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Stairway to Heaven solo, if it was written by Dire Straits
Youtube ^ | 3/20/21 | Laszio Buring

Posted on 10/18/2021 1:00:01 PM PDT by Rebelbase

"Stairway to Heaven, but as if Mark Knopfler had written it. 1:24 video here.

Youtube text:

"I tried to incorporate a lot of Knopfler's playing style. The double stops, the raking, hammer-ons, and the iconic, wild vibrato bends.

Had a lot of fun making the backing track for this. For the drums I looked a little at the beat from 'Once upon a time in the West' by Dire Straits, to get a Dire Straits vibe for the song, instead of copying the beat from the original Stairway to Heaven."


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Very imaginative.
1 posted on 10/18/2021 1:00:01 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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couldnt recognize the song at all but very nice tune the way he played it


2 posted on 10/18/2021 1:02:07 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Skooz; waterhill; mitch5501; OrioleFan; jdsteel; Mama Shawna; Ignatz; Bullish; wastedyears; ...

Guitar ping.


3 posted on 10/18/2021 1:02:35 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Were State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims the guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide "vaccine" tests?)
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To: Rebelbase
Mark Knopfler - Brothers In Arms (Berlin 2007 | Official Live Video)
4 posted on 10/18/2021 1:03:04 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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To: Rebelbase

Now do Sultans of Swing ala Jimmy Page


5 posted on 10/18/2021 1:03:57 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Rebelbase
Stairway to Heaven solo, if it was written by David Gilmore

See High Hopes

6 posted on 10/18/2021 1:04:08 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Rebelbase

Led Zeppelin victorious in ‘Stairway to Heaven’ plagiarism case
Story by Reuters

Updated 6:29 AM ET, Tue October 6, 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/uk/led-zeppelin-plagiarism-case-scli-intl/index.html


7 posted on 10/18/2021 1:06:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Rebelbase

Got a nice bluesy vibe. I dig it!


8 posted on 10/18/2021 1:06:57 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Rebelbase

That’s cool!


9 posted on 10/18/2021 1:07:38 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Rebelbase

Oh, heck yeah!!!!!!


10 posted on 10/18/2021 1:10:29 PM PDT by NellieMae (Here......common sense,common sense,common sense,where'd ya go... common sense......)
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To: Rebelbase
Always loved how Mark Knopfler carved out his own niche with a different playing style - has to be pretty hard to get your "own" sound out of a guitar.

As good as Stevie Ray Vaugn was, he copied Jimi's sound, so even Stevie Ray didn't have his own style.

Pete Townshend, Steve Stills, Alvin Lee, Johnny Winter - they all had their own style, could easily pick them out of a "blind taste test".

11 posted on 10/18/2021 1:11:09 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Rebelbase
If you like Dire Straits you may enjoy this version of Skateaway (Extended Version) featuring the lovely The LA Roller Girls.
12 posted on 10/18/2021 1:12:00 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: RummyChick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QFDsUgjqIo


13 posted on 10/18/2021 1:13:11 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Psalm 73

SRV borrowed more from Albert King than Hendrix by far.


14 posted on 10/18/2021 1:13:55 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Rebelbase
I prefer the "Stairway to Heaven" solo done by Helen Keller:

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(Sorry)

15 posted on 10/18/2021 1:14:49 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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Please add me to your "Guitar Ping" list. --> dayglored

thanks

16 posted on 10/18/2021 1:15:03 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Psalm 73
As good as Stevie Ray Vaugn was, he copied Jimi's sound, so even Stevie Ray didn't have his own style.

I think SRV copied Terry Kath more than Jimi, both in playing and singing.

17 posted on 10/18/2021 1:15:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rebelbase

Fantastic! I love it, and will share it with some good time buddies.


18 posted on 10/18/2021 1:17:26 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Psalm 73
Always loved how Mark Knopfler carved out his own niche with a different playing style - has to be pretty hard to get your "own" sound out of a guitar.

Indeed, a unique style with talent.

19 posted on 10/18/2021 1:17:45 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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Interesting choice for the band which created “Eclipse,” “Comfortably Numb,” “the Great Gig in the Sky,” “Breathe,” “Learning to Fly” and “Shine On You Crazy Diamond.”

Some of those are more obviously thematically similar to Stairway than others; some feature a more comparable guitar solo. Most are about whether a quest for Heaven is borne of materialism or spirituality, which is how I’ve always understood Stairway to Heaven (Comfortably Numb is at once the most certain of there being something more, yet the most remote from it:
“When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glipse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look, but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown, the dream has died
I have become comfortably numb.”)


20 posted on 10/18/2021 1:21:26 PM PDT by dangus
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