Opis
You might not have heard of Earl Slick, but you`ve heard him play guitar. In 1974 I got a call from a British guy called David Bowie. I wasn`t really that familiar with his work, but I thought, what the hell? I`m sitting like a jerk for a couple minutes and then in walks this spooky-ass looking guy with bright red hair and no eyebrows. He was dressed the way an English rock star might think a Harlem pimp would dress. Whoa. David was definitely the strangest cat I`d ever seen, and I`d been around some off-the-wall characters. He had his guitar with him and I had a jacket with a bottle of brandy inside one pocket and my vial in the other. We drank, played for a while…and that`s where it all started. That fateful day launched Earl Slick`s career as rock and roll`s gun for hire. Most famous for being Bowie`s sideman, Slick has played with everyone from John Lennon to Eric Clapton, and with bands from The Cure to the New York Dolls. A fly on the wall for the last 50 years of rock and roll history, Earl Slick is the most famous guitarist you`ve never heard of. And he`s got the stories to prove it. `Mean ass blues for a skinny ass white guy` – Buddy Guy
