Interesting solos without speed

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Gadd

dementedchord said:
hilarious mutt... thnx... though eddie is not a fav of mine personally... BTW that's steve gadd and david sanborn with clapton.... and couldnt see him real well but looked like might be jan hammer with eddie... and the only one i've ever heard on frettless 6 string till this was larry coryell... funny stuff man...
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Wow, there's a name that seldom comes out. I remember buying a vinyl LP of his back in like 1977, a Fusion Rock album. Definitely not main stream.
 
Youtube is blocked from the office, but is that Eddie before or after he died and was replaced by an alcoholic, balding Gollum? I'm not the hugest of VH fans, but even I'll admit the man was something special on the first couple albums. These days, though, it's almost enough to make me want to quit drinking. :/
 
Gadd's not exactly UN-mainstream

Toddskins said:
Wow, there's a name that seldom comes out. I remember buying a vinyl LP of his back in like 1977, a Fusion Rock album. Definitely not main stream.
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Steve Gadd played with some big-time names actually: Paul Simon (that's Gadd on "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" and "Late in the Evening") and Eric Clapton come to mind immediately. He's a big-time session drummer.
 
famous beagle said:
Steve Gadd played with some big-time names actually: Paul Simon (that's Gadd on "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" and "Late in the Evening") and Eric Clapton come to mind immediately. He's a big-time session drummer.
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Big is not the word. He's guested and played on hundreds of big name and smaller bands. You kind of know he's been on some of your favorite albums even if you didn't know it at the time.

Gadds discography

Other greats to compare for me would be Chad Wackerman and Vinnie Colaiuta.
 
muttley600 said:
Big is not the word. He's guested and played on hundreds of big name and smaller bands. You kind of know he's been on some of your favorite albums even if you didn't know it at the time.

Gadds discography

Other greats to compare for me would be Chad Wackerman and Vinnie Colaiuta.
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Good lord, you weren't kidding! :eek:
 
The album

famous beagle said:
Steve Gadd played with some big-time names actually: Paul Simon (that's Gadd on "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" and "Late in the Evening") and Eric Clapton come to mind immediately. He's a big-time session drummer.
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I went and looked at that discography, and the album was

Tightrope, by Steve Khan. 1977


I think I was thinking of Steve Khan's name as the name you seldom hear, although Gadd played on that album.
 
DrewPeterson7 said:
Youtube is blocked from the office, but is that Eddie before or after he died and was replaced by an alcoholic, balding Gollum? I'm not the hugest of VH fans, but even I'll admit the man was something special on the first couple albums. These days, though, it's almost enough to make me want to quit drinking. :/
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Actually late-EVH might have been one of the reasons I stopped drinking myself.

He does look better now, after they re-united with Roth and he just had to look respectable for the whole new Fender line of amps/guitar. But everything post 1999 till last year, oh fuck yeah. He looked like a homeless drunk, hell I'm sure homeless drunks look better then he used to. Or play guitar either. His performance at House of Petals was just painful.

Precioussss...

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^ Eddies infamous shoe.
 
Toddskins said:
I went and looked at that discography, and the album was

Tightrope, by Steve Khan. 1977


I think I was thinking of Steve Khan's name as the name you seldom hear, although Gadd played on that album.
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Ohhh ... You titled your post "Gadd," and Khan's name wasn't mentioned anywhere, so I figured you were talking about Gadd.
 
Two of my favorite slow solos:

  • Eric Clapton's solo on the studio version of "Spoonful" from Fresh Cream
  • Allan Holdsworth's solo on "Wildlife" from Believe It by the Tony Williams Lifetime (yes, Holdsworth, known primarily for playing about as fast as is humanly possible most of the time, occasionally just plays something like this)
 
Yea

famous beagle said:
Ohhh ... You titled your post "Gadd," and Khan's name wasn't mentioned anywhere, so I figured you were talking about Gadd.
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I was talking about Gadd, but mistook him for Khan. My mistake in the identification process of who was more popular.


Or wait a minute. I was talking about Khan, but mistook him for Gadd. Yea... that's more like it. <grin>
 
So, um, should we try to get this one back on topic, or just sort of let it die? :p
 
take a listen to "exactly where I'm at" by ween.
 
NO it's not dead, because we haven't mentioned Dean Ween, or his amazingness.
 
One thing...no, two things that I have learned.
The first...If you can't hum it, it's a waste of a track.
The second...Chicks Don't Care how fast you can play.



chazba
 
famous beagle said:
What does "play full-stop" mean?
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don't know if you were serious as you're a native speaker, but I didn't understand it first either...

it's

... don't care if you play . <--- = full-stop

:)


actually I think the time when chicks were attracted by guitar-players (i'm not talking about richie sambora or other famous ok-looking ones) are over... they died with 80's rock.
... but then there were the kurt-loving chicks that also loved guitar-strummers - but I don't think we're hot for these girls. :p
... and the slutty "girls" at the KISS show a couple of weeks ago weren't exactly my thing either.

back to topic.

if I have to be able to hum my solos, I can't go lower than the F on the low E-string or higher than B on the high E-string... this kind of sucks :p.
and what about trills and double-stops... or pinched harmonics???
(just kidding)
 
six said:
don't know if you were serious as you're a native speaker, but I didn't understand it first either...

it's

... don't care if you play . <--- = full-stop

:)


actually I think the time when chicks were attracted by guitar-players (i'm not talking about richie sambora or other famous ok-looking ones) are over... they died with 80's rock.
... but then there were the kurt-loving chicks that also loved guitar-strummers - but I don't think we're hot for these girls. :p
... and the slutty "girls" at the KISS show a couple of weeks ago weren't exactly my thing either.

back to topic.

if I have to be able to hum my solos, I can't go lower than the F on the low E-string or higher than B on the high E-string... this kind of sucks :p.
and what about trills and double-stops... or pinched harmonics???
(just kidding)
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I still don't understand what "full stop" means. You have it with an equals sign pointing to "don't care if you play." So .... the original post from Mish would read?:

"Chicks who listen to RnB don't care if you play don't care if you play, and unfortunately that's the most of them."

????

I don't get it.
 
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