{"id":14117,"date":"2011-12-01T09:38:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14117"},"modified":"2011-12-01T09:38:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:38:41","slug":"up-and-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14117","title":{"rendered":"Up and at it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's exhibit #1 why Rolling Stones' recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/lists\/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123\">100 Greatest Guitar Players<\/a> list is at least 50% bullshit: Tuck Andress.<\/p>\n<p>It starts out a little slow, but around 1:50, he lets it fly.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8k0_JxqiTB8?start=30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let's see Jack White do that!<\/p>\n<p>Even better: after you've watched it, turn the volume down, skip to somewhere in the middle and watch it again; if you didn't just hear him do it, you'd swear the video was sped-up. The guy's a monster. He usually keeps things a <i>little<\/i> bit more mellow in his usual job as half of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuckandpatti.com\/\">Tuck And Patti<\/a>, but is still totally mind-blowing. <\/p>\n<p>I watched about an hour of his \"mastering fingerstyle\" lessons on YouTube yesterday and had one of those experiences where you realize that even though you thought you knew a decent amount about something, you actually don't know <i>anything at all<\/i>. He walked through how one could build up to being able to play four different parts of a song, simultaneously, on a guitar: bass, percussion, guitar and piano; improvising on all four of them in real time. Though I saw him do it, and he broke it all down and built it back up as clear as could be, I still don't believe it's possible. If I ever met him, I'd be embarrassed to even say I owned a guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Andress is Annie Clark's (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-sKWDSmCGvA\">St Vincent<\/a>) uncle, and she was a roadie for Tuck And Patti as a teenager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's exhibit #1 why Rolling Stones' recent 100 Greatest Guitar Players list is at least 50% bullshit: Tuck Andress. It starts out a little slow, but around 1:50, he lets it fly. Let's see Jack White do that! Even better: after you've watched it, turn the volume down, skip to somewhere in the middle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}