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RIP Bert Weedon
- Thread starter AndyG43
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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.
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. 
Very few of his book buyers went on to greatness but his influence on those few cannot be denied.
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.
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.