Robben Ford Discussion

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Was listening to something today which fits this category, and was just wondering what guitar solos cause other people to get a lump in the throat/goosebumps/shivers down spine or even just plain old tears!

The track that I've been listening too is the live version by Frank Gambale of Kenny G's 'Passages'. Interestingly, I've never really been into Gambale's work - just really haven't connected with his playing I guess - but I heard this a while ago on the radio and it absolutely stunned me, so I've now bought the CD.

On one level, it's an absolutely devastating display of playing - amazing technical precision and he nails all the changes seamlessly. However, he manages to transcend all that side of things and put in a performance which at times seems to me to be emotionally gut wrenching.

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nineacres · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 4:58 am Post subject:

Robben's two solos on "Misdirected Blues"
Larry's "The Emotions That Wound Us So" (Last Nite)
Larry's "Room 335"
Eric's solo on "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" (24 Nights)
and
John Pisano "Over the Rainbow" (Among Friends)
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Bluelobster · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:43 am Post subject: chills-

Going back in time : Day tripper, i feel fine, Paperback writer and others
Beatles riff still make me feel like 13 years old.
How many more times .1st Led Zep.
Clapton with John Mayall(Bluesbreakers).
Bold as love , Little miss Lover, Remember, Red House without echo take which was released on the european disc, Villanova Junction, and the outro solo from purple haze at wood stock.
Protocol from John Scofield. all the soli from Hiram bullock in his first 2 discs. North Carolina and there is no one else from inside story.
and a lot of others : oh yes Wired from Jeff Beck and like i said in an other thread Ollie Halsall doing Didn't feel lonely till i thought of you on Kevin Ayers 's Confession of Doctor Dream.
And a lot more , oh yes Fish Rising from Steve Hillage.......
Ahhhhhhhh and Scott Henderson & Carlos Rios on the first Electrik Band, and Scott Henderson in the Players with Jeff Berlin , there is a live take with a monster solo.
So much stuff : i remember vividly the 1s time i heard Hunter & Wagner in Rock'n roll Animal 'lou reed'.
And a lot................

telefunk1 · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:32 am Post subject:

Speaking of Peter Green - any of his solos on the many versions of Jumping at Shadows. It is not just the solo itself that inspires, but the context that the song represents as an opportunity to express himself - total package of emotion, talent, and tone.

Freddie King - too many solos to list off the top of my head. I will think of some over the weekend and list them later.

Aeolian · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:59 am Post subject:

Jeff Beck's solo on Stevie Wonder's Looking for Another Love (I superimposed this over the Comodore's Easy one night and the singer looked over stunned. At the break I told her that it was Jeff, I could never come up with anything like that)
Jeff's Cause We've Ended as Lovers
A tape of my friend Wedemeyer playing Beck's Brush With the Blues, where he starts out with chorus after chorus of chord substitutions using harp harmonics. Sounds like angels.
Robben's solo on Trouble In Mind from Live at the Mint. He pours so much into this that Spoon just spontaneously yells out.
Another vote for Larry Carlton's Emotions Wound Us So from Last Nite
Jimi's Am jam at Woodstock
And sacreligious as it may be, Eric's solo on Badge
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kirk95 · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 9:41 am Post subject:

PierreL · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:20 am Post subject:

Jeff Beck again, "Where were you" , my all time favorite.
And then I would also second the "Song for Annie" vote.

Aeolian · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:54 am Post subject:

kirk95 · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:51 am Post subject:

Robben Ford on "Pass It On - Mirage À Trois - Yellowjackets!

This one just kills me every time!
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fingerlakes · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject:

Some that have stayed with me through the years :

Elvin Bishop......Fooled Around and Fell in Love
Jeff Beck....Goodbye Porkpie Hat
Jimi Hendrix.....Red House from Hendrix in the West
David Gilmour......Comfortably Numb
Robben Ford......Misdirected Blues
Carlos......Europa
Adrian Belew......The Great Curve from Talking Heads "Remain in Light "..perhaps my very favorite song of all time.....As Aeolian so aptly describes this was one of those life altering records for me.....A Brian Eno /David Byrne production that is a masterpiece from the first cut to the last.

iamthewalrus · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject: very short and incomplete list

Well,

First one had to be Eric Clapton, CREAM, "Crossroads" live; saw them perform this era live at the Shrine Expo Hall in LA and was awestruck. Like a lot of us I had to learn it note for note. From then on, it was overall playing that got me, Hendrix "Rainy Day," then, finally, I heard Hendrix "Red House," which was such a treat. Lately I'm listening to and enjoying over and over again Robben's "Misdirected Life Blues" from Mystic Mile - I like everything about this, it is so quintesentially "Robben." The chord playing/voicing choices, the single line playing - so entirely both traditional and just outside. The rhythm feel is incomparable. It's also one of those tracks I sort of overlooked for the longest time.
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JavaDiva · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 12:16 am Post subject:

Jerry Garcia - I heard him play Stella Blue in Seattle the summer of 1995. When I turned my head to wipe the tears away, I noticed the guy next to me had tears streaming down his cheek too. It was the sweetest, saddest guitar playing I've ever heard.

Derek Trucks - sorry, don't know the song, but he played something in Portland this summer that sounded like Duane Allman and Dickie Betts (playing back and forth). It gave me shivers up the back. He is an amazing player.

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tomblake · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 6:07 am Post subject:

another nice thread....

here it is for me:
Carlton: emotions wound us so (again!!!!)
SRV: Little wing
Robben: outro solo misunderstood!!!, Supernatural (what a wah sound!)
Clapton: Have u ever loved a woman (Live)
Roy Buchanan: High wire
Carlos: Europe (live)
Danny Gatton: Blues Newburg
Jimi: All along the watchtower
A. Collins: If trouble was money, Don´t loose your cool
Sco: A go go
Jeff Beck: Where were u

...just to name a few Laughing

marinblues · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 9:50 am Post subject: