PBS: Crossroads Guitar Festival Chicago 2007!

[Bake]

This was on for 2 1/2 hours last night. Wall to wall guitarslinging!! Clapton (of course), Jeff Beck (more on him in a sec), John Mayer (the boy has some SKILLS!), Jimmie Vaughan, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, BB King, Johnny Winter (and you thought Keith Richards looks bad?), Steve Winwood (on both keyboards AND guitar), Derek Trucks (playing some wicked slide).

Too many highlights to mention them all. One, though, was Jeff Beck's performance with an absolutely incredible 21-year old bass player from Australia, Tal Wilkenfeld. She blew everyone away!!!! Incredible chops on the bass.

By the way, the weapon of choice, by far: the Fender Stratocaster. I saw ONE Les Paul and one Gibson SG (Derek Trucks).

If you missed the show, I'm sure it will be on again on PBS. I'm going shopping for the DVD.

Bake

[riverdeep]

1. I caught part of it, it was good!

I caught the rerun, I think about halfway into it. I'm not a huge fan of Clapton on the guitar, which is sacrilege I know. I understand his importance in guitar history, and I do like some of his stuff (the solo in Crossroads, his work on 461 Ocean Boulevard, some others) but it just doesn't move me as much as his singing and songwriting abilities, which is what I really admire about him.

Oh my god, the Jeff Beck set!!! I don't think I've had my jaw drop like that in a long time. Beck rules, just blows everyone else out of the water. His band was ridiculous, as well.

By the way, give a comment to my thread about John Entwistle. I'm about to break some kind of record for having most posts in the lounge with zero replies. I've got my finger on the pulse!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7185234

[hippywife]

2. Watched it.

Loved Johnny Winter, he still has it. Loved Jeff Beck, he can get more sound out of a guitar than anyone I've ever seen play. Always love B.B.! Steve Winwood set was great and Derek Trucks was good.

All in all, I thought there was too little time given to the blues legends on the parts of the concert that was aired. The original concert was much more bluesy and I really liked it a whole lot better, except for ZZTop.