As I will undoubtedly unleash a flurry of said favorite's bio, riffs, vids and pics, I want to lay some ground work.
Django Reinhardt ( B.1910 D. 1953) was a jazz guitar player, but could play anything from his native franco-gypsy music to classical and did it all with a significant physical limitation, especially for a guitar player of his great talent, at 18 he lost the use of his ring and pinkie fingers on his left(fret) hand!!
You see Django was a real deal Gypsy and his caravan (trailer) caught fire, he pulled his old lady to safety but got hurt real bad, old world docs wanted to amputate his leg, but Django wasn't going for that shit, so he left the hospital and taught himself how to walk again and also picked back up his guitar. Kick ass!
As you can image his playing was altered and he developed a style that influence all the greats to follow. He jammed with everyone from Armstrong to Ellington and is a certified bad ass. Here are some vids and pics.
Can you guess whom he may have influenced?
Well his birthday is this week and due to his own accident may have single handily created of the greatest music of all ( in my humble opinion)! So stay tuned.
I don't smoke but Django makes it look sooo cool.
Not to dwell, but here is a shot of his injured fingers.
This is a mini-documentary! Django rips it up, man he was a string bender! Check the run at 7:12! Oh shit!
hey i see your tocallo right there at the top of e-s-g komming out of a strip klub with his mates!! well at least thats my guess. a one mister Francis Anthony Melby "Tony" Iommi will be turning 63 this komming saturday.
ReplyDeleteam i right?? what did i win??
and since you went way old skool with Django in this blog, i'll just mention (no blog needed) that Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua had a birthday on January 13, he would have been 82 & on March 6, John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery would have been turning 88. no birthday wishes for the dead but those two are my favourite oldskool axemen!!!!
You are correct sir and you win an Obeisance T shirt!
ReplyDeleteMr. Iommi is our special birthday god this week!
Wow Joe Pass and Wes nice...I've seen and met Mr. Pass...And later Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis & Charlie Byrd when I was but a wee lad!
The old-man was M.C. for their shows!
TOO F'n KOOL!!!! Mr. B was, is and always be the the koolest!!!!
ReplyDeletekool i won!!! OBEISANCE T!!!! yeah!! hope its not a satanik motiff! my mom wont let me wear it if is!
next wednesday is another guitar gods berfday!! guess who!! born in 44 is your hint!
errr. I don't know, guess I have some research to do. Is he alive? Have I seen him in concert? Do you have a tattoo of him? Blackmore? King? Peter Tosh?
ReplyDeleteDr. "J"'s is soon!
Mad-Tank's in next week too!
he's alive (although he doesnt look like he's alive) youve seen him live, i hav'nt (i wish i have) no tattoo of him. he has tattoos. its not Blackmore, King or Peter Tosh.
ReplyDeleteOh he doesn't look alive! So he looks dead! It can be the one and only Johnny Winter!
ReplyDeleteCool! More fodder for my little blog!
I did see him at Antones....you know Hubert Sumlin ( of Howlin' Wolf fame) sat in and stole the show!