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Re: Favorite instrumentals

airportdon wrote:
Stu Craig wrote:

Forgot about this one - quite possibly my favorite instrumental performance ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaVVZYOvMFY

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Thx for the link...
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Re: Favorite instrumentals

Where do you start/stop with a topic like this - Could probably do 100!!

A few from my YT faves

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic   (Top 5 guitar performances ever ?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh3bleXWaCk

Prima Donna - Jan Akkerman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q6gti_O0n4

City Lights - Steffan Schackinger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAnv66NDZ74

Cause we ended with as Lovers - Jeff Beck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o3CIa3nrZE

Weiss Heim - Blackmore/Rainbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS7jPuqkbaw

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Maggot Brain wink +1, can't believe I didn't get that one quickly. RIP Eddie.

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Re: Favorite instrumentals

Most of Carlos Santana's stuff...

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Re: Favorite instrumentals

Stu Craig wrote:
airportdon wrote:
Stu Craig wrote:

Forgot about this one - quite possibly my favorite instrumental performance ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaVVZYOvMFY

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Hey Stu
Thx for the link...
I like your Mel Schacher-(Grand FunkRailroad-bassist)'s Avator...I think he also played bass on that song 96 tears ?

Yes he did - ? and the Mysterians :-)

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Thx.....that was it...I actually saw that band in Youngstown/Austintown area back in the 80's w/out Mel of course....it was in some small bar/club.

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Re: Favorite instrumentals

Echoes - Pink Floyd

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Re: Favorite instrumentals

nmagcorn wrote:

Echoes - Pink Floyd

The singing doesn't count?

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Re: Favorite instrumentals

DaveWammbarro wrote:
nmagcorn wrote:

Echoes - Pink Floyd

The singing doesn't count?

At least 18-20 minutes of instrumental in between. Does that count?

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Re: Favorite instrumentals

nmagcorn wrote:
DaveWammbarro wrote:
nmagcorn wrote:

Echoes - Pink Floyd

The singing doesn't count?

At least 18-20 minutes of instrumental in between. Does that count?

Well. I'm down with that.In that case - will nominate Woke Up Dreaming Live.Plenty of instruemental time in there!

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bigjeffjones wrote:

Most of Carlos Santana's stuff...

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You'veen hiding in the weeds BJJ.Good to see your smiley face here again.Ill second the Santana, I put a couple in my first post.

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Re: Favorite instrumentals

The Supernatural. Peter Green in his time with Mayall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul4hxJQIdZk

That's who Carlos got it from! wink

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Cat's Squirrel - Cream - Fresh Cream album and Going Home (Local Hero) by Mark Knopfler Live in Royal Albert Hall version. I can't remember the year but Knopfler played it on his Les Paul 58.
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welcome to the forum Ryn, nice git fiddle there and extra nice with the sig.

I thought about a couple others last night and realized I had overlooked one of the best of the last few years. Our very own Michael Lynch in the UK put this video montage together I think more for me than anything, it is exceptional and required a lot of work. Some here may not have seen it. Others I had forgotten - Camel's Night Out, EJ and Los Endos, Genesis (the slight vocal at the end doesn't really count as they omit this when playing live).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8IScia54c4

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Cat's Squirrel - Cream - Fresh Cream album and Going Home (Local Hero) by Mark Knopfler Live in Royal Albert Hall version. I can't remember the year but Knopfler played it on his Les Paul 58.
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Lots of great ones, but Santana "Europa" has been a favorite for decades.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3R-MNBd3zk

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Re: Favorite instrumentals

So many to choose from but here are just a few of my favourite instrumentals

Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat, A Pound For A Brown On The Bus, King Kong, Orange County Lumber Truck
Camel - First Light, Lunar Sea
Marshall Tucker Band - Long Hard Ride
B.B. King - Blues Boys Tune
Climax Blues Band - Country Hat

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Re: Favorite instrumentals

RichardH wrote:

So many to choose from but here are just a few of my favourite instrumentals

Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat, A Pound For A Brown On The Bus, King Kong, Orange County Lumber Truck
Camel - First Light, Lunar Sea
Marshall Tucker Band - Long Hard Ride
B.B. King - Blues Boys Tune
Climax Blues Band - Country Hat

Another Camel fan! Moonmadness is a great album...

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Re: Favorite instrumentals

Forgot to mention:Colosseum II......Gary Moore's Jazz fusion stuff from the 70's....& Return to Forever.......Al Di Meola ...:)

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Re: Favorite instrumentals

Some great ones already listed.  I'll toss a few more into the mix....

Blues (just 3 off the top of my head, like others I could go on and on):

"Wham" -- Lonnie Mack (he did this once with SRV...amazing).
"Thank You Mr. Poobah" -- Paul Butterfield Blues Band
"Hide Away" -- Freddie King

Jazz (this category almost too easy, since so much great Jazz is purely instrumental)

"Strode Rode" -- Sonny Rollins  (this cat can really blow, and is still at it, at 82)
"Take Five" -- Dave Brubeck
"Stratus" -- Billy Cobham (okay, technically fusion, but a great instrumental--plus this track featured Tommy Bolin, on guitar, from the 1973 release Spectrum )

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