string_slinger
Okay, what's the best in you opinion...?
Rules - has to be live, has to be documented, & pref somewhere on Youtube so we can all see and learn. Looking for taste, class, skill and downright 'DAMN THAT WAS HOT' factor here...
Me? Steve Lukather, Toto Live in Amsterdam, 'Hold the Line'
singemonkey
Yeah...
Clapton. Crossroads blues. I don't think mine would be the only vote it would ever get.
Bob-Dubery
I'm not big fan of Lukather and Toto myself. So there goes "taste".
There's lots of really great documented guitar playing, but I wonder how much great playing there is that hasn't been documented. The night that Danny Gatton popped in for a jam in XYZ club, Somewhereville. USA and really kissed the sky? There must be loads.
There must be lots of fab guitar players that the masses have never heard of.
Sort of touching on my earlier point there is a live Richard Thompson CD More Guitar!. Don't bother looking on Kalahari, they won't have it. It's available via his web site or at gigs. Sort of a fan club release.
There's a gig that has gone down in Thompsonian history as a particularly great night for guitar playing (actually a pair of gigs in the same venue on the same day). Of course the record company didn't have a truck there. How could they know he was going to head for the stratosphere on that particular day? But it turned out that there was a direct from desk to DAT recording made. A couple of tracks popped up on a compilation in the early 90s. Then in 2003 or so Henry Kaiser got hold of the tapes. had some sonic cleaning up done (though it's still very obviously live, with the odd buzz and feedback moment) and edited together More Guitar!
Now I don't want to tell you that somewhere on this disc is the greatest guitar solo ever. I don't believe that such a thing exists, and if it did it would probably render all those who heard it deaf and arthritic. But this CD does get really, really good. The famous solo (in circles where specific Thompson solos are important) is the one on a blistering version of "Can't Win", but it's not the sole high point.
So, this is not what the OP asked for. There's certainly no video footage of that magical night in Washington DC. There's loads of stuff that slipped through the cracks. In a stadium in Harare in 1988 I watched Springsteen and the E-Street Band. Nils Lofgren played a solo that took the top of my head clean off and had my jaw on the turf. I don't think "Live in Harare" ever made it into the record stores.
If we restrict matters to what's on YouTube then there's a particularly fine piece of playing by Jerry Donohue that I have posted here before and won't bore y'all with again (the forum search facility will find it). I found some scary stuff by Tom Verlaine and I've a feeling that I may have mentioned that before on GFSA.
Tokai-SA
I'll go with Pink Floyd and Comfortably Numb, "Pulse".
Bob-Dubery
Ok. I'll play along.
I think this is pretty damn lekker.
I like that Gilmour solo too. Gilmour is a way cool player with great dynamics and drama in his playing, as well as a decent dose of venom.
Squonk
I dont know it it's on youtube (restricted site at the workplace)
But the live solo that melts my cheese is Jimmy Page's solo on Stairway to Heaven from "The Song remains the Same"
It's not a technical solo, it's not flashy or even fast! Jimmy just starts off slowly and adds drama until it climaxes. I am getting goosebumps just thinking about it.
But that's just my cheese!
David Gilmour would be up there as well with "Comfortably Numb".
LooneyAtTheGate
Representing the metalheads:
Pantera 'Domination' live at that huge concert in Russia, i think on 'Vulgar Videos'
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LooneyAtTheGate
ok my embedding video skills are up to shit.
Warren
Gravity solo on "Where The Light Is", by John Mayer. Love the "behind the nut" melody he plays, and the amazing tone.
aubs1
Perhaps not my all-time favourite, but surely has to be way up there with the "best documented live solos" is The Eagles' "Hotel California". Will also qualify as one of the solos that has never deviated from the original on the recorded album.........
another of my favourites is Van Halen's "Jump".............how well documented???? ..hahahaha
maximilian
This might be off topic because i can't honestly say this is the greatest by any stretch of the imagination, but lately ive been really enjoying the classic maggot brain by funkadelic. There isn't much to it, but thats kind of the point.
Just such a beautiful song.
a not so live version
Live version
Seventhson
I am too scared to post metal? Might give some dudes here a heart attack(just joking :roflmao?
DonRoos
Dan Patlansky would rate one of my top local guitarists
Renesongs
David Gilmour Introduction to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "Remember That Night" Royal Albert Hall 2006 - I really wished I was there
costafonix
whew,, there are so many, but one that sticks in my mind is Gary Moore's "In the Fields", where the camera pan's down the neck of the guitar,,, mindblowing stuff,,,
Rob-dos
It has to be Since Iv Been Loving You by Led Zep
i think its the best documented because even though every live recording he has done that iv heard has been different
its not hard to find someone who has covered it in depth to teach it to you on the net
hotel california is pretty well recorded and documented i might add a vote to that
21Fretter
Good ol John Petrucci changes up the solo of Hollow Years in their Live At Budokan DVD and my lord it is a sick solo.
NorioDS
21Fretter wrote:
Good ol John Petrucci changes up the solo of Hollow Years in their Live At Budokan DVD and my lord it is a sick solo.
Wow! That is an awesome solo and song! I think I'd actually listen to Dreamtheater if it wasn't for the lead singer ?
21Fretter
Norio wrote:
21Fretter wrote:
Good ol John Petrucci changes up the solo of Hollow Years in their Live At Budokan DVD and my lord it is a sick solo.
Wow! That is an awesome solo and song! I think I'd actually listen to Dreamtheater if it wasn't for the lead singer ?
Ja, live is really not the vocalist's forte but on the albums with all the studio trickery he is beyond awesome imo.
