In the beginning, there was Mel Bay. In 1947, Melbourne E. Bay wrote the first of what would be dozens (hundreds?) of instructional books that taught the nation (the world?) how to play the guitar. If you are “of a certain age” and took guitar lessons, you are acquainted with...
Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett is preparing for the launch of his new podcast,"Shred with Shifty," a series in which Shiflett and other well-known guitarists dissect classic solos.In the beginning, there was Mel Bay. In 1947, Melbourne E. Bay wrote the first of what would be dozens of instructional books that taught the nation how to play the guitar. If you are “of a certain age” and took guitar lessons, you are acquainted with Mr. Bay.
Speaking from his farm in Michigan, Farner explains that he had no financial motive in mind when he decided to introduce, just simple frustration “They weren’t playing it right,” Farner says of his fellow six-stringers. Shiflett recalls the period when, prior to YouTube, guitarists could buy VHS tapes featuring well-known players teaching some of their best licks. “It used to drive me nuts with all of them,” Shiflett says, “Whoever would be doing it wouldn’t play it slow enough to really work it out. It would be grainy, it would be hard to see their hands.”So what were the criteria when it came to determining which players would be featured during the first season of “Shred”? “This show could go on forever.
“The first day of rehearsals – we had learned four or five or six Stones songs – and one of the ones we ended up doing with him was ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll.’ We learned the studio version. We learned the ‘record’ version. So we played it for him, and when we finished, he kind of chuckled and said , ‘I haven’t played it that way since we recorded it!’”
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