Guitar Solos

[Tom22]

This is about as sad of a song is you can get. It reminds me a little bit of the emotions that Haley put into Un dONE tward the the end Clapton puts out a solo that is gorgeous absolutely super nothing fancy just a clean guitar solo from a Stratocaster. It starts right after the keyboard player finishes playing his solo from his Hammond B3 organ

That is quite an expressive guitar performance.

To me though, the drums and key board just take so much away from it... I don't get any sense of a groove from them. And its not a matter of more or less from them... a great drummer with just a brush and a symbol or a full set at their choice could have given the underlying cadence that would have made the drift of the solo feel that much more driving (and I mean driving like into the heart, sort of an inevitable unstopable thing) I thought the keyboardest was worse... I didn't hear any of the blues beat echoing in his triplets etc.

I guess I'm saying they could have played the exact same kicks or licks on the piano and done the exact thing so much better with just micro seconds differences in timing and empahasis on what they did play.

Listen to any Allaman brothers performance of Melissa... I mean.. if Gregg Allaman was playing keys with Clapton that would have sounded so much better.

I think I was so lucky to hear so much jam band music in my 20s ( I must have been to 7 allaman brothers concerts , 2 dickey betts on his own, mutiple satriani and vanhalen and metalica not to mention the handful of dead shows and almost weekly R&B exposure at street fests and free concerts in golden gate park (johnie lee hooker played regularly in a place I went to go have beers ) I have a pretty high expectation and perhaps a taste I kind of expect.

(I haven't even mentioned Santana yet... need to link that)

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Bringing this to Haley... she had some incredbile drummers , and bass , and horn and everything around her on the album.

I imagine it's sort of a reinforcing thing where the very best musiciaans fuel each other. I wonder how they record the tracks in the studio... I know some stuff gets added in layers but I can't imagine one part being able to play they did without hearing the other.... are there parts we don't hear that got subtracted but that Haley cut her singing tracks listening to?

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Ok, I'm not sure I ever Bonnie Raitt there with Johnie lee hooker, but this was the type of stuff I got to hear so much of .. almost as an after-thought




I can really love the speedy athletics of a Satriani or a Vanhalen and that acompanies a high level of artistry too....but still

.. the mark of a great guitarist like a great trumpet player etc can be the grace and emotion and tone they put into a 3 or 5 note lick, and how improvisationally they'll contrast one 5 note lick with a another similar but ironically different one following.

Well ... hard to put that in words and maybe its all different in different people's ears