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[bokos1971]

George Zikos is my guitar teacher...

I decided to learn the blues at 44 (better late than never )

and i came to know a man (a little older than me) with a great n inspiring personality, and a Great musician too...

George plays live here in Athens Greece, every weekend with his 20 + year old band called ZEROZERO, using NO pedals at all. Just his old battered Gibson Les Paul Custom straight in a vintage - blackface Fender Super Reverb...he plays with natural overdrive (volume at his amp close to MAX) and he attenuates volume using a marshall attenuator and ofcourse his guitar's volume.

 

One of his first guitar loves were experiments with jazz n fretless guitar

so , a fretless music production was a result of love n passion for this kind of music , some years after

 

im attaching links of his DIVAGATION  - ALBUMreview in this awesome site , plus a small video from an old Greek music tv show, presented his frettles approaches almost 20 years ago

i hope u ll like it

 

 

1) http://www.unfretted...retless-guitar/

 

 

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Cheers

Dimitris Bokos

Athens

Greece

 

 

[jahloon]

Welcome Dimitris, If I ever get to Athens will be sure to get to one of Georges shows!

 

The TV show is pretty cool, who is the Interviewer?

[bokos1971]

Thanx Jahloon,

 

first of all thanx for including George - my teacher - in your UNFRETTED guitar history, very nice site n work (keep walking), he is really - really  happy to be a part of your great work in "unfretted.com"

 

1)George is a charismatic player, self tought for almost 35 years, he acclaimed  multi technique playing skills including country n chicken picking, blues rock with an extra blues sense in his own , hard rock n shredding, he is really a slide King....and all those non mentioning fret less n jazz guitar, mixing n recording etc.

 

u must SEE him if u manage to come over , so just let us know

 

2) the interviewer is Christos Papadopoulos, a Greek multi instrumentalist with Greek bouzouki as his main instrument

 

so...please let me give u a small piece of the fun were having almost every Saturday night here (although not unfretted this time)

 

 

HAVE MERCY...

[jahloon]

WoW! Looks like a great night out... George even sings like Hendrix 

[bokos1971]

[Liquids]

Watching the 1998 video, I like that he seems to have his own style with fretless.

 

His playing and phrasing doesn't sound oud-based, nor does it sound derived from Indian/hindustani classical, nor is he just shredding or only rarely using the fretless instruments capabilities--like some other fretless players that I hear.

 

I like his originality with the fretless most of all!

[jahloon]

Yes the 1998 video is a gem, I would really like to get to one of his performances, like you say his take on the fretless is very original.

 

What amazed me was I only recently tracked him down, and I thought I had all the fretless players nailed!

 

Another unexpected find was Vasant Rai, sixth months back.

 

http://www.unfretted...-and-interview/