Today I had my iTunes DJ playing random tunes from my collection and these ten songs came on in a row. It seems to me to be the perfect playlist for a set of guitar lessons. If you live in the Nashville area and are looking for guitar lessons contact me. We'll explore these. Otherwise, check them out for yourself. Download the tracks from itunes or where ever you do that and then start listening and jamming. Mostly blues scales with everything from crazy interval jumping to controlled atmosphere and feedback to turn on your groove button.
                                                                                                                             
1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower 
2. The Shadows - Apache 
3. Peter Green - Black Magic Woman 
4. Abert King - Born Under A Bad Sign
         " If it wasn't for bad love I wouldn't have no love at all."
5.  Cream - Crossroads
6. Sonic Youth - Do You Believe In Rapture?
7. Led Zepplin - Heartbreaker  (BBC Sessions - Live)
8. Freddie King - Hideaway
      (get your go go boots on)
9. Deep Purple - Highway Star
10. The Black Keys - Gold On The Ceiling 

 
     Wow! What a great 10-song set list taking you through key componants of classic rock guitar! It was like sitting down and taking an audio stroll the pages of a handful of my Guitar Player magazines from over the years. Yeah, that's how I discovered most of this stuff. Through the pages of Guitar Player, Crawdaddy, Musician Magazine and others...that was my education as a kid with a guitar.  Guitar Player was and is good at keeping us informed of who the heroes of our heroes are. The articles were a good guide as to what to buy when I had no idea where those sounds were coming from, along with a few good radio dj's back when there were some awesome FM album rock stations. Luckily today we have satellite radio to help us explore outside of the mainstream radio fare. 
     Along with sports I've always found the guitar and music  to be the best promoters of diversity and open mindedness. Explore your guitar history kiddies and then keep it moving forward. You old rockers be sure to give the new stuff a chance. There's a lot of great riffage from the young ones out there. Don't stay stuck in one place. Your heroes didn't.