At 9 minutes and 11 seconds Stevie Ray Vaughn's Tin Pan Alley (Couldn't Stand the Weather CD) is the most awe inspiring slow-smouldering guitar solo you have ever heard! Too bad he did not employ this technique more often.
I went to an Electrocompaniet demonstration at my local dealer where they had Electro's top-of-the-line amp, preamp and CD player mated with with the Wilson Maxx speakers and highest grade of Transpaent cables. The demo track chosen for the evening was SRV's Tin Pan Alley(aka Roughest Place in Town) |
Jax2 - I'm with you on the Beta. In keeping with the spirit of this thread...perhaps less is more? |
Have not read all the input her thus far, but enthusiastically second David Rawlings and Michael Timmons. Would add, Rory Block, Ricard Buckner, Tim Reynolds, Jeffrey Foucault, Patti Larkin...can probably come up with more, but those come right to mind.
Hey, not to hijack the thread, but I did a search and I cannot find any new threads that are offering an outlet for comments on this newly formatted website. Can anyone point me to one, or have none been actually posted....or? Audiogon has pointed to a blog that is strictly informational and does include a link to 'reply' but offers no replies within the blog. Sorry if I'm missing the obvious, but I find this new format very difficult to navigate. I've heard from three friends thus far and all three are less than happy (and I'm being very polite given their responses which is similar to my own) with the new format. I realize it is in Beta, but would like to think they'd be interested in community feedback. Perhaps I'm wrong. |
Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas
Michael Timmins - Blue Moon Revisited from the Trinity Sessions
Mick Jagger - Heaven from Tattoo You
David Hidalgo - Forever Night Shade Mary from The Latin Playboys self-titled
Robbie Blunt - Big Log from Robert Plant's The Principle of Moments
Lou Reed - Beginning of a Great Adventure from New York
John Fogerty - The Old Man Down the Road from Centerfield
Pat Metheny - Travels from Travels |
Kjweisner and Sounds_real_audio:
FYI-
The Sacred Sources cd I mentioned in my post contains the only live version of Riviera Paradise by SRV and is why I recommended it. |
on dwight twilley's "i'm on fire" there's an incredible three-second guitar break (shortest on record?). on the same lp, sincerely, check out the solo on the title track, which always brings tears to my eyes. |
Nels Cline's solo in Wilco's "Impossible Germany". |
Tuck Andress (Tuck & Patti) solo of "Europa". The entire song is just Tuck and it is a great natural sounding recording. |
And this is more is more:
http://youtu.be/Cx55BV13laM |
Robbie Robertson's live solo on Unfaithful Servant from The Band's Rock of Ages should not be missed nor left off this list. It is short, but oh so sweet. It is brilliant. Check it out and let us know what you think. |
Would this do?
http://youtu.be/IVxsB5oNiTw |
Rivera Paradise is the correct answer.. Thank Kjweisner for giving you the correct answer....... |
Neil Young's single note solo on Cinnamon Girl:) |
Wasn't it BB King who said, "It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play."? (or something closely approximating that). |
Riviera Paradise by Stevie Ray Vaughn. |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULTgD7Ni5xA |
Mark Knopfler
"If This Is Goodbye" from All The Roadrunning |
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Santana- 'Europa' from the moonflower album.
Back in the early 90's, Santana created his own record label called guts and grace where he petitioned the estates of dead artists and released compilation albums from his idols. He only released one album: "Sacred Sources,Vol.1 Live Forever.' On this album is my favorite live Stevie Ray Vaughan song "Riviera Paradise".You can buy this cd off of amazon for a buck. This is one of the best tips I have given on the 'gon. Enjoy. |
Yikes! - I forgot to mention a couple of top line choices here:
George Harrison - "Something". Simple, elegant, and purely in service to the song.
The other side of that coin might feature Chuck Berry's solo on "Johnny B Goode". Short, simple and PERFECT in a way that is 180 degrees different from "Something".
I usually think of George as a songwriter first and a guitar player as a distant second (and this one is very easy to play), but this is a really wonderful solo. Berry just about invented the rock n roll guitar solo and "Johnny B Goode" is my pick of his litter.
Marty |
There's a couple of approaches that could satisfy the "less is more" description. Here are a few guitar solos that are short (less) and that don't feature rapid playing (less, again), but really serve the song (more):
Todd Rundgren - "I Saw The Light"
Terry Kath (Chicago) - "25 or 6 to 4"
Dave Davies (Kinks) - "I'm Not Like Everybody Else"
There are also longer solos that boil along at a slower tempo which could be nominated - but many of those end up at speed. It would probably require a little thought to identify those that never accelerate.
Marty |
JJ Cale...any album he has put out. |
Check out David Gilmour Live at Royal Albert Hall (DVD) (2-disc)...very tasty w/o flash. I would also say Vince Gil takes a similar approach, though his songs are a wee bit different than Gilmour's. |
I've always liked Andy Latimer (Camel - check out "Ice"), and Mark Knopfler (Solo work - check out "Our Shangri-La") for this reason. For that matter David Gilmour is also a less is more soloist. |
Check out acoustic guitar work by David Rawlings on any of the Gillian Welch recordings. Their recent "The Harrow & the Harvest" album is a perfect example of what you're talking about. |
