Guitar Lessons London

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LONDON GUITAR CLUB
Guitar Lessons London. The legendary American
guitarist, Larry Carlton, played a three night
gig at Ronnie Scotts this past week. In
attendance on Friday night was our esteemed chief
bandleader James Stratton, and your intrepid
mogger (music blogger) Randy Sesson. Prior to
the concert, we had a fabulous Spanish tapas
dinner at Sabor, just off Regent Street, washed
down with a bottle of Pintia. A great start even
before heading to Scotts! Carlton is a
nineteen-time Grammy nominee and four-time
winner, who has 30 albums to his credit and has
played on another 100 that have achieved Gold or
Platinum status. He originally built his career
as a studio musician in the 1970s and '80s for
acts such as Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Linda
Ronstadt, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Bobby
Bland, Sammy Davis, Jr., Paulinho Da Costa, the
Fifth Dimension, Herb Alpert, Christopher Cross,
Dolly Parton and Andy Williams His guitar work on
Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne" from their 1976 LP
The Royal Scam was ranked No. 80 on a list of the
best guitar songs by Rolling Stone magazine. He
has also been a member of the jazz fusion groups
- The Crusaders and Fourplay. More succinctly,
this guy is one of the best living guitarists on
the planet. His style is clearly more jazz, jazz
fusion, blues and pop oriented than hard rock
histrionics. Señor Stratton compares him to other
great living blues practioners such as Jeff Beck
and . Carlton typically plays a Gibson ES 335 as
his main instrument, but has also played Les
Pauls, Telecasters and Strats on his various
recordings. His own Gibson didnt make it to
London, so he had to borrow a new red 335 from
one of the local music stores. His pedal board
was pretty simple - volume, wah, chorus, delay
and reverb. No matter, he gave a master class in
tone, showing really impressive technique up and
down the fretboard, producing a really incredible
range of sounds, and a great knack for memorable
licks. He played a number of songs from his
Crusader days, in addition to Minute by Minute,
Josie, Shes Out of My Life and the Hill Street
Blues theme song. As most people already know his
work from Steely Dan, try listening to a sample
of some of his solo and jazz fusion albums to
hear the breadth and depth of his guitar playing.
Ideally with some tapas and a great bottle of
Spanish red at hand.