around the time "Summer Breeze" was out, a lot of people really thought that it was Jimi playing. Ernie's coldblooded. He's definately one of my faves.

blackguitaristz said:

Indeed. And that Summer Breeze solo was his best solo guitar work on an Isley Bros track. I think part of the reason he's not quite as revered as other guitarists is because his work wasn't meant to stand out, per se. His guitar playing was usually integrated into the rest of the music and wasn't regularly brought into the forefront. There are, of course, exceptions like Summer Breeze and Live It Up.

RipHer2Shreds said:

"Ain't I Been good to you" has the best solo by Ernie to me. There's a cut called "Under the influence" which is killing as well. Great guitar solos all the way through the song.

blackguitaristz said:

With all this talk about Ernie, I dug out his solo release "High Wire" which I think is quite good.
I just suprised it hasn't come up in any of the earlier post, lots of great playing. I'll toss out this name again: Jon Butcher....a great guitarist, who you hear very little about.