INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE-GUITAR-OVER

Jimi Hendrix
“VooDoo Chile”
Electric Ladyland
1968

1960 — Jimi Hendrix pictured outside playing his Danelectro guitar on Yesler Street, Seattle, WA.

On songs like “Machine Gun” or “Voodoo Chile,” his instrument is like a divining rod of the turbulent Sixties, and in “The Star-Spangled Banner” he played at Woodstock, you hear the riots in the streets of America, and napalm dropping in the jungles of Vietnam.
His playing was effortless. There’s not one minute of his recorded career that feels like he’s working hard at it — it feels like it’s all flowing through him. The most beautiful song of the Jimi Hendrix canon is “Little Wing.” It’s just this gorgeous song that, as a guitar player, you can study your whole life and not get down, never get inside it the way that he does. He seamlessly weaves chords and single-note runs together and uses chord voicings that don’t appear in any music book.
His riffs were a pre-metal funk bulldozer, and his lead lines were an electric LSD trip down to the crossroads, where he pimp-slapped the devil.

JIMI HENDRIX (1973)

— Warner Brothers

There are arguments about who was the first guitar player to use feedback. It doesn’t really matter, because Hendrix used it better than anyone; he plugged into a Marshal stack, what was to become ’70s Funk, in a way that nobody has done since.
It’s impossible to think of what Jimi would be doing now; he seemed like a pretty mercurial character. Would he be an elder statesman of rock? Would he be Sir Jimi Hendrix? Or would he be doing some residency off the Vegas Strip? The good news is his legacy is assured as the greatest guitar player of all time.

— Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine) 

Prince
“Joy And Repetition”
One Night Alone (2002)
((( guitarist )))

Glam Slam (Miami Beach)
’94/’95/’96
• WASHINGTON AVE. (MIAMI BEACH)
• PURPLE RAIN (OFFICIAL) VIDEO

Joy In Repetition

Prince with The New Power Generation
It Ain’t Over! ℗ 2002 NPG Records, Inc.
Manufactured and Distributed by Legacy Recordings
Released 12/17/02
Prince & The New Power Generation
Guitars: Prince
Drums: John Blackwell
Bass Guitar: Rhonda Smith
Bass Guitar: Larry Graham
Keyboards: Renato Neto
Saxophone: Maceo Parker
Saxophone: Candy Dulfer

He played arguably the greatest power-ballad guitar solo in history (“Purple Rain”), and his solo on an all-star performance of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” during George Harrison‘s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2004 had jaws on the floor. But he can also bring the nasty funk like Rick James, Jimmy Nolen (James Brown), and Nile Rodgers (listen to the groove magic of “Kiss”) or shred like the fiercest metalhead (“When Doves Cry”). Sometimes his hottest playing simply functions as background – see “Gett Off” and “Dance On.” Prince gets a lot of Hendrix comparisons, but he sees it differently: “If they really listened to my stuff, they’d hear more of a Santana influence than Jimi Hendrix,” he once told Rolling Stone. “Hendrix played more blues, Santana played prettier.” To Miles Davis, who collaborated with the Purple One toward the end of his life, Prince was a combination of James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, and Charlie Chaplin. How can you miss with that?”

Charlie Chaplin
Fred Aistaire
Sammy Davis Jr.
Michael Jackson

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•GUITAR (YARDBIRDS) ROCK N ROLL HISTORY

Without the electric guitar, there would be no Fusion.”

— Lenny White (Bitches Brew Drummer)

Electric Guitar (Instrument Of Change)

LARRY CORYELL
JOHN McLAUGHLIN
CARLOS SANTANA
FRANK ZAPPA
DUANE ALLMAN
EDDIE HAZEL
JEFF BECK
TOMMY BOLIN
ROY BUCHANAN

RITCHIE BLACKMORE
ROY BUCHANAN
ROBBEN FORD
w/Jimmy Haslip, Vinny Colaiuta
JING CHI (Trio)

JIMI HENDRIX
Ernie Isley
Eddie Hazel
Tommy Bolin …
JIMI HENDRIX
PRINCE
Blood Ulmer
Sister Rosetta Tharp

ELECTRIC JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
The Ironic Replacement (of Herbie Hancock)
Electric Pianos
Chick Corea
Joe Zawinul
NOT FUSION
Jazz Rock
“Anything other than “Fusion.'”
EVERYTHING IS FUSION
Or Fusion is Nothing At All.
Fusion Is Everything
“A” Is For “Anything.”
Vernon Reid
Cindy Blackman
John Medeski
Carlos Santana
John McLaughlin
Bill Connor
Earl Klugh
“Gold Top” Gibson Les Paul
gifted to Captain Kirk (The Roots)
“The Red Violin”
“Twenty Bucks”
Al Di Meola
TRIOS (TRIO OF DOOM)
JIMI HENDRIX
EXPERIENCE
BAND OF GYPSYS
JEFF BECK (Beck, Bogert, Appice)
Robin Trower
Ronnie Montrose (Edgar Winter)
Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top)
James Gang
Mountain
Steve Stevens
w/Terry Bozzio, Tony Levin
JING CHI
ROBBEN FORD w/Jimmy Haslip, Vinny Colaiuta

THE ROLLING STONES
THE BEATLES
Billy Preston (played with both the Rolling Stones and the Beatles)

1965 — MOTOWN (Invading Britain)
Rock N Soul
JEFF BECK
“Superstition” (w/Stevie Wonder)
Jack Bruce (w/Marvin Gaye) Never Came To Be.
YARDBIRDS
Eric Clapton (Cream)
Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
Jeff Beck (Beck, Bogert, Appice)
Kim Simmonds (Foghat)
Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac)

THE BRIDGE
“River of Song” (Rufus Thomas)

The WimBash was Doug’s annual show at Sully’s Pub in Hartford, Connecticut, his hometown. The WimBash started in 2004 when, after a 14-year hiatus, Tack>>Head reunited to play a show at Sully’s. A tradition had been born. The WimBash was as much a summer family picnic, a more intimate, “live” musical experience. A smaller audience filled with old friends and family. Sully’s was a small, neighborhood bar and pizza joint, and the only venue in Hartford that featured LIVE MUSIC SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, until its closing in 2017.

Jaco Pastorius Big Band Word of Mouth Revisited, a tribute to Jaco Pastorius, released on August 23, 2003, by the Ohio record label Heads Up International. The album had performances by a number of Jaco Diciples, including his nephew, David Pastorius,  Victor Bailey, Richard Bona, Jeff Carswell, Jimmy Haslip, Christian McBride, Marcus Miller, Gerald Veasley, Victor Wooten, Tony Franklin.

Bitches Brew isn’t a ‘Fusion’ record, it’s Miles (Davis) playing Rock N Roll.”

— Lenny White (Drummer Bitches Brew)