Matt Munisteri plays that tune almost as well as the master himself, and his L-5 looks and sounds like a million bucks!
Lang had an amazing memory, according to Joe Venuti and many others, which would be a big advantage in playing complicated solo arrangements like "Just a Little Love" and Eddie's other masterpieces, like his version of the Rachmaninoff Prelude and my personal favourite, "Rainbow Dreams".
The problem I've faced in learning a few of these tunes is that if you neglect them for a few months, man, it's a lot of work to play them again...
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Well, I went on to watch the rest of the video and was interested in Matt's comments on banjos... I play a plectrum Bacon & Day Silver Bell much like his six string model and just like Matt, I love that knee mute...
If I ever met this guy I know we'd have a lot of fun together...
Thanks again for sharing this, John!
Will
Paul Cezanne: "I could paint for a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
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Matt Munisteri plays that tune almost as well as the master himself, and his L-5 looks and sounds like a million bucks!
Lang had an amazing memory, according to Joe Venuti and many others, which would be a big advantage in playing complicated solo arrangements like "Just a Little Love" and Eddie's other masterpieces, like his version of the Rachmaninoff Prelude and my personal favourite, "Rainbow Dreams".
The problem I've faced in learning a few of these tunes is that if you neglect them for a few months, man, it's a lot of work to play them again...
*****
Well, I went on to watch the rest of the video and was interested in Matt's comments on banjos... I play a plectrum Bacon & Day Silver Bell much like his six string model and just like Matt, I love that knee mute...
If I ever met this guy I know we'd have a lot of fun together...
Thanks again for sharing this, John!
Will
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Fretboard journal, my favorite reading for the last few years. Hope to make it to one of their summits someday.
"It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
-- Orson Welles