Re: Name Every Famous Guitarist You Can Who Used A JB (SH-4)
Although I am not personnally famous, I did play with Eric Burden for a summer after War, backed up Harvey Mandel, Boomtown Rats, Iron Butterfly (really), Albert Collins who offered me a job, but I was told he offers every guitarist he meets to play rythm for him. Opened for Triumviat(sp?), backed up Bachman-Turner, and one of the most terrifying moments of my life, in a rock band "Ronnie Lee Group" had to open for Devo on their first tour though America and almost got killed(for real) by a flying FULL budweiser bottle-heard it go right past my ear.
Eric was a huge p***k, forced me to play with 2 of Jimi's stacks right at my head. Harvey was cool, very quiet, fooled me into smoking pot with him just before showtime(it was laced w/heroin or "dust") I found out later. Couldn't tell a D chord from my own ass! Bob Geldof was very cool and freindly, sat with me at soundcheck in the Paramount, Seattle and just shot the sh*t with me for a while. Iron Butterfly(re-hashed) were so bad people left when they came on, had to back em up from Spokane to Seattle. Awful. Mr. Collins also very very nice man, shared whiskey in the men's room. He was about 5'7", still seemed tall as Mt. Rushmore. Bachman-T, the lead player just smoked in the back room, tapping before Eddie, I could not tell what he was doing, man that guy can play!
Devo was just a nightmare, the whole front 4-5 rows at the Paramount boo-ed us loud and unmercifully till we left, which we should have never even been there. Yeah, find a good manager in Seattle in the 70's and early 80's.
Burden took the cake, showing me Jimi's "suicide note" on a napkin. It was most certainly NOT a suicide note. It was Jimi's usual scrawl of random lyrics. Period.
So does that count as almost famous, cause I played a JB too, for a while.
Steve Buffington Shamelessly dropping names. All true, lots of fun, mostly.
