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…And it’s not Ritchie Blackmore
Louder Sound previews interview with Glenn Hughes slated to appear in issue #344 of the Classic Rock magazine.
In the interview, Hughes is asked to say who is the greatest guitarist he’s ever worked with – and his answer is surprising.
“Oh god, that’s really difficult,” he tells Classic Rock. “I don’t want people to be upset with me because I don’t mention Ritchie or Tommy or Mel or Pat, but I have to say it’s a tie between Gary Moore and Joe Bonamassa.
“I’m talking about the fever it has given me working with them. Gary coming to my house at three in the morning and just blowing my mind – it’s incredible what a guitar player he was.
“And Joe Bonamassa is blowing my mind every night. Bonamassa is the greatest right now.”
Read more in Louder Sound. The issue, bundled with the Chosen vinyl and signed lyric sheet, can be ordered through their web store.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
The timing of this article is impeccable, it really is. We want Moore, we want Moore. We all wait for a response with bated breath, from your royal highness. Cheers.
August 17th, 2025 at 00:15He‘s been naming Gary Moore for a long time in answer to questions like this.
That both original G-Force and his later stint with Gary (Run For Clver) led to him being fired by same before things really got ever off the ground doesn’t really seem to be bothering Glenn too much. He knows that he was unreliable in his coke daze back then and generally doesn‘t dwell on the past. The ‘ere and now, you know.
Questions like that are in any case inane, because Blackmore, Iommi, Thrall, Galley, Bolin, Moore and Bonamassa have vastly different strengths (and weaknesses) and each of them excels at something the others cannot nearly do as well.
August 17th, 2025 at 03:51😄😄
He can choose whatever guitarist he likes!
Personal preference is, well personal..
I would prefer RB at all times. When I think how he played when he was in Purple, I don’t think a lot of guitarists could do the same.
Looking past his attitude, there wasn’t many like him.
If I could have one wish it would be this:
The Purple-people would be in their 50s, they would all get along, they would give concerts in Denmark (Randers actually) a couple of times a year – ohh wait a minute, I need to get all the flying pigs out of my house, well where was I?
But I really am happy they chose to make this wonderful music 🎵
In a world where confusing things happen on a daily basis, it is comforting that the music still is here.
When the leaders of the world act like badly behaved children, it is so warming to seek refuge in a beautiful voice and very well played tunes 💜
Oh sorry this was a post about Glenn H, well, he was mentioned in the beginning, wasn’t he? ☺️
August 17th, 2025 at 05:52GH can talk lots of nonsenses something but no one can deny that Joe Bonamassa is the best guitarist at the moment so he is spot on.
August 17th, 2025 at 08:22Peace ✌️
tout cela n’a aucun interet!
August 17th, 2025 at 12:22What’s a bullshit.
August 17th, 2025 at 13:27Much as I never got the excitement about Gary, let’s give credit where credit‘s due: DP bassists seem to be in agreement about him:
https://blabbermouth.net/news/deep-purples-roger-glover-picks-gary-moore-as-his-rock-god-he-was-just-an-absolute-force-of-nature
And Jack Bruce agrees so there must be something wrong with me:
https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jack-bruce-on-the-brilliance-of-gary-moore
I‘d prefer Clapton‘s elegant and sometimes introvert melodicism to Moore‘s continuously tense passion anytime. Gary was like a dinner guest who wants to take the lead for the whole evening, Eric is more the type who listens attentively to the other guests and interjects something deep and meaningful now and then.
JoBo is a lot more Eric than Gary to me. And I was pleasantly surprised to hear some Tommy Bolin mannerisms in his playing during his more lengthy improvisations with BCC when I saw them in Cologne recently. As his – ultimately successful – decade-long quest for Tommy‘s Gibson Les Paul with the Bigsby vibrato shows, he seems to take some interest in the man.
August 17th, 2025 at 15:09What I mean is …
This is contrived, musically and songwriting-wise as well as vocally, let’s not even talk about the hilariously overwrought guitar solo as sensitive as a Churchill Mk IV tank ploughing through a wild flower field:
https://youtu.be/c0gg4zY0oZ0
And this is effortlessly beautiful, organic and inherently musical:
https://youtu.be/qako94KrCV0
Unless you are 15 and sold your Star Wars figurines only recently, it is beyond me how you can rate Gary Moore a more accomplished and consummate musician than Tommy Bolin. He might have been technically the better, or let’s just say “more determined” guitarist though, but technically excellent guitarists are a dime a dozen.
August 17th, 2025 at 17:13It’s quite ironic that Gary earned his reputation with his hyperintense playing in the ’80s but later on he himself tried to disown that music. He seemed to be his own harshest crtitic. I share neither Glenn’s worship of Gary, nor Gary’s berating of himself. I like Run for Cover and his other albums from that era but don’t consider them masterpieces.
August 17th, 2025 at 19:16@. 8- well Uwe, we all know how long Bolin lasted. When someone ‘famous’ dies they get elevated to a higher ‘plane’ by mortals, they become more ‘famous’ in many ways. Would have Tommy Bolin become the next whizz kid guitarist on the block. People think the same with Hendrix, Kossoff, etc. Just what would they have accomplished further on is any body’s guess. And that is all it is, a guess, a fantasy of sorts. At least Gary Moore did move through a few different genres and he lasted some distance. I would call that rather consummate and accomplished. Poor ole Tommy, Jimi and Paul, fate eh? Cheers.
August 17th, 2025 at 23:12He looks like a woman on that front cover !
…and the only reason he names J.B …is because he still plays with him and wants to be sycophantic
August 17th, 2025 at 23:30@ 8 😀
Well Uwe, I didn’t have a set of Star Wars figurines as I never got bitten by that Star Wars bug (we talked about it earlier I believe) but I was around maybe 18 when I heard that tank, ups, song by Gary Moore the last time. I really thought it was kinda moving back then (Christiane comes to mind) but it soon wore out and I just forgot about it until you reminded me here. Not sure if I wanna thank you for that, the tune’s a bit of an annoying Ohrwurm – I got in mind without having listened to it for 40plus years.
Tommy Bolin’s stuff on the other hand is of course still spinned here time and again and I even learned to play that hunting sax tune at the end of Sweet Burgundy on a flute back in the day.
@3
No that’s girls for ya. Her ladyship not only wishes DP Mark II back together again, no, they should come and play next to her home … a couple of times a year. While we were happy to travel half of Europe to worship our heros some place or other back in the 80s.
August 18th, 2025 at 08:55Some people like pistachio ice cream, others like chocolate ice cream. I only eat ice cream if it has pistachios in it.
August 18th, 2025 at 10:54Oh, so JoBo is indeed a serious ToBo fan!
https://youtu.be/R5Fy47UEoT8
August 18th, 2025 at 11:33(That’s Tommy’s Les Paul btw.)
@ 3 Karin
August 18th, 2025 at 13:15Amazing! 😅
I faintly seem to remember this being up here before, but in any case it’s a good piece on Gary’s rock days:
https://www.loudersound.com/features/gary-moore-guitarist-early-80s-solo-albums-story
This quote from it just says it all:
With a week to kill in LA on the Rush tour (Uwe’s edit: Gary had opened for the Canucks), Moore had arranged to stay at Hughes’s palatial Northridge mansion. The only snag was that his host was now a full-time, pipe-sucking crack addict. Hughes “put the pipe down” for a few days while he showered, shaved and tried to “look like a normal guy – for Gary”.
The illusion held long enough to persuade Moore that another team-up with Hughes could work. So the seeds were sewn for what would become Moore’s pinnacle 80s solo album: Run For Cover.
There would be more albums to come on which Moore incorporated trad-Irish rhythms, pure American blues, burlesque pop-electronica, even drum’n’bass into his sound, but he never made another true-blue rock album like Run For Cover. He’d walked out.
When Hughes flew into London to begin work, Moore’s manager insisted that Glenn lay down some collateral. “In case I fucked up.” They took one of his cars, a black Volvo he kept as a runaround. In return, Hughes was given at a luxury flat to stay in while the two began writing material. Material that Hughes would later receive no credit for, he explained, because Moore “controlled every aspect – from the syncopation of your bass, to what notes you play, to what you sing”.
Once, Hughes screamed at him: “Why don’t you play the fucking bass yourself?” So Moore did.
Moore adored Hughes’s singing voice, and decided all lead vocals would be split between them 50-50. Hughes would eventually sing lead on four of the album’s 10 tracks.
Moore was such a Hughes/Thrall fan, according to Hughes, that the title track, Run For Cover, was “basically a rip-off of I Got Your Number”, the opening track on Hughes/Thrall. In his 2011 memoir, Hughes writes: “I Got Your Number was a huge influence on Gary. You can definitely hear it on Run For Cover.”
It was true, especially the tracks Hughes sings on, like the strutting Reach For The Sky or the swaggering Nothing To Lose or, best of all, the sassy All Messed Up. Even the freshly frosted Empty Rooms shone like new.
But with Hughes jonesing for crack and Moore oblivious to his pain, the tension in the studio quickly escalated. Hughes would wait for Moore to leave for the weekend, then hit the Embassy Club in Mayfair with Lemmy, who “could handle his drugs, I couldn’t”. Hughes was also midnight feasting, and at one point tipped the scales at 220 pounds/15 and a half stones.
He had originally sung lead on the new Empty Rooms. When Moore’s manager insisted Hughes lose weight and get his teeth fixed in order for them to perform it on Top Of The Pops, it led to a full physical examination. When blood-test results revealed the hideous truth of what Hughes had been up to in his spare time, he recalled: “I was on the next fucking plane. There was no conversation about it. I was gone.”
Needless to say the Hughes version of Empty Rooms never saw the light of day. When a still disgruntled Moore ‘revealed’ in an interview that Hughes had a food addiction, calling him Mr Creosote, “it really hurt me”, Hughes confessed. Moore was “not a man to fuck with. He didn’t have the scars on his face for nothing.”
I remember a quote from Gary about Glenn in German Metal Hammer around the time of Run For Cover’s release where he said: “If you have a Mars bar in one hand and a bass in the other and offer both to Glenn, he will always pick the Mars bar.” Of course, lengthy drug addiction messes up your metabolism and gives you a sweet tooth.
Given their many points of abrasion during their various cooperations, I think it is a testament to Glenn’s forgiveness (but then he has needed a lot of forgiveness himself from other people too) that he rates Gary so highly. OTOH, when I read the accolades now it makes me wonder why the two never did anything together again once Glenn had come clean in the 90s. In the more than twenty-five years following the Run For Cover sessions debacle until Gary’s untimely death, their paths never crossed again, no guesting on each other’s albums or an impromptu live jam. I sometimes get the impression that Glenn’s repression and displacement instincts are still well intact, history is always moving with him. 😑
August 18th, 2025 at 14:14After all the great musicians who’ve praised Gary, why do we have to keep hearing about someone who thinks he’s irritating?
August 18th, 2025 at 23:32@14: Indeed! https://youtu.be/MVXQPIm6wC0?si=03sP590QkD0f1oOB
August 19th, 2025 at 05:51@ 18 – Gee that is a classic sound on that Les Paul. Cannot beat the old school guitars. I always enjoy Bonamassa’s take on vintage guitars. A very down to earth chap he is. Cheers.
August 19th, 2025 at 06:06Hughes/Thrall album still stands up today. Hoping that the recordings Glenn alludes to that they did twenty plus years ago in New York come out. They should have done more together. I would like to see Glenn and Pat play their original album live.
August 19th, 2025 at 08:45@ 16 – this comment is in regard to Tony Iommi being warned in 1985/6, to NOT get involved with Glenn Hughes. From my memory about reading that, and that warning was from Gary Moore. It was Iommi saying that in an interview a few years after the disaster of the Seventh Star album touring debacle with Hughes. Uwe, why would Moore want to work with Hughes again, after all that shite. Most musicians don’t go back and some do, for different reasons. Iommi later on did attempt to rectify something with Hughes, both personally and musically. All that drama eh? Moving forward is the key and staying positive the main objective for many. Going backwards is risky business for most people who have been burnt, in any life experience. Each to their own eh? Cheers.
August 19th, 2025 at 09:38@ 8 – to compare those two songs is completely laughable Uwe. Two totally different styles of music and eras and everything else. And I know if I wrote a song like that Gary Moore song, well what an achievement that would be. Many music followers would agree, it is a good melodic rock song with excellent players. However that is my own preference to the style of music. It is a rather good example of a clever arrangement, that others have achieved also, but what rock music hasn’t got something similar in it from somewhere else? The guitar solo places so much importance on the song itself and what a seriously good lead guitarist should always play in a vocal song. Ian Paice on the drums, yeeeessss! I loved the fact that Paice plays in Moore’s band and Neil Murray too. And don’t start repeating your ridiculous, iron fisted barbarian at the gates rubbish. A good song is a good song. A good band is a good band. Ian needed to let his hair down after the Whitesnake negative tripe that Coverdale dished out. Plus it had him in good stead for the DP reunion. Hooray. We want Moore, we want Moore. Cheers.
August 19th, 2025 at 10:21I love everything about Gary Moore. I don’t understand what there is to criticize about his music. Fantastic with Murray Airey and Paice. Melodic and devastating. He wrote milestones, true gems. He died unexpectedly too soon. I hope he’s now with Lynott.
August 19th, 2025 at 11:15♡
There are some legendary pieces by Gary Moore that almost every time bring a tear to the eye… something that can’t happen with Hughes, even if “you” like it..
August 19th, 2025 at 11:20…That’s life.
“At least Gary Moore went through different genres …” – and Tommy Bolin did not? Wot??? You can’t be serious, in a period of just seven years Tommy played
– psychedelic Blues with Zephyr as well as traditional Blues backing Black Blues artists in Colorado,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE8jCj75f-k
– did Fusion/Jazz Rock with Billy Cobham, Energy and Alphonse Mouzon,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSlh_QgDit4
– played Doobie Brothers’ish hard rock with the James Gang (at the recommendation of Joe Walsh),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M71wcOdpB2c
– did New Orleans RnB with Dr John/Mac Rebenack,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EINslCAhVqw
– did hard rock/AOR with Canucks Moxy playing nearly all the solos on their debut,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4yGkMVe9aA
– released two solo albums where basically every song was in a different style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf_w1Xe32LI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKPLuPaDXLQ
plus
– joined stadium rock behemoths Deep Purple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKGKgD1jJRs
If that doesn’t indicate that Tommy (“I like lots of kinds of music.” – his shrugging answer to James Gang drummer Jim Fox’ question whether he could play harder rock too) was versatile and prolific and would have continued to be so had he not overdosed in late 1976 (and the people around him handled his comatose/catatonic state so appallingly bad to only call an ambulance after his body temperature was already way down), then I don’t know what does! To the contrary, during his short lifetime, Tommy was regularly accused of being too varied in style for him to be marketable.
August 19th, 2025 at 12:52Now that’s girls for ya. Her ladyship not only wishes DP Mark II back together again, no, they should come and play next to her home … a couple of times a year …
Say what you will about Max, but he’s a fast learner. Having plunged into the depths of ignominy with his unfortunate “mature woman” comment, he has now done a venerable “Münchhausen-pulling-himself-out-of-the-swamp-by-his-own-ponytail”-stunt and morphed the Randrusianess into a – hark! – “girl”. We all applaud such obvious betterment!
August 19th, 2025 at 14:50“Uwe, why would Moore want to work with Hughes again, after all that shite.”
Because people do change, Herr MacGregor. You of all people, with your convict descendancy and a commendable journey of reform over the generations, should subscribe to that school of thinking.
Never mind that Gary had his own share of unreliable behavior, like dumping Thin Lizzy in the middle of a crucial US tour and then hiding out at Glenn’s house in LA to escape the (just) wrath of Phil Lynott. What an ultimate pro.
Do as I say, don’t do as I do!
August 19th, 2025 at 15:50“He looks like a woman on that front cover !”
That’s not true at all, says Vinnie Vincent, how dare you, Steve, you have no idea how much effort it takes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wK_pSyMokI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xl_6AuN5v8
August 19th, 2025 at 16:16#16 If I remember correctly, his albums always had Gary Moore on them, not Gary with Someone Else. As a bandleader with artistic and financial responsibility, you can certainly dictate to your employees how something should sound. With Colosseum II, Neil Murray obviously had more freedom.
August 19th, 2025 at 19:14And if I let a drug addict do whatever he wants, I’m not sure anything will come of it.
@ 25 – Once again Uwe, the’ retired’ lawyer takes a comment out of its context, (old habits do die hard eh?). Listen, learn, read on Uwe. You are painting poor ole Gary out to be a ‘one trick pony’ as such. Well, that is your agenda as I see it. My comment and I am talking about Moore, NOT Tommy Bolin. Uwe said “it is beyond me how you can rate Gary Moore a more accomplished and consummate musician than Tommy Bolin”. Easy done Uwe, Moore lasted the distance so to speak, especially when relating to the younger musicians who died so young and didn’t really set themselves up. Gary went through those different phases and came out the other side. Bolin, if you want to compare was all over the shop, trying those different genres to see what he was going to eventually do, more or less. Back to the court room now and I apologise to the judge here in court, the side step there from my esteemed opposite, although, he should know better. As we can see, Uwe is a Bolin acolyte, I am not. Bolin hasn’t done frig all in my book that is ‘great’ or however some may want to see that. The DP album and some of the Billy Cobham ‘Spectrum’ album and that is about it for me. I find his other experiments, just that. He was searching, nothing wrong with that, many others have done that too. A fine guitarist, but is he ‘over rated’? He was still searching when he ‘shot’ to stardom, no pun intended. Cheers.
August 19th, 2025 at 22:20Yes, it’s true: Bolin has done many different things. Maybe that’s the problem.
August 20th, 2025 at 07:00“And if I let a drug addict do whatever he wants, I’m not sure anything will come of it.”
You’re right, Crocco, it’s better to have an unapologetic alcoholic at the helm who drank himself to death with a blood alcohol level of 0.38%. I understand that you think that Glenn was irresponsible getting off cocaine and crack while Gary showed great responsibility by just continuing to drink until his bitter end. Different rules for different people.
As a bandleader with artistic and financial responsibility, you can certainly dictate to your employees how something should sound.
You can, but you don’t have to. DC didn’t though everyone in WS except him was on a wage and all the contractual relationships with the record company and the management were only with him. Yet he saw no need to interfere with Neil Murray’s bass playing in WS – I have yet to hear someone claim how that harmed WS’ overall sound. Truth of the matter is that Gary Moore was a control freak and he stunted the talents of the people who played with him. A lot of Moore’s recorded rock material sounds incredibly stiff because his perfectionism killed any groove.
August 20th, 2025 at 07:10@ 27 -as I said in my comment, some people do go back, many don’t. SOME people change, SOME do not Uwe. What, just because one person changes, the other person does too? No logic in that. An association with someone from the past, whatever that association is, is what it is. Some people do NOT want to go there again, for whatever reason. They move on, permanently. I think you will find a hell of a lot of people do just that in life. And what does Gary Moore’s Thin Lizzy scenario have to do with what we are talking about? From Hughes and Moore then suddenly to Moore and Phil Lynott? For the record, it could very well be that Moore and Lynott had a much deeper connection than Moore and Hughes, don’t you think. There would also be other reasons Moore re connected with Phil at that moment in time, the mid 80’s. Most people are aware of that, of course none of us were there though. However that last time get together has been aired in public. Cheers.
August 20th, 2025 at 10:31How Tommy was versatile in various forms of music and how Gary was (I never said he wasn‘t) was quite a bit different. Tommy was this hippie kid with a positive and embracing outlook on everything. He had no issues playing a hard rock riff in one moment and a reggae off-beat rhythm guitar in the next,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK1nR3hSQXc
he was a Bob Marley nut. It was all music to him.
In contrast, Gary wasn‘t so much embracing different things all at once T any given time as that – as you wrote, lieber Herr MacGregor – he “went through different genres” as part of his quest to find musical fulfillment – hence Gary’s tendency to disown things he had done before: he didn’t want to hear about his fusion forays with Colosseum II when he did hard rock, downplayed his time in Thin Lizzy when he aimed to become an AOR rock star for the US market (which didn’t work out) and dismissed all that once he had found the Blues (for a while at least). Gary was obviously searching, Tommy just went with the music wherever it took him. Those two Bolin solo albums are a wild mishmash of genres, Gary would not have once committed to a single record (his versatility worked in a sequence of stages or eras), Teaser + Private Eyes are only held together thematically by one thing, namely Bolin’s charm and idiosyncrasy as a performer.
Yeah, you can call me a “Bolin acolyte”, his playing, singing and songwriting touches me in a way that transcends technical aspects of his guitar playing. There is an effortless intimacy about his music. He was a natural, Gary was more the obsessive, driven talent.
Interestingly, both Bolin and Moore played with Albert King and his advice to both was similar. To Tommy after he had delivered a flurry of notes: Man, just say it all with ONE note! And to Gary: Think what you wanna say before you play. Then, play only half of that.
August 20th, 2025 at 14:50In my opinion, it makes no sense to compare Bolin to Moore, two totally different guitarists. Gary left an indelible mark on the hard-blues Guitar Hero band, he also had a fair amount of commercial success with songs that were played on FM radio, he had the “push” of the 80s that many others had, and that Tommy didn’t have because he had already left us.
Bolin may have been a genius because he played everything, but when he died he hadn’t yet written anything fundamental to the history of rock, while Gary Moore managed to leave us songs that have stood the test of time, and for this reason, for me, he is a more important guitarist than Tommy.
If Tommy had still been alive in the 80s, what would he have achieved?… either he would have turned to FM music (maybe with his brother Glenn) like so many others, or he would have been destined for oblivion a bit like Jaco Pastorius
August 20th, 2025 at 19:40A bit like Ritchie then was Gary Moore, perhaps. Constantly dissing his past when moving on and searching for something else. Some musicians constantly shift and some find their niche, it is what it is. I do remember reading about Gary dismissing his hard rock era when he ‘found’ the blues. Or did the blues ‘find’ him. I also thought he said that he would ‘never’ play hard rock again. Of course as we know, we should never say never. He did go back in a certain way to some hard rock. I suppose we do look at David Bowie and how he dismissed his past with the characters at least, always evolving into something else. Certain songs were still played later on by Bowie, as they should be. Many musicians are embarrassed with their earlier music too. However I have noticed that as time progresses, they sometimes do play an older song or two at later day concerts. Nostalgia has probably come into play. Cheers.
August 20th, 2025 at 21:16I don’t want to denigrate him (I have all his records as proof), but Bolin is more famous for being the guitarist who replaced Blackmore than for the legacy he left us. A great guitarist (in retrospect, not during). We often risk creating a character who never actually existed, and since Tommy didn’t last long, everything that was created around him is because he was simply the band’s second guitarist and nothing more.
August 21st, 2025 at 06:47#35 Very well put, Fla76. I don’t really understand why people compare Gary to Tommy. Just because I really liked Gary’s different playing styles doesn’t mean I don’t like other interesting guitarists. I really liked Tommy on Spectrum, and I listen to CTTB more often than In Rock, Fireball, or Machine Head. I also like Tommy’s vocals on his solo albums and on Purple’s Last Concert in Japan (Wild Dogs). For me, music depends on my mood; sometimes I prefer aggressive guitarists like Moore, Sykes, or Wylde, and sometimes playful ones like Bolin, Blackmore, or Morse. In the blues genre, I prefer Robben Ford, Robert Cray, and B.B. King, for example. Clapton, Page, and SRV don’t appeal to me at all, but everyone has their own preferences
August 21st, 2025 at 11:09Tommy was more a complete musician than a virtuoso guitarist.
https://youtu.be/ILFXuNLgIvw
But there was undoubtedly something to him: He garnered respect from people as diverse as Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh, Billy Cobham, Jan Hammer, Jeff Beck, David Bowie and even Ritchie long before he replaced the latter in DP. In actual fact, real Bolinistas back then scoffed more than a little when he joined DP who were by then perceived as stadium rockers with very little left to say. It was seen as Tommy selling out, I remember it well, many people thought it incredulous.
Come Taste The Band is nonetheless a hell of an album and even if Tommy were still alive today! Whether the move to DP was a crowning achievement in his career, is another matter though, playing on Bowie’s epochal Station To Station and touring with him would have perhaps made more sense.
August 21st, 2025 at 22:10Gary Moore has written something “fundamental to the history of rock”, Fla76?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/89/16/4a/89164a8addd602b9fa7d420364f501c4.gif
You are a true comedian!
Maybe a profound composition such as this?
https://youtu.be/BAl_kxpjTNE
Or this highly original piece that makes some KISS songs sound like The Beatles?
https://youtu.be/yz5WypXsP_8
Most of Gary’s songwriting sounded labored to me. He was way too smart to do credibly “gloriously dumb” and not gifted enough to write anything really special. He was a much better guitarist than songwriter, Empty Rooms was pretty much one of his peaks.
August 21st, 2025 at 22:37@12
“Her ladyship not only wishes DP Mark II back together again”
– well, yes!
I have always searched for quality in my life! Not quantity 😃
‘Her ladyship’? You mean little poor me? Well, thanks I guess…. 😁🤣
“they should come and play next to her home … a couple of times a year”
– 😄 yes, but you see, there is a very good reason: then I could invite all 5 of them to my humble residence and serve them yummy coffee and a little homeopathic whiskey(Yes, I’m a sneaky girl!)
And I do believe my nook of the world is beautiful 😍 we have forests, lakes, reindeer, foxes, Anton (!), beautiful birds, no lion, tigers and bears oh my, but cows, horses, and chickens 😃
And I believe they would enjoy the weather here too, not too cold, not too warm, just Goldilock weather and surroundings 😄
And in the morning they would be woken up by the numerous birds chirping 😃 ahhh pure bliss…
And all my neighbours already know their wonderful music, so we would all be left alone, because my neighbours are very decent people who know how to adore at a distance!
“While we were happy to travel half of Europe to worship our heros some place or other back in the 80s.”
August 22nd, 2025 at 23:21– well, my dear mum was not at all happy for her youngest to travel around in the big world to listen to rock music! What dangers she imagined is not known, but I think she was afraid I would be abducted (no, she didn’t believe in UFOs!) or kidnapped by some guy who would put me in his harem 🤣 my mum had a vivid imagination!
So you see! There is a very good reason for all my ramblings 😁
#40 Uwe:
I don’t feel like listing the songs, Gary was an excellent guitarist, he wrote important pages for rock/blues music when Clapton was putting everyone to sleep, he filled arenas, he played great shows in his most successful moment, he created a certain way of playing blues-rock, he played with great names in music, and he had a signature Les Paul already in the 80s (when Van Halen, Clapton and a few others had the signature).
and anyway, Still Got the Blues alone is enough to put Gary among the guitar Bigs
August 23rd, 2025 at 00:37#42. Well put. A good closing argument, Fla76.
August 23rd, 2025 at 10:46@41
While I’ve no clue what Goldilock weather might be – to me that sounds like a nickname for a not-too-bright curly blonde – I dare to doubt that everyone in DP might enjoy the Danish summer, let alone the winter. Please keep in mind that the main character (the one you would invite them all over to your home for) moved to sunny Portugal years ago…
I like the quality concept. Comes with age I guess. I mean MY age of course. How a youngblood like you got that I have to wonder.
August 23rd, 2025 at 12:09We must imagine teenage Karin as some kind of Randers Rapunzel
https://giphy.com/gifs/tangled-rapunzel-brush-TsrYnHGZYrxOo
grounded in eternal Hausarrest.
While her older brother was in the French Foreign Legion of course! 😎
August 23rd, 2025 at 12:09It’s ok, you don’t have to, I’m not denying that Gary had great technique, an immediately recognizable sound, impressed a lot of his contemporaries and was a lasting influence on people such as John Sykes and that new guy with DP, whatever his name is. I just have a general preference for players with a more percussive and cleaner tone (endless guitar sustain quickly bores me), which is likely why I tend to prefer Strat players over Les Paul ones (Gary played Strats too, especially in the 80s, but he was essentially a Gibsonite). Through no fault of his own, Gary ticked a lot of boxes with me that I really don’t like that much about guitar herodom.
Ironically, among my most favorite songs from him, the guitar pyrotechnics take a real backseat:
https://youtu.be/ce-yOEcgNEA
https://youtu.be/pxLiM1ov_Wc
His voice also sounded a lot better in ballads than over harder music.
August 23rd, 2025 at 12:34@44
Well Max, Goldilocks was a pretty bright girl actually!
She chose the “not too much but the just right things in life” 😃
Goldilocks weather is like that: “not biting your cheeks off “ – freezing cold and “not melting those cheeks off” warmth in the summer!
Some call this pleasant weather 😊
We never have the horrible hurricanes, deadly storms, never covered in 10 meters snow…. Goldilocks 😄
You might like to watch this very informative video with your children ☺️
https://youtu.be/GnbO6h_yQkg?feature=shared
A Youngblood like me??
How old do you think I am? – oohhhhh – or are you trying to mend my heart after the ‘mature lady’ thing? 😁😄
“I dare to doubt that everyone in DP might enjoy the Danish summer, let alone the winter. “
August 24th, 2025 at 05:02– well Max, I wasn’t inviting them to live with me, just to come by for a coffee and a homeopathic whiskey ☺️😉
And of course they are welcome to stay for as long they need to rest their musicality!
I do believe my minuscule country is ideal to recover from life’s hard pressures 😎
If your cuisine-, cultural life-, historical sites- and climate-demands are generally more on the modest side, you don’t mind the occasional grains of sediment grinding between your teeth, yet you actively enjoy the sight of the Dan(n)ebrog flying pretty much everywhere, then Jylland, that unrivaled sandbox of Creation liberally covered with German WWII bunkers like a teenager’s face with acne, is truly heaven on earth for you!
Do tell us, Karin, does Anton have a Dan(n)ebrog raincoat too?
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A Youngblood like me??
How old do you think I am? – oohhhhh – or are you trying to mend my heart after the ‘mature lady’ thing?
Way to go, Karin, keep reminding Max how you have(n’t) forgiven him!
https://imgcdn.saxo.com/_9788743041108
Me, I have long given up making a mention of it here, you cannot forever measure an essentially good person and family man like Max by that onetime behavioral slip, egregious as it might have appeared at the time and potentially havoc-wreaking decorum-wise.
https://i.makeagif.com/media/10-10-2017/nKKvx7.gif
August 24th, 2025 at 16:03@26
“Say what you will about Max, but he’s a fast learner”
– 😂 well, he had to, hadn’t he? You, amongst others (read: me) gave him a really hard time 🫣
“Having plunged into the depths of ignominy with his unfortunate “mature woman” comment”
– he actually called me a ‘mature lady’!
Even worse if you ask me 😰😰😰
I have already been shopping: strong glasses, comfy chair, soft cushions, warm blankets, lots of cats, glue to my new bright white teeth, some hair pieces in different colours and last: a brand new walking cane 😝
A ‘mature woman’ is actually easier to digest – (not literally Uwe!)
“Münchhausen-pulling-himself-out-of-the-swamp-by-his-own-ponytail”
– 🤣🤣 oh I love this sentence!
“morphed the Randrusianess into a – hark! – “girl”
– well, this took me by surprise too, but I thought this: Max might try to give a very good impression of how German gentlemen behave in public…. (No offence Uwe ☺️)
Btw: Have you seen the Danish thriller series, in Danish ‘Forbrydelsen’, I guess in Deutsch it may be called “Kommissarin Lund – Das Verbrechen”?
I’ve just started to see it, yes embarrassing I haven’t seen it before, but woah it is good!
If by chance you haven’t seen it yet, I can really recommend it.
And that goes for everybody all over the world 😃
And the music in the series is adorable (psst there really isn’t any music in the series, but you know…. Admin 😄)
August 24th, 2025 at 16:59@48
“German WWII bunkers”
– 😄 so sorry if I disappoint you now Uwe, but I actually never notice them…
German tourist on the other hand, are everywhere, and I welcome them to my heart!
The other day I met this adorable couple, the woman couldn’t speak anything else but German, but the man spoke English very good.
I welcomed them to our nice and heartwarming country, and we ended up hugging each other ☺️
“heaven on earth for you!”
– it is Uwe! (Do you also like Belinda Carlisle?) (I mean since you quote her so much 😄)
“Do tell us, Karin, does Anton have a Dan(n)ebrog raincoat too?“
– 😂 no! Maybe this surprises you, but I don’t believe in clothing for dogs.
His little tutu on the other hand is very cute whenever he watches ‘the Swanlake’ in the tv.
“reminding Max how you have(n’t) forgiven him!”
August 24th, 2025 at 17:16– ohhh but I have forgiven him completely! Max doesn’t owe me anything! And even though he might know that, he still comes around very polite, and very friendly without “pulling my pig-tales” like you do ALL THE TIME! (Not complaining..)