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5 Favourite guitar songs
On a slight twist to Tom’s great post 5 Favourite Guitarists, what are your 5 favourite guitar songs?
For me:
1..Club 27 – MLT
2..While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Beatles
3..Shine On You Crazy Diamond – Pink Floyd
4..American Woman – Guess Who
5..Any early AC DC. Example TNT.
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Hi Jung;
That is a hard one to narrow down……because often our favorite guitarists are based on their body of work rather than any one particular song. I’ll try to give it a shot though.
1) Hotel California – Eagles (Felder and Walsh going back and forth is really something).
2) My Sharona – The Knack……..please don’t laugh!!!! The set up of the riff with the Strat and the guy’s work on the LP has always blown me away. I’ve always thought that a Strat combined with an LP is really a great combination.
3) Purple Haze/All Along the Watchtower (a tie)- Jimi Hendrix
4) While My Guitar Gently Weeps……..but not George and Eric but the one with Prince, Tom Petty, Dhani, et al at the concert for George. Prince was crazy good with this one.
5) A bunch tied for 5 (songs by Stills………Suite Judy Blue Eyes……..Free Bird (maybe)…….Queen (Bo Rhap)…….Layla (Eric and D. Allman together can’t be all bad). I guess I have to settle with SJBE. It has the EEEEBE tuning and Stills makes his way through 3 different movements in the song.
Mike.
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Hi Mike, thanks for that list. My Sharona by the Knack is one of the most iconic rock riffs ever done I think. It’s too bad the Knack’s career was so short lived disbanding after their 2nd album in 1981 after their huge debut album and this song in 1979.
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One of my favourite Pink Floyd songs, maybe the favourite.
In the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, this song is voted the number 3 top greatest guitar songs of all time, after Jimi Hendricks “Voodoo Child” and Chuck Berry, Johnny B Goode” that hold #1 and #2 spots respectively.
3..Pink Floyd – “Comfortably Numb”
When David Gilmour’s guitar shows up on “Comfortably Numb,” it absolutely erupts. But it’s in that closing part where he reaches a rare stratosphere only few guitarists have ever touched. It’s the kind of ending you want for a song you never want to end
BTW, #4 and 5 in their list are “While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Beatles, and “Eruption” – Van Halen respectively.
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I think AC DC is often underrated as one of the top guitar acts of all time. I enjoy the early AC DC days the most, the Bon Scott days. Their rhythm and lead guitar riffs are hypnotic!
This is one of Bon Scotts’ last performances with AC DC in 1979. He died under mysterious circumstances in Feb 1980 in London after a night out drinking, found dead in his car. “Depending whom you ask, he died of asphyxiation, alcohol poisoning, or hypothermia.” Five months later the band, as a tribute to Bon Scott, released the album “Back In Black” with new singer Brian Johnson. Back in Black would go on to become the 2nd best selling album in history.
Per Wikipedia: In the July 2004 issue of Classic Rock, Scott was rated as number one in a list of the “100 Greatest Frontmen of All Time”.
In Wikipedia they say Bon Scott’s vocals were inspired by Little Richard, and Angus Young guitar is inspired by Chuck Berry per Angus himself. In this video you can see where Angus gets his Chuck Berry-ish stage romping influence.
AC DC in top form
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Hey Jung,
A good topic. Here is my five.
Jimi Hendrix – Midnight from War Heroes.
Eric Clapton – Cream – Live version of Sunshine of Your Love – live 1968
Jeff Beck – Truth CD Bolero
Alvin Lee – Going Home Woodstock
Jimmie Page – Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin Live 1972
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Michael you are right about the Knack My Sharona Great guitar in that live version.
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Immigrant Song
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Jung this one from Beck is for you Greensleeves. Since I remember you mention this song a little while ago.
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My submissions aren’t working
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One at a time?
Ok. Thanks Jung,
I meant to provide samples – Here we go. Many of these are ~10 minutes
Jerry Garcia — Althea Remember that the Dead were never in a hurry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7HnyEY6ifg
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It looks like the whole set is in moderation limbo
Mark Knopfler — Telegraph Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Wp2ASqyxI
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Carlos Santana – Samba Pa’ Ti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAsfAuvFvh8
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Stephen Stills — Treetop Flyer (somebody mentioned Black Queen)
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Joe, Tom, thanks for those. One of the best things about the forum is the music experience one can get from all the sharing of rich great music experiences, and I really enjoyed all those videos. There is just so much great guitar work in Led Zeppelin, and loved the Jeff Beck stuff too, especially his guitar version of Greensleeves, that one is bookmarked. Wow, Albert Lee and Santana are masters indeed!
Watching Carlo Santana do “Samba Pa Ti”, just made me appreciate MLTs version even more, and this is not to take away from the master Santana one bit, but rather at 13 how impressive it is that Lisa can take that song to the expressive level of a master guitarist like Carlos Santana himself! MLTs Samba Pa Ti in my books can stand alongside Santana’s version any day, for me I found MLTs slightly ahead.
The simplistic richness of each note she played somehow felt more expressive. And then what about MLTs brilliant Club 27, Hotel California, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and Wish You Were Here. Would love to see Mona and Lisa do another Santana guitar instrumental or something similar for a cover idea in the future some time.
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