Is there a more incredible, beautiful, melodic, soulful solo out there?

Philly_Q

I haven't heard much of his music and I'm in no position to criticise, but after reading the "incredible, beautiful, melodic, soulful" description, I wasn't expecting what I heard.  It doesn't sound like anything out of the ordinary or anything I haven't heard many times before.

There were bits I liked, bits I didn't like at all.  I do like his guitar playing better than his singing, I must say.

CHRISB50

The first part. with the bends and the pauses sounds a little Peter Greenesque.

For me, Peter Green did it a lot better.

Incredible, beautiful, melodic and soulful... Jumping at Shadows live at the Boston Tea Party!

Fretwired

lovestrat74 said:

Fretwired said:

digitalscream said:

Sounds like yer average Generic Live Blues solo to me...

I have to agree and I like Gary Clark Jnr.

So you are saying there is a more incredible...solo out there?  Or are you saying that blues is just generic?

There are better solos out there. In fact there are better Gary Clark Jnr solos out there. It wasn't helped with his tone.

axisus

I want to hear it but I'm at work! These sort of threads rarely go down well here for some reason. I think we should refer to them as a 'Bucket thread'.

lovestrat74

CHRISB50 said:

The first part. with the bends and the pauses sounds a little Peter Greenesque.

For me, Peter Green did it a lot better.

Incredible, beautiful, melodic and soulful... Jumping at Shadows live at the Boston Tea Party!

Sweet indeed!

Iamnobody

lovestrat74 said:

CHRISB50 said:

The first part. with the bends and the pauses sounds a little Peter Greenesque.

For me, Peter Green did it a lot better.

Incredible, beautiful, melodic and soulful... Jumping at Shadows live at the Boston Tea Party!

Sweet indeed!

I was going to say he like Freddie King with bends and pauses...

But then again PG was influenced by King...


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mE9H1bW-zQ4#

shaunm

I really liked it. 

Is he the greatest nope, not close. I think the OP might have got a little excited by the title of the thread but that aside, it’s great. Nothing new but a well played blues solo non the less.

Rocker

I listed to it all!

With a voice like his, he really should employ someone who can actually sing.  As for the solo, I thought the tone was OKish but it went 'nowhere'.  Slowly.

OP, listen to Thin Lizzy, Still in love with you.  Now THAT is guitar playing.

lovestrat74

shaunm said:

I really liked it. 

OP might have got a little excited by the title of the thread

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and yes you could say I was caught in the moment 

lovestrat74

Rocker said:

I listed to it all!

With a voice like his, he really should employ someone who can actually sing.  As for the solo, I thought the tone was OKish but it went 'nowhere'.  Slowly.

OP, listen to Thin Lizzy, Still in love with you.  Now THAT is guitar playing.

Yes heard it many times and it is duly noted but soinds a bit dated  I prefer PG's Jumping... as it's timeless  As for the singing don't think you can win a Grammy and not be able to sing.

ICBM

I listened to it all.

Fucking awful.

Disjointed, overplayed, generic guitar wanking with a horrible tone and mixed far too loud relative to the band, yet without any real edge or power.

NeilMcG

Awful tone and too long by far. What was with all that knob twiddling at the start, it wasn't going to make it sound any better?

I quite liked his voice though.

shaunm

ICBM said:

I listened to it all.

Fucking awful.

Disjointed, overplayed, generic guitar wanking with a horrible tone and mixed far too loud relative to the band, yet without any real edge or power.

But did you like it @ICBM ;

mburekenge

Love Gary Clark Jr. The 2 live albums are top ranking imo. Love the way he lies back on the beat and the fulltone octafuzz abuse.

His version of 3am blues off the first live album is absolutely amazing, as is things are changing.

I've just finished learning the live version of 'healing' and I'm enjoying transcribing his stuff.

Zapata is a killer 2nd guitar player as well.

For some reason it seems 'cool' to bash blues artists. Whatever floats your boat. I love some self indulgent blues WANKING and always will. 

lovestrat74

mburekenge said:

Love Gary Clark Jr. The 2 live albums are top ranking imo. Love the way he lies back on the beat and the fulltone octafuzz abuse.

His version of 3am blues off the first live album is absolutely amazing, as is things are changing.

I've just finished learning the live version of 'healing' and I'm enjoying transcribing his stuff.

Zapata is a killer 2nd guitar player as well.

For some reason it seems 'cool' to bash blues artists. Whatever floats your boat. I love some self indulgent blues WANKING and always will. 

Cheers pal, thought it was just me for a minute 

hobbio

I love self indulgent blues wanking, but I didn't really dig that. Sorry OP, there's plenty out there that floats my personal boat a lot more. This floats your boat though, so it's all good.