On September - 3 - 2010
Who are your favorite guitarists? What guitar solos are the most unforgettable? Today’s Friday Music Thread is all about music that features that most versatile of popular music instruments, the guitar.
Hope these strike the right chord with you:
Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood
Eric Clapton – Layla
Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) – Money For Nothing
Eddie Van Halen – You Really Got Me
George Harrison – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Your turn!
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John Petrucci Lie solo
But the whole band of Dream Theater are Heroes, so the full song.
This is my idol from Dream Theater.
Iconic solos.
Slash -- November Rain last solo
Kirk Hammett -- Unforgiven solo
Mike McCready -- Even Flow solo
Jerry Cantrell -- Them Bones solo
Dimebag Darrell -- Walk solo
This song has become so iconographic, and the Beatles are known more for the textures and inventiveness of their songs than for any individual instrument’s part, that it’s easy to overlook the fact that this song has a short, sweet and soulful guitar solo that can stand alongside the best of ‘em.
Let It Be
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Leaving this for boomer, or any body else
The trailer from “The Guitar” a movie I really liked!
Guitar Kids!
Drum prodigy Jacob Armen at seven.
Julian Pavone at five
j’avaz, that first little one (speaking Spanish) is quite good. Hope Sheriff Joe doesn’t see it.
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The kid is smarter than Joe and has his papers in order!
LOL
Am having major computer problems. Going to try rebooting and asking the hubby to see if he can work some magic. Hope to be back – if not have fun with VOX and a great weekend!
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Hope it works, hope to see you there!
BTW, this post with all the videos can slow down your computer, for Vox Populi, best to use the Vox Populi page or the sidebar on any page or article that doesn’t have a lot of videos to load.
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This kid is 7 years old and plays Samba pa ti, made famous by Santana--in front of Carlos Santana. 7 years old
What were you doing at 7? I wasn’t picking a guitar.
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Guitar weirdness
Tom Morello of RATM
Buckethead
Jack Black -- make-your-own guitar
Kurt Cobain, in Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) style.
Ann and Nancy Wilson -
Joan Jett -
Guitar Women -
Melissa Etheridge --
Lita Ford -
Chrissie Hynde -
Joni Mitchell -
Michelle Shocked -
Bonnie Raitt -
Herb Remington -
Joaquin Murphey -
Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant -
Is it even possible to do this post with all these eelectic geetars and not have Les Paul?
Listerine presents: The Les Paul & Mary Ford Show: World Is Waiting For The Sunrise. One of their many 5 minute episode
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This has absolutely nothing to do with guitars, but as I was searching, I came across this and the comment about the organ solo (seriously)…
Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) -- Sugar Magnolia
Johnny Ramone (The Ramones) -- Blitzkrieg Bop
OK, not guitar but to have watched this played live by Ravi was incredible, his hands moved so softly yet the sound he made!
Best Sitar/Tabla piece ever Ravi Shankar & Chatur Lal Raga Mishra Piloo In Thumri Style
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I’ve seen him and his daughter play. She is, um, mesmerizing in more ways than one.
This guy just rocks. Zakir Hussein Tabla solo
By the way, this is what the Persian setar looks and sounds like.
Ostad Mohammad Reza Lotfi
And another related instrument, the tar.
Sahba Motallebi -- Chahar Mezrab
Which one, they are both quite striking.
I’m partial to Anoushka, but yes, my oversight.
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Billy Gibbons -
Ronnie Montrose --
KK Downing -