I read a review about Bare Wires on Amazon.com where someone saw The Bluesbreakers at Fillmore East. They said the kid (Mick Taylor) was putting on a clinic and he was out of his head. I'm assuming that he meant that young Mick was great musically, not drugs. But was this sort of a meet and greet or an after party type of thing in the sixties where band members would show off their talents (for lack of a better description) and discuss music with fans? Just wondering.

A work shop.

Okay, but was this a common practice back then or even now? And did this occur before or after the show, or possibly by special invitation?

I don't think it was particularly common, then or now. I went to a bluegrass guitar workshop / clinic during a festival once. It didn't cost a lot and it was OK. One of the difficulties is that the paying participants can have vastly different standards of playing, from absolute beginner to virtuoso. If the material is set for the beginner, more experienced players find it boring (and that's what the workshop I attended was like). Set the bar higher and the less experienced players won't keep up.

Reviewer used "putting on a clinic" to describe an exceptional performance, not a meet and greet or after-party.

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bye bye johnny
Reviewer used "putting on a clinic" to describe an exceptional performance, not a meet and greet or after-party.

Well, that would certainly make sense when speaking about Mick Taylor. Wish I could have seen him performing live back in those days!

It is where guitars get their methadone.

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bye bye johnny
Reviewer used "putting on a clinic" to describe an exceptional performance, not a meet and greet or after-party.

He's right. It's just an expression that means this person was showing others "the way it's done". It's used in sports a lot, like if on team blows another out they'll say they put on a scoring clinic. Here it's saying that Taylor is the teacher and we're all the students.

Cool...MT is the best!

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A work shop.

Where they make guitars?

A place or hospital department where outpatients are given medical treatment or advice, guitarists in this very case.

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A work shop.

Where they make guitars?

Where they make "anti-widdle" vaccines

It is a meeting in which a supposed master guitar players teach to others some tricks.
Something that Richards and Wood surely have never assisted

Keith should do that:

Ronnie has made an apointment recently In a school,academy...teachin to young players (or do they were painters?)
That's true

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Ronnie has made an apointment recently In a school,academy...teachin to young players (or do they were painters?)
That's true

Yeah, that was last year - or the year before, I believe?

I'd appreciate a clinic by Ronnie or Keith.......or Taylor
A clinic with these three cats could be like heaven

Keith and ron can put on a trainwreck clinic..



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Boom notes, a work shop about boom notes and out of tune licks

boom boom boom

Are the boom notes better or worse than the bum notes?

Booming bum notes are the annoying ones...

Bumming, boom, bum notes are a bummer...

Bum notes, i meant bum notes
Well it's a little confussion......it is not the same a guitar clinic than a guitar cinic as well

Not a Clinic but a Camp...


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