Members onelife Posted August 22, 2014 Members Share Posted August 22, 2014 Lenny's name came up in post about "near genius" in another thread. I saw him play when I was starting out and when Randy Bachman, who was Lenny's student, started putting jazzy bits into rock songs it had a profound influence on the direction I took as a guitar player. [video=youtube;7Dp809Zi9lE] Lenny's playing was kind of like Chet with an extra dose of Django added to the mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author MikeRivers Posted August 22, 2014 CMS Author Share Posted August 22, 2014 I was fascinated to find that his parents were old time country singers Hal Lone Pine and Betty Cody. He was playing in their band for a while, but his dad fired him because he was slipping in jazz chords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted August 22, 2014 Members Share Posted August 22, 2014 I was fascinated to find that his parents were old time country singers Hal Lone Pine and Betty Cody. He was playing in their band for a while' date=' but his dad fired him because he was slipping in jazz chords.[/quote'] That'll do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members monstermaker Posted August 23, 2014 Members Share Posted August 23, 2014 His name doesn't come up enough. A truly great player with refined technique. Everyone should spend some time with Lenny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Etienne Rambert Posted August 29, 2014 Members Share Posted August 29, 2014 Interesting, two of the greatest guitarists of that era were Maritime Cajuns from Maine, Clarence White (LeBlanc) and Lenny Breau. I wonder if they ever met. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 13, 2014 Members Share Posted September 13, 2014 I still miss Clarence. It just seemed like that shouldn't have happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Etienne Rambert Posted September 14, 2014 Members Share Posted September 14, 2014 It shouldn't have happened. What a loss. He was the greatest of his generation IMO.He was a master of both acoustic and electric. He played each one differently but played both with virtuosity. There were a lot of great guitarists around back then. But I don't know of any who had mastered both acoustic lead guitar and electric lead guitar to the extent Clarence White had mastered them. He was a virtuoso mandolin player too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJ6stringsting Posted September 23, 2014 Members Share Posted September 23, 2014 Lenny's name came up in post about "near genius" in another thread. I saw him play when I was starting out and when Randy Bachman, who was Lenny's student, started putting jazzy bits into rock songs it had a profound influence on the direction I took as a guitar player. [video=youtube;7Dp809Zi9lE] Lenny's playing was kind of like Chet with an extra dose of Django added to the mix. Funny, he may have not influenced me directly, but he influenced me thru others !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted September 23, 2014 Author Members Share Posted September 23, 2014 Funny' date=' he may have not influenced me directly, but he influenced me thru others !!!![/quote'] Me too, although I did get to see him play live. I remember being impressed with Chet Atkins playing two songs at once on the guitar. Lenny took it up a notch and could play three, Sometimes he would play bass with his thumb, chords with three fingers and melody with a really long fingernail on his pinky. Not only were there three different parts but each part had a different texture to the sound so it sounded like three different instruments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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