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In reply to the discussion: What great guitarists have you seen live? [View all]chknltl
(10,558 posts)Who da hell is that? Well no, she is not the greatest guitarist I have ever seen. Those honors would have to go to Joe Satrianni, Stevie Ray Vaugn, also the guitarists for Yes, The Who, and Ten Years After, all circa 1970s.
Juli Morgan was a young lady who was allowed into a club I was playing pool in one Tuesday evening. I was a photographer for that club, documenting all the grunge era bands that played there but Tuesdays were reserved for bands nobody knew, bands that were lucky to draw their closest friends. While playing pool I was invited into the very vacant band area where I got to see a three piece no vocals band that featured a 19 year old Juli Morgan on guitar. She had only been playing for a couple years but she wowed the hell out of me. Juli's goal was to someday open for Joe Satrianni, by the time she was 21 she did just that-below is from that very show. By the way, she had only been playing guitar for a bit over 4 years here, to me that's darned impressive.
That show was back in 1995, shortly after Juli put away her guitars to focus on being a mom and I lost track of her. Recently Juli has re-emerged 20 years later, she's dusted off her old guitars, she is going to a music academy. Here she is doing the solo for Roger Waters's Comfortably Numb:
So that is who Juli Morgan was and is today, no not the best guitarist I've ever heard but one of my favorites and one I was happy to have worked with for a short while.