Rick’s Top 5 Guitar Performances

[Rick DeVille]

5.’Stone Free’ Jimi Hendrix

4. Voodoo Chile(revisited) -Stevie Ray Vaughan?

3. ‘Whole Lotta Love’ Led Zepplin – Jimmy Page

2. ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ The Beatles with Eric Clapton

1.’King Harvest(has surely Come)’ The Band – Robbie Robertson

 

[MissTaken]

Misstaken

in the corner of her living room playing Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.

I dont' know...the walls loved it!


Good choices, Rick.

 

[Rick DeVille]

Misstaken

in the corner of her living room playing Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.

I dont' know...the walls loved it!


Good choices, Rick.

Thanks

 

[patient1]

Why does an ex-musician that isn't a Beatles fan choose "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"? Please explain.

 

[seXieleXie]

you missed leXie's rendition of house of "wish you were here"

 

[Thumper]

In no particular order

Sweet Child ~O~Mine...Slash
Powerslave............Dave Murray and Adrian Smith
Anything by Brian May
Don't Know What Ya Got..Tom Keifer
One...................Kirk Hammett

 

[JazzManJim]

Can I toss in the entire "Purple Rain" album?

And Clapton's "From the Cradle" album, too.

 

[Black_Bird]

Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight (The version off of 24 Nights.)
Jimmy Hendrix - The National Anthem
The Eagles - Hotel California (Hell Freezes Over version.)

 

[WhisperingWinds]

my take on it

Can I toss in the entire "Purple Rain" album?

And Clapton's "From the Cradle" album, too.

I don't know about the entire Purple Rain album...maybe you might want to consider yanking I would die for you from it and then I could concur.

As for Clapton - that would HAVE to be Tears in Heaven.

I have to agree with the Hotel California hell freezes over version listed by Black Bird.

As for my own contributions....
1) Any music played by Santana
2) Every note off of the Black Sabbath self titled album
3) Any music played by Adrian Legg
(I've seen the man live like 3 times and still don't know how in the hell he does any of it)
4) Cool Change and Lady by Little River Band
5) Dust in the Wind by Kansas

(and I know it wasn't asked for but there's only one answer for strings of any kind and that would have to be Apocalyptica doing Metallica)

Who am I kidding? I admire anyone who can play guitar with any sort of talent!!!

 

[Rick DeVille]

Why does an ex-musician that isn't a Beatles fan choose "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"? Please explain.

Clapton plays the lead, it was earth shattering at that time and place, brought focus on to that style of lead. Try it and see.

 

[Rick DeVille]

Re: my take on it

I don't know about the entire Purple Rain album...maybe you might want to consider yanking I would die for you from it and then I could concur.

As for Clapton - that would HAVE to be Tears in Heaven.

I have to agree with the Hotel California hell freezes over version listed by Black Bird.

As for my own contributions....
1) Any music played by Santana
2) Every note off of the Black Sabbath self titled album
3) Any music played by Adrian Legg
(I've seen the man live like 3 times and still don't know how in the hell he does any of it)
4) Cool Change and Lady by Little River Band
5) Dust in the Wind by Kansas

(and I know it wasn't asked for but there's only one answer for strings of any kind and that would have to be Apocalyptica doing Metallica)

Who am I kidding? I admire anyone who can play guitar with any sort of talent!!!

Some good choices in there but a good guitar lick is not about being all piss and vinegar. It's like JJ Cales, sometimes its what he doesn't play.

Dylan called Robbie Robertson the mathematical guitar genius and it's proven on King Harvest. Listen to it and only listen to the guitar, you'll wonder how you ever missed it

 

[Rick DeVille]

Re: In no particular order

Sweet Child ~O~Mine...Slash
Powerslave............Dave Murray and Adrian Smith
Anything by Brian May
Don't Know What Ya Got..Tom Keifer
One...................Kirk Hammett

I put Sweet Chil of mine in the best rock album. I couldn't remember Slash's name. Putting the guy with the curly hair in the hat wasn't specific enough

 

[WhisperingWinds]

Re: my take on it

Some good choices in there but a good guitar lick is not about being all piss and vinegar. It's like JJ Cales, sometimes its what he doesn't play.

Dylan called Robbie Robertson the mathematical guitar genius and it's proven on King Harvest. Listen to it and only listen to the guitar, you'll wonder how you ever missed it

Thanks for the vote of confidence in my musical tastes. I'm used to getting razzed to hell and back for them. (I listen to almost everything) LOL Oh, I don't think it's all about staying fired up and busy. Adrian Legg can play and I feel like I'm standing in the middle of a meadow I've never seen... I'll have to check out Robertson some time. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Rick DeVille]

Re: Re: my take on it

Thanks for the vote of confidence in my musical tastes. I'm used to getting razzed to hell and back for them. (I listen to almost everything) LOL Oh, I don't think it'* all about staying fired up and busy. Adrian Legg can play and I feel like I'm standing in the middle of a meadow I've never seen... I'll have to check out Robertson some time. Thanks for the suggestion.

Get The Band If I had to list my Top 10 favorite albums, it would be in there and it'* over 30 years old

 

[artful]

Opinion

Eric Clapton is *The Best*.

 

[Rick DeVille]

Re: Opinion

Eric Clapton is *The Best*.

Clapton is the best at Clapton but when you become tired of those predicatble runs, try B.B. King The Thrill is Gone (live) Stevie Ray (a genius) and you can't beat J.J.Cale when you just want to cruise.

 

[Dillinger]

5 - "Prove It" - Tom Verlaine (Television)

4 - "Moisture" - Snakefinger (Residents, The Commercial Album)

3 - "Heavy Metal Kids" - Todd Rundgren (Utopia)

2 -"21st Century Schizoid Man" - Robert Fripp (King Crimson)

1 - "Watermelon in Hay on an Easter Sunday" - Frank Zappa

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Give in to me - Micheal Jackson (Slash)
Epic or Midlife crisis - Faith no more (Jim Martin)

 

[Thomas Paine]

Some pearls of wisdom in here - Clapton predictable, J.R. Robertson and "King Harvest ? Rick, you know your shit. Robbie Robertson can wring some sounds out of a guitar like nobody else and gave all those old Band tunes an edge (along with the late Rick Danko's voice) that separated them from the rest of the country rock shlock.

I have to speak up on behalf of Adrian Legg, too. If you don't know him, he's a British fingerstyle player who has won the Guitar Player Magazine annual award so many times I think he retired from competition. He stands apart from other fingerstyle players because his tunes are fresh and melodic and not that same old thumb-thumping stuff. He also has chops like a motherfucker. He plays a heavily customized Ovation, with more effects pedals than Joe Satriani, and tricks out his guitars with banjo pegs so he can tune a string up and down a full step while playing. I've seen him play whole eight-bar passages without touching the frets.

He is also the funniest musician I've ever heard. His typical show is forty minutes of guitar and forty minutes of story-telling, neither of which should be missed.

 

[alltherage]

I can not play a thing but I know what I like.

Stevie Ray Vaughn Voodoo chile

Hendrix I really like the band of Gypseys stuff

Duane Allman One way out, statsboro blues

Clapton Crossroads


bb king anything

 

[kiwiwolf]

Nice choices Rick... I'd like to add Steve Vais work on David Lee Roths Good Times off the Skyscraper album. Beautiful 12 string work done in one take.

 

[Jack Schitt]

"Johnny B. Good"--Chuck Berry

"Rock Around the Clock"--Bill Haley

"All Along the Watchtower"--Jimi Hendrix

"Love is Strange"---Mickey and Sylvia--Mickey ?

Trying to think of some of the real old stuff--maybe I can add a couple more later..

 

[Gingersnap]

Don't you people like anything that was done after 1980?

 

[Purple Haze]

"Little Guitars" Van Halen
"Little Wing" Jimi H.
"Achilles Last Stand" Jimmy Page
"Love Her All I Can" Ace Frehley
"Deep River Blues" Doc Watson

 

[ksmybuttons]

Play it to me live, please.

I love to watch a guitar player play.

Doc Watson
Ry Cooder
David Grier -one of the most creative players I have ever heard.
Jerry Douglas - just him and his resonator guitar, he doesn't need back up.
I wish I could have seen Django Reinhart....


Magical, just magical.