Paul Cabri Guitar Studio

10/01/2026

New Berry Oakley photo, a gift from my dear friend Tony Yoken. “Oakley was a singular bassist—profound melodic sense that combined fluently with a pulsing percussive touch; and like the Dead’s Phil Lesh or Jefferson Airplane’s Jack Casady, he knew how to get under a band’s action and lift and push its motion. ‘As much as Duane,’ Butch said, ‘Berry was responsible for what this band had become.’” Mikal Gilmore Gilmore

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10/01/2026

Rick Hall on Duane Allman's famous collaboration with Wilson Pickett. “Pickett came into the studio and I said, ‘We don’t have anything to cut.’ We didn’t have a song. Duane was there, and he came up with an idea. By this time he’d kind of broken the ice and become my guy. So Duane said, ‘Why don’t we cut Hey Jude?’ I said, ‘That’s the most preposterous thing I ever heard. It’s insanity. We’re gonna cover the Beatles? That’s crazy!’ And Pickett said, ‘No, we’re not gonna do it.’ I said, ‘This is the biggest group in the world!’ And Duane said, ‘That’s exactly why we should do it—because the Beatles single will be Number 1 and because they’re so big. The fact that we would cut the song with a Black artist will get so much attention, it’ll be an automatic smash.’ That made all the sense in the world to me. So I said, ‘Well, okay. Let’s do it.’"📷Wayne Knight

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10/01/2026

When A Rolling Stones Guitarist Went Rogue During a Recording Session. Now, It’s Ranked Among the ‘Greatest Guitar Solos’

The Rolling Stones’ “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” has long been regarded as one of the standout tracks on their album “Sticky Fingers,” but its most celebrated moment nearly never made it onto the record.

Rolling Stone recently placed Mick Taylor’s extended guitar work among the “greatest guitar solos of all time,” calling it the guitarist’s “defining moment” with the band. But what makes the performance even more remarkable is that the sprawling jam at the end was not part of the original plan.

“We thought we’d finished,” Keith Richards, 82, said in the book 50 Licks: Myths and Stories from a Half a Century of the Rolling Stones. “We were just rambling and they kept the tape rolling. I figured we’d just fade it off. It was only when we heard the playback that we realized, ‘Oh, they kept it going.’ Basically, we realized we had two bits of music. There’s the song and there’s the jam.”

Released on “Sticky Fingers” in 1971, “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” was written by Mick Jagger, 83, and Richards. The song has a dark, bluesy feel, with Jagger singing about a desperate character asking for help while the music builds around him.

Richards helps drive the song with his gritty guitar sound, and Taylor adds another layer with his lead guitar. However, just when it seems like the song is coming to an end, Taylor keeps playing, turning the track into a long, loose instrumental jam that became one of its most memorable moments.

“Towards the end of the song, I just felt like carrying on playing,” Taylor, 77, once said, per uDiscover Music. “It sounded good, so everybody quickly picked up their instruments again and carried on playing. It just happened.”

That spontaneity became central to what made the recording so memorable. Rather than stopping after the planned performance, the Stones followed the Latin-inspired direction Taylor had started and allowed the musicians to continue.

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09/28/2026

Blind Faith—taken in July 1969 outside Olympic Studios in London (with Ric Grech sitting on the "Sparks" stool, flanked by Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker, and Eric Clapton)—was photographed by David Gahr.

09/22/2026

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Live in Pori Jazz festival, Finland. 13t July 1980Line up: Mich...

09/22/2026

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Bag's Groove Pat Metheny and Joe Diorio