The BEST Albums to LEARN Guitar From

hey everybody I'm Rick piano bretzel davon righto today's video is called best records to learn guitar from Rhett I like doing this we do no prep for these videos in case you didn't know I actually have a really interesting story and this that's why I did this this is totally anecdotal but I have a theory as to why I gravitated towards guitar when I was a kid and when I was in Sol's born in 1990 and what the first two two-and-a-half years of my life my parents had one cassette in the car that would play whenever we were driving it was the Clapton unplugs which that came out and what what year would I want say 91 91 91 I think yeah yeah so within the first year of me being alive I was listening to Eric Clapton on a daily basis that Clapton unplugged record and ever since I can remember before I was nobody my family is musical or anything but I always wanted to play guitar since I was a kid and I have a theory that had something to do with listening to Clapton and that record for so long so when I started playing guitar I started out on acoustic and I would sit and try and learn that record like you know old love and Layla and all that stuff yeah yeah it was a great record I mean I wore it out myself so you know kind of the cool thing about that record - that was interesting was that you know Clapton up to that point was was sort of a pop star yeah and if that record really kind of changed it all again for McKenna he was kind of a pop star in the 70s yeah well we quit baby away but it feels like a rock star in the 60s yeah more of a pop star in the 70s I think and and then he came back around and he sort of did like I mean to me that unplugged is basically the 90s version of seven six one Ocean Boulevard you know in a lot of ways so it's like he came back around it just was like yeah I'm gonna do acoustic again because I'm electric and it was a great thing for him because he really I mean he had an amazing band too but you know that record was phenomenal they see I was not influenced by that record because I was already 30 years old right when that came out and and that me that was I I thought it was very sleepy sounding it was just my it was yeah you know I look I named one of my kids Layla for ISM you know and I love their the rock Clapton and I thought this is dad music oh yeah I think that that term is funny to good people yeah people say oh this is death you know dad rock you hear those hear those turns and that was like the first dad rocker yeah I could see that but I mean the playing oh yeah record the guitar playing on guitar blames great nominals yes so good yeah and for somebody who's sorry Eric but first let me that it was the door for me to a lot of like the earlier rock stuff because again the household I grew up in my parents listened to a lot of like 70s and 80s and funk and soul and gap band cameo Earth Wind & Fire Rick James like all that kind of stuff which is great phenomenal guitar playing on that like Luther Vandross Paul Jackson jr. stuff killer stuff amazing but I had to kind of find rock and blues on my own and that record was kind of partially what opened the door for that so I being 10 years older than Dave 57 I my influences my first guitar influences were the Beatles my I have two older sisters that were teenagers when when the Beatles came out I was born in 62 so the first year the of the first Beatles record and I remember my sister's dancing around I want to hold your hand and all these songs they'd be playing it on the stereo at her house they'd be freaking out over it after and so I would listen to those records they had all the Beatles records and we they would play them constantly and I gravitated towards and I still do the the Rubber Soul revolver and and helped those records well Rubber Soul and revolver really mainly there was something about them that a sad feeling and and all the psychedelic things of things like she said she said and rain and even the rain wasn't on that record it was a single that was done there b-side but but those that that melancholy feel of that music yes really influenced me Norwegian Wood I just did that on that video yesterday yeah yeah and that was always a huge song to me I gravitated to those those really John Lennon melodies once again there's my my influences not naming my kids but yeah I was a massively big Beatles fan massively big John Lennon fan and then the stones and the stones both at the same time they were on the radio constantly as a kid I loved - Mick Jagger's voice I love the guitar parts that Keith Richards played and that's why you know I remember when Angie came out I always say that that's my favorite ballad of all time I love the guitar part in that yeah and then early Led Zeppelin because those those records that's all you know you figure I was you know in 1968 I was whatever six years old okay so these are my first memories of music are really late Beatles you know yet period Late Late Beatles is beginning of Zeppelin yeah the stones I mean this is right in the oh yeah top of lights there was even when I was 10 years later with six years old those records were still I mean that defined classic baby you know so I'm 50 years later right you know but especially ten years I did that was like staples were just yeah all of that so I mean I remember when when when stairway to heaven was on the radio I remember yeah I remember when Hey Jude came on the radio the first time it was a new song and playing you know some guys I have this one memory of these guys working at this building this stop and shop kind of place right right around the corner from our house and and here's the latest Beatle single a Jude and like this is unbelievable yeah Wow yeah so those guitars parts the things in there I always gravitated to parts I think first before lead playing until until Jimmy Page and then Hendrix because because the first guitars all I ever learned was hey Joe so that was you know before I learned anything that I learned to play lead from I learned that that's one of the first guitar solos I learned yeah Hendrix was the reason I wanted the like originally pushed to get a guitar my neighbor across the street when I was like 12 or 13 gave me Hendrix on CD Kevin which album it was might have been like experience or something like that but it had Red House on it and I remember where I was exactly I could take you back to that spot today when I heard Red House for the first time there's like a 12 year old kid and it just blew my mind man I had never heard guitar playing like that I've never heard anything like that and some of those things I had a little Walkman CD player with my headphones on it I must have listened to it eight or nine times in a row one after another and then later that years when I got a guitar and started playing and it was trying to figure out that Hendrix stuff and at the same time I kind of discovered Pink Floyd because my same neighbor gave me a copy of the wall and listening to the wall for the first time I mean that's when you've never heard anything like that before yeah like that really blew my mind and so Hendrix and Gilmour have had such a huge impact on my play even today I still go back and try and work on all that stuff you know yeah yeah yeah I think that as far as the I was thinking about this when you were talking about Hendrix I think that I became a producer maybe or or this is a theory I just just popped into my head that I was always aware of Hendrix's tone sometimes records he'd have a great tone other records you have a terrible tone and I was really aware of those things yeah and Jenn yeah and when I started listening to jazz records the same thing guys like Wes Montgomery some some less records Porter Wesley and an amazing sound yeah and then some records need to have a terrible guitar sound and really kind of depended and did and I didn't realize these things at the time that recording you know different records different to Yanni in the gear how they were might but right but yeah you know certain people would it would have really consistent Led Zeppelin's records were very consistent sonically yes the thing about Jimmy Page yes yeah what I was notice about the Zeppelin records when I was a kid was the drum sound mm-hmm it was always these huge bombastic drums that no other record sounded like and I remember you know just hearing that even on a crappy little car stereo in my parents car it still sounded huge and you didn't you know like you and you know you're sitting in the backseat with mono speakers and oh yeah there we have one in the middle and you're like you know I remember sitting there just listening to you know Zeppelin for any of that stuff they played on it and it was always just so huge and and so when I when I started I I really debated on being a drummer first because I want gravitated toward drums and I loved all the rhythmic aspect to that you know they think I don't know I think probably it was squashed by me my dad going yeah we're gonna get you it's alright even though my parents were I mean super cool about I mean about me playing music my dad was a professional guitar player for years and toured and had a music store and everything so and my mom was was an artist so they were really open to you know I mean they took me my first show I ever saw as a kid at six years old was the heavy weather report with Jocko and I don't remember much about it I do were the only things like two things I remember about it was at the end Jocko went back to his amps turned him up took his jazz bass off did a huge so then threw it up in the air and just let his jazz bass smash on the ground and he just walked off and it was so loud and I just remember being as a kid you know people were just like I mean it was you know and I was like I remember being like I don't know what's going on but it's really cool and that's you know very very vaguely remember that it like a Ohio State University and um but uh for me it was like there was four I would say four records that were all at the same time because I started playing guitar at like six really so wish you were here Pink Floyd the the whole thing of Shawn on you crazy diamond that means that that tone for me is still the best strat ever recorded yeah heavy weather by weather report the bass playing and I could both of those guys it's a rhythm section we're too you know man the you know speaking of that get Gilmore stuff the every now and then I mean I must have listened to Dark Side of the Moon at this play three times or so two or three yeah hundred times but every now and then like so I was on tour a couple weeks ago and we were we had a really late drive and it was my turn to be you know driving the van and the singer of my band Noah was up sitting with me cuz it was like 2:00 in the morning we're keeping each other waiting we're like man let's just turn on dart we're in the middle of like Illinois yes no no he just turned on dark side mood and listened to the whole thing cover to cover you know it was still man okay it still holds up and it's still in every bit is enjoyable and it's one of those records that no matter how much I listen to it every time I go through it again I pick out something new that I've never heard before something else that David Gilmour did or a synth part or whatever like it's a drum filled Nick Mason played like it just it's a masterpiece yeah yeah master for me those yeah those two records back to back were huge because it was like 72 to 75 and Floyd was the biggest band in the world next to Zeppelin I mean those were the two big yeah so and I just remember first the thing about Pink Floyd that for me it always I mean I'm here a massive Zeppelin fan but Floyd always took you somewhere like oh he's work it would take you wherever you were we take you out of what you were doing and thinking back and you were just like you were in this trance of just listening to record or day and it was something about it and and as a kid I mean you know i-i've I was talking about him I'm so lucky that I did have a turntable as a kid and my parents had a lot of great records because I really did get lost in records I remember just putting headphones on oh yeah and for four hours a day I would just listen to music I didn't watch TV I would just sit there and and it changed my life and that's the kind of stuff that really I always tell people especially when I'm starting out with with music you know fine bands that really inspire you and really get into their records like just don't listen to one song isn't their whole entire body of work and get into him and you'll find something like you said sub levels of stuff you never hear or you always continue to hear later yeah and you appreciate it more and especially I mean to other records of those for them currently thinking of Jeff Beck wired wasn't oh yeah one that I remember distinctly my dad bought the 8-track he had a VW van and we went to the park to put pinstriping on his video yeah yeah he's through in the day wired came out we put it and I just remember me on my dad and my dad cause my dad was like he was so blown away he was like you know we were he was a huge bat fan at that pub they said man he said this is even like you know and this is before blow-by-blow so it was around the same period so it was like yeah they're again two or three records of that period of him alone redefined guitar how many times over you know so and then the other record that I do remember hugely being massively influenced by was the Fillmore East Allman Brothers yeah mm-hmm yeah and that was just one of those records where it just it just stayed on a turntable and it you know it just it was always there for some I mean you know and it's like I could I could hum everyone to that record if I was lost on a desert island I would just put it on play it might head backward a fort and I wouldn't know if all the way down and it's just like well those records it just doesn't leave you so I was thinking about this that since I lived in a house with nine people that was three bedrooms every one of my siblings so we have seven kids my family every sibling has different tastes in music totally different so my older sisters were into like I said the Beatles and the stones and things like that sixes they were yeah there's their you know my older sisters I think nine years older me then my brothers my brother Mike my oldest brother was into people like Frank Sinatra it was ed yeah Big Bang house yeah he had really out there taste for somebody that was born in there that's know in the early fifties but then my brother Lou was into Clapton the Allman Brothers all the clothes kind of Rock and and you know that in pink floyd-- those were his the kind of bands they love so he would constantly play he had his stereo rigged up where he had a guitar and he only knew a blues scale and he would just play the same thing he would figure out what key it was in and I wouldn't sit there with my younger brother John before we even played and he had this stereo these they were he had it rigged up he's an active electrical engineer now you know but he had it rigged up where he plays guitar through his stereo which was the coolest thing ever it was the coolest thing ever he's like yeah in a crappy electric guitar and my brother Johnny I would sit there for hours just watch him he lived these stubby fingers can just play in these one scale over and over and he knew what notes he can figure he can feel like he is so so then we would sneak up just ruined and take his guitar and like man will you play better than he can't play right that's honestly why we learned but then my brother Ray was in he played trombone he was into Chicago and he was into a lot of music like that that was more sophisticated he had he had really sophisticated taste and he's the one that used to make me listen to stuff over and over little guitar parts all production stuff he he's was the real producer in the family yeah but then my mom you know my dad listened to jazz so he was playing Oscar Peterson Joe Pass and Charlie Parker whatever all really complex jazz and then my mom would listen to classical music all the time so and then and so I brother John and I were exposed to all these different yeah yeah oh yeah we had everything going on their house there's always people listening to completely different kinds of music yeah so I think that's why I you know people were asking me about like keith was asking me about Haiti how do you know all those songs that played on my acoustic guitar intro video I mean I played you know Gordon Lightfoot and Harry Chapin and all the acoustic guitar players there and I've had all the Zeppelin tunes and the stones and being Floyd I played Aerosmith I learned you know that's abandoned that we never talked about and they were hugely in pontedera sevenths like Arizona 70s Boston and and I mean yeah that was the state get your wings yet boys in the Attic roxrite sounds that was my bought and that was I mean to this day that still doesn't leave my car yeah that's one of those records says Toys in the Attic was one of the greatest to get to our records everyone an anomaly and then for me the thing that one of the big things is Frampton Comes Alive yeah that's why I was so great to me in France when you see three I was a huge humble pie fan as a kid so when that record came out I figured out oh that's the same guy as rockin at the Fillmore you know cuz it's so that yeah that records so then that actually came out the year I started playing the guitar though so that Boston at 76 they said explain plan that's yeah cuz so all the stuff Toys in the Attic all the stuff that was on the right those are the songs I was learning yeah ants and Zeppelin yeah all that cuz yet Physical Graffiti was out exactly and it was you know cashmere just come out now yes like the the funnies thing about cashmere for me was that was like the big song that really got me into Zeppelin like fully on and it wasn't because of them it was because at my dad's music store he in the back of this huge building that he had he would rent it out to bands to rehearse and as a kid I would go in there and I was like the local best band in the town where of this little town cool Marion Ohio outside of Columbus there was one band it would come in and they did they knew Zeppelin really well and the guy was really great a guitar play I mean he actually got had tourist pedals he did the whole thing and they were just a trio but they would play Zeppelin stuff and this they were learning Physical Graffiti stuff to play a gigs too you know yeah they were like the hot band in town so when I first heard cashmere I heard them doing it yeah and I'm like and I had no idea that the record had just come out and I'm like going you know like what is it because I heard that would you buy a write that or someone no it was the line of Dutton and it stuck in my head you know yeah and I'm running around going like wouldn't it so I actually asked my dad I'm like that is that a song of theirs and he's like no that's the new templates and I'm like and then Tibet I went right and got that and that was it but I for a while I was like these guys are the greatest band ever and then my dad is like no that's okay man when I was younger my so much my education came from 96 rock when I was still 96 rock and then when it transitioned 97 1 the river you know I moved to town when you were about 3 years old I moved is not a 94 so yeah I was you were to turn 90 like I didn't get help when you were yes yes you actually write drops when he was basic yes yeah sorry yeah but yeah like they're the two rock stations here in town like that was my I was it that was my education you know and 96 was a good station 96 was a good station and I remember the day that it transitioned to whatever like power-pop 9 6 1 or whatever I was driving to I think I was in high school at the time and my car was just set to 96 rock only and I remember getting in the car one morning and it was like what is this it was genuine yes no I stopped in my car and I was in wait a second I was like it's 96:1 hey by Outkast which is a cool song I love out Kevin but it was like this is not right and then it went to commercial and they were like the new power 961 I was like you have to be kidding yeah what is happening but I think there's also some more modern records that are great yeah no I was thinking about that I really was influenced by a1 surprisingly that you might not think of is the Dave Matthews live at Central Park record because Warren Haynes is on record that was my introduction to Warren Haynes yeah play until her version of court says the killer on this on that record yes and that was one when I was learning guitar that I would put on my stereo in the room and I had this little box like solid state and for whatever and I would sit and try and learn what Warren's solos on that song yeah that was really good and then John Mayer continuum when it comes to like parts playing and great guitar tones and great guitar sounds record you know and I think a large part had to do with Steve Jordan being a big part of this record but that one is one that still holds up to me is amazing stuff to learn guitar - and then more recently I would put up Alabama Shakes sound in color with 2015 the guitar work on that record yes gray in st. Blake Mills produced that who's an insane guitar player and Brittany Howard the the singer for that bench her guitar parts are insanely cool man those are yeah that sounded color record is unbelievable I have to say more recent stuff for me would be probably I mean that recent sort of like big wreck was a great is a great band if Thorin awesome amazing credible uh not only I mean singing bass guitar Plains ridiculous it is insane the lot of Robeson stuff yeah I was killer those guys are just doing it right yes holiday man yeah you know I mean he really I mean I got to give it to him too because I mean between him and Jack White a few other guys they've really just brought all the fuss back I mean they that whole genre is back fully because of those guys you know so it's it's it's cool and then there's some well you know maybe some offshoot bands but you know for the most part it's pretty much the same kind of stuff I'd agree where you know it was like one hands in the 90s government has a great stuff jimmy herring with with aquarium rescue unit and even even some of the more stratum use oh please you know so there's you know there's the edge is still you know the 90s you - yeah I've had some great stuff I mean even after that so I've seen Muse twice and both times they've been two of the best concerts I've ever they put on their great spectacle yeah like Matthew Bellamy is a genius yeah you know I saw him actually when they opened up for you to on the 360 tour when yes we had that huge like space yeah yeah that was one of the coolest shows that was her scene and then I saw them a few years later and it Centennial Park that headlined this this festival during like the n-c-double-a championship or whatever and that was one of the best rock shows I've ever seen ever no they they throw it down man I saw them it was there I saw this where Jeff was them in the killers and that was a gift that was a great bill you know and it was like one of those bills where you don't sit there go what other bail would be cool on this and I was thinking well maybe like MGMT or something or I saved that whole it one more it would have been the trifecta you know that that genre fans love doing it but how us is a great guitar record - hey it is man yeah of course Radiohead I mean this guy just you know to see I all that stuff I was you know that was probably the third wave of things that I'd listen to his things in the 80s and 90s yeah I remember is so when I was in high school when I was in tenth grade I met this drummer he said let's start a band and he gave me a tape of nine cover songs to learn and one of the songs was don't take me alive okay so I learned that guitar solo yes mama he said you're coming in right now as he and me a tape with all these song all these really like one of the sons was long-distance running around by yes it was all these weird songs that I didn't know we're difficult to play so and then and then his brother played guitars brothers a really great guitar player and I came over to their house to do rehearsal and he said you figured that stuff out I was like Andy told me to all the Steely Dan stuff like my parents I mean it stayed on the turntable constantly so it was like even by osmosis I would oh yes you walk around and you just hear those solos and they're just like so I said those those Steely Dan solos the first ring I can't buy a thrill I mean Danny Diaz do it again that was huge but the Larry Carlton Royal scam you know both kid Charlemagne and and don't take me alive and then the Asia record all the guitar playing and there's just it's all phenomenally great Larry played a lot of the rhythm parts on there and and that was a hugely influential album but I want to say that for me I was hugely influenced by Motown everything from The Supremes to the Jackson 5 - its I loved Motown yeah yeah that was kind of my music that I would listen to all the time and that was stuff that was on the radio and the guitar parts and that were a man is all session guys and and yeah they're really interesting parts once again that's I would think I think that that has something to do with my producer brain yeah that I like these bands like Steely Dan and I like stuff that add that had really great players that play great parts well see see yours was Motown Mon with Stax right so like from Booker T green onions which I grew up on as a kid and then all of the stack stuff and then realizing that afterwards like all the Stax people had the same band back alright so it was Booker T ing isn't on everything and then the in the bar-kays playing horns and I was always like why do these records sound so amazing but they all sort of sound these similar Brennan not you know and then it went back and it was like oh it's the same band you know and so and so yes like the Motown stuff you were hip enough as a kid to be like man I kind of like that why do I like I just liked all the parts they get up with a lot bass lines of Tirpitz on the keyboard baby zinc regime Jamerson played on yeah I mean it's yeah some of my favorite stuff ever and same thing kind of goes for the Muscle Shoals sound oh yeah yet Detroit yes Memphis yet muscles yeah it was kind of and each what's interesting is each city has its own sound like Detroit Motown tended to be like more polished and more yeah yeah yeah and then you know Rick Hall and then Muscle Shoals was a little more more gritty and yeah yeah man that stuff is so fascinating I'd love to make a pilgrimage to uh and the and the other me convinient to that and I had no idea at the time who the band was but um the James Brown stuff for those like you know I'm ever just hearing those records and being like and Stevie Wonder to those those two also just just were like whole nother planet and just you know the like I said I like said I'm a drummer at heart so the drummers were always the ones that got me going with that stuff you know so but then the you know here in Clyde played the same a nine chord for 20 minutes I loved it I never I sitting as a kid playing sex machine and I'm just like the one oh man I got it I'm getting the rhythm and got thought it was so cool it but I never any he never played leave never deviated from this one stupid you know and it was the greatest thing ever yeah it was as a kid those are always the things to that I remember whatever you learned first or whatever made you the light bulb go off instantly you never lost that I mean yeah I know you go back to the safe stuff I do those times where you go the first time you were able to nail a frampton thing or something well see that that's interesting because I was just thinking about this the the when I started playing guitar cuz Frampton Comes Alive was on I learned all those solos yep and then also Royal scam came out that here in 76 I'm telling you so I'm learning those things and then my dad bought me virtuoso Joe Pass and and so and then I remember a hearing brother to brother Carlos Rios playing that so so I was learning all these really and then holdsworth first UK record so I started going into this prog stuff but then eventually into jazz and I heard Wes and I heard George Benson and and and that was a really that was a big turning point in my life how old are you when you started so my god will might start listening to jazz and when I was a child in the 60s my dad learned listen to all the jobim records with Sinatra you know she was Roberto Stan Getz all that kind of stuff yeah and then my dad loved jazz guitar so he listened to all the different guitar players from West Bernie Kessel yeah all these different guys and then Joe passed a huge my dad was the biggest Joe pass/fail see and I am I mean you know I'm like not a jazz player at all and I think it's because I really didn't get exposed to any type of jazz music until I was 20 and is that a manned tray right you know played kind of blue for the fur that was really the first time I can remember hearing like jazz and and actually listening to it and I think that's one of those things to play I mean it's it's a little language you have you have language you have to be you have to be steeped in it from an early age I mean I was a baby and my dad was playing jazz that's a howl he played I mean this but he played really complex yes I I don't know why he was not a musician but he loved let's see that's what it is a lot my dad did the same thing but it was segovia records and I remember listening to Segovia and then like Al Di Meola and these kinda guy and I'm like you know I don't get it I love it but I don't get it but I would listen to it and then you know he would throw a wrench in there and like we have Ravi Shankar records and we have like you know I mean really eclectic things and and that you know like you said though it's it's that thing where you just sort of I think there's an osmosis thing as a kid yeah you suck oh this stuff up and even if you're not consciously aware of it later on it creeps in you're playing and I mean I used to find myself would be playing lick someone where do I get that from I'm like oh that's that Segovia intro to something that I've learned this one apart from it yeah so I always think that and it's we I think it's cool cuz actually that you when you were going over those records at you I'm telling you 74 75 76 for guitar and music in general that was it I can't tell you how important those three years four years were for me as a development even yes even as being as young as five and six years old you know I mean like I said go you know listening to Jeff Beck wired and it's like well don't you know the other thing is two days that and we're talking about earlier I was listening about 40 John Denver exactly so there were all these awesome cruise shicken Jim Croce yeah all those things that happened in the early 70s to the mid 70s right all those great finger Pickers from Simon and Garfunkel Paul Simon's for solar energy Taylor James Taylor all those things were all in the early 70s so everybody played lead you play blues licks you played you finger picked you you flat picked you know yes these were all skills everybody had the skills of finger picking everyone I mean you picked the Doobie Brothers were another one for ya oh yeah that was a huge Doobie Brothers fan and like you know first time I black water and all it was just like and it was the cool because you had China Grove and then you had the stuff like that on the same record now so completely different yeah but it all made sense and you got this sense like oh I have to play what I like all this stuff to be a guitar yeah like you can't just well I'm just gonna play this one you you had to plate like if you were respected you could play all of this different stuff it from acoustic to you know whatever and so like I said I I'm so glad that you know I was lucky enough to be born in that period and the later periods were fine too and yet he's got great stuff too but just for me in those three years were really impactful because all of that music came out during that time and it's a interesting I didn't know that's actually the same period that you were you know money you also had the Eagles oh yeah that was huge for me and will my parents go for near 70 75 76 yeah yeah Austin's first record 76 my parents bought this was right around the time right when I started playing guitar right before I started playing guitar they bought the the Eagles had that best of old it's still on the chart that's I mean we put that on and I just I listened to that thing cover to cover dozens and dozens of times and listening to those guitar parts and and I mean the Hotel California solo I mean just hearing the two guitars working together and yet in the phrasing and moving those lines that are moving and outlining the chords and everything even as a kid not knowing anything about music or harmony it was like there's something going on there that is like this is different and and masterful I mean Joe Walsh's parson yeah the angel is heaven Felder but that you know well probably we should have a show about that we're we're guitar duo bands Skynyrd yeah oh man you know I mean all the way up to an Iron Maiden there's a ton of them Thin Lizzy you know but those two guys together it almost what I was a kid I'm ever thinking oh that's just like one guy playing two parts you know they said like they just you know recorded one over the other one and then it realized that no that's not in it's like wow okay yeah I think that I think that when I was growing up you had to I mean every one of those solos whether it was Hotel California stairway to heaven a Joe you had to know all those solos I knew Kidd Charlemagne I knew everything that was all all these different things you had to know how to play any kind of part whether it's a weird finger picking part and it was it was Fleetwood Mac it was whatever it was I could play Freebird I could play the whole solo and I would just put sit with these records I play every Frampton solo I play I just go song after song or so record after record and I would learn all the solos and I'd play along with the record player right in the living room yeah my dad would come home and he just kind of shake his head and never say anything my brother and I be cranking amps on like 101 hands all the way up okay I got what see this isn't somebody like so my dad had a music store and you know always wanted being able farmers of course cuz I go to his store and I would see all these big dips you know I was like damn why can't I get him you know I want any up so he he brings home a pig nose kid great I thought was the greatest thing ever yeah but you know I even I knew it's like man this isn't anything like these other things like I'd wait it took cardboard boxes okay and painted them black and stack them up in the living room so my dad comes home one day and I literally have these boxes stacked up and I'm practicing he's looking around number my mom look I'm like what are you doing and I take it all these boxes invade am7 and I and I tell my dad I remember to speak Hotel my dad's like I was like someday man I'm gonna have amps like this dad and he's just like so then it was really funny a week later he brings home this 612 PB musician him Wow just to impress me like you know a you know a sweet breath wins this thing and it's like you know five times taller than me and I'm looking up at it and I remember Stickley I don't get a white strat sitting next to it and and I just thought was the greatest thing and I literally just sat there and stared at it for hours and it was like that whole you know I guess would be now be the equivalent of doing this you know I would just start there and I remember it was the same thing with albums you know and you just you were forced to use your imagination that's right in that part and I think that's the reason like I couldn't wait to get home from school and play guitar for I know that's all I need that's all I did yeah I mean I had you know people like wow you know did you ever play sport like yeah let's probe I didn't care I was like I wanna go home play it's hard yeah and that that was for 70s kids 6070 his eighties kids was a big thing that I mean it's still there now but it was different yeah how was made to strat was that was the that was the video games of them right and and I and I know get a ton of slack for this but I honestly think that's also why the guitar players were better from those eras because we did practice a lot more and you did the level expected well you guys like you couldn't Blake gigs in the 70s unless you were funny now you had your right and you could sing every high-end that you saw in a bar everybody could sing in the BS and I remember my dad telling me that he's distinctly he was like he's like if you're gonna be a professional musician you need to learn how to play and sing because you'll always have a job if you don't do one or the other you're gonna have times where you're not gonna get work and and it rang true so and and but I remember him being like yeah there was a level expected that if you weren't you weren't as good as the guy on the radar really close people were like no you saw you know if now he's weird but you know if my dad wasn't such a you know that my dad was a tough guy I mean he was he was the greatest dad in the world be he was he was a pretty stern guy he meant man of very few words I never was impressed with anything right so when he brought Bobby that Joe passed virtuoso said if you ever learned to play guitar like this you've done something with your life and I said I stared there he bought me for Christmas in like 1977 or something I stirred that wreck I didn't open it for about three months so one day I slice the record open I put it on I start listening to it and I'm thinking what is this yeah so anyways I put the thing on I remember putting on Stella by starlight I think was the first song of their so it starts playing and I started I was like I'm gonna figure this out and show dev and he gets some so I start playing I start figuring out the chords and remember of my dad coming home he would come home at five o'clock at night he came home and I was like hey Dad check this out and so I start I put on the trio pass record and my dad stand in there and I start playing along with it and my dad he he's thinking how did you learn that I said just listen to it and and I think that because I played cello in in Orchestra when I was when I was in third grade I served in the cello and I played all the way then I took up the bass in seventh grade I already had chops when I started playing the guitar yeah so I could I could instant I already had coordination so as soon as I started playing the guitar I could play single line things no problem yeah with with real chops you know like instantly right off the bat yeah so and I could figure out those chords and I think that was the thing that my dad was like he can how'd you figure out those chords and stuff and I'm just saying especially a Joe Pass record man because I know that record and I remember my dad playing that right now that was a heavy record and that was like I got my dad's respect there oh I did the same thing but little later it was the 80s but before I moved here I was gonna go to school here which I ended up going to aim here where she was GI T at that time but and I remember right before I left to go to school I was practicing one day and my dad had come out but I didn't realize he had come home and I'm sitting there playing and I'm I had bandage if C's on and then I was playing some Albert King stuff and I remember walking out into the kitchen I didn't realize he was home and he just sat there and looked at me and I was like you know I thought I did something happened or something he just looked at me he goes you know I can't tell you from the record anymore when and as soon as I heard that that was kind of like his nod to like okay you're you're you're gonna night you can go to school to go do this because I believe in you now you know and it was like one of those moments where you just wow you know and he for him for me to have to show him how to play licks that to the records he gave me as a kid was a trip you know and my dad was a great guitar player he kind of gave it up a long time because he got off the road and when did a music store and stuff but but he was always a great player I always had a great ear and stuff and and definitely I would not be the clarity I am without his influence and so boy that yeah when he finally said hey can you show me this lick because I've been trying to learn this lick off this record since like 1968 being like I can't believe I got a look my son's gonna teach me this lay and I did it was it was two parts off of machine gun and this other one from of La boîte blues power yeah and and that was you know so that was like the first thing like as with your dad obviously it was at that point of like it was the validation like okay I'm not I'm not crazy okay I'm well you know my dad didn't play but he knew right howdy hurry this was you know and see my mom was the same way she was an artist but she was around music so much that you know I mean she was you know like I said they took me to go see jock and weather reports so there was like snow yeah they were like okay we're gonna spirit you know show you some real music that isn't on the radio that you need to hear and stuff so that was a and my dad well both my parents were super supportive once I found music because I struggled a lot growing up like made terrible grades oh I did too me too yeah before it's yes meets it right and and so good in sports but yeah I grew up in that time period where it's like no video games were we're a thing and I played video games and stuff growing up but when I grew up when I was playing guitar guitar was kind of a rare like I didn't know anybody else yeah I did like played and so when I found guitar and I took to it my parents you know really supported me in it and still to this day are really you know they come to shows yeah welcomes I've never seen your dad at shows I yeah it was amazing yeah it's but so my dad's not a musician but the thing he has some of the best ears I've ever heard when I was getting into guitar what we would do is go down the guitar center the one link Gwinnett UCR's music and market and we would go down there on a Saturday and we would it started off in the acoustic room we were just sitting the acoustic grid for four or five hours and he'd pull a Taylor off the wall instead of down play it and had me play and he'd listen to it and he pulled the same model Taylor off and have you played that and he would sit and tell you exactly what was different in the tone between each Dishman he liked all right compare that Taylor only here with this Martin sounds like you'd sit and listen oh yeah that's got more you know bottom into it it's just hider top in and I think part of my ear and part of the you know we all have great ears we can hear stuff part of that I think came from my dad even though he never found music as to play as an info on an instrument he he can do that he can pick that stuff apart you know just awesome i I I'm older than Reds dad by year so a year I always loved that your dad show up at your gigs I'd go out and see Brett play in his different bands and and this day I would always be there with a video camera to take all those videos down by they were on YouTube yeah oh there and IB what's up Lenny I wonder where you got that from but always and then he would go home and he'd listen he'd go back home from your gigs and he watch him when he still to this day goes back and listens to gigs and I've died eight years ago that's him and it's cotton so he means it well some ways this little insulting like man that time you played that solo on that like that I was like six years ago that's where I'm glad I don't have any videos I did free 2005 or something cuz like you know oh my god I can't imagine okay so we got a little bit off track on what guitar albums that you said I should learn but I think it gives you kind of a little bit more of an idea about the three of us and our backgrounds so yes you know leave your comments if you want to tell any stories put them in the comment section I read every comment on every video I do too yeah so especially on these ones because I like it when you bust on these two guys I can already tell how many comments there's gonna be about 1990s or young all right see you guys later that's all for now please subscribe here to my everything music YouTube channel if you're a first-time subscriber don't forget to ring the bell if you're interested in the Beato book go to my website at wwlp.com follow me on instagram at rick be out of one and if you want 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Published: Sun Jul 14 2019