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3/19/2012 (Gary Moore-every other lick)

On the “Still Got The Blues” album, I did “Pretty Woman” with Albert King. When he was leaving the studio, he turned to me and said, “You know what? Play every other lick.” It was the best thing anyone had ever said to me, like, don’t play every lick, play every other lick. It’s the simplest thing in the world, and when you think about it, it’s absolutely right. I think a lot of guitar players, in every genre, are afraid to leave space.-Gary Moore

Source.

The first clip is Gary and Albert's studio cut. The second fas Moore giving up a lot of interesting info including some neat stuff about Randy Rhoads (around 8:53).

3/16/2012 ( Albert Schweitzer)

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: guitar and cats."-Albert Schweitzer

I don't know of any information on  Albert Schweitzer as a guitar player but, I do know the dude had some serious organ chops.

But, you're probably not here for keyboard player stuff and a good number of you may not be cat people. So, here are a few cat songs featuring some hip guitar...

March 115, 2012 (Willie Dixon via Peter Case-Style)

“You have to have a style, and that style should be named after you, and your best song should be named after that style. Like, Bo Diddley by Bo Diddley in the Bo Diddley style.”-Willie Dixon

 I'm paraphrasing here because, I'm going from memory. This was told to me by Peter Case.

The story went something like this; Some time during the '80s, Case was in L.A. after his band, The Plimsouls, folded and working on solo stuff. During the same period, Willie Dixon was waiting for the Led Zeppelin money to come through and he was maintaining an office in town.

Some A&R whiz thought it would be a good idea to put the pair together to write some songs. As I recall, they didn't really accomplish much writing but Peter got to hear some great stories.

Speaking of story telling, what I'm missing here are all of Case's wonderful inflections and mannerisms which are artwork to themselves. If you get a chance to see him live you should do so.

March 14, 2012 (Dan Auerbach chases the Hound Dog)

I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that’s what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn’t what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and -- the guy told me it was a really good deal -- made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch. I got into open D tuning, like Hound Dog. Since then I’ve gotten into other people’s styles, but I’ve never tried to master them.-Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys)

Read the rest of the interview at Guitar World.

Mr. Auerbach is a purveyor of raw tone and so was the Dog man...So, it doesn't come as a huge surprise that Dan is in to the Taylor vibe.

We will hope that Auerbach's fascination doesn't carry over in to drunken straight razor amputation.

March 13, 2012 (John Mayer-greedy)

From Guitarist...

"I'll tell ya' the number one rule about guitars for me is that, I'm so sorry you couldn't get the colour that you wanted, but if you pick up a guitar at a store and it's sunburst, and you hate sunburst, but it feels and plays great for you – lightning strikes – then that's your guitar!

"As soon as you start getting greedy and you call Fender and you go, I want one like this sunburst, but can you make it blue? The blue one is going to sound and feel terrible. Never in my life has that ever succeeded."-John Mayer

Well, aside from sounding as out of touch as Mitt Romney talking to a bunch of NASCAR fans, John brings up a good point; play the one that feels right.

March 12, 2012 (Segovia On The Ladies)

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.-Andres Segovia

Andres was pretty aristocratic as a young lad...

...but, regardless of the quote, he was still playing the ladies as he got up in years. Check him out at 3:24 sipping tea with his obviously younger better half (the second video, from the same documentary starts with Segovia playing some Bach...beautiful!)