05-02-2016, 08:29 AM
(05-01-2016, 11:28 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Michael Hedges is a bit obscure, but he is one of my favorite guitar players ever. He did a cool cover of Shelia E's "Love Bizarre"
Hedges' album Live on the Double Planet is pretty impressive. It is surprising he is not more well known. Leo Kottke is in that same category - incredible, even if not well known, guitar player.
In that same vein, some here know Lonnie Mack just passed. Talk about underrated! Many guitarists, including Clapton and SRV, cited Mack's influence. So among guitar players he was highly regarded but he was not all that well known to the general public.
Now, on the the cover question. The cover of Prince's Purple Rain that Springsteen opened shows with last week was pretty sweet. I also like the Santana cover of While my Guitar Gently Weeps, as well as the Rock Hall of Fame cover of that song with Tom Petty, Prince and others.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
