• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

RIP Bert Weedon

A

AndyG43

SOH-CM-2023
You realise how young the people you work with really are when they say "who is Bert Weedon?"!!

RIP Bert Weedon, time to teach those angels some new harp riffs.
 
Hey All,

I'm older than you and I said Who is Bert Weedon? So I looked him up...

Great guitarist! Here is a Tube...

[youtube]SVMpT4DG4G8&feature=related[/youtube]

Interesting that he is apparently THE MAN who introduced England to the electric guitar.

Apparently The Beatles, Clapton all of them got started on his book "Play in a Day" and studied his chops.

Great to be a real pioneer and have the likes of those mentioned follow in your footsteps.

RIP Bert Weedon

-Ed-

PS I need to find a copy of that book!

PSS Cool that The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band song we are normal from 1968 has the line "We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon" in it - no they are not normal.
 
Bert Weedon certainly did all you said Ed, however, he was also responsible for creating tens of thousands of bad guitar players who thought they were god's gift to guitar picking once they got to the end of his book not realizing that it takes years of dedication and practice to get anywhere close to good. :icon_lol:

Very few of his book buyers went on to greatness but his influence on those few cannot be denied.
 
Though he wasn't the greatest guitar player that ever lived, he probably had the most influence on early European electric guitar players.

His book laid the foundation for the truly awe-inspiring sounds of Clapton, Page, Hendrick, etc .... Like most things, a book may teach how something is supposed to be done, but only when you actually do it do you learn how it's really done.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top