ULTIMATE Summer of Love Guitarist: active on or before 1967 ONLY

[Amerigo Vespucci]

[Richardo]

1. Terry Kath, Chicago

A little too edgy for 'Summer of Love'; but that guy could play.

He was the balls of Chicago - after he died, they got all treacly and apolitcal. :grr:

[newmajority]

23. Hendrix thought Kath was better than him.

Now that's one Hell of an endorsement. And I'm not sure if I would go that far, but Kath was definitely under-rated as a guitarist, probably because it got buried in the mix under all those damned horns. But if you listen to their version of "I'm a Man" (which annihilates the original by Spencer Davis or Stevie Winwood or whoever it was) you hear the "real Chicago". Underneath all the brass, they were a power trio (Kath/Cetera/Serraphine) as good as Cream or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. (OK, they had Bobby Lamm as well, but that was really more a guitar/bass/drums jam)

Tragically, I was much too young to have ever seen the real Chicago live, and had no interest in seeing the light-weight post-Kath version (let alone the godawful post-Cetera version) but that first CTA album is still one of the best records of the era, and the next 5 after that weren't so bad either.

Now all that said...... was Terry Kath really around in 1967?

[Richardo]

25. CTA was released in 1969.

So I'm sure TK was 'around' but not on the national scene. ;-)

And I agree with your entire assessment above, and I've heard the Hendrix quote also. But I liked the horn section.

[greendog]

2. Richard Thompson was active in '67

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyRanOOwcm8&feature=related

[DaDooRonRon]

3. Cippolina - hands down

EVERY musician in town came to watch him play. He got his unique sound by having two pickups on his guitar - wired for bass and treble respectively. The treble pickup fed a series of Wurlitzer horns.

It does not get more Summer of Love than his intro into "Who Do You Love."

[madrchsod]

8. "who do you love" through a pair of 70`s wharedale 12in 3 ways

[Bennyboy]

18. I saw Cippolina around a 100 times.......

with Quicksilver, Fish and Chipps,The Dinosaurs, the Dead and other bands....I loved his set up and my friend has a photo of John in the Rock Roll hall of fame. Bill Graham demanded that John be inducted to the hall before he would offer any assistance or $$$ to the project.

Here are a ton of Quicksilver shows: http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/arr/quicksilver-messenger-service-and-related-artists/5673.html

[DaDooRonRon]

22. The R&R HOF used to have his amp set-up on display

Don't know if they still do anymore.

[WinkyDink]

4. Clapton and Hendrix!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

16. That's the peril of 9 poll choices...

...and I got tunnel vision from thinking "Summer of Love" and working in concentric circles from what was happening in San Francisco.

On the Hendrix matter, I just screwed up (see below).

On Clapton, he should have been an obvious choice too...I remember wanting nothing more than a Gibson SG painted like the one he used in Cream:



:toast:

[Kat45]

5. Hendrix n/t

[realisticphish]

6. Hendrix

though I love the Who

[Lethe]

7. hendrix d00d!

:D

[madrchsod]

9. zappa....only jimmy was better

[abq e streeter]

10. Hendrix was THE MAN , but Garcia, Cippolina, Kantner and Kaukonen

all great too. Krieger is highly underrated also

[speedoo]

11. Duane Allman. Only Hendrix was better.

But I preferred the Allman's music.

[jeff30997]

12. Johann Sebastian Bach.

Well he was active before 1967 ONLY.:)

[MilesColtrane]

13. James Fucking Hendrix

[cliffordu]

14. YEP - absolutely correct.

Who the fuck is teaching these kids about guitarists, anyway??

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. Look Over Yonder...

...http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7668641&mesg_id=7668641

:toast:

[Bennyboy]

17. The Correct answer is Michael Bloomfield.

Influenced everyone mentioned above. Practically invented the psychedelic blues with the Butterfield Blues Band. Electric Flag.

[speedoo]

19. Bloomfield was amazing.

And I'll take your word for it that he influenced everyone else...

[Bennyboy]

20. The psychedelic era started with Butterfield Blues Band....

They were the ones that were out there touring with this music in 65,66. Everyone else was still in the clubs. And when the musicians started hearing that jammed out stuff, they started to play looser too.

Bob Dylan was so influenced by them he hired them (or some of them, especially Bloomfield) to commit career suicide at Newport.

The Bill Graham book really tells the story well. Just how influential that band really was.

Some Buttter in here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmuIkJtL42g

[speedoo]

21. Thanks for the clip.

I loved the interview with Bloomfield and Son House.

Dylan is on record in an interview that Bloomfield was his favorite guitarist. Mike's work on Dylan's first rock albums tells you why. Just great stuff.

[Twillig]

24. John Petrucci was born July 12, 1967

He began shredding July 13!

"Hello guitar n00bs!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkj19VarQx0&feature=related