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Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter.
Eddie at his mumbling best with Mike McCready's guitar 8)
@ Woody - a better version is on the album 'the sky is crying'. I go all goose-bumpy. 🙂
Check this out. How many guitars??
Sorry it's another oldie but it's seriously good so get the album!
Robin Trower:
The inimitable Rory Gallagher RIP.
Can we do 'Red House' again? He puts on an amazing display of guitar playing, have seen him live several times.
Gary Moore RIP
John Mayer - Gravity
I know this!
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Zappa - Willie the Pimp on hot rats LP. (can't find it on youtube)
Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin- Dazed and Confused live at Madison Square Garden (Song Remains the Same concert)
Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin - Since I've been loving You
Hendrix - little Wing
Gilmour/Floyd - Time
wildcard mention , amazing bass solo [url=from Philippe Bussonet of Magma]
fixed Magma bass solo embed:
stick with it it's godlike
John Mayer is so talented.
^^ I've seen him 3 times live, you wouldn't believe what a bloody good musician and artist he really is never mind how flipping good his guitar playing is.
Epic.
^^ only see him live the once so far was great.
One for the girls:
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Ah, Canyons of your Mind, of course. It certainly "affected" Viv didn't it?
Probably my favourite guitarist:
Nels Cline...Just magical from 2:42
Neil Young, Southern Man.
Blackbird by AlterBridge
Can't beat a bit of quality Ritchie Blackmore. Never as sloppy as Page or Clapton, very underated.
From 3.30 onwards superb.
Discovering the most amazing music this evening courtesy of Youtube. Can you believe there was a seriously good female harmonica player? Accompanied by some famous blues guitarists and playing an almost ska- like sound. 8)
Not really a solo but Peter Green's Need Your Love So Bad works for me 8)
only one mention for dinosaur jr? if it was a top ten, I would think the smiths 'how soon is now',T Rex children of the revolution', stone roses 'I am the resurrection' and the pixies 'debaser' would be there.
not a solo by any stretch, but it's a rare guitar performance that can raise a smile like this:
stevenmenmuir - MemberNeil Young, Southern Man.
Also Neil on Powderfinger, Cortez & My My, Hey Hey (Out of the blue)
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Back on track though, seeing a Johnny Winter set in a Woodstock Diary series on the telly made a big impression on me about 15, 20 years ago.
12 string solo starts at 2:40, slide comes out at 4:40.
My phone won't let me share YouTube stuff but DO check out Savoy Brown - It Hurt Me Too. Cover of an Elmore James track. Intense.
and more ritchie: from 2:10. Just in case it's not been posted already. Blew my mind.
seeing a Johnny Winter
Another I had forgotten about.
As all above posts, when you start thinking about it there are/were so many premier guitar players
I've probably listened to this, video and audio, more than any other piece of guitar music.
And for me, the power comes with watching how at ease he seems to be before he stops and he says he's "scared to death". Then he starts the same song in a completely different place, and then treads that line between primitive and complex and makes it seem so relaxed and easy.
This guy 😀
The solo at the end of this is the best recent one I've heard in a long while (comes in at about 3 minutes)
I love playing the (proper full length, not radio edit) solo for My Sharona (not sure why the video has a ramones picture but whatever!). Definitely one of my favourites although whenever I play it with the old cover band the drummer seems to speed up for the solo which makes it more of a challenge 😆
+1 for Yellow Ledbetter as well.
Surely this should be on the list
Not normally my cup of tea this type of thing, but Jason Becker's playing was just incredible, and although he "shreds" the playing is loaded with feel. I think what makes this so poignant for me is if you look into what has happened to the guy since.
Pre Nels Cline Wilco and still a great solo (starts at 2:51):
Like this one too (solo starts at 2:18):
Northwind made a good call about the solo in Can't Stop too. Something like 7 notes long, but perfectly chosen and ruined live because lots of extraneous notes were added.
Oh, and let's stick this one in at the end, as the solo (starting at 2:26) really fits the song and it's the song that first made Muse click for me:
I don't particularly like Ben Harper but the solo in this song is brutal