electric guitar solos

RJR · January 29, 2011, 07:15:33 AM

Phil Manzanera, former guitarist with Roxy Music; Peter Green: Supernatural (John Mayall blues album); Jeff Beck, Beck's Bolero, Chico Hablas (Yello-Blue Green); Buddy Guy Live-I had a dream last night; Wes Montgomery-Caravan ...
and many many more.

drogulus · January 29, 2011, 08:05:41 AM

RJR, you might appreciate this, from the Boston Tea Party, 1970.

Peter Green (vocals, guitar right)

Danny Kirwin (guitar left)

John McVie (bass)

Mick Fleetwood (drums)

Jeremy Spencer (standing around sulking)

Rattlesnake....

http://www.youtube.com/v/ddrSvypVg-U

....Shake

http://www.youtube.com/v/-kEH8qbjH_c

Live in Boston is a live album by British blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac. It was recorded over three nights at the Boston Tea Party venue in Boston, between February 5 and February 7, 1970. The recordings were made for a proposed live album, which was to have been released during 1970 but the project was shelved and the tapes remained unreleased until Shanghai Records issued seven songs from the performances as Live in Boston in February 1985. The album was reissued a few months later as "Jumping at Shadows" by Varrick Records and was re-released again in 1989 as "Boston Live" by Castle Communications. In addition, a number of other compilations featuring material dating from Fleetwood Mac's February 1970 residency at the Boston Tea Party appeared during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In 1998, Snapper Music released a three-volume CD set, titled Live in Boston: Remastered (later reissued as Live at the Boston Tea Party), which collected virtually all of the available tracks from the Boston Tea Party concerts. These three volumes have subsequently been available individually or as a box set. All three volumes were reissued as a four LP set in 2003, under the title Live at the Boston Tea Party.

jowcol · January 30, 2011, 04:05:51 AM

Quote from: drogulus on January 29, 2011, 08:05:41 AM

RJR, you might appreciate this, from the Boston Tea Party, 1970.

Peter Green (vocals, guitar right)

Danny Kirwin (guitar left)

John McVie (bass)

Mick Fleetwood (drums)

Jeremy Spencer (standing around sulking)

Rattlesnake....

http://www.youtube.com/v/ddrSvypVg-U

....Shake

http://www.youtube.com/v/-kEH8qbjH_c

Live in Boston is a live album by British blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac. It was recorded over three nights at the Boston Tea Party venue in Boston, between February 5 and February 7, 1970. The recordings were made for a proposed live album, which was to have been released during 1970 but the project was shelved and the tapes remained unreleased until Shanghai Records issued seven songs from the performances as Live in Boston in February 1985. The album was reissued a few months later as "Jumping at Shadows" by Varrick Records and was re-released again in 1989 as "Boston Live" by Castle Communications. In addition, a number of other compilations featuring material dating from Fleetwood Mac's February 1970 residency at the Boston Tea Party appeared during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In 1998, Snapper Music released a three-volume CD set, titled Live in Boston: Remastered (later reissued as Live at the Boston Tea Party), which collected virtually all of the available tracks from the Boston Tea Party concerts. These three volumes have subsequently been available individually or as a box set. All three volumes were reissued as a four LP set in 2003, under the title Live at the Boston Tea Party.

Good call. I'm not the biggest Fleetwood Mac fan- even of their earlier stuff, but there is some great live material from that 1970 tour. They did a version of "Got a Mind to Give Up Living" on that tour which is, without a doubt, my favorite Green performance-- I am not sure the origin, it might have been the fillmore West show here.

http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90/peter-greens-fleetwood-mac-fillmore-west-1970-a-63604.html

jowcol · January 30, 2011, 04:07:50 AM

Quote from: RJR on January 29, 2011, 07:15:33 AM
Phil Manzanera, former guitarist with Roxy Music; Peter Green: Supernatural (John Mayall blues album); Jeff Beck, Beck's Bolero, Chico Hablas (Yello-Blue Green); Buddy Guy Live-I had a dream last night; Wes Montgomery-Caravan ...
and many many more.

Nice choices. I'm also really fond of Mick Taylor's playing with Mayall. (Much more than his work with the Stones.) His playing on Crusade, Blues from Laurel Canyon, and the lo-fit Diary of Band and Primal solos albums is a lot of fun.

snyprrr · January 30, 2011, 05:29:34 AM

Did any of you ever see Danny Gatton live? Not those crappy Warner Bros. cds...

Our 'gang' was pretty tight with him (my friend became his videographer), and I've heard (and seen) much jaw dropping.

His right hand was the 'claw', playing his Telecaster almost like a classical guitar at times, chickin pickin his heart out. Plus, he could blaze like no one.

drogulus · January 30, 2011, 07:57:23 AM

Snype, did you see the YT clip where Gatton introduces the 12-year-old Joe Bonamassa?

http://www.youtube.com/v/WLB900atJFs

Telecaster + Super Reverb = Icepick, but that's a quibble. What's amazing is the way this kid plays freely against the rhythm then finds the groove just like a veteran. Sure, he plays everything he knows but he's 12!

jowcol · January 31, 2011, 06:24:37 AM

Quote from: snyprrr on January 30, 2011, 05:29:34 AM
Did any of you ever see Danny Gatton live? Not those crappy Warner Bros. cds...

Our 'gang' was pretty tight with him (my friend became his videographer), and I've heard (and seen) much jaw dropping.

His right hand was the 'claw', playing his Telecaster almost like a classical guitar at times, chickin pickin his heart out. Plus, he could blaze like no one.

I never saw Gatton live-- but did catch Roy Buchanan live a few times (Washington DC's other phenomenally underrated guitarist that later took his own life). I'd love to hear some boots of Gatton playing-- the albums I heard were technically amazing but didn't really move me emotionally. Buchanan, on the other hand, was a sloppy (or apathetic) band leader, but definitely had an emotional wallop in his playing that I adore(d), and also did some pretty amazing things with harmonics on the old Telecaster.

snyprrr · January 31, 2011, 07:59:52 AM

Quote from: jowcol on January 31, 2011, 06:24:37 AM

I never saw Gatton live-- but did catch Roy Buchanan live a few times (Washington DC's other phenomenally underrated guitarist that later took his own life). I'd love to hear some boots of Gatton playing-- the albums I heard were technically amazing but didn't really move me emotionally. Buchanan, on the other hand, was a sloppy (or apathetic) band leader, but definitely had an emotional wallop in his playing that I adore(d), and also did some pretty amazing things with harmonics on the old Telecaster.

Actually, Nils Lofgren, another hometown boy, took that harmonic thing to the next level. He really really impressed me,... a very unique lead sound.

Lofgren, apparently, was on some local show way back when, with Buchanan, and I remember the phrase that Lofgren was 'playing circles around' Buchanan.

Buchanan liked to get 'hung up' on those high notes, scratching them out,... he had such a feral sound.

I remember one show I saw at the Bayou in DC, with Gatton (was he still with the FatBoys?), and I remember all he had was a Boss DigitalDelay (the little white box with blue knobs), and, at one point, he was doing a solo, and then turned the DD knob, and the open-E note he had played sunk into the bass as the DD tracked down the note,... and Gatton did the guitar hero thing on bended knee,... haha, classic!

I liked him best with the FatBoys. All they would do is play old songs, and Gatton would tear the middle of each song to shreds,... ahhh,... back in da day!

jowcol · January 31, 2011, 08:19:38 AM

Quote from: snyprrr on January 31, 2011, 07:59:52 AM
Lofgren, apparently, was on some local show way back when, with Buchanan, and I remember the phrase that Lofgren was 'playing circles around' Buchanan.

At least according to Phil Carson's biography on Buchanan, Lofgren was quoted as saying he got a bit excited and forgot to let go of the lead on one song, and Roy let him run with it. This was the PBS special in 1971.

I'll agree though-- Roy had a more visceral sound than the other two, and was never remotely any sort of bandleader. I was on one mailing list where folks were debating the virtues of Gatton vis a vis Buchanan, and someone said that Gatton was like going to a Monster Track Rally, and Buchanan was like going to church-- the former was much more technically advanced, while the latter was more about "testifyin". Neither ever really got their due when they were alive.

Speaking of Gatton, have you heard the album "Relentless" he did with Joey De Francesco? Has to be my favorite Gatton album.

Szykneij · January 31, 2011, 01:29:50 PM

Quote from: snyprrr on January 31, 2011, 07:59:52 AM
Actually, Nils Lofgren, another hometown boy, took that harmonic thing to the next level. He really really impressed me,... a very unique lead sound.

Lofgren, apparently, was on some local show way back when, with Buchanan, and I remember the phrase that Lofgren was 'playing circles around' Buchanan.

Buchanan liked to get 'hung up' on those high notes, scratching them out,... he had such a feral sound.

I remember one show I saw at the Bayou in DC, with Gatton (was he still with the FatBoys?), and I remember all he had was a Boss DigitalDelay (the little white box with blue knobs), and, at one point, he was doing a solo, and then turned the DD knob, and the open-E note he had played sunk into the bass as the DD tracked down the note,... and Gatton did the guitar hero thing on bended knee,... haha, classic!

I liked him best with the FatBoys. All they would do is play old songs, and Gatton would tear the middle of each song to shreds,... ahhh,... back in da day!

Lofgren had a minor hit with a song called "Steal Away" back in the late seventies that I liked, so I bought this album. I have it on vinyl, but this CD release is listed on Amazon for for $149.99. I guess I should try to find out what my record is worth (or at least listen to it again).