Face Melting Guitar Solos

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swiveleyedgit said:

is that Duane Allman looking on in horror in the background?

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popeyewhite said:

Joe Bonamassa monsters Blues Deluxe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIs8DDrywvw

^ That led me to this:-

Best guitar duel ever! Joe Bonamassa and Eric Gales~John Henry

Brilliant work using harmonic minor / phrygian flavours in a blues tune. Very clever.

Talking of clever guitar work, have we had this yet? :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ9Xk-VoGqo

Solo starts @ 2:19

Larry Carlton at his jazzy, creative best.

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TheFinners said:

A rather unknown one but the the sorta blues on steroids and then some solo in 'The Doctor' by The Answer is absolutely fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZGf3JZy5GQ

That's like Paul Kossoff reincarnated!

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I don't blame the guy

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Stevie Ray Vaughan at a sound check

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grBmQwLSlDw

I love it at the start, where he just pitches up, straps on his Strat, yawns, then launches full throttle

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Jimmie?

Doubtful

A bit more pedestrian than Stevie, but still a great handle on trad blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn91Ces2WrA

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This appeared on my FaceFart Feed a couple of days ago:-

Too Cool For School - Guthrie Govan

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glazbagun said:

There are a lot of great solos posted here, but when I think of Face Melting I tend to think of the likes Shawn Lane.

Sadly most of the live recordings of him seem to have been filmed on potatoes, but it's still great to have them. He made beautiful music in his time, but for "Face Melting" I proffer Time is The Enemy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF0sO1UJkRc

It has the kind of quality you get when a saxophonist is putting the hammer down and going on a voyage.

And for sheer joy, The Way it Has To Be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xog2wDBTgfM

I remember Shawn getting the occasional mention / feature in Guitar World magazine in the early 1990's, but nothing suggested to me that he was capable of work in that "Time is The Enemy" vid!

Bloody Nora, that is exceptional! It's almost like Charlie Parker had given up sax and decided to play the guitar

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I think there may be some Hendrix influence in there..............

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Oldred_V8S said:

Nope, not as good as this one.

same concert - Comfortably numb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHKG7EMxWW8

I love the drummers face, he can't quite believe he is really there.

Guy Pratt on bass looks pretty stoked as well.

I still reckon solo #1 on Comfortably Numb is one of the greatest ever; just perfectly judged

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popeyewhite said:

It's a great solo. It won't melt anyone's face though. Some of the lasers used might?

Hey, but its a PF concert! A Floyd concert without lasers is like fish without chips.

This appeared on my FB feed just now:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY8wyKuLY2k

Vai playing a three-neck Ibanez, with the added bonus of Billy Sheehan noodling away on bass.

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Magpie1862 said:

Not sure if this has already been included in here:

John McLaughlin, guitarist with Miles Davies, Mahavishnu Orchestra and many collaborations with some rock/jazz greats.

His style might not be to every bodies taste, but his guitar technique and playing is insane.

Jeff Back called him the greatest living guitarist.

Seems like a top bloke as well.

This is from a lover of Blackmore, Schenker, Howe, Satriani, Vai, Gallagher, Gilmour, Lifeson, Latimer, Santana, etc

John McLaughlin is an insane talent, and has played many times with Paco Di Lucia and Al Di Meola.

I like the guy, because as a person and guitarist he wipes the floor with Meola (who, in every interview I've read or watched, comes across as nothing more than a colossal anus)

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The late, great, Gary Moore improvises some rock, blues and jazz when interviewed by Guitarist magazine some years ago:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVOwCBScxw0

Go to 5:38 for a fire breathing blues blues improvisation (that sets off a car alarm ) using a rather lovely ES-335

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popeyewhite said:

And in recognition of the inclusion (again) of Gary Moore to the thread (a few posts above), here's Gary Moore covering Need Your Love so Bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVN9ckrREWY

Brilliant

Perfectly judged and executed

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Paganini-style stuff on a nylon string guitar:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWlZ3kRPosc

The lad has potential...................

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Tommy Emmanuel and friends play a Hungarian Dance at a face melting pace:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTx8XT9uP4E

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Some background............

Paxos. 2014.

Sitting on the balcony of our apartment with a rum and coke, waiting for Mrs. O to get dressed before heading into town for dinner. Reading an article in the latest Octane magazine where a road trip was undertaken from Louisiana to Illinois to re-trace the route taken by blues guitarists in the early 20th century to Chicago. The writer of the piece stops en-route at a blues "shack" somewhere in the Deep South, and encounters a 14 year old lad called Christone "Kingfish" Ingram who - according to the writer - plays smokin' blues guitar.

Intrigued, I did a YT search when we got back home and Kingfish was indeed a very talented blues guitar player for his age.

This is where he's at now. Not face melting soloing, but note selection and phrasing is perfect. The vibrato is - I think - the best I have ever heard:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-nTAgOMK7w

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Thanks to a recent vid from Rick Beato, have a listen to this from 4:12 :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0mU-q0DA34

Steve Lukather's solo at the end of Lionel Richie's "Running With The Night"; allegedly improvised in one take.

It is class

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That Django clip reminded me of this Martin Taylor piece:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfFPdLRIjKk

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The Surveyor said:

Something a little left-field I heard again after a few decades, some very 1970s fuzz guitar work by Tony Peliso, Goodbye to Love:-

https://youtu.be/jixeE8gkT-s

Good call.

I remember back in the day Guitar Techniques magazine did a full tab of that solo, and I did wonder why?!?!?

The Carpenters?

Guitar solo?

WTF???

Trying to play it at the time, though, I soon got it. Very clever.