[Closed] Maggot Brain...and other guitar freak outs....

Guthrie Govern playing Erotic Cakes, a virtuoso guitar performance.

Quite good.

Has that guitar of Prince's come back to earth yet?

Is two guitars allowed?

Hendrix - Catfish Blues. I've got a recording that isn't on YouTube but might be on Spotify.

Hmm, never been keen on Dweezil's playing (or Stevie Vai's "impossible guitar parts"). I much prefer Frank.

Anyone remember a Sunday lunchtime politics TV programme called "Weekend World"? The intro was a segment from Nantucket Sleighride. Imagine my disappointment when I bought the album and discovered that was the only worthwhile part.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0F_XiR48Q

Marc Bolan! Marc Bolan? you cry!
After a minute you’ll understand

A bit newer and a bit freakier

Maggot Brain is sublime and chilled, always loved it from first listen.

A couple of guitar freakouts that stand out for me.

1. Zappa/Mothers of Invention - ‘Dupree’s Paradise’ Stockholm. Aug 21 1973.

Ye gods it’s beautiful.

(Drop into it @ 7min40 secs, turn the lights down and volume up)

2. Magma - ‘Nebehr Gudhatt’ Théâtre du Trianon, Paris, (30th Magma Anniversary celebration - May 13 & 14, 2000)

Galactic-level freakage from the late James McGaw (sadly passed away on March 9th this year)

3. Led Zeppelin ‘Dazed and Confused’ - Madison Square Garden NYC 1973

Jimmy Page has a shreddybrek glow about him. JPJ + Bonham indescribable here too. Take from 4mins in:

4. Magma ‘KMX B12’. Triton, Paris, 2005

Philippe Bussonet’s brute-iful bass freakout:

??

Now that's what I'm talking about....🙂

Thanks folks.....

slowoldman

Full Member

Hmm, never been keen on Dweezil’s playing (or Stevie Vai’s “impossible guitar parts”). I much prefer Frank.

I'm torn, tbh.....

Love the Dweez's first couple of albums, but they're hard work if you're fresh to them.

Frank, I adore.....
Possibly his most accessable track, but as he so succinctly put it, who gives a **** anyway?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_3cu8sDa90Y

And something subtle.....but freaky nonetheless.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zndpi8tNZyQ

Thee Oh Sees ‘The Dream’ @ Pitchfork 2012

There are a few equally epic versions of this knocking about but this captures Dwyer at his freaktastiest IMO!

OP, last of my picks (but probably owing the most to Maggotbrain) and not least:

Boris ‘Feedbacker’. LA Echoplex 29/09/2019

Wata’s style reminds me of Hendrix in that sustained, weeping, air-crushing sense. Enjoy! 💔

I suspect the reason I couldn't find Peter Green named previously is that no one could choose a favourite from so many.

here you go:

you don't have to be a great guitarist to freak out

Mike Deasy on Cannonball Adderley's Aquarius. Really kicks in after 1.30.

+1 ‘Safesurfer

you don’t have to be a great guitarist to freak out

Agreed, but IMO Donald is a fine (and humble) guitar-player with moments of inspired greatness up there with some of the best, and he shines there. I prefer Safesurfer to Maggot Brain tbh, and was by Cope’s own unapologetic account his 21st century tribute to the track. Stolen well in the open.

Similarly, ‘Upwards At 45 Degrees’ guitar freakout outro from ‘Jehovakill’ is a soaring firework of a thing:

Begins around 3 mins in:

Talking back to Maggot Brain, what goes around comes around. And around…

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/maggot-brain/

Distinct lack of (arguably the unchained king of guitar-freakouts) Kawabata Makoto?

I suspect the reason I couldn’t find Peter Green named previously is that no one could choose a favourite from so many.

Good point, though I'm not sure I would refer to his sublime playing as a "freak out".

Timely this

Maggot brain, the album, is 50 years old, today, tomorrow, in a bit

For some reason thought of Ted Nugent in the Amboy Dukes 'baby please don't go'

Does this count?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ukAodblSFZM

and this?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yeZHB3ozglQ

And another..

...surprised no one's posted a version of this yet? Full freakout!

Another plus 1 for Donald Ross Skinner.
Ill leave this...

sorted

Les Rallizes Dénudés - Night Of The Assassins

^^That shimmering, sussed-stain of sonic starlight from Bill Nelson was exactly what I needed painted into my brain today. Never heard it before. Cheers.

That shimmering, sussed-stain of sonic starlight from Bill Nelson was exactly what I needed painted into my brain today. Never heard it before. Cheers.

😁'tis good isn't it

Just remembered Ed Wynne’s firmament-bending 2 min outro freakout on ‘Sunhair’

(from 3 min 50ish)

And Stooges ‘Dirt’. (3 min 20). Probably the most sexytime guitar freakout ever

More Kawabata Makoto (pre-AMT/Melting Paraiso)

Nishinihon - ‘Superstation’

The lead is multitracked 😵‍💫😵‍💫

@ 2mins