r/progrockmusic • u/Frangifer • 4d ago
It sometimes seems to me that the goodly guitarist *Vernon Reid* qualifies as one of the 'Ultra-Virtuosity' (¡¡Yay!! 😁) guitarists: »Vernon Reid — Voodoo Pimp Stroll«
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wwB5XwT9a5nke4oQ5tydj2
u/sreglov 4d ago
Saw Living Colour recently, finally - missed them in the 90's - and they were a-ma-zing. Not prog in strict sense, but great music. Had a great evening.
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u/Frangifer 3d ago
They still going!? Amazing! lt's good to hear that they are, anyhow: glad you enjoyed it.
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u/sreglov 3d ago
Like many 90's band reunited ;-)
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u/Frangifer 3d ago
I'll tell you a little story : Chuck Berry was still doing gigs until shortly before his passing in 2017 - in his nineties . And at one of these late gigs, a journalist asked him what in his opinion his very-best gigs were - the summit - expecting something like - IDK - "Atlanta, 1965", or something like that - whatever. But he replied
"these-here ones, that I'm doing right-now!"
That's a story I've heard, anyhow.
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u/nononotes 3d ago
His solo albums are really good.
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u/Frangifer 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yep someone @ this channel put me onto them one time I was talking about Living Colour ... & now he's 'in the top drawer' of my 'library' of phenominal guitarists ... which is my kind of music - phenominal electric guitar music.
"... ahh fay-vurr gee-tarr music mahh-saylf!" ... to quote the beginning of a certain track by John 5 .
😆🤣
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u/cabell88 3d ago
I ran into Vernon many times when I worked at Sam Ash in NYC. Great guy. I remember when the first album came out. My friend and I would listen to the solos and wonder if he actually knew what he was doing, or just faking it. He has a very odd style.
Nothing really went out of key, so, we decided there was something there. He was a Hamer endorser. I had a few Hamers at the time - we talked about that.
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u/Frangifer 1d ago edited 1d ago
Have just seen your reply - unexpected @ this later sort of time.
It's always nice to hear that a great musician is pleasant personally !
... but if they aren't ... welllllllllllll ... it doesn't put me off their music. Great artists get to be obnoxious ... if that's their 'bent'.
And yep: I agree that his style is very idiosyncratic ... but I have zero doubt that he's a truly phenominal guitarist, & would not have his output different by so much as a single iota !
... and actually ... sometimes it does go out of key ... but always in just the right degree as to constitute a true 'modulation' (in the musical sense - departing briefly from the key to bring-on a brief 'tension') ... & he's a consummate master of doing that, moreover!
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u/cabell88 1d ago
Yeah, he was a good guy. Very approachable and easy to speak to. Never saw them. Regret that.
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u/Active_Juggernaut484 3d ago
Love his Yohimbe Brothers LPs with DJ Logic
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u/Frangifer 1d ago
Have just seen your reply - unexpected @ this later sort of time.
So ... Yohimbe Brothers : don't know anything about them ... but I'll definitely be following-up on your recommendation ... so thanks for it! 😁
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u/Active_Juggernaut484 1d ago
I hope you enjoy them. I think they are so much fun and full of joy
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u/Frangifer 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'll drop a 'ping' when I do.
... infact ... I think I'll make them the next item in my queue.
But it's already quite long, though (with Paul Gilbert , as it happens) ... so it'll be a little while yet.
My 'queue' fnallyi got round to them ... & yep: his phenomenal guitarstry is evident in it ... but subtly transfigured into something with a character distinct from what I'm used to from him by-now.
It's a pity they didn't make more albums, though!
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u/Bechimo 4d ago
Cult of Personality is killer.