Here is some fine guitar playing!!!

I had never heard of the Johnny Hiland until I happened to see a video of him playing on YouTube. He sure can make a guitar sing!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9gs2umZK0A
Johnny Hiland just jamming on several different guitars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3lg8QtDeGU
Johnny Hiland Mercury Blues

I play guitar, but not real well. So much for my excuse about my fingers being too fat.

He is good. Thanks for sharing.

Looking at him reminds me of something. Remember the band, “Heart”? The Wilson sisters, Ann and Nancy? Ann sang, Nancy mostly wailed on guitars. Back in the early ‘80’s when MTV first took off, it was rock and roll and killed music because if you didn’t have a neat and cool video to go with your rock and roll music, your music didn’t get played on the radio because it didn’t have a video to match it on MTV. So, like any other band, there was Heart whom made their livings and entertained us off of rockin' and rollin'. At that time, Ann was putting on a little weight, so per her Nancy, the video producers were dressing her up in dark clothes, mostly black to try and hide her weight, make her more presentable for video eyeballs, not ears which are what really mattered and it was affecting her attitude, morale. Years later Nancy addressed the issue of…MTV and what MTV did to screw up music. “It’s about the f-ing music”, said Nancy…correctly I might add. She would know, she talked me into buying a midnight blue Strat to add to the fleet when I was stationed in Germany. That old blue guitar and amp up on the anti aircraft gun mount left over from WWII still on roof top of our Luftwaffa barracks more than once after a few too many Eichbaum biers with the First Sargeant yelling up at me to get my ... down from there. Top, was a great guy but I pushed even his patience to the limit a few times. Looking back on it, he probably should have just signed an M16 out from the armory and shot me off of the roof top. The world would be a smoother place for it. Grin.

Anyway, thanks for sharing, and thanks for the memories. Its about the...music.

Mark

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If I had practiced 20 hours a day I MIGHT have been half that good!

When my son was 12 I showed him a few chords on my old flat top, 6 month later he could blow my doors off and I pretty much quit guitar after that lol

22 years later he's playing professionally on Beale Street in Memphis, heres a sample of some of his Slide work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPj5R2y6kQ

John T
Son Chad on Beale Street in Memphis

I do remember Phil Collins saying there are a lot of great songs out there but they get passed over because they don't have a good video. I miss the 80s music lol.

Here is a good one. Junior Brown
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Incredible ! I could sit on Beale St and listen to your son play all day. I saw there was no open container law on Beale St so I would have a few beers too .

Wow! What a talent. I especially liked watching the kid on the sound board about halfway through- he was groovin' to the tunes.

John T.- are you any relation to Charles Nordhoff, the co-author of the Bounty Trilogy?

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chad, all I can say is wow. Bill
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Thanks, That's a song he wrote, among many others which are somewhere on You Tube

John T

Thanks, That's a song he wrote, among many others which are somewhere on You Tube

John T

Unsure of any relation, Ive never done much genealogy work. That's one of many songs my son wrote, they are all over You Tube

John T

Now that I have heard of him I will watch him on Youtube alot. Real traditional guitar style but not alot of people can play like your son.

Here's a guitar player, Lee Rittenour, he plays more than three chords,and if you want blues players IMO listen to BB King,another great Chet Atkins,as is Wes Montgomery, etc. The fat guy (Jonny Hiland) reminded me of the ground hog in Caddyshack,probably played just as good.lol.You guys are too easily impressed with BS.JMO
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At my age 61 I kinda more relate to b b king but Eric Clapton ,jimmy page ,Alvin lee, several others more to mention than I can remember that I listened to more. Clapton could make a guitar speak to you.

Phil would have been exactly correct.

Mark

The guy that does the elevator music ?

Just listened to Jr Brown and the B.Bs. "409".Brought back lots of memorys.Some of them not so good!