The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, the Grammy-winning ensemble that has spent the past quarter century extracting brilliant music from a rich and organic stew of stylistic and cultural perspectives, takes an eclectic ride with the release of LAGQ Spin. The album marks the third Telarc recording for guitarists John Dearman, Bill Kanengiser, Scott Tennant and Andrew York, the innovative foursome collectively known as LAGQ.
Dana and I had the pleasure of seeing these guys Saturday night. One great thing about them is that they play all sorts of types of music. Of sourse the focus is more classical, but they also had done some David Bromberg, some Jimi Hendrix, some Sting and some Chet Atkins. You must listen to this piece, Blue Echo/Country Gentleman. The echo effect is done just by all of them playing to make it sound that way. Plus Chet Atkins is a great guitarist. The only thing I'm not crazy about with him is that he remind me of George Bush a little. We had a great time out in the city, we found a nice place to eat at that was close to the show plus I got a great parking spot about 2 blocks away for free. All in all it was a much needed night out for us both.
6 comments:
sounds fantastic! I LOVE Chet Atkins by the way...I had an old cassette tape of him I used to listen to all the time. (surprised, aren't you?)
JLee, I'm not surprised at all that you love Chet. He is Mr Guitar and you're a hip chick! I regret that I only recently became aware of him. I always thought he was a country dude and I'm not real big on people like Garth Brooks or whoever is out there. I always liked Hank Williams. My brother turned me on to Chet. He did an album with Tommy Emmanuel that I blogged about a while ago.
Beautiful song...the echo effect is awesome!
Glad you were able to have a date night :)
BTW, nice nickname you have there ;)
They sound good, Phil. I'll have to check them out a little more.
It's always nice to venture out once in a while! Glad you had a great time.
Hey Phil,
I'm glad you stopped by. Keep in touch.
Peace
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