The Walken Dude skulks around in our minds....always.
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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
saw Phil Keaggy a few times last time was in 05 in Pa..Creation Fest....I have been told I sound like him when I play my acoustic...I don’t know I was going for Al Di Meola
Are you sure about that? Seriously, listen carefully to the album version. Because either I'm imagining it, or I'm just really tuned in to it. Maybe it is just my imagination, but I heard the song the other night on the radio, and I swear that I heard cowbell. Lots and lots of cowbell!
Mark
Zappa - “Willie the Pimp”
Duane Allman - “Whippin’ Post” (Live at the Fillmore)
Towsend’s riffs in between Daltry’s singing in “Don’t Get Fooled Again”
Elliot Randall’s bit in Steely Dan’s “Reelin’ In The Years”
Oh, and:
Clapton’s “Stormy Monday” at Royal Albert Hall
Alvin Lee - “I Can’t Keep From Cryin” off the Isle of Wight festival album.
It first appeared on the Agents of Fortune album. [1976]
Prior studio recordings of it had no cowbell.
According to the book “Blue Oyster Cult: Secrets Revealed!” there was no cowbell in the original final studio version.
Sandy Pearlman, for whatever reason, later decided to add it in and Eric Bloom over-dubbed the cowbell onto the finished recording.
They still don’t use it live.
If you have the live albums BOC: Extended Versions, “On Your Feet Or On Your Knees” or “Some Enchanted Evening”, you’ll be mercifully freed from the accursed cowbell......:)
Thank goodness... I was worried that it was just in my imagination... That Christopher Walken had invaded my mind and injected me with the cure - "More Cowbell!"
Mark
The Walken Dude skulks around in our minds....always.
.....;]
Steve Goodman, “The Dutchman”. And Niles Lofgren, “Black Books”.
Wow, Gomez...that’s an excuisite piece! Thanks!
Wow...that was great. Rush are great musicians. Now I know why I lost touch with them in the 80’s. This is fantastic complex music. I was into simple power chords at the time. Gotta buy that DVD. Thanks.
Just listened to your Astronomy by BOC....first time, which is surprising, cuz I loved them as a teenager. Buck is phenomincal. I remember somebody told me he’s a freeper.
I want to mention one of the all-time remarkable moments in guitar history, which did not involve anyone actually playing the instrument at the moment:
TRUE STORY, there was a reception at Buckingham Palace a few years ago and Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck were introduced to Her Majesty. First she asked one of them “and what do you do?” and then asked the others “oh, are you guitarists, too?” The she asked Clapton how long he had been playing the guitar and he responded “oh, around 45 years now.” She really had not the slightest idea who they were, not a clue. Guess royalty doesn’t have much interest in music of rock ‘n’ roll barbarians.
Well if you left Rush in 1980 then let me by all means help you out from 1981 forward shall we?
Lifeson’s best guitar solo work since 1980 includes the following:
Tom Sawyer
Red Barchetta
YYZ
Limelight
The Camera Eye
Witch Hunt
Subdivisions
Analog Kid
Chemistry
Digital Man
The Weapon
Distant Early Warning
Afterimage
Kid Gloves
Between The Wheels
The Big Money
Grand Designs
Marathon
Territories
Middletown Dreams
Emotion Detector
Open Secrets
Lock and Key
Mission
High Water
Show Don’t Tell
Chain Lightning
The Pass
Presto
Hand Over Fist
Available Light
Dreamline
Bravado
Face Up
Where’s My Thing?
The Big Wheel
Ghost of a Chance
Neurotica
Animate
Stick It Out
Cut To The Chase
Alien Shore
Double Agent
Leave That Thing Alone
Cold Fire
Everyday Glory
Test For Echo
Time and Motion
Driven
Virtuality
Resist
Limbo
Carve Away The Stone
One Little Victory
Earthshine
Freeze
Nocturne
Far Cry
The Larger Bowl
Spindrift
Main Monkey Business
Malignant Narcissism
Hope
Bravest Face
The Way The Wind Blows
Faithless
Good News First
Armor and Sword
Lets here it for Alvin Lee! One of the best Live solos: I’m Going Home” Woodstock 1969.
I agree! It took alot of posts to get here. But I also like Terry Kath from Chicago doing I’m a Man. But you had to see it live.
Doobie Bros had a good one in Road Angel.
All right! Some love for Glenn Tilbrook! The solo to "Pulling Mussels" is pretty good, too, and he does a great acoustic solo version of "Voodoo Child."
As for my faves, I'll go with:
Brian May, Queen, "The Millionaire Waltz"
Eric Clapton, Cream, "Steppin' Out" (Live Cream, Vol. 2)
Prince, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (R&R HOF version)
Phil Solem, the Rembrandts, "Follow You Down"
Paul McCartney, The Beatles, "Taxman"
George Harrison, The Beatles, "Something"
Dave Gilmour, Pink Floyd, "Echoes"
Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, "Since I Been Lovin' You"
Davey Johnstone, Elton John Band, "Have Mercy on the Criminal"
!!!! WTF I’ve never seen guitar playing such as this! What planet am I on?!?
Granted, I once owned an album of Al Dimeola, Paco Delucia, and one other virtuoso(whose name I now forget) in concert, and I thought that those three were the acme in git’ pickin’...
Agreed—BTO was a great band, as were The Guess Who.
I was thinking, before I saw your post, the Cars had some great guitar solo riffs in their phenomenal collection of power-pop nuggets. What a fantastic band for my coming-of-age period!
Let’s not forget that Honeyman-Scott(RIP) guy from the Pretenders...
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