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MickeyV
Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 35 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 1:34 am Post subject: Who was Clarence's biggest influence? |
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According to his brother Roland, it was banjo player Earl Scruggs. (Jerry Garcia said Clarence played electric guitar "like a banjo player.")
Here's Earl playing Georgia Buck on guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOHdtWXeL0Y
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davidge1
Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 16
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 1:38 am Post subject: |
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He was very much influenced by Joe Maphis. The guitar breaks on the Kentucky Colonel's version of Fire on the Mountain are basically the Joe Maphis instrumental Fire on the Strings. He used a lot of Joe Maphis licks in the Kentucky Colonels |
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MickeyV
Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 35 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, Joe Maphis was an influence and from what I've read was also a big promoter of Clarence's career. The late Dick Fegy, utility man in the David Bromberg Band, explained it to me this way: Joe Maphis had great speed and NO TONE; Clarence had both speed and tone. |
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Tony Trout

Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 104 Location: Brasstown/Murphy, North Carolina (USA)
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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Also, according to what I've read, James Burton was a huge influence on Clarence on electric and Clarence even supposedly took lessons from James. |
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