Cool rock n roll photos

[EASonBass]

Grand Funk railroad?

yes sir!

 

[CryingBass]

I never met a Farner I didn't like

 

[Deleted member 268085]

Al DiMeola

Al is a technically excellent guitarist, but this photo does a decent job of capturing his stage presence. He was so totally lacking in energy on stage that it was hard for me to get into him at concerts.

 

[rtslinger]

 

[turf3]

Al is a technically excellent guitarist, but this photo does a decent job of capturing his stage presence. He was so totally lacking in energy on stage that it was hard for me to get into him at concerts.

I remember seeing his performance at Newport some years ago, when he spent an awful lot of time complaining about his placement on the bill, the dwindling audience (it was getting late in the day), etc., etc., etc. He came across as a spoiled brat that day.

 

[FunkHead]

Al is a technically excellent guitarist, but this photo does a decent job of capturing his stage presence. He was so totally lacking in energy on stage that it was hard for me to get into him at concerts.

Yeah, I refuse to go on-stage until I can play like this AND dance around like Chuck Berry.

 

[MAJOR METAL]

 

[MAJOR METAL]

 

[58kites]

Lou Reed

 

[Indiedog]

Al is a technically excellent guitarist, but this photo does a decent job of capturing his stage presence. He was so totally lacking in energy on stage that it was hard for me to get into him at concerts.

Lacking energy? Really? You felt that?

My experience seeing him about 5 times was the opposite. I found him to be the absolute focus of the shows, with a definite stage aplomb and presence.

I have photos from several of the early shows I attended, and they show this. In particular, I have three photos (slides) from a minute or so from his acoustic set in Central Park in 1978. The last one show him releasing the note with his face looking to the side, showing a look of sublime satisfaction and dare I say, bliss.

 

[Mosthigh]

 

[roccobass]

@MAJOR METAL

The Love for Duck Dunn is strong tonight!

 

[Michedelic]

Al is a technically excellent guitarist, but this photo does a decent job of capturing his stage presence. He was so totally lacking in energy on stage that it was hard for me to get into him at concerts.

I remember seeing his performance at Newport some years ago, when he spent an awful lot of time complaining about his placement on the bill, the dwindling audience (it was getting late in the day), etc., etc., etc. He came across as a spoiled brat that day.

Yeah, I refuse to go on-stage until I can play like this AND dance around like Chuck Berry.

And you haven't grown emotionally or musically since then?

Lacking energy? Really? You felt that?

My experience seeing him about 5 times was the opposite. I found him to be the absolute focus of the shows, with a definite stage aplomb and presence.

I have photos from several of the early shows I attended, and they show this. In particular, I have three photos (slides) from a minute or so from his acoustic set in Central Park in 1978. The last one show him releasing the note with his face looking to the side, showing a look of sublime satisfaction and dare I say, bliss.

I got taken in initially by his flash, but soon got tired of his robot riffing, it was just so stiff, clinical, unemotional. Then I snuck in early to a hall where RTF were performing, and got to watch their soundcheck. The other three started to jam on "Green Dolphin Street", a classic jazz standard. He tried noodling around to catch up, but just dropped out, lost. That's when it hit me that he was something of a fraud. He was getting all these accolades from the jazz world, but he couldn't hang on something he should have known all along? Then about that time I read some interviews where he was quite full of himself, and I was done. Holdsworth's liquid style was far more enticing, surprising, and awe inspiring for that kind of stuff anyway.

 

[Danny O Danny]

Guitar Shorty

 

[5StringBlues]

Thanks for that, I had heard the stories but had never actually seen a picture

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Guitar Shorty

 

[Danny O Danny]

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

 

[Danny O Danny]

Big Bill Broonzy

 

[Danny O Danny]

Gail Ann Dorsey

 

[58kites]

Ringo and George in 1968

 

[58kites]

Marc Bolan of T. Rex playing Santa Monica CA in 1973