Where to start?
Some alternative cuts from the already cited Robert Fripp (try St Elmo's Fire from Eno's Another Green World) and Richard Thompson Calvary Cross (choose your version).
Not yet mentioned:
Todd Rundgren (Can't Stop Runnin' and While My Guitar Gently Weeps) from his new Greatest Hits LIve CD... finally a taste of TR's playing on disc.
Dave Davies "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" - like Steve Cropper on "Green Onions" this one is creative and economical especially in historical context.
Richard Lloyd's double LP (can't recall the Title) is full of great soloing throughout - I'd take it over anything from Television or Tom Verlaine.
David Hidalgo has an interesting, distinctive solo voice - though I'm not sure any Lobos recording captures it particularly well.
BTW:
I was always under the impression that the lead guitar on "Baby's On Fire" was Phil Manzanera not Robert Fripp. Am I mistaken?
Also Bill Kirchen (Commander Cody's guitarist on "Hot Rod Lincoln") does an hilarious solo in his live show in which he sequentially plays a brief, distinctive phrase in the style of many, many famous guitarists while calling out their names (he was up over thirty last time I saw him - maybe 10 years ago).
Some alternative cuts from the already cited Robert Fripp (try St Elmo's Fire from Eno's Another Green World) and Richard Thompson Calvary Cross (choose your version).
Not yet mentioned:
Todd Rundgren (Can't Stop Runnin' and While My Guitar Gently Weeps) from his new Greatest Hits LIve CD... finally a taste of TR's playing on disc.
Dave Davies "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" - like Steve Cropper on "Green Onions" this one is creative and economical especially in historical context.
Richard Lloyd's double LP (can't recall the Title) is full of great soloing throughout - I'd take it over anything from Television or Tom Verlaine.
David Hidalgo has an interesting, distinctive solo voice - though I'm not sure any Lobos recording captures it particularly well.
BTW:
I was always under the impression that the lead guitar on "Baby's On Fire" was Phil Manzanera not Robert Fripp. Am I mistaken?
Also Bill Kirchen (Commander Cody's guitarist on "Hot Rod Lincoln") does an hilarious solo in his live show in which he sequentially plays a brief, distinctive phrase in the style of many, many famous guitarists while calling out their names (he was up over thirty last time I saw him - maybe 10 years ago).
