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Location: Eugene, Oregon | Originally posted by Earthbound Misfit:
- "Keep Your Love Alive" - Heart
- intro to "Crazy on You" - Heart
- "Wish You Were Here" - P. Floyd
- outtro to "Sheep" - P. Floyd
- "Closer to the Heart" - Rush
These are but a few... My, but it's easy to tell my age, ain't it? :D Yikes...
Less the Zep and add a few Dire Straits, I think we would be twins. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Between "Dire Straits" debut thru to "Brothers in Arms" ...there are so many staggeringly good licks...
Telegraph Road...in my "top 5 best tunes ever written"... |
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Location: Ky | Anything by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, but in particular, the second solo in "Comfortably Numb".
Truly mesmerising. |
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Location: Braman, OK | Ah yes, Dire Straits -- how could I leave out "Ride Across the River" from Brothers in Arms?
Surfn ~ I'm with you on D. Gilmour, probably my favorite of all the great ones out there in rock solo-land. |
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| Ohhh Man so many great licks... Tried to learn so so many through the years I honestly just can't nail down a favorite.
Yeah That screaming lead that Gilmore reaches deep and cranks out on C.N. has got to be one of the most emotional leads I have ever heard! This needs to be played as loud as posible for the effect to move you! Just sit back and let him knock you back in your chair kind a volume. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | For those that are harping on Dire Straits, how about the main break in "Lady Writer"? |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | I have been practicing my "Johnny B. Goode". I have a heavy tone attack version that has a lot of good riffs, so does the original. |
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Location: NJ | ". . This needs to be played as loud as posible for the effect to move you! Just sit back and let him knock you back in your chair kind a volume . ."
In one of the FAR too-infrequent instances where I give my partner Rick his "props" :
We do a version of "WishYouWereHere" where at the end we segue into the middle of "ComfortablyNumb" where Rick plays both of the solo breaks, pretty much note-for-note . . . . on an ACOUSTIC!!
Stops the crowd dead in their tracks every time.
As far as "riffs" go:
In hearing the Fogelberg recommendations, I'd have to go with "Nexus" from the InnocentAge album. . . . |
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Location: GA USA | Powerhouse by Drivin' n Cryin'
Something Out of Nothing by Soul Asylum
I'll bet nobody was going to say those. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Maybe this is stupid and cheezy, but the Mike Nesmeth electric solo on "Vallarie" by the Monkees just blows me away.
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Location: ms | Who played Vallarie?I loved the monkees,and i know Mike could play,but could he play that?I would guess some L.A. studio guy. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Probably Glen Campbell played it. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I'm sooooo whitebread!
"Wonderful Tonight" Eric Clapton
because
ANYBODY can play it and sound good! |
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| I think I remember seeing Nesmith play that when I was a kid...he probably has his own website somewhere, we could ask him.... :) |
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Location: New Hampsha | "Do You Feel Like I Do?" - Frampton
"Ohio, S-JBE" - CSNY
"Call Me the Breeze" - Skynyrd
"Blue Sky, Jessica" - Allman Bros.
"Layla" (slow version, that's as fast as I go.)
"Lazy" Deep Purple |
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| Cliff too scarry! We are doing both of these songs as well. No segway do em both straight up. We throw in Mother and we have a nice acoustic version of Welcome to the Machine worked out too. Aaron is one of those knock em dead killer lead players too! Fun ain't it!
There is Pigs on the wing 1&2 and we are working out a medley from Animals. We both like an old Floyd tune called Fearless but we will only play it when we hit a night were the people like the floyd and want more.
He and I switch on & off with the mandolin and he has a nice Korg Trition board we both use. He plays flute for the Jethro Tull short set and I have the Bass nailed down. It is so hard not to want to jump into a trio and go nuts ya know??
Anyway Cliff I sure hope I have as much fun as it sounds like you have been having. Any of you guy's kicking around some songs find a partner and go for it! Ya only live once that you'll remember.
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Location: Ky | speaking of rock done acoustic, have any of you heard the "Moody Bluegrass" album? - a take on Moody Blues stuff by a bunch of Nashville studio bluegrass players. They actually do "Nights in White Satin", with mandolins, & banjos, etc., & do it unbelievably well, I might add. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | While we're off topic: find a copy of
Rebuild The Wall
By Luther Wright and the Wrongs.
A bluegrass reworking of the entire album. You will thank me. (Hey, I've never lied before.....that you noticed!) |
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Location: Chicago | Love the dirty Les Paul jam between McLaughlin and Billy Cobham on "NOONWARD RACE". Mahavishnu AC/DC!
Greg |
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Location: closely held secret | I've always loved the lead tradeoffs at the end of Abbey Road.
...ok, stop laughing... |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...Any guitar lick by Ron Block of Alison Krauss and Union Station... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | "Spank It" by Greg Koch after he kicks it in overdrive. |
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Location: Burbank | The opening lick on Pat Traver's "Snortin' Whiskey" |
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Location: SoCal | Opening lick to Jerry Reed's The Claw. How many of you have actually heard that tune? |
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Location: Midland, MI | Does it start out:
East bound and down, loaded up and truckin'
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