some dipshit blues lawyer wrote:This is a brand new Fender Strat just took the plastic off it, only has a few hours of playing time. I'll throw in a guitar strap, three guitar cables, the Jimi Hendrix Signature Licks tab book & CD instructional set, the Jimi Hendrix Blues album's tab book, the Robert Johnson Signature Licks tab book & CD instructional set, the Blues Rock Riffs For Guitar by Jon Chappell (lots of smokin licks!) tab book & CD instructional set, all of Jimi Hendrix's CDs (Are You Experienced, Axis Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland, the double disc BBC Sessions CD set, the double disc Woodstock CD set, Blues, Live At Berkeley, and Band Of Gypsies), Amy Winehouse's new CD (Back To Black), Jonny Lang's debut CD (Lie To Me) which is an encyclopedia of rock and blues licks, and a special bonus that by itself is worth more than the guitar - at least it will be to you.
Any serious blues guitarist (and many rock guitarists) will tell you that the difference between good and GREAT players is mojo. What is it? Hendrix had one, Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin had one, the singer Robert Plant from the same band went all the way down to the Mississippi Delta near Robert Johnson's old stomping grounds to get one, of course Robert Johnson famously had one and mentioned it in most of his songs, Muddy Waters dedicated a whole song to his ("I Got My Mojo Workin"), Steve Vai talked about his mojo in an interview one time, Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones has his mojo too - and let's not forget BB King. Carlos Santana too. So what in the world is it? Well let me tell you a little story about how I acquired mine, and exactly what it is - and why you want it.
You and I probably have a lot in common. Like many of you, I went to music school and played in a lot of bands. At one point I was in a group that had a song on the radio - but still felt like I could go further. Don't get me wrong, playing shows and getting chased by girls was fun - but I didn't want to still be playing the same bars and clubs for the rest of my life, I wanted to travel and play around the world like my heroes - Clapton, Hendrix, SRV and Keith Richards. One day I was jamming with an older blues guitarist that's a walking history of rock and blues music especially in the South.
He's jammed with the Allman Brothers, John Mayer (before John left Atlanta and started playing pop music - although he recently went back to his roots by starting a blues band called The John Mayer Trio, Google it) Rolling Stones, BB King, Albert King, Stevie Ray AND Jimmie Vaughan, and even Clapton himself (back when Clapton was making the Derek And The Dominoes album with Duane Allman). Now he lives in New Orleans but at the time this guy was the baddest blues guitarist in Atlanta - and even though he was older he could shred with the best of them, he sounded like a mix of Clapton and Vai and Satriani crossed with Eric Johnson.
I asked him what it took to go to the next level, since he'd known and played with many of the people I idolized growing up as a young guitarist. He said one word - "mojo".
Amazing.
