The best guitar solo none of you have ever heard (and I would probably even put money on it)
Phil Keaggy: "full circle" from the LP "Town To Town"
Short but sweet.
Also a lot of good stuff on the LP "emerging". Very jazz influenced.
Also, other good stuff-
Of course, SRV, Hendrix... those are no-brainers, really.
I have to cast my vote for Saturday Night in San Francisco, as has already been mentioned.
So many others I can't remember right now.
NS
Phil Keaggy: "full circle" from the LP "Town To Town"
Short but sweet.
Also a lot of good stuff on the LP "emerging". Very jazz influenced.
Also, other good stuff-
Of course, SRV, Hendrix... those are no-brainers, really.
I have to cast my vote for Saturday Night in San Francisco, as has already been mentioned.
So many others I can't remember right now.
NS
oh, and I forgot...
anyone into blues- check out "indigenous"
The guy rips! (although he sounds a little tooooooooooo much like SRV, Hendrix, etc. -starts to sound like a parody at times) I believe they have mp3's at mp3.com
anyone into blues- check out "indigenous"
The guy rips! (although he sounds a little tooooooooooo much like SRV, Hendrix, etc. -starts to sound like a parody at times) I believe they have mp3's at mp3.com
Short but good
ON my Prince "Sexy MF" maxi single there is a short but outstanding electric guitar solo. It is played by Prince himself? the guy is reputed to to play countless instruments on pro level and to be a real
on the electric guitar ...anyway, whoever may be the guitarist, this solo is one long perfect phrase ... such phrases as played by Charlie Parker or Clifford Brown... and very funky.
ON my Prince "Sexy MF" maxi single there is a short but outstanding electric guitar solo. It is played by Prince himself? the guy is reputed to to play countless instruments on pro level and to be a real
on the electric guitar ...anyway, whoever may be the guitarist, this solo is one long perfect phrase ... such phrases as played by Charlie Parker or Clifford Brown... and very funky.
The most ecstatic piece of rock music ever recorded, which includes a mighty fine guitar solo by Jerry Garcia, is found on the Grateful Dead's Live Dead disc, track 3 (The Eleven). Highly recommended for your morning commute...
MR
MR
Re: Oh yeah baby!
Back when I was dating my wife she was playing a Sting disc(don't know the name, but it's the one where Sting wrote copious notes about what each song meant to him and the social significance of his own performance- the pompous ***!), that had "Little Wing" on it, while I gritted my teeth tried not to pull my hair out. That was the last straw! I could stand it no more and I immediately stopped the disc and played her the original and she said "oh, that's much better, isn't it?" She passed the test, we got married, and Sting has never again "graced" my system.
MR
ALW said:
Back when I was dating my wife she was playing a Sting disc(don't know the name, but it's the one where Sting wrote copious notes about what each song meant to him and the social significance of his own performance- the pompous ***!), that had "Little Wing" on it, while I gritted my teeth tried not to pull my hair out. That was the last straw! I could stand it no more and I immediately stopped the disc and played her the original and she said "oh, that's much better, isn't it?" She passed the test, we got married, and Sting has never again "graced" my system.
MR
MRehorst,
that tunes Little Wing and Red House infected me thoroughly and made me seek for more of that stuff.
My album is a German 1st pressing and is named "Jimi Hendrix" but i guess we are talking of the same recording.
I still get completely hooked on those tunes.
There is another one, not from Hendrix, but from those days: The Cream (featuring Eric Clapton) playing "Hideaway".
that tunes Little Wing and Red House infected me thoroughly and made me seek for more of that stuff.
My album is a German 1st pressing and is named "Jimi Hendrix" but i guess we are talking of the same recording.
I still get completely hooked on those tunes.
There is another one, not from Hendrix, but from those days: The Cream (featuring Eric Clapton) playing "Hideaway".
solo?
They're not my favorite band by a longshot, but some of Kirk Hammett's stuff with Metallica is very good. There are usually many guitars on each song, but they blend seamlessly. I'd almost call him more of a 'composer' than a 'song writer'
Randy Rhodes on Goodbye to Romance is one of my favorites.
Anything by George Lynch (Dokken).
They're not my favorite band by a longshot, but some of Kirk Hammett's stuff with Metallica is very good. There are usually many guitars on each song, but they blend seamlessly. I'd almost call him more of a 'composer' than a 'song writer'
Randy Rhodes on Goodbye to Romance is one of my favorites.
Anything by George Lynch (Dokken).
In my opinion Joel Hanson plays an excellent solo in the song "My Time" on the PFR recording "Pray for rain". Pure and simple...!
PFR.
On a related note . . .
I'd have to say PFR's "Goldie's Last Day" is probably one of the saddest (good song, though) songs I've ever heard.
On a related note . . .
I'd have to say PFR's "Goldie's Last Day" is probably one of the saddest (good song, though) songs I've ever heard.
Jimmy.
Hey guys,
Anyone looked (better still listened) to the latest Renault ads?
They're actually using Jimmy's music for it.
Hope it sets a trend so I don't use my records too much.
Magnificent playing.
Incredible maturity for his age.Einstein of modern music,no one ever came close.
While in exile I couldn't help but notice Bernhard's preferences for
Julian Bream (on the twelve string guitar I guess?) and Manitas De Plata for Flamenco music.
The best!
Bernhard,
Did we have the same parents or are we both clones?
Jazz:
I love Art Blakey on percussion,Dexter Gordon,Ella Fitz,Ray Charles,most of the Blue Note catalogue,Pablo,Verve.
On the piano : Thelonius Monk.
And others I somehow forget.
Sidney Bechet I love too.
Latin music:
Most merengue,salsa some calipso.Love Ochoa Eliades on guitar.
This music really makes you want to go out and just dance.
Classical:
Decca Blue Ribbon,RCA,Mercury Living Presence and Andre Charlin are some of my favourite labels.
No audiophile record comes even close to these sonically
Klaus Fuertwaengler,Izhtak Perlmann.
I just love chamber music for real big time relaxing.
Blues: Stevie Ray and some of the older masters.I go to the Brussels Blues Club to leave the planet and climb on cloud number nine.
Too long a list to mention all I treasure,🙂
Oops,I should have posted this in the more general music preferences thread.Got carried away...
Sorry.
Hey guys,
Anyone looked (better still listened) to the latest Renault ads?
They're actually using Jimmy's music for it.
Hope it sets a trend so I don't use my records too much.
Magnificent playing.
Incredible maturity for his age.Einstein of modern music,no one ever came close.
While in exile I couldn't help but notice Bernhard's preferences for
Julian Bream (on the twelve string guitar I guess?) and Manitas De Plata for Flamenco music.
The best!
Bernhard,
Did we have the same parents or are we both clones?
Jazz:
I love Art Blakey on percussion,Dexter Gordon,Ella Fitz,Ray Charles,most of the Blue Note catalogue,Pablo,Verve.
On the piano : Thelonius Monk.
And others I somehow forget.
Sidney Bechet I love too.
Latin music:
Most merengue,salsa some calipso.Love Ochoa Eliades on guitar.
This music really makes you want to go out and just dance.
Classical:
Decca Blue Ribbon,RCA,Mercury Living Presence and Andre Charlin are some of my favourite labels.
No audiophile record comes even close to these sonically
Klaus Fuertwaengler,Izhtak Perlmann.
I just love chamber music for real big time relaxing.
Blues: Stevie Ray and some of the older masters.I go to the Brussels Blues Club to leave the planet and climb on cloud number nine.
Too long a list to mention all I treasure,🙂
Oops,I should have posted this in the more general music preferences thread.Got carried away...
Sorry.
Frank,
no, we're not clones, don't think so.
Bream turned to acoustic classical guitar quite early, no idea if he played 12string Ovation before 😀 .. did they have Ovation guitars back then?
I am not informed if the lutes he plays are dual-stringed instruments (like a sitar, with fewer melody strings and up to19 resonance/overtone strings not meant to be plucked)
Thelonious Monk:
he did mind if the piano in the studio had (seriously) flawed tuning. But it did not keep him from playing gorgeous stuff on the grossly mistuned instruments and even use the mis-tuning for his musical message.
The Prestige label has the questionable honour to have provided the proof for that.
Now we are seriously threadjacking, what has Monk to do with guitar 🙂
no, we're not clones, don't think so.
Bream turned to acoustic classical guitar quite early, no idea if he played 12string Ovation before 😀 .. did they have Ovation guitars back then?
I am not informed if the lutes he plays are dual-stringed instruments (like a sitar, with fewer melody strings and up to19 resonance/overtone strings not meant to be plucked)
Thelonious Monk:
he did mind if the piano in the studio had (seriously) flawed tuning. But it did not keep him from playing gorgeous stuff on the grossly mistuned instruments and even use the mis-tuning for his musical message.
The Prestige label has the questionable honour to have provided the proof for that.
Now we are seriously threadjacking, what has Monk to do with guitar 🙂
Sorry...
The only thing I can imagine that both Jimmy Hendrix and Thelonious had in common is the same knack for bring out the unexpected musical line,throwing you off completely.
Bream:As a kid still living with my folks I remember we had a record by Julian Bream playing the twelve string classical guitar.
Brlliantly so as I recall.
Thinking even harder I think it was some interpretation of the "Concierto de Aranjuez" but I'm not 100% sure about that.
Back then: must be at least 25 years ago.
A search on the net may unearth it.Other than that I wouldn't know.
Sorry again for this off post,🙂
The only thing I can imagine that both Jimmy Hendrix and Thelonious had in common is the same knack for bring out the unexpected musical line,throwing you off completely.
Bream:As a kid still living with my folks I remember we had a record by Julian Bream playing the twelve string classical guitar.
Brlliantly so as I recall.
Thinking even harder I think it was some interpretation of the "Concierto de Aranjuez" but I'm not 100% sure about that.
Back then: must be at least 25 years ago.
A search on the net may unearth it.Other than that I wouldn't know.
Sorry again for this off post,🙂
Hello,
Well the biggest dudes on guitar are already mentioned.
When i started listening to music (and playing the guitar myself) I was very much into those technical guitarist like Satriani, John Petrucci (Dream Theater), Nuno Bettencourt and the like.Don´t get me wrong they all got feel in their play as well. But the more I listened to especially rock music I got obsessed by the "simple" playing guitarist who leave this magic space between their notes and get the rythm sing the solo.
Jimi Hendrix needs another mention here.
The original of "Little Wing" is definitely the best but did anybody listen to the cover of Paul Rodgers and Neil Schon?
Nice guitar and much better voice.(although I don´t like Neal Schon so much)
David Gilmour (so many songs and solos)
Chris Rea "Road to hell"
Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler "Brothers in arms", "Private investigations" and many many more
Free/Paul Kossof Very obsessed player, not everbody´s taste, brilliant rythm guitar "Travellin´man","Little bit of love"
Queen/Brian May "We will rock you" and much more
The Who/Pete Townsend "Magic bus" from esp. "Live in Leeds",..
ZZ Top/Billy Gibbins "Gimme all your lovin´" +....
Keith Richards for his "soloistic" rythm play "999"."Wicked as it seems" and a lot of the Stones stuff of course
Led Zeppelin/Jimi Page "Since I´ve been loving you"......
I love them all
Well there´s so much more to find and listen to...
Well the biggest dudes on guitar are already mentioned.
When i started listening to music (and playing the guitar myself) I was very much into those technical guitarist like Satriani, John Petrucci (Dream Theater), Nuno Bettencourt and the like.Don´t get me wrong they all got feel in their play as well. But the more I listened to especially rock music I got obsessed by the "simple" playing guitarist who leave this magic space between their notes and get the rythm sing the solo.
Jimi Hendrix needs another mention here.
The original of "Little Wing" is definitely the best but did anybody listen to the cover of Paul Rodgers and Neil Schon?
Nice guitar and much better voice.(although I don´t like Neal Schon so much)
David Gilmour (so many songs and solos)
Chris Rea "Road to hell"
Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler "Brothers in arms", "Private investigations" and many many more
Free/Paul Kossof Very obsessed player, not everbody´s taste, brilliant rythm guitar "Travellin´man","Little bit of love"
Queen/Brian May "We will rock you" and much more
The Who/Pete Townsend "Magic bus" from esp. "Live in Leeds",..
ZZ Top/Billy Gibbins "Gimme all your lovin´" +....
Keith Richards for his "soloistic" rythm play "999"."Wicked as it seems" and a lot of the Stones stuff of course
Led Zeppelin/Jimi Page "Since I´ve been loving you"......
I love them all
Well there´s so much more to find and listen to...
wisely spoken....
please check out the little wing solo by toto's steve lukather on the first los lobotomys.............
david gilmour on comfortable numb, pulse live, is the biggest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
please check out the little wing solo by toto's steve lukather on the first los lobotomys.............
david gilmour on comfortable numb, pulse live, is the biggest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Sorry...
Frank,
for a classic mind like me (classic in Robert A.Pirsig' sense, "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance")
Romantic music is nothing particularly desirable. Having said that, Julian Bream's version of J.Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez together with Colin Davis cond Melos Chamber Orchestra (RCA Victor LSC-2730) is the only performance i can stand, can enjoy.
People deep into Romantic music however do not love this performance.
Today, Julian Bream is an alcohole addict, not hearsay, i have observed symtoms myself, literally smelled them
..when i once congratulated him to his performance (not mentioning he had not practised IMO, afterwards i was desillusioned about the cause of his "non-practising") I have ceased to go to his concerts, too often a replacement guitarist was announced. 
But if and when his impresario got him sobered up in time, he still is the most gorgeous playing classical guitarist i know. His sonic spectrum varies smothly between sharp steel and harp-like glassy sound, anf nothing of it self-serving virtuosity, all of it serving the music. His instinct for interpretation is just out-of-this world.
I collect his records, 1st shoot-then-ask style and don't expect me to bid reasonably on ebay if i find a record i do not yet have. But i meanwhile have the ultra-rare "70ies" on which he plays the 5 Bagatelles written by William Walton.
One of the most thrilling opuses in modern classical guitar music.
Bream has cult status for me, like Jimi Hendrix, Monk, Coltrane, Bird, David Oistrakh, Vasa Prihoda, Pablo Casals, Anner Bylsma, Emmanuel Feuermann, Arthur Schnabel, Solomon, Wanda Landowska.
fdegrove said:
Frank,
for a classic mind like me (classic in Robert A.Pirsig' sense, "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance")
Romantic music is nothing particularly desirable. Having said that, Julian Bream's version of J.Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez together with Colin Davis cond Melos Chamber Orchestra (RCA Victor LSC-2730) is the only performance i can stand, can enjoy.
People deep into Romantic music however do not love this performance.
Today, Julian Bream is an alcohole addict, not hearsay, i have observed symtoms myself, literally smelled them
..when i once congratulated him to his performance (not mentioning he had not practised IMO, afterwards i was desillusioned about the cause of his "non-practising") I have ceased to go to his concerts, too often a replacement guitarist was announced. But if and when his impresario got him sobered up in time, he still is the most gorgeous playing classical guitarist i know. His sonic spectrum varies smothly between sharp steel and harp-like glassy sound, anf nothing of it self-serving virtuosity, all of it serving the music. His instinct for interpretation is just out-of-this world.
I collect his records, 1st shoot-then-ask style and don't expect me to bid reasonably on ebay if i find a record i do not yet have. But i meanwhile have the ultra-rare "70ies" on which he plays the 5 Bagatelles written by William Walton.
One of the most thrilling opuses in modern classical guitar music.
Bream has cult status for me, like Jimi Hendrix, Monk, Coltrane, Bird, David Oistrakh, Vasa Prihoda, Pablo Casals, Anner Bylsma, Emmanuel Feuermann, Arthur Schnabel, Solomon, Wanda Landowska.
David Rawlings in Time(Revelator) by Gillian Welch.
It's well worth checking out, the whole album (bar one song) is just two acoustic guitars and Gillian singing. But it never sounds sparse or empty - you never think it's missing the rhythm section of drums and bass. The solo at the end of Time is fricking awesome.
(I don't know how but i forgot to mention this solo in my previous reply a week or two ago to this post)
I know David Rawlings plays on a few albums, does anyone else have some recommendations on which albums are good to hear him playing on?? I've been meaning to look up some more about him for a while now....
It's well worth checking out, the whole album (bar one song) is just two acoustic guitars and Gillian singing. But it never sounds sparse or empty - you never think it's missing the rhythm section of drums and bass. The solo at the end of Time is fricking awesome.
(I don't know how but i forgot to mention this solo in my previous reply a week or two ago to this post)
I know David Rawlings plays on a few albums, does anyone else have some recommendations on which albums are good to hear him playing on?? I've been meaning to look up some more about him for a while now....
yep, agree with a lot of the previous posts, hendrix, clapton, gilmore, knopfler etc etc are all great players, however how come nobody has mentioned Allen Collins, lynyrd skynyrd's guitarist.
The outro to Free Bird is fantastic
The outro to Free Bird is fantastic
And for anyone with open ears (preferably being a guitarist himself), check out the whole (instrumental) song:
"Voice Of The Soul" by Death (Chuck Schuldiner). Despite being Death Metal (he invented it with "Scream Bloody Gore"), this one leaves out all grunting vocals, and he plays everything himself on this track (of course, in the studio...)
I would say: Unbelievable... and if one likes that, compare it to "Flesh And The Power It Holds" from the same album (this time with vocals)...
I even got a blues guitarist (entirely not into metal music) into bying "The Sound Of Perseverance"...
"Voice Of The Soul" by Death (Chuck Schuldiner). Despite being Death Metal (he invented it with "Scream Bloody Gore"), this one leaves out all grunting vocals, and he plays everything himself on this track (of course, in the studio...)
I would say: Unbelievable... and if one likes that, compare it to "Flesh And The Power It Holds" from the same album (this time with vocals)...
I even got a blues guitarist (entirely not into metal music) into bying "The Sound Of Perseverance"...
Well, the most complete solo in terms of different styles all together, and being able to keep a coherence with the song are from Steve Howe,,,most guitarrists go anywhere.
1. End of Starship Trooper from ABWH live
2. In Yessong's Yours Is No Disgrace
3. His entire playing in Relayer is one long solo
4. His spanish guitar in Tales, side 3 (leaves of green)
1. End of Starship Trooper from ABWH live
2. In Yessong's Yours Is No Disgrace
3. His entire playing in Relayer is one long solo
4. His spanish guitar in Tales, side 3 (leaves of green)
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