Albert Lee - T bird to Vegas!!!

[Spudmurphy]

So here I am feeling all proud with myself because I've learnt the first 16 bars of T bird to Vegas.

Getting to the stage where the licks are "bouncing back" to me.
My wife has just shouted up the stairs saying that she never wants to hear it again !! (Ha! Ha!).
I put the "Country Boy " dvd on(ya know the one with Sterling playing bass) and I'm gob smacked !!

I really thought I was up to speed on it yet Albert leaves me in his dust.
So clean - so precise - BIG AL IS AWESOME !!!

Time to get the metronome out!!

 

[robelinda2]

hey i was watching that dvd today too, great stuff, AL rules. T bird is a great tune.

 

[Spudmurphy]

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Isn't it great Rob how all the notes chime? - I was watching Albert on the Return of Spinal Tap - hah that is soo funny seeing the Capo on the Marshall Amp instead of on the guitar - "So it doesn't get in the way of your hands".
Mr Horespower gets an airing as does his AXIS (or is it his EVH?)

 

[robelinda2]

funny stuff! Ive been trying to transcribe AL's solo on Steve Wariner's Crash Course In The Blues, almost have it down, great little solo, nothing spectacular but my ears like it, now my fingers like it too!

 

[Spudmurphy]

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I don't know that one!- I just had a quick "google" and saw a video clip.
I'd love to see one with Albert playing on it.

 

[robelinda2]

Great tune and Steve Wariner has a nice instructional vid too.

The other AL solo i'm working on is Heartbreak Train, by Rosie Flores. Excellent solos on that one.

 

[passarellee]

I love the songs you both mention, Albert is so good on those.

The first solo i ever heard him play was on Clapton's live version of 'Knocking on heavens door' 'from an album called 'Live in the seventies'
I just played guitar for a year orso and i had never heard of Albert Lee. When i heard that solo my first thought was ''Wow, Clapton is amazing here''
Then, after a while i realized it wasn't Clapton but Albert Lee and i became an instant fan. After that i tried to find every record he's on but soon realized that that's an impossible mission

I'm now working on Country boy, i love that song. I'm listening to Ricky Skaggs' version too, it has a great pedalsteel solo that i'm trying to figure out with the b and g benders.