Helecasters - have you heard them?

[u10ajf]

Helecasters AKA Jorgensen, Ray and Donahue show a wide range
of playing styles all of which are brilliant. Jorgensen is
a rock guitarist with a distinctive tone somewhere between
Satch and ERic Johnson. I forget which parts Ray and Donahue play but they do less distorted bluesy stuff, slide stuff, jazzy stuff, country stuff, massive bends.
The Album Hell 3 New Axes to Grind is absolutely fantastic.
Even styles I don't like usually (like country)really switch my head on and are inspiredly played.
I've also heard escape from holywood and that's a very good album too (but not as good).
Do you guys know of any of their other albums, are they all excellent? Any recommendations?

[lalimacefolle]

their other album 'return of the hellecasters' is awesome too. I own 3 picks that the guys sent me when I wrote them.

They have 2 sites
http://www.hellecasters.com
http://www.hellecasters.tv

[pstring]

Love those Hellecasters! Return of the Hellecasters, you gotta hear "Sweet Dreams" and "the Claw/the Beak", I love that kind of stuff, variety, Will ray or Jerry Donahue is producing 2 tribute albums ( Danny Gatton & Roy Buchanan)with all kinds of cool players on them, well my idea of cool anyhow, I think "Cool" is a term that really doesn't apply to many of the popular players today

[u10ajf]

I've heard of Roy Buchanan - I saw a feature on his technique in some guitar magazine and one trick he had was to bend two strings by different amounts at the same time. I heard he pioneered violining and tone knob fx too. I'm dying to hear some but I'm a tight fisted bastard with my money, can you recomend any particular albums by him or Gatton?

[lalimacefolle]

there's a compilation of Gatton's greatest tunes in the collection 'hot rod guitar' Lots of unheard stuff too.

[chris mood]

I have RETURN and it's pretty cool, it's nice to see 3 talented guitar players working together and concentrating on arrangements and not just trying to outplay each other.
Are they still recording together? I know Jorgenson got the gig w/Elton John.

[lalimacefolle]

Originally posted by chris mood

Are they still recording together?

Their site hasn't moved for a while, but I have seen a lot of gig dates. There's a banner saying Hellecaster IV, but it has been there for almost a year... I hope it will come out soon!