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!
John Petrucci Lie solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j-lCzCSvOI
But the whole band of Dream Theater are Heroes, so the full song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voYABoF5dTM&p=7F56AB671184D375
This is my idol from Dream Theater.
Iconic solos.
Slash – November Rain last solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc0GZsreKYg
Kirk Hammett – Unforgiven solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okL9E9u2m2w
Mike McCready – Even Flow solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xJkgRLb0tA
Jerry Cantrell – Them Bones solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNQiPoFVnKw
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
Leaving this for boomer, or any body else
The trailer from “The Guitar” a movie I really liked!
Guitar Kids!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwhkG3LhZO8&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkaYbGasWNA&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1CCGIXOwCY&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCKU6U5lFCE&feature=related
j’avaz, that first little one (speaking Spanish) is quite good. Hope Sheriff Joe doesn’t see it.
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!
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. 😆
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.
Drum prodigy Jacob Armen at seven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8cvKImVadE
Julian Pavone at five
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 –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oxcC18xE4Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObntBBeWoX0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZf45FI2qYY
Joan Jett –
Guitar Women –
Melissa Etheridge –
Lita Ford –
Chrissie Hynde –
Joni Mitchell –
Michelle Shocked –
Bonnie Raitt –
Herb Remington –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUwwYh8BddM
Joaquin Murphey –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xMZkc_qakM
Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant –
Is it even possible to do this post with all these eelectic geetars and not have Les Paul?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtTqm0O29Rw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iGXP_UBog4
Listerine presents: The Les Paul & Mary Ford Show: World Is Waiting For The Sunrise. One of their many 5 minute episode
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWuQiGaIsso
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
I’ve seen him and his daughter play. She is, um, mesmerizing in more ways than one. 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgCpkduEQ7U
This guy just rocks. Zakir Hussein Tabla solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As1OMMcHXFs
By the way, this is what the Persian setar looks and sounds like.
Ostad Mohammad Reza Lotfi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HNatjyK8DE
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. 🙂
Billy Gibbons –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcvd8h0YqrM
Ronnie Montrose –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATCDmihDLeI
KK Downing –
Johnny Winter – Mojo Boogie –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL2UY2Uq7Tk
Dickie Betts and Dan Toler and Great Southern Jam –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rlZ6QE5rgs
Prince – When Doves Cry –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucZRore0-EE
Neil Young and Pearl Jam –