Upfront with Will Ray and Jerry Donahue of the Hellecasters. Individually they have been everywhere, together they are a bit like music's odd couple… until you hear them play. Will Ray is the master of (indeed the inventor of) the stealth slide and Jerry is the "bend master of the Telecaster"…so much so that Guitar Shop magazine called him a "freak of nature". So combine Will's mastery of the hipshot B bender and with Jerry's mind-bending string bending…and you get an interview that is pretty well bent!
Normally he slings a 6 string Martin, but in this interview Roy Rogers ( not the cowboy one!) takes us on a guided tour of a fabulous 12 string 1930's Dobro….and can he play it! This is one of those beautiful instruments that sounds great, looks good enough to eat.
Tommy Emmanuel is a master of guitar tones - acoustic and electric …. and to see him with a Telecaster in hand and a guitar boogie on his mind, is really something special. And perhaps, after spending some time watching Tommy in this Tone Control segment, the rest of us may have the chance to sound like him.
In the 1960's, The Byrds changed the way rock music sounded. Mr Tambourine Man, became a smash hit for Mr Roger McGuinn and his 12 string Rickenbacker. It was the result of serendipity - a meeting of Bach, The Beatles and The Byrds.
And to take us out….has there ever been a better version of Mustang Sally than this one by Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy?
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