Shoulda learnt **** a long time ago

[Panthur]

I've just learnt Funk #49 by the James Gang.
I've always loved it and just never put the time into sitting down, listening and learning it properly. Particularly that bit after the drum breakdown, in particular how it's played here at 6mins.. (it's less cool on the original methinks)

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3lEqVAroX4&feature=related[/youtube]

Now I've got it down, I wish I'd learnt this years ago because it's sooo damned good.
So have you got any stuff you've learnt recently and thought, why didn't I learn that ages ago ? Or is there still something awesome on your 'to do' list ?

 

[Jusatele]

I saw him on the Rocky Mountain way tour back in the dinosaur days, he is always better on stage.

 

[bagman67]

I run hot and cold on Joe Walsh (solo and James Gang = good, Eagles = erratic), but Funk 49 is indeed a hell of a tune. 

Consider:  Joe Walsh seems to embody "Why so serious?" as a performer; but he has been in a band for decades with (in my opinion) one of the most soul-suckingly smug, self-serious dudes ever: Don Henley.

Moving on...

I figured out "Rhiannon" a year or three back, and was like, "Damn, that's a bad-ass riff!  Why didn't I pick that up before?" 

Lyndsay Buckingham plays "wrong" better than just about anyone who isn't named Jeff Beck.  Tremendously creative and idiosyncratic player.  Although in documentary film I've seen of LB, I think he could use a little less coffee (or maybe shoulda done a little less coke back in the day).  Kinda bitchy and high maintenance, is all I'm saying.  I did see Fleetwood Mac live about 7 years ago when they came through Oakland the first year after Christine McVie quit the band, and LB gave it everything he had - left it all on the stage.  Awesome performance.  Made it worthwhile to attend a huge arena show - something to which I am usually profoundly opposed.

Peace

Bagman

 

[Jusatele]

Bagman, Lindsey is one of my strong influences, When I learned Rhianon I was like, WTF, that is so simple yet so Fantastic. I then went and started to learn every arpeggio I could as if you could do an entire song like that, what else is possible?

 

[Paul-less]

I personally love Big Love. Not the recording, ick, but when Lindsay comes out with an acoustic and does it by himself.

First time I saw him do that, I reconsidered the whole "guitar pick" thing. Makes you totally rethink the guitar solo.

 

[erogenousjones17]

My friends laugh at me for listening to Fleetwood Mac, but I don't care. :laughing7:

 

[Panthur]

Same on them, Fleetwood Mac are a fantastic band. From the early Peter Green days and during the Buckingham/Nicks period. Amazing story to tell as well, talk about your love triangles, that band was like a love dodecahedron.
That big love acoustic solo that Buckingham does is just jaw dropping. That's another one that has been on the 'to do' list for quite a few years now.

 

[llihmit]

Does anyone know if Joe playing a Warmoth build in this clip?