Music: Re: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Channeling Hendrix

Amazing sounds!

--- On Mon, 22/8/11, Cfh <cfhiebert@sasktel.net> wrote:

From: Cfh <cfhiebert@sasktel.net>
Subject: Re: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Channeling Hendrix
To: Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 22 August, 2011, 16:07

Very nice. Great sound, and a damn fine style.

Clint
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gagger" <gagger1@yahoo.com>
To: <Classic_Rock_Forever@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 3:04 AM
Subject: [Classic_Rock_Forever] Channeling Hendrix

>I got to see this musician a week ago, Larry Graham, at the Hollywood Bowl
>who I knew nothing about. My friend and I thought we were the wrong concert
>when we saw most of the audience were Africian Americans, and we were the
>lone "whities" of our section. However, when he started playing, our mouths
>dropped to the floor.
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> Larry went seemlessly from funk to blues to Hendrix-style rock, which I
> wasn't expecting. He also has a unbounded amount of energy & wears his
> white "Superfly" suit quite well.
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> Larry fronts a band called "Graham Central Station" and was the former
> bassist with "Sly and the Family Stone". His big hit is "One in a
> Million". I was told he's the founder of the "slap bass" technique.
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> Though I couldn't find a clip from our concert, here is one from earlier
> this year:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ubhYNY3fE4
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> Rock on,
> George
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