From what I read all about guitar solos, in the songs there are great solos, no one really broke out and started talking about making muffins
Guitar solos
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From what I read all about guitar solos, in the songs there are great solos, no one really broke out and started talking about making muffins
I've another to add. This one also stops me in my tracks and I while I have heard it all my life (thank you CHOM Electric Lunch Hour!), I only recently appreciate the soaring guitar from Alvin Lee.
I'd Love to Change the World, Ten Years After
https://vimeo.com/6684517
I'd Love to Change the World, Ten Years After
https://vimeo.com/6684517
Yeah! Personally I did not realize it the first time I've read it so I've edited my original post.
https://merb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?165695-Guitar-solos&p=1115095&viewfull=1#post1115095
My favorite guitar solos are in another department than rock or pop music : jazz guitar soloists (i.e. musician's musician)
1) Grant Green in It ain't necessarily so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUT1MyJi9jc
2) Wes Montgomery's rendition of Round Midnight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOm17yw__6U
3) Joe Pass interpretation of Aint' Misbehavin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kUJa1PueM
4) Egberto Gismonti Dança das cabeças https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4uZ9J402U
5) Sonny Sharrock Stupid Fuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4AwHYeEEAA
1) Grant Green in It ain't necessarily so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUT1MyJi9jc
2) Wes Montgomery's rendition of Round Midnight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOm17yw__6U
3) Joe Pass interpretation of Aint' Misbehavin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kUJa1PueM
4) Egberto Gismonti Dança das cabeças https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4uZ9J402U
5) Sonny Sharrock Stupid Fuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4AwHYeEEAA
I tend to agree with Hungry101 that Duane Allman’s work on Blue Sky, which is so stylish and disntinctive, is mesmerizing and another reason why he was selected #2 on Rolling Stone’s list of the greatest guitarists of all time:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wwyXQn9g40I
Kind of sad that the top 2 guys on the list were both dead by age 27.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wwyXQn9g40I
Kind of sad that the top 2 guys on the list were both dead by age 27.
I'm a huge fan of Jo Pass with his unique technique to play the lead, the chords and the bass line distinctly in the same solos. He used to come to the Rising Sun in Montréal once in while in the late 1970. Not to brag, but I saw him with Ella in San Francisco in 1978.
Pat Metheny also has a close link to the Montréal Jazz festival. Great improviser with a flawless technique. Unfortunately very good except with his own band, unless you like Mays.
Did anyone cite Django yet?
I did not know Prince until he died. But this solo is quite amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
David Gilmour for his sound and compositions
Jimmy Page of course
What do you guys think of this 16 y/o Tina S playing Dr Viossy's arrangement of Beethoven Moonlight Sonata's third movement? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6rBK0BqL2w
Everyone cited by Protagoras adding John McLaughlin
Pat Metheny also has a close link to the Montréal Jazz festival. Great improviser with a flawless technique. Unfortunately very good except with his own band, unless you like Mays.
Did anyone cite Django yet?
I did not know Prince until he died. But this solo is quite amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
David Gilmour for his sound and compositions
Jimmy Page of course
What do you guys think of this 16 y/o Tina S playing Dr Viossy's arrangement of Beethoven Moonlight Sonata's third movement? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6rBK0BqL2w
Everyone cited by Protagoras adding John McLaughlin
For me, it's Yngwie Malmsteen. Why? Mainly because he fusionned the heaviness and power of heavy metal with the complexity and harmony of classic music (baroque era especially). I like a lot Metal and Classic so....
Here, one of my favorite of him : Far beyond the sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4OxW_0qqv8
But, I like this more, when he was much younger. It's a Live performance with a part of ''Bourree'' by J.S. Bach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvKqxNea9iA
Here, one of my favorite of him : Far beyond the sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4OxW_0qqv8
But, I like this more, when he was much younger. It's a Live performance with a part of ''Bourree'' by J.S. Bach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvKqxNea9iA
Gugu, if I remember it right I saw Joe Pass at the defunct Rockhead Paradise (when Doudou Boicel did relocate the Rising Sun in Little Burgundy). What a night it was! My best memory from Rockhead paradise was when Dizz played a few gigs in Doudou's venue. Boicel was well known among the jazz player because he was a cheap skate (he was not paying the same salary they had in jazz clubs in the US), Between tthe first and the second set, Dizzy picked the mike and he said : « Please buy beer or booze and help Doudou to make money because you know Doudou pays weekly...very weakly! »
Speaking of Django (who composed, among other things, Nuage) I also have good memories of a Tal Farlow show in the late Jazz Bar which was located on Ontario St. (Nelson Symonds, the owner, was also a very talented guitar player). The night I saw Farlow he played Nuage... it was out of this world!
Among the great guitar players who left their marks in Montréal we can name René Thomas (a Belgian expat who lived in Montreal between 1956 and 1961) and Sonny Greenwich
Sonny Greenwich : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmWrJfiCBWA
René Thomas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff3PYG0oOvo
I also remembervery claerly Ryo Kawasaki - he was the guitar player when I saw Elvin Jones in 1976 at the Rising Sun - because I was sharing a table with April Wine's drummer and Ryo Kawasaki played a whole with his open zipper !!!!!!!!
Oh man, do I remember that show! We were there the exact same night. Elvin Jones came back a few months later. I think we must have been less than 20 people in the club. So Elvin took it easy decided to show us the basics of drumming. The funny thing, telling this to you specifically, is that I was with a guy from Brazil. It was something like -20 and the guy did not want to wear warm close and a "tuque" because he though girls would not want to look at him lol. I remember seeing Kawasaki with Gill Evans in NY some years later.
Here Birelli Lagrene playing Nuages at 16 y/o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikE3MtTbU0U
Also used to go see the Nelson brothers once a month at that time. You may also remember Emery chez Dumas at the corner of Emery and Saint-Denis. I met Karen Young last year and we had a good time remembering that club.
Unfortunately I don't remember René Thomas. At what venues was he playing?
Montreal was such a place to live these years. I remember ranting a 4 and a half on the Plateau for 57$ a month lol.
By the way, Upstairs and Dièze onze don't pay musicians well either today. Nor does the Vanguard in NY. I wonder if the 55 even pays the musicians. Last time I went they passed the hat. Are there any jazz clubs in the world that do well? The Montmartre in Copenhagen must have gone close to bankrupt at least four or five times.
protagoras and gugu...
Please... I would like to read some more of you experiences in those days... I can almost feel what you lived. Back in those days, there were less electronic music and more feelings... Even if we all know that crackdown on alcoholic consumption is a good thing today for the whole Society, I think the enterntainment scene took a big hit since people don't drink and smoke too much in bars...
Please... I would like to read some more of you experiences in those days... I can almost feel what you lived. Back in those days, there were less electronic music and more feelings... Even if we all know that crackdown on alcoholic consumption is a good thing today for the whole Society, I think the enterntainment scene took a big hit since people don't drink and smoke too much in bars...
Yes I agree with you Titilleur : the musical scene was different in those days. There were more musicians soloing on stage. What do we have now? Mostly rap, electronic music and pop were there are no space for instrumentalists (and incidently guitar players) to express themselves freely.
Gugu: I don't know where René Thomas was playing in the late 50's and 60's as I was too young then. My first experience in a jazz club was in the defunct Café Mojo. That venue on Park Avenue was owned by the saxophonist Sayyd Abdul Al Khabyr (formerly Russell Thomas). In the late 70's I ended up playing in a band with Sayyd (he was briefly of jazz teacher at the Université de Montréal. He was my mentor). Our repertoire was mostly composed of the Sax Players scores (i.e. arrangment for 4 saxes of the Charlie Parker solos. I was the barytone player).
My (very brief) musical career ended in the late 60's when I was playing with the underground jazz scene in Montreal. The last gig I did was with the German bass player Peter Kowald.
I always enjoy watching the Karate Kid kick Steve Vai's ass in the climactic duel scene from Crossroads.
- of course, Macchio is just acting and it's really Vai who recorded both sides of the duel...
and Steve's face is priceless as always
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqdL36VKbMQ
- of course, Macchio is just acting and it's really Vai who recorded both sides of the duel...
and Steve's face is priceless as always
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqdL36VKbMQ
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