Guitar Player Presents Clapton, Beck, Page

by Molenda, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780879309756
• ISBN10: 087930975X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-01
• Publisher: Backbeat

Summary

Guitar Player Presents: Clapton Beck Page is a Hal Leonard publication.

Author Biography

Michael Molenda, growing up amid the music, cultural rebellion, and hopefulness of San Francisco's summer of love, learned that guitars could (sometimes) topple tyrants. Molenda continues to be a performer, producer, studio owner, and international recording artist, and he became editor in chief of Guitar Player in 1998. He lives in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Clapton
ôThere's No Reason Why Anyone Should Listen to Me, When They Can Listen to the Mastersö June 1970	p. 3
ôI Think Jamming Is Pretty Much a Waste of Timeö August 1976	p. 15
ôI Am Very Much a Chameleon. I Can Be Altered and Changed Beyond Recognition by Something That No One Else Can Understandö July 1985	p. 25
ôBlackie Is Simply Worn Outö July 1987	p. 51
ôI Don't Feel I Have to Prove Anything, and I Still Enjoy the Workö August 1988	p. 53
ôIt Takes a Great Deal of Studying and Discipline for Me to Sing the Bluesö November 1994	p. 63
ôMost of My Development Has Been the Realization That I Don't Need to Be a Geniusö June 2001	p. 67
ôIf I Get Caught Up in Ego, I'll Lose Everythingö February 2003	p. 75
ôI Respond to the Way Robert Johnson Dealt with Fear and Loneliness and Sadness, and How He Expressed Those Things in Such a Beautiful Wayö May 2004	p. 79
Beck
ôMy Media Is to Put Sounds Acrossö October 1968	p. 91
ôEmotion Rules Everything I Doö December 1973	p. 97
ôThere's No Sense Restricting Yourself in Music-It's Supposed to Give You Freedomö November 1975	p. 103
ôA Solo Should Do Something-It Shouldn't Just Be There as a Cosmeticö October 1980	p. 109
ôThere's This Monster Battleship You're Building, and Somebody Is Messing Around with the Rudder, Keel, and Deck, and You Just Want to Put the Guns on It!ö November 1985	p. 131
ôThere's Always Something in the Guitar That Never Ceases to Amaze Me-Some Sick Sound That I Never Heard Beforeö May 1999	p. 149
ôI Can't Bear to Listen to My Records. I Hear All the Mistakesö December 2000	p. 161
ôI've Always Been an Impulsive Player, and If I'm Not On, Nothing Will Get Doneö September 2003	p. 169
ôI Don't Want to Impress the World-Reaching People Is the Magic Thing Nowö June 2010	p. 181
Page
ôMy Vocation Is More in Composition Than in Anything Else-Orchestrating the Guitar Like an Armyö July 1977	p. 195
Lessons
Eric Clapton's Triplet-Based Pentatonic Riffs June 2006	p. 217
Jeff Beck's Pull-Offs, Bends, and Whammy Magic December 2007	p. 219
Jimmy Page's Alt-Tuned Drones and Faux-Whammy Moves November 2005	p. 221
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