Posted on 11/21/2008 10:35:08 PM PST by spyone
There is a huge body of knowledge on this site. Would like to know your favorite guitar solos. Please list: -name of song -band -player
I've seen Leo many, many times in Athens, GA, usually in a small coffee house with room for about 20 people. That guy is absolutely incredible on guitar. Just don't let him open his mouth.....
That “Cliffs of Dover” is a great one, Fling!
I'm a big Allman Brothers fan, and I'd say just about anything from the Duane Allman / Dickey Betts era of the Allman Brothers would warrant serious consideration as a guitar masterpiece.
Hendrix At The Fillmore, Jimi’s best live performance, with funk.
I’m kinda old school and like the guitar solo in Magician’s Birthday by Uriah Heep & Rock-N-Roll Machine by Triumph.
There is, however, a great Polish guitarist who can play extremely complicated and very fast pieces by Bach on two guitars at once, and I have not seen anyone do it better. His name is Adam Fulara - he used to make funny faces, but has managed to get a handle on that, but in light of the complexity of what he plays on electric guitar, it should be expected. It's like running a marathon.
Check him out here playing Bach:
Adam Fulara - BWV 848 : Johann Sebastian Bach
Adam Fulara - BWV 847 : Johann Sebastian Bach (Without the faces and on a single neck guitar.
Now to the really hard stuff, doing something like that on a classical guitar:
Dimitris Kotranakis - Flight of the Bumblebee : Rimsky Korsakov Amazing job!
Some great female guitarists:
Li Jie - Paganini's 24th Caprice 13 year old Chinese girl.
Galina Vale playing Rachmaninoff's Prelude No. 5 Opus 23 Amazing young Ukrainian guitarist - she is an awesome performer and arranged this very complicated piano piece for the guitar herself.
Another of my favorite guitar playing ladies is Liona Boyd, but her version of "Recuerdos De La Alhambra" has disappeared from the Internet! So instead, here is Kaori Muraji - her version is also very nice:
Kaori Muraji - Recuerdos De La Alhambra : Francisco Tarrega Look up a few of these
The only one that really comes right to mind is on Peter Tosh’s reggae cover of “Johnny B Goode”. Smooth, intricate, and he absolutely rips it. It’s been my favorite lead guitar riff for decades.
“What the late Reed did with a guitar was nothing short of incredible. Even Chet Atkins called him the best.”
I totally agree! Jerry Reed Hubbard was the best ever.
The first one that got my attention...
George Harrison-The Beatles-I Saw Her Standing There
Hard to add to this list but honorable mention:
Trevor Rabin
And You & I
Yes
Mason William’s “Classical Gas” the one w/out the orchestra. Also like anything Sergovia, especially his baroque.
Parkening is the only one alive who can play Sergovia’s arrangements with competence. Love him, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKTpKG5jQIo>
There is a live version on YouTube, as well...Hillage really "gets into it".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfy2iJHDeks>
Those wannabe teens would wet their pants or melt down if someone snuck this onto the next release of 'Guitar Hero'.
Some favorites of mine are Jorma Kaukonen and Alvin Lee .
Another Bolin fan here...James Gang’s ‘Bang’ album was vastly underrated.
Any with Lindsay Buckingham, especially his live version of Big Love- all by himself.
Ahhhh, there’s a few of us that hang around FR
Eric Johnson - Zap
Steve Hackett (Genesis) - Firth of Fifth
Vernon Reid - Cult of Personality
Mark Knopfler - Telegraph Road
Pat Metheny - The Epic
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