Gurley's spellbinding finger-picking on the electric guitar "proved to be the missing component," according to a biography on the band's website, and he became the center of Big Brother's free-form style.
Many of his peers consider Gurley the fountainhead of psychedelic guitar-playing, which "gets improvisational and goes out to this place where the beat is assumed," Barry Melton, lead guitarist for Country Joe & the Fish, told Guitar Player magazine in 1997.
"The music is kind of out there in space, and James Gurley was the first man in space! He's the Yuri Gagarin of psychedelic guitar," Melton said.
Gurley "was the star of Big Brother," the group's drummer, Dave Getz, said on the band's website, "and then Janis came along."
Screwed by a woman. Again!
Mr. Wahl advises he likes this'n, & adds: "... but I still can't tell if it's the greatest worst ever or worst greatest ever guitar solo."
We take a back seat to no one in our not liking Neil Young very much, so we'll go along w/ you.
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I'm pretty sure "Cinnamon Girl" gets the title of worst guitar solo ever (OF ALL TIME) but maybe that's just my personal prejudice.
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ReplyDeleteWe take a back seat to no one in our not liking Neil Young very much, so we'll go along w/ you.
Best wishes for the New Year to all. We sincerely hope no one follows Mr. Gurley to the big arena in the sky (or the arena beneath the earth) in the coming year.