best single rock guitar performance?

[Jacko]

Statesboro Blues Live at Fillmore East Duane Allman

[Gus]

Too many great guitar gods to speak of...I guess it depends on the style you are lookin' for....here are a few of my favs.

Slash: Gn'R, Cold November Rain
Kirk Hammett: Metallica, The entire Master of Puppets album
Joe Perry: Aerosmith, Dream On
Dave Grohl: Foo Fighters, Everlong (unplugged version)
Jimi Hendrix: Cherokee Mist
Moe: Happy Hour Hero
FREE BIRD!!!

[ANDY&JEN]

The Shenkner brothers (Scorpions) could play , Ace Frehley was pretty good too. But what about Alex Lifeson on the whole of . 2112 awsome fretwork .

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[sideways]

Most Memorable Guitar performances/songs for me.....

Jimmy Page - "Stairway to Heaven", from the song remains the same LP, also "Achilles Last Stand" Presence LP

Ritchie Blackmore - "Catch the Rainbow", Live on stage LP

Yngwie Malmsteen - "Far beyond the Sun" Rising Force LP

John Petrucci - "Lines in the sand" and "Change of seasons"

Alex Lifeson - "Villa la Strangiato" from Exit stage left LP

[Brent & Kim]

Mid-summers day dream, by Triumph.

[ami]

Originally Posted by sideways

Most Memorable Guitar performances/songs for me.....

Jimmy Page - "Stairway to Heaven", from the song remains the same LP, also "Achilles Last Stand" Presence LP

Ritchie Blackmore - "Catch the Rainbow", Live on stage LP

Yngwie Malmsteen - "Far beyond the Sun" Rising Force LP

John Petrucci - "Lines in the sand" and "Change of seasons"

Alex Lifeson - "Villa la Strangiato" from Exit stage left LP

I LOVE John Petrucci......awesome

[ami]

Originally Posted by ryberg

Got that out and listened to it after your post. It is very impressive. I personally go more for the guitar work on the remake of Rock This Town on that same album, though I think it's just more my style of song, and I may also be biased towards it as one of his originals (and as an interestingly thorough makeover of the original, as well).

In the meantime, I Googled "all-time greatest rock guitar" and came up with this long list, FWW. Didn't see how it was created but I thought I'd copy in the top 25 for comparison, if nothing else. I'm afraid there are many I don't know at all (but I was about to say Cortez the Killer, James!). Lots we haven't noted, here, and lots of ours missing!


1. Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
2. Stairway To Heaven - Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
3. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
4. Freebird - Allen Collins (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
5. Maggot Brain - Edie Hazel (Funkadelic)
6. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
7. Eruption - Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen)
8. Highway Star - Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
9. Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck
10. Hotel California - Don Felder/Joe Walsh (Eagles)
11. Mr Crowley - Randy Rhoads (Ozzy)
12. Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
13. Time - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
14. Layla - Eric Clapton/Duane Allman (Derek & The Dominos)
15. Sweet Child O' Mine - Slash (Guns N Roses)
16. Cliffs Of Dover - Eric Johnson
17. Nottingham Lace - Buckethead
18. For The Love Of God - Steve Vai
19. Voodoo Child (slight return) - Jimi Hendrix
20. November Rain - Slash (Guns N Roses)
21. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
22. Blue Sky - Duane Allman/Dickey Betts (Allman Brothers Band)
23. Satch Boogie - Joe Satriani
24. Cortez The Killer - Neil Young
25. Lazy - Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)

Steve

I can't believe there isn't a single song by YES on that list. But I'll go ahead and all the Pink Floyd.

[ryberg]

That particular link's ranking is quite a mixed bag, when you look at it. I'm guessing it's a pretty heavily player-oriented thing, in a lot of ways, and a particular type of player, like the Satriani/Vai type of player, maybe, mixed with a sort of core rock style or something. I mean for example if you step back and talk about great rock guitar work, well I don't think you can objectively go so very far (unless your view is sort of narrow) without coming in with any one of many great Santana performances, and yet that list doesn't get to him until Black Magic Woman at #102. They don't hit Cinnamon Girl until #185, and Moonage Daydream isn't on the list at all, even though it goes up to almost 250.

So far I like our collection here better.

Anybody hear like to listen to some Jeff Healey from time to time? Blue Jean Blues, a fiery cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps...

Steve

[sideways]

Originally Posted by ami

I LOVE John Petrucci......awesome

I just saw him 2 nights ago...note my Avatar He's probably the best "Active" Rock guitarist around right now IMHO. Nice list Ryberg, I almost put All Along the Watchtower in there... Heres another site some cat put together with top rankings for about every rock category you can think of. (Ami....on that list you'll notice all of the DT musicians are in the top 35 of all time for their respective instruments including the 2 keyboardists who are no longer with DT) HAHA..just saw it's the same guys site that Ryberg listed...just a different category.

100 Greatest Rock Guitarists

I know most folks have never even heard of Dream Theater, they get absolutely no radio play because of their avg 8 min long songs, and progressive classification. As far as Petrucci, If you havent heard him, here he is in Liquid Tension Experiment, which is 3 members of Dream Theater and the great Tony Levin on Bass.check this out...

Live tune

YouTube - liquid tension experiment paradigm shift

Studio tune

YouTube - Acid Rain - Liquid Tension Experiment

Oh....Ami, just in case you didn't know.....DT will be in Houston, 2007-08-03 - Verizon Wireless - Houston, TX

Anyone intersted in seeing some awesome Dream Theater....just YouTube search "Dream Theater Score" This was their 20th anniversary show at Radio City Music Hall last year, second set included a full Orchestra.


Heres a REAL crappy phone pic from friday night in LA

[GreatLakes]

The Edge in "Until the End of the World"

[ami]

Cool! I've always thought he was an amazing guitarist...I know he's made some list in a guitar magazine of being one of the best out there. And I have Dream Theater coming to Houston next Friday and hope to catch them. How was the show? What's their current set list?

Originally Posted by sideways

I just saw him 2 nights ago...note my Avatar He's probably the best "Active" Rock guitarist around right now IMHO. Nice list Ryberg, I almost put All Along the Watchtower in there... Heres another site some cat put together with top rankings for about every rock category you can think of. (Ami....on that list you'll notice all of the DT musicians are in the top 35 of all time for their respective instruments including the 2 keyboardists who are no longer with DT) HAHA..just saw it's the same guys site that Ryberg listed...just a different category.

100 Greatest Rock Guitarists

I know most folks have never even heard of Dream Theater, they get absolutely no radio play because of their avg 8 min long songs, and progressive classification. As far as Petrucci, If you havent heard him, here he is in Liquid Tension Experiment, which is 3 members of Dream Theater and the great Tony Levin on Bass.check this out...

Live tune

YouTube - liquid tension experiment paradigm shift

Studio tune

YouTube - Acid Rain - Liquid Tension Experiment

Oh....Ami, just in case you didn't know.....DT will be in Houston, 2007-08-03 - Verizon Wireless - Houston, TX


Heres a REAL crappy phone pic from friday night in LA

[sideways]

Originally Posted by ami

Cool! I've always thought he was an amazing guitarist...I know he's made some list in a guitar magazine of being one of the best out there. And I have Dream Theater coming to Houston next Friday and hope to catch them. How was the show? What's their current set list?

Here's the setlist we got....been so far (4 shows) fairly consistent. To keep track of the setlists check here leading up too Houston
The Unofficial DT Tour Dates & Setlists Thread (UPDATED 07/29)

Our Setlist in LA....they Played for 2:15, less than their normal "Evening With" format, which runs 3 hours, but they needed a breather ....LOL
2007-07-27 - Gibson Amphitheater - Los Angeles, CA

1. Constant Motion
2. Panic Attack
3. Scarred
4. Surrounded (extended)
5. The Dark Eternal Night
Keyboard Solo
6. Lines In The Sand
7. Misunderstood
8. The Spirit Carries On
9. In The Presence Of Enemies
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10. Shmedley Wilcox Medely:
I.Trial Of Tears
II. Finally Free
III. Learning To Live
IV. In The Name Of God
V. Octavarium (Razor's Edge)

[tbone]

so many to choose from but, a couple of my favorites are, "Since I've Been Lovin' You", (Early Led Zepplin) and "Red House", (Jimi Hendrix).

[ami]

Originally Posted by sideways

Here's the setlist we got....been so far (4 shows) fairly consistent. To keep track of the setlists check here leading up too Houston
The Unofficial DT Tour Dates & Setlists Thread (UPDATED 07/29)

Our Setlist in LA....they Played for 2:15, less than their normal "Evening With" format, which runs 3 hours, but they needed a breather ....LOL
2007-07-27 - Gibson Amphitheater - Los Angeles, CA

1. Constant Motion
2. Panic Attack
3. Scarred
4. Surrounded (extended)
5. The Dark Eternal Night
Keyboard Solo
6. Lines In The Sand
7. Misunderstood
8. The Spirit Carries On
9. In The Presence Of Enemies
-------------------------------------------------
10. Shmedley Wilcox Medely:
I.Trial Of Tears
II. Finally Free
III. Learning To Live
IV. In The Name Of God
V. Octavarium (Razor's Edge)

You are my new favorite person.

[sideways]

Originally Posted by ami

You are my new favorite person.

Happy to oblidge Ma'am

Highlights for me were...

Scarred - phenominal

Lines in the Sand - one of my top 5 DT tunes, hadn't seen live in the 7 or so times I'd seen them.

In the Presence of Enemies - The new 24 min Epic....deffinatly gets you worked up...

The Medely - Each of those 5 songs are stellar gems...during each one I was just hoping they'd screw the medely and play that particular one in full.....LOL....