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No Guitar Is Safe

123 - Vernon Ice Black

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8857 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

He rocked a stadium playing Hendrix songs with Hendrix's former bandmates, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding. He has worked with Stevie Wonder, Steve Winwood, Whitney Houston, Busta Rhymes, Kenny Loggins, Booker T. Jones, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, India Arie, Chaka Khan, and many other superstars. And he records his own solo music, which you're about to hear. We're talking about guitarist/singer VERNON ICE BLACK, who, on this episode, plugs in one of his favorite custom guitars, demonstrates his favorite funk licks and improvisation approaches, and also shares some of his solo music. Hosted by JUDE GOLD. This episode is presented by Guitar Player magazine, and guitarplayer.com.

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0:00.0

No, guitar is safe.

0:07.0

All right, every morning you still be on the road, just in the road,

0:16.0

just in the dollar, my mission on my own. I got no Black, Vern to his friends.

0:25.6

Cool jam there called Situation.

0:28.6

I love this kind of groove myself.

0:30.6

Really, really one of my favorite sort of sounds, because like it sounds hard rock, it sounds funk, yet it's also like gospely it's got everything

0:41.0

kind of like the guy who put it together vernon ice black great to have him on the show i met him

0:47.5

first like 23 years ago but this is the first time we've really connected and you know wow i get to go

0:53.2

into his life he's

0:55.1

played with everybody Aretha Franklin Steve Winwood Stevie Wonder jaco

0:59.3

Pistorius I mean it's crazy bunch of stuff with Whitney Houston he's in her

1:04.1

famous so emotional music video Mariah Carey India Ree Booker goes on and on. Of course, he's got his own solo music.

1:13.6

And he's going to give you a funk guitar lesson and an improvisation lesson and much more.

1:25.6

And you know when you're listening

1:27.5

to him play, just take that pocket. He's so relaxed. I really, really take inspiration from how

1:32.6

present he is in the groove when he plays. Great singer too. This episode is brought to you

1:41.7

by Guitar Player magazine and Guitar Player.com.

1:44.7

Guitar Player, Play better, sound better.

1:47.4

Magazine's still going strong after all these decades and in the companion November issue, 2020.

1:54.6

You can see the companion piece to this podcast, a piece on Vernon Black that I've wrote.

2:02.3

Of course, it doesn't go into anywhere near the detail we're about to get into here. Talking about his adventures and

2:07.6

inspiration. And also, what the heck it is to live a whoop-de-do sort of life. That phrase comes up a couple of times.

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