Charlie Hunter is… a Dirty, Funky, Soulful, Tasteful, Harmonically Evolved, Guitarist and Composer.
He has an elegant sense of melody and structure whether he’s improvising or playing a part. He does all of it while playing the bass parts simultaneously on his 7 string. It’s not just in the name of technique. It’s not a parlor trick. It’s intensely musical.
If you haven’t heard him you need to. If you have heard him you know. Either way, you should go to AAJ, where they have a link to a free stream of his soon-to-be released record, “Baboon Strength”. You will need to copy the password info that AAJ provides.
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Tags: Baboon, charlie hunter, free stream, Guitar, Music, Strength
Jon wrote,
Have you seen the Novax Charlie Hunter 8 string? Very odd looking guitar!
http://www.novaxguitars.com/sales/ch8.html
Link | August 6th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Pribek wrote,
Interesting Jon, those fanned frets are trippy but, they make perfect sense for intonation. Hunh..$3,300, I’m guessing that’s cheaper than a Kiefer Sutherland Gibson and you get two bonus strings!
Link | August 6th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Sans Direction wrote,
I have an album from way back, I think Ready Set Shango, with a very Coltrane cover of “Come As You Are” by Nirvana. He’s a monster player.
Link | August 6th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Pribek wrote,
Thanks for the tip Sans, I found a YT of “Come As You Are”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv3v-Hx2LJ8
I remember seeing George Van Eps playing 7 string on like the Mike Douglas show and things of that nature. He was great a, master. And, I’ve listened to a lot of jazz guys doing bass lines against chords/melodies. Joe Pass, Jim Hall guys like that, Johnny Smith, Wes.
A lot of the players that followed those guys, either sound derivative
or gimmicky (tone wise-effects that take away from the personality). Hunter has always sounded like unique to my ears.
Link | August 6th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Gary wrote,
I have some live Hunter stuff too - he is, indeed, very good.
Link | August 7th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
When I hear artists play like that, I think that must be what Stephen Hawkings brain sounds like: “From the Big Bang to black holes, from dark matter to a possible Big Crunch,..”
Link | August 7th, 2008 at 2:34 pm