What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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In summary, some of the best songs are "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty, "Guns N Roses, Sweet Child O' Mine." by Axl Rose, "Bruce Springsteen - "tunnel of love"" by Led Zeppelin, "Honor thy Father" by Dream Theater, and "Octavarium" by Dream Theater.
  • #281
Now for some blues...

Sonnyboy Williamson "Your Funeral and My Trial"


Sonnyboy sitting in with Muddy Waters on "Got My Mojo Working". That's Willie Dixon on bass, and I think that Pinetop Perkins is on piano. Stylistically it sounds like him, and one of the voices in the response is a reedy tenor, which fits.


"Blow Wind Blow" by Muddy and the band. Notice they misspelled Pinetop's name as "Pintup". They must have traveled light to England because they are using Orange amps instead of Fenders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmUOqaHVcs&mode=related&search=

Willie Dixon, master songwriter and bass player, boogieing with a piano.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBusyR1ot7I&mode=related&search=

"Shake it for Me" by Howlin' Wolf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8xSgs7VLNM&mode=related&search=
 
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radou said:
A short digression to one of the greatest guitar solos ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZN4fBC2s00"

That's quite simply one of the finest guitar solos I've ever heard, the first time I heard it I was like woaah:bugeye:
 
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Schrodinger's Dog said:
That's quite simply one of the finest guitar solos I've ever heard, the first time I heard it I was like woaah:bugeye:

Pure rock anthology. :cool:
 
  • #285
radou, get the first album by the Blue Oyster Cult. Donald Roeser's guitar solo on Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll will hit the top of your list. The solos available on Youtube do not hold a candle to the one on that album. Luckily, they were pretty fresh out of the studio when they started their inaugural tour and Roeser nailed that solo. The applause was deafening.
 
  • #286
turbo-1 said:
radou, get the first album by the Blue Oyster Cult. Donald Roeser's guitar solo on Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll will hit the top of your list. The solos available on Youtube do not hold a candle to the one on that album. Luckily, they were pretty fresh out of the studio when they started their inaugural tour and Roeser nailed that solo. The applause was deafening.

Thanks for the tip, I'm trying to track down the first album. I'm currently listening to a compilation which seems to contain some older stuff too (including Cities on Flame).
 
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  • #290
Kurdt said:
Its alright but its not very technically demanding :rolleyes:

Not very technically demanding? Interesting viewpoint. Arguments? :confused:

Edit: and even if it weren't technically demanding, it doesn't really matter, since a track needn't be technically demanding in order to kick ass. :smile:
 
  • #291
Well its just the same phrases repeated many times. Apart from cramp in fingers there's not much to it. I like it but I wouldn't say it was the best ever. :smile:
 
  • #292
In the mean time - Spacehog
 
  • #294
Hmmm I have no idea whether I've posted already in this thread or not but lately I have had Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt stuck in my head. I really like that song.
 
  • #295
Kurdt said:
Well its just the same phrases repeated many times. Apart from cramp in fingers there's not much to it. I like it but I wouldn't say it was the best ever. :smile:

Since I posted more than one song in this thread, obviouslly none of them can be 'the best ever'. :wink:

If you play a 'classical' instrument, I'll understand what you said, and if you don't, I'll believe you watched only the first two or three minutes of it, which can be completely understood, since you have to have some nerve to watch 24 minutes of something which doesn't really impress you. :smile:

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Evo said:
Another one by Magnetic Fields. Darn I want my good songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTHoM9uD6nc&NR

Whoa, their videos rule!

scorpa said:
Hmmm I have no idea whether I've posted already in this thread or not but lately I have had Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt stuck in my head. I really like that song.

It's a great song, amof, I didn't even know it's a cover and I didn't even know its name! Just know it's playing in the background often while my dad's working. Here's the video, btw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go"
 
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  • #296
radou said:
Not very technically demanding? Interesting viewpoint. Arguments? :confused:

Edit: and even if it weren't technically demanding, it doesn't really matter, since a track needn't be technically demanding in order to kick ass. :smile:
Kurdt is right, IMO. I am a guitarist and I've played professionally, and hosted open-mike jams at local taverns for fun later in life, and the licks in that lead are falling-off-a-log easy to cop. Very few guitarists would be much impressed by that lead, no matter how much of a crowd-pleaser it is.

Heck! Neil Young had a hit with this simple-minded ditty and it was a popular song at his live concerts. BTW, the version on his album featured a "lead" that was a repetition of a single note played in time to the rhythm section. At least he threw in a few different notes in this live version.


As for Skynard guitar riffs, "I know a Little" is probably their best from the viewpoint of a guitarist. They mix it up pretty good.
 
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  • #297
turbo-1 said:
Kurdt is right, IMO. I am a guitarist and I've played professionally, and hosted open-mike jams at local taverns for fun later in life, and the licks in that lead are falling-off-a-log easy to cop. Very few guitarists would be much impressed by that lead, no matter how much of a crowd-pleaser it is.

Interesting, since I know some pretty good guitar players who admire John Petrucci. I guess it's a matter of personal taste, then. But no one can convince me that there is not at least one (!) lick during these 24 minutes which requires a decent level of guitar playing technique.

But on the other hand, I admit, since I don't play so well, it's a lot easier to impress me.

turbo-1 said:
As for Skynard guitar riffs, "I know a Little" is probably their best from the viewpoint of a guitarist. They mix it up pretty good.


This is great, not unlike all LS stuff. :cool:
 
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  • #298
Off the top of my head:
SUPERTRAMP - hide in your shell
CHRIS DE BURGH - Rosanna
COMMODORES - three times a lady
ABBA - winner takes it all
BEETLES - yesterday
JOHNNY CASH - a boy named sue
ELVIS PRESLEY - are you lonesome tonight
GARY NEWMAN - are friends electric
CELINE DION -when there is only love
JONI MITCHELL - sharon
TOM JONES - green green grass of home
MARIAH CAREY - mariah's theme
PINK FLOYD - money
DON MCLEAN - american pie
ELTON JOHN - song for guy
 
  • #299
radou said:
It's a great song, amof, I didn't even know it's a cover and I didn't even know its name! Just know it's playing in the background often while my dad's working. Here's the video, btw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go"

I believe it's a cover of a 9 inch nails song. Thanks for the video.
 
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  • #300
Argh Chris De Burgh! I think this sums him up well.



With regards to the technical ability of that solo, I play guitar and although I've never been compelled to play that particular song I could probably work it out as it sounds and looks like a variation on the minor pentatonic scale with a few bluesey notes stabbed in.
 
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  • #301
scorpa said:
I believe it's a cover of a 9 inch nails song. Thanks for the video.

Yes it was originally NIN. Heres a good version they did live.

 
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  • #302
brian tyler - Inama Nushif

 
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  • #303
radou said:
But no one can convince me that there is not at least one (!) lick during these 24 minutes which requires a decent level of guitar playing technique.
That's true of everybody who has been playing long enough, though. There is stuff that I toss into bluesy leads that I've done for so long that they're second nature, and they come off really smooth. Once, after a lead that came off particularly well, a guitarist that I respect (and who is a FAR more skillful player overall) asked me "how do you do that bend?", and I had to guess which one he meant, so I said "this one?" and played a simple simultaneous full-stop bend on the G and B strings. That was it. He could pull it off with some difficulty because he doesn't have my hand strength, but he certainly couldn't incorporate that move into a run without a lot of practice, even though he strings up with .009s and I use .0105s. Getting your hand in position quickly to supply the necessary leverage, picking the strings simultaneously with the pick and a fingernail and bending the strings so that the notes stay in tune with each other throughout the bend (all lasting maybe a second or less) is a complex set of stuff to learn just to play a quick pair of notes, and you don't have time to think about it while improvising a lead. So while I agree with you that there are licks in that lead that would take some time to copy, there's nothing in there that a proficient guitarist would have trouble with, given a little time.

Now Brent Mason...he's another story entirely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeJHnkUKg_M&mode=related&search=
 
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turbo-1 said:
That's true of everybody who has been playing long enough, though. There is stuff that I toss into bluesy leads that I've done for so long that they're second nature, and they come off really smooth. Once, after a lead that came off particularly well, a guitarist that I respect (and who is a FAR more skillful player overall) asked me "how do you do that bend?", and I had to guess which one he meant, so I said "this one?" and played a simple simultaneous full-stop bend on the G and B strings. That was it. He could pull it off with some difficulty because he doesn't have my hand strength, but he certainly couldn't incorporate that move into a run without a lot of practice, even though he strings up with .009s and I use .0105s. Getting your hand in position quickly to supply the necessary leverage, picking the strings simultaneously with the pick and a fingernail and bending the strings so that the notes stay in tune with each other throughout the bend (all lasting maybe a second or less) is a complex set of stuff to learn just to play a quick pair of notes, and you don't have time to think about it while improvising a lead. So while I agree with you that there are licks in that lead that would take some time to copy, there's nothing in there that a proficient guitarist would have trouble with, given a little time.

Now Brent Mason...he's another story entirely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeJHnkUKg_M&mode=related&search=
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I get your point. Well, actually, after looking at the Brent Mason video, the metal-ish style does appear a bit dry, I must admit. :bugeye: Great stuff, will try to get it.
 
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Cyclovenom said:
Guys nice choices, but how come nobody said anything about Liquid Tension Experiment, even though you guys mentioned Dreamtheater! :mad:

Here

Liquid Tension Experiment - Paradigm Shift

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VMTpigz4ww"

One of the things I have on my hard disk, but never actually get to listen to it properly. :smile:
 
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  • #308
Malmsteen is so fast that even looking at him play seems a hard job.
 
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turbo-1 said:
You might want to look at Junior Brown. Some of his stuff has so much Hendrix influence, it's incredible!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFGeKu6guGk&mode=related&search=

Interesting! The thing that was even more interesting is the female rhythm guitar player to his left. That's a rare sight, cool!
 
  • #311
radou said:
Interesting! The thing that was even more interesting is the female rhythm guitar player to his left. That's a rare sight, cool!
That's his wife.
 
  • #312
I haven't listened to most of the music that's been made over the last couple of decades (most of the little that I have heard struck me as vanilla, noise, or simply not music). Recently though, I came across this quite interesting piece that I'd like to share.

Crazy, by Gnarls Barkley - http://www.virginmedia.com/music/musicvideos/gnarlsbarkley_crazy_hi.php

Incidentally, the artist was inspired by the compositions of Ennio Morricone, who wrote the music for Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (TG, TB & TU), which also, if I recall correctly, appeared earlier in this thread (or the Youtube classics thread).
 
  • #315
'Crazy' is really nice, I play it a lot.
Thank you evo for introducing me to 'Magnetic Fields', I can't believe I hadn't heard of them. The edgy music is great, and the voice - gorgeous! (I'd been thinking of mentioning 'In diesen heil'gen Hallen').
Some interesting female voices, the clips are fun to watch, too-


Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-YKwyU2Qg&mode=related&search=
astrud Gilberto


Nouvelle Vague
 
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