Maneli Jamal, Guitarist Extraordinaire…
I may have a new favorite guitarist. I have long been a fan of Jean “Django” Reinhardt, Eddie Van Halen (did you know that he was born in The Netherlands?), and my brother’s favorite, Frank Zappa. But a new guitarist has now joined the list. Maneli Jamal, welcome sir!
Do yourself a favor and take a listen…
– Dave
Very impressive
Have you heard Rodrigo y Gabriela? If not then you might be interested, they are becoming increasingly popular at the moment.
Just checked them out on YouTube. VERY nice. Thanks for the pointer, Toby!
– Dave
One of my favourites in this genre is Antonio Forcione. I saw him live last year and his music is brilliant.
http://www.amazon.com/Meet-Me-London-Antonio-Forcione/dp/B000028322/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1258995515&sr=1-1
Oh, nice one, Mike. Just listened via YouTube. Very passionate guitarist…
– Dave
No worries
Glad you enjoyed, I think your man here is probably a bit more technical genius, however both are pretty good for a slightly different feel on fairly technical acoustic stuff. BTW if you like them as a whole then be sure to check out the Stairway to Heaven cover, its quite creative.
Coincidentally, that’s the first vid I checked out. Quite fun!
Seems like a big wave of Wave invites just came from Google. I expect the need is filled, at least for the moment. Very kind of you, Toby!
– Dave
It seems that way indeed… I’ll hold on to them for a while they may come in handy sometime. If you think of anyone though, let me know(you obviously have my email address), most of the people I know would appreciate it at release but wouldn’t be interested in looking at it with such a small user base. What do you think of it as a whole? It seems like a interesting and quite cool communication environment, will probably be cooler when it has a wider user base… But the scroll bars?!?!?! @$%&
The jury is still out on Google Wave. I think it is very cool and my guess is, a ton of people will dive in and play. I think Wave would be extremely useful if I had a project with a number of folks on it that required lots of communication over the net. Right now, I tend to have lots of projects with just a few people on each, so Wave doesn’t really help as much there. But I love the idea and will continue looking for a fit…
– Dave
“I think Wave would be extremely useful if I had a project with a number of folks on it that required lots of communication over the net.”
This is how I feel it would be best used. Though the other day I was chatting to a friend on it, pretty much used it like an instant messenger, and in allot of ways it was a better instant messenger than anything else I’ve tried. I think it might also be pretty good if there was a group of people with similar interest/hobbies could use it like a small scale forum, stuff tends to get lost in bigger forums with not enough people on them.
I didn’t think to mention before, if you are into looking at technical music for skill rather than a specific sound every once in a while then you should have a look at this guy play bass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js93qxDlIzg