Favorite guitar Solo

[neddyrow]

One of those times where I know nobody else has posted this one and I'm not even going to check first.

I was told that was Jerry Garcia playing that solo....but alas, it's just the same or similar envelope filter.

 

[ianuaditis]

i love all the love that Gilmour is getting on this thread!

i also love that someone else loves Southern Man! such a great raw solo!

Dead fan here. and through many hours of obsessing over tapes, my favorite solo from Jerry is Brown-Eyed women from Cornell 1977. I much prefer 1968-1974 but this solo puts a chill down my spine everytime. he just hangs a few notes out there that blow me away! so many more but this one has stuck with me since the first time i heard this show.

We don't agree on Gilmour, but I commend you for being the only person to post Garcia in this thread. It's hard to pick out a moment when they played so many instrumental passages.

Also, I love Southern Man. Supremely ironic to me that a band with 3 guitars couldn't touch Neil in their 'riposte' song.

 

[ianuaditis]

I was told that was Jerry Garcia playing that solo....but alas, it's just the same or similar envelope filter.

Mu-tron? I never heard he had done that solo, but I could see why someone would think that. Sounds to me like an attempt to cop one aspect of his tone from the late 70s-early 80s era, and somewhat in his idiom, but in the video you can see the guy playing it as is.

Next someone will tell you that Blind Melon's 'No Rain' is also Jerry...

 

[Altitude]

Mu-tron? I never heard he had done that solo, but I could see why someone would think that. Sounds to me like an attempt to cop one aspect of his tone from the late 70s-early 80s era, and somewhat in his idiom, but in the video you can see the guy playing it as is.

Next someone will tell you that Blind Melon's 'No Rain' is also Jerry...

The guys in the band were all University of North Texas guys and pretty heavy hitters IIRC. I should find out what became of them.

 

[Bunan]

I always enjoyed the guitar solo in the intro on this one


And who can forget the solo from Summertime Live

 

[Freekmagnet]

Speaking of Neil Young, I think I could qualify this as "favorite 1-note solo".

I used to disparage Neil Young, thinking, "He's just a burnt out old hippie." When I realized he really is a burnt out old hippie, I became a fan.

 

[Jack Butler]

I'm dancing around in my kitchen wearing a bathrobe right now.

Sometimes I forget how awesome Jeff Healey is

 

[dtripoli]

Bruce Conte
Squib Cakes. Solo starts at 1:15
I've always liked his clean sound on this track. No frills, just a funky jazz interlude.
Bruce played a 1957 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop through a 1967 Fender Super Reverb for
this recording.

....nevermind, the king of 16th notes, Rocco Prestia is on bass

 

[RyanKW]

Sometimes I forget how awesome Jeff Healey is

No s***, me too.

 

[madjazzbass]

Nice. I was always partial to his solo on I DONT KNOW!!

'I don't know' is just an all together Kick*** tune for sure, love that solo as well, followed by the 'Over the Mountain' solo

 

[madjazzbass]

'Who's that Lady?' by the Isley Brothers, Ernie Isley Shreds!!

 

[Honch]

I wholeheartedly disagree. Listen to Colma. Very heartfelt. I will say that some of his stuff, to me, IS "un-listenable garbage" but his catalog is enormous. It can't all be masterpieces. I think he's one of very few guitarists who can play almost any style from the heart. I also know that a lot of people like to find or imagine fault(s) in extremely technically adept players.

Colma was the first CD I bought of his. Snorefest. He tries to be good at bass. He's a lousy bass player, which destroys the album. This is talkbass, I am a bassplayer, and it hits me first on, the bass playing. Subpar. I use it occasionally to fall asleep to. It is dedicated to his then recently deceased mother or something. Then I thought "he may be nothing without the visuals" and started buying officially released DVDs and concerts. Those home made, or bootlegs wears on me pretty bad.

Look, I am not out to raining on anyones parade. All of a sudden, he may strike us with something that will make me have to eat up my words. And, frankly, I really hope so, and that it happens not too far in the future. So far, he hasn't. I actually had the privilege of seeing him live in Rock In Rio in 2002. With G'n'R. I had vacation but it was announced that they had RocknRio so I went there the day GnR played. To the least expensive ticket prices ever. And there were NO support acts, but main headlining acts all of that day! I had to split in the middle of the gig with GnR to catch my midnight flight way back home to Sweden. I really had to leave just right after Bucks antic and routine with his MMA stuff on stage. Juggling with his sticks or something. The only new song I could remember, which ended up later on the Chinese Democracy was "Madagascar", and I thought it showed promise. But I was let down by that album in overall. But I tell you, he was not a GnR and stuck out like a sore thumb. He will not fit in at all in any band. He's totally on his own. Too eccentric. But I stayed as long as possible before I hauled *ss and grabbed a cab. No traffic the other way, back into Rio. Got to the airport in time. I stayed, JUST because I wanted to see Buck live. So much for my interest in him, in the old days. I don't judge anyone just by hearsay, I have listened to him closely throughout these years.

This is also Talkbass and you know we're not that generous towards any gtrd. You have to accept some more acerbic comments around here than on ultimate guitar dot com. I also happen to know that people likes to find extremely technically adept players to be the most versatile, and varied, and best overall in all genres, ranging from classical, jazz, country, blues, metal, hard rock and anything in between. But they're not. And especially in Bucks case, he thinks he's just as good on bass and can multitrack his own tunes. I e just because they are very technical, they automatically gets lauded for that "they can play anything". It's my experience that this is on the contrary. Which shows clearly on Colma with his totally unhinged bass lines, which could've been better carried out. Christ, he's played with some monster players, and could've called them (Claypool, Bill Laswell et al). Now, you can't please them all, but that guy is the one who has stumped me the most, why people raves about. Shawn Lane, who was just as equally technically adept, was way way more interesting to me, and had dynamics and drama, and feel, and ...why...that's may be why Buck lauded Shawn too. Shawn was a major influence on Buck. Shawn had what Buck was lacking. And still lacks.

I agree, though, that he has released too much, too introvert, and too out there things. He needs to weed it out, with a stubborn producer. All in all, is that when I listen to him, it seems that he is doing music (performing, releasing material) just that it is for other guitar buffs, to use as a study, for learning to play guitar. Like "here's page 5 study number 15 iconic (ha!) scales strung together and warmup of the pinkie...at speed". Combined with the riff from page 1. And "now, here's it all again, turned backwards and up to inhuman speed, change positions". Can't help but thinking that this is what he comes across as. Some kind of eccentric and weird freak show. All of the time.

 

[jmlee]

Any of you who subscribe to the Apple Music Service, look up a playlist called Great Guitars of Steely Dan. Some beautiful solo work therein.

 

[squarepeg]

Solo at 1:40

 

[zontar]

I'll add this one--some great guitar work throughout this by Albert King--especially the solo at 3:16where he starts off by saying, "'scuse me..."
I've had the start of that solo as my ringtone.

 

[Sixgunn]

Now, you can't please them all, but that guy is the one who has stumped me the most, why people raves about.

And that's ok. A LOT of people feel that he's brilliant, myself included. That said, my personal favorite is Michael Schenker who I don't think Buckethead is remotely like but I can't knock his ability to pull off pretty much anything and I think his bass playing is MILES better than some VERY famous "bassists". - Cheers

 

[blue4]

90% of the time my favorite guitar solo is the one that doesn't get played, but I do like a few now and again.


Highway Star by Blackmore

Most of them from Dave Gilmore or Mark Knopfler

The one by Colbain in Smells Like Teen Spirit. Yes I hear you howling about how simple it is and how it just follows the vocal line, but it adds a ton of energy to that song and made it kick live.

I used to scoff at any talk of George Harrison being good but that was youthful stupidity. Most of his are exactly what needed to be played.

The solo in Joan Osborne's What if God Was One of Us. You're thinking it's your standard chick 90's pop song and then this long (for pop anyway) guitar solo starts and it's quite good. Understated, yet catchy. Really makes the song to me.

Jerry Garcia or whoever's solo in Touch of Grey. It's not the meandering they do live, it's simple yet incredibly effective. The type of solo a casual fan taps their toes to.

There's a bunch more....

 

[Honch]

And that's ok. A LOT of people feel that he's brilliant, myself included. That said, my personal favorite is Michael Schenker who I don't think Buckethead is remotely like but I can't knock his ability to pull off pretty much anything and I think his bass playing is MILES better than some VERY famous "bassists". - Cheers

Yes yes yes, now, let's bury the hatchet. I only spoke of people that in their beginnings reveals much promise (Yngwie is yet another one) and one thinks they will go places, and really move forward, but after a couple of decades they've shown nothing. No matter how brilliant, they stay at the same spot. Not developing. Each to their own, and he can't and shouldn't please them/us all. I wished I could linked you to the now-removed flick on YT where he plays his flagship "closest-to-anything-resembling-a-hit" number Nottingham Lace live where he plays a fast run during the pretty lame chord progression of Am-G-F, and in a fast run he happens to play totally out of key for several bars, (i e not out of tune) and it's to a pre-recorded backing track so no other member to blame for the clunker. He just doesn't hear that he's totally in the wrong key/position on his own fretboard. I got in on DVD. That's my definition of unmusical. I e he doesn't and didn't listen. Even to himself. There are of course numerous other instances of the same song that he nails it, each time. But I think his priorities are in different areas, as he thinks his antics and shtick is more important, and the image he's trying to convey. That cartoonish novelty act. And on his bass playing, I am definitely not alone, it's nothing I got out of the blue (found this one, since this thread).

Colma - Buckethead | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic

Christ, Bill Laswell or Bootsy Collins plays on one number. Why didn't he let them have a go at the rest? Like many guitarists, he seems to think that playing bass is simply a matter of hitting the root of the chord on the downbeat of the measure...

To all of those who thinks I am slaying all "fast" and dexterious gtrds, or musicians I'll say:

I listen to, and like guitarists/musicians in spite of them playing fast.
I listen to, and like guitarists/musicians in spite of them playing slow.

Or anything in between.
Mind you, not ever, thanks to, or due to them playing fast.

 

[Honch]

guess who's the gtrd on this...

One of my favorite solos. Not that video though.

 

[Double E]

Yes yes yes, now, let's bury the hatchet. I only spoke of people that in their beginnings reveals much promise (Yngwie is yet another one) and one thinks they will go places, and really move forward, but after a couple of decades they've shown nothing. No matter how brilliant, they stay at the same spot. Not developing. Each to their own, and he can't and shouldn't please them/us all. I wished I could linked you to the now-removed flick on YT where he plays his flagship "closest-to-anything-resembling-a-hit" number Nottingham Lace live where he plays a fast run during the pretty lame chord progression of Am-G-F, and in a fast run he happens to play totally out of key for several bars, (i e not out of tune) and it's to a pre-recorded backing track so no other member to blame for the clunker. He just doesn't hear that he's totally in the wrong key/position on his own fretboard. I got in on DVD. That's my definition of unmusical. I e he doesn't and didn't listen. Even to himself. There are of course numerous other instances of the same song that he nails it, each time. But I think his priorities are in different areas, as he thinks his antics and shtick is more important, and the image he's trying to convey. That cartoonish novelty act. And on his bass playing, I am definitely not alone, it's nothing I got out of the blue (found this one, since this thread).

Colma - Buckethead | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic

Christ, Bill Laswell or Bootsy Collins plays on one number. Why didn't he let them have a go at the rest? Like many guitarists, he seems to think that playing bass is simply a matter of hitting the root of the chord on the downbeat of the measure...

To all of those who thinks I am slaying all "fast" and dexterious gtrds, or musicians I'll say:

I listen to, and like guitarists/musicians in spite of them playing fast.
I listen to, and like guitarists/musicians in spite of them playing slow.

Or anything in between.
Mind you, not ever, thanks to, or due to them playing fast.

Ask Bill Laswell or Bootsy Collins how they feel about Buckethead's guitar playing and musical prowess. Along with many others like Les Claypool and Bernie Worrell who've also collaborated with him... they would not share your same degree of criticism at all.

I agree that he could have distilled his recent onslaught of material down to a more meaningful collection, just as you might have with your super long winded posts here trying to justify your dislike of the guy's playing. He obviously had some kind of vision though...to put out this kind of effort.

So, you don't dig him...many others do. I feel you are trying to intellectualize your position with long, detailed reasoning.