Axe attack...

Rumble - Link Wray

Vaseline Machine Gun - Leo Kottke

Sweet Dreams - Roy Buchanan

I Love Everybody - Johnny Winter

Embryonic Journey - Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane)

My Heart Beat Like A Hammer - Fleetwood Mac

High Hopes - David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)

If We Never Meet Again - Roger McGuinn

Life In The Jungle - Walter Trout

Tear Stained Letter - Richard Thompson

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Wayside Tavern - Jerry Douglas & Peter Rowan

Back In The USA - Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes

I'd love to get nominations for folk, soul and country and maybe even a bit of classical guitar as I easily fill the show with the usual suspects from the rock world.

I give you not one but two guitar legends in one song. Oh and the singer is not bad on the bass:

Paul McCartney - No Other Baby

David Gilmour and the superb ex-pirate sadly missed Mick Green.

In Your Mind - Bryan Ferry - Chris Spedding's beautiful simplicity

Prince. Man is a genius and this is superb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp_SVrlurY


The look and Danni Harrison's face says it all.

As is

Prince - When Doves Cry or I Hate U

Asturias - John Wiliiams

I'll See You In My Dreams - Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler

Catch Me - Joe Pass

Heroes - David Bowie - Robert Fripp demonstrates feedback

Smokey Mountain Lullaby - Tommy Emmanuel

Duane Allman- IT'S NOT MY CROSS TO BEAR - The Allman Brothers Band

{:-{)}

Jesus On The Mainline - Ry Cooder

for the umpteenth time - surely to goodness his time has come

Black Lung Heartache - Joe Bonamassa
or
You Better Watch Yourself - Joe Bonamassa
or
The Whale that Swallowed Jonah - Joe Bonamassa

or whichever JB track Radio Scotland can lay its hands on

Amen

{:-{)}

# loads @ ya ericinelgin

lol....awa' tae the pub man and ha' a wee break.

cheers frae the dale

#25

Britain's Matt Schofield is worth a listen, too.

#27

Enough for a programme - off for a cup of tea.

Graaayyyttt suggestions eric.

I'll leave the Gilmour selection to others. I want to hear Keef on Thursday night.




New Faces - The Rolling Stones






DC

Going Home - Bert Jansch

Leave the Light On - Jeff Healey

Cause We've Ended as Lovers - Jeff Beck

hunners of great choices, Eric - OK if I add in

The Road We're On - Sonny Landreth?

# 14 Thing-Fish - Seconded

My starter for 10

Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler - Yakety Axe

Jerry Reed - East Bound & Down

Brad Paisley & Keith Urban - Start A Band

#17 Yes Norrie agree that yir man is a genius.

Could probably go for anything anytime the man picks up his guitar but my personal favourite is

Little Red Corvette - Prince

I just love the hook during the song

from previous blog - eric, you must have been feeling a bit lonely to offer that kind advice or I'm a bit slow. Or perhaps both.

Anyways - guitar? One of the few instruments I've ever made a semi-tuneful stab at without embarrassing myself too much. Am married to a very musically gifted man and our sons are both talented musicians, so am constantly expected to be somehow accomplished in some instrument by folk who make assumptions for the sake of easy get outs in tiresome social gathering conversations......

where was I??

Guitars - right. I don't remember who it was, but it was someone on the blog who brought this to my attention. Marvellous. Deserves a replay so others who don't know it get a chance to experience the same exhilaration and joie de vivre this inspired in me! It's simply gorgeous.
Rodrigo e Gabriela Tamacun

Pride and Joy / Stevie Ray Vaughan - It's Stevie Ray no explanation required.

Joe Bonamassa / The Ballad of John Henry. - Joe B is carrying the torch for just now. He is the man....

Black Country Communion / Outsider - Joe B doin his thing with a certain Mr Hughes giving some vocal support.

Too much alcohol / Rory Gallagher. - Ditto for my SRV comment, it's Rory guys!

8 Track / Bryan Setzer - Need to get a Gretsch in there.

Romeo & Juliet / Mark Knopfler - who can play the intro? Wish I could.......

Eric Bibb / Bookers Guitar - If anyone hasn't heard this give yourself a treat, you will go back for more.

Django Reinhardt / Minor Swing - Used lots of times on the telly and stuff, often copied, never equalled.

#35 Al - Django - fab!

#36 Have you saw this mary-doll?

Wee tribute from Joe B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LzsaICykQU

#25 gaie

or whichever JB track Radio Scotland can lay its hands on

Love it..it is frustratin......he'll be recognised eventually, has to be.

What about trying

Eric Clapton & Joe Bonamassa - Further on up the road

#37 Enjoyed Mr B - didn't totally get the "homage" to DR - a very different angle, with the amplification and electricy stuff. Plenty of room for appreciating where folk get their inspiration from, though. That boy can play!

Put your lights on / santana & everlast

#38 yes, would do nicely as well and I think we can get a third on board for that track - eh, Henri? that could almost qualify as 'popular tonight'.

I absolutely love Joe, Dust Bowl is the most completely satisfying album since - oh whatever the last one I was raving about was. Hope he comes to Scotland soon - I know BCC were in Glasgow, but I'm not just so keen on them.

The Genius that is George Benson.
This Masquerade would be good but if it's too long then Breezin would do. Some of his other instrumental stuff is superb but not often heard. Another really good track is Livin Inside your love which was also done by Earl Klugh.

Stanley Clarke
One of the great jazz / funk /fusion guitarists. Tam Ferrie used to use one of his tracks as his backing music many moons ago on Radio scotland.
Together Again / Stanley Clarke

Bobby Womack
Multi instrumentalist but primarily guitarist and any excuse for a bit of bob is ok by me
Home is where the heart is / Bobby Womack

Just on that point Gaie, "that's been asked for a lot tonight", why doesn't Bryan mention their names?

They should be telt....

#41 - He's an unsung hero alright, Dust Bowl is immense.
Difficult to pick a favourite track from the man cos he's always.....good. Need to watch in case I get moderated.
I also love his cover of Seagull. Why would you even try and sing it after Paul Rodgers but he pulls it off, it's excellent.

something different to the usual?

how about some Rock & Soul then.....

Christobel - Joan As Police Woman


....Joan started as a violinist and most of her songs feature her playing keyboards, but when she picked up the guitar last week at her Edinburgh gig, this track got a big response from the fans.

She has a soulful expressive voice which sounds as good live as it does on her albums.

Paul from Ayr

Another unsung hero;

Mick Ronson - David Bowie / Suffragette City

Nae Mick Nae Ziggy

A tad random, but here goes:
Strawberry letter 23 - the Brothers Johnson
That lady - Isley Brothers (with Ernie (!) on guitar)
Sultans of swing - Dire Straits (Mr Knopfler's very best)
Long train runnin' - Doobie Brothers (Patrick Simmons/Tom Johnston)
Since you been gone - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Back street love - Trapeze (Mel Galley)
My generation - The Whoe (Pete Townsend)
(Nice dream) - Radiohead (Johnny Greenwood)

Happy to second Joe B and George Benson.

Joe
Linlithgow

Could not agree more Alfaeraferry. Mick Ronson was a fantastic musician. Anything of his really would be great to hear. Other than his solo stuff my favourite is the re-mix of Moonage Daydream which really brings out his superb guitar. Love it. Bowie has had some impressive guitar players on his lp's over the years:

Marc Bolan - Prettiest Star
Mick Ronson - Moonage Daydream
Alan Parker - 1884
Carlos Alomar - Fascination
Earl Slik - Golden Years
Ricky Gardiner - Sound and Vision (he also wrote the music for Iggy Pop's The Passenger). He is from Edinburgh but not sure if juliefromedinburgh or louisejuliefromedinburghspal know him
Adrian Belew - Boys Keep Swinging
Robert Fripp - Heroes / Teenage Wildlife (Mr Toyah....
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Lets Dance
Peter Frampton - Day In Day Out
Pete Townsend - Slow burn

James Burton:

James Burton - I Know You Don't Want Me No More
Gram Parsons - Kiss the Children
Brad Paisley - Cluster Pluck
Emmylou Harris - Til I Gain Control Again

#45 #48

Hey Norrie, you must be nearly as auld as me, that'll be over 21 then....

Canny argue with anyone on your excellent list but obviously SRV is a huge favourite of mine, he could have been anything.
Robert Fripp - you realise I'm having to go into the attic and dig out all my old King Crimson vynil now, cheers.

In the the meantime can I ask paulhandley if this qualifies as 'Rock and Soul'

Tick Tock People - The Vaughan Brothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLs5REzFvOY&feature=related

'Stairway to Heaven' ~~ Rodrigo Y Gabriella

No explanation necessary ...

THURSDAY


Shadow of Doubt - Bonnie Raitt

Said She Was a Dancer - Jethro Tull ~ Martin Lancelot Barre

Mr. Banker - Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ Ed King & Gary Rossington giein' it laldy.

:o)

"Without Buddy Guy there would be no Stevie Ray Vaughan" - Stevie Ray Vaughan

An influence on Clapton, Hendrix, Beck...

Here with the added extra of Bonnie Raitt...

Buddy Guy - 'Feels Like Rain'

#34 #51

A huge 2nd for either of these tracks by Rodrigo y Gabriella. It was me M-D ☺

The Man Who Mistook His Guitar For A Telephone

#48

More than happy to third Joe Bonamassa. I am also the proud owner of a Dust Bowl however Further On Up The Road - Joe Bonamassa & Eric Clapton is terrific and an easy sell to our hero, since it's catchy, drive-time friendly and captures two blues guitar greats in the one track and there's probably an easy fade about 3.5 mins.

Doubtless, it's not in the library, so, more to follow.

regardez- youse

henri

What kind of one-horse radio station relies on its listeners supplying Cds?

What kind of radio station with its own online recipe kitchen relies on its listeners providing banana loaves :-)

guitar heroes....nae borra..........

'wonderful land'.....................shadows

'kon-tiki'..........................shadows

'apache'..........................shadows

'fbi'................................shadows

and if ye think this is good you should watch the film its from (blue collar).......

'hard working man'.........ry cooder (c'pn beefy on vocals)

cheers frae the dale

Does Bryan playing Beefheart last night mean I have to lay off the whingeing about same old same old etc etc?

Interesting to hear Ron Sexsmith on last night's show.

I knew nothing about him but a pal phoned me up and suggested we join him and his Mrs at this week's gig in the ABC. So I deliberately didn't listen to Rikki's show in case I discovered I didn't care for it and the evening was going to be torture.Besides I like going to gigs I know nothing about - anyone else do that? The last time it happened was Wilco and what a night that turned out to be. Wow.

A fairly unlikely looking performer, it has to be said - when he came on I thought he looked like k d lang with a perm but as the evening progressed I realised that he was really like a fusion of k d lang and Little Richard in appearance, however unlikely, and he didn't have the great stage presence of either. It's strange, but I find all Canadian performers look slightly odd.

There was something inherently shy at the root of his performance, something slightly inhibited, which has it's own charm and the audience responded to that.

It occurred to me it might be because of his name - I think I'd have changed it. 'Sexsmith' implies this might be something you're good at, which is a helluva burden to carry around - he'd have been more comfortable about everything - even the smoking jacket - if he'd been Ron Wordsmith: they're never going to make him sexy.

And a very good wordsmith he is too and whilst I don't know the work, I enjoyed the songs and the performance. The air of oddity was hyped by the band who all wore strange headgear on stage and looked like characters from a spaghetti western and a giant cartoon of Ron which only further served to confuse since it looked like a friendly, benign, Mrs Thatcher. Still, the band can play. That Ron is cool hip and trendy was confirmed by finding ourselves standing beside Monica Queen, she of the dark glasses and the backing vocals, and she was singing along to all the numbers by memory since she clearly couldn't see anything.

The audience comprised diehard passionate fans: it was a good gig, the audience gave Ron a tumultuous response, leaving the stage he looked grateful and slightly bowled over emotionally by the intensity of the audience's appreciation. But that's Glasgow.

There's something to check out here - I might become a fan.

regardez youse

henri

57/58

It's all about inter - activity,chaps.

#61 Yep...another one I've been asking for for the last 2 years or so...steadfastly ignored!

Anyway...

'Get It' or 'Back To Schooldays' - Dave Edmunds

#60

Thing-Fish,

Au contraire. Your tactics are working. Whingeing is your raison d'être, and the G.I.O. blog is your home.

Pure logical, so it is.

Live long and prosper!


;o)

# re previously nearly every day on the blog.

i recall stevie nicks being interviewed on radio 2 during the 'say you will' tour and remarking that audiences do not like when you turn up and play a whole load of new material. she said that they need time to familiarise themselves with new songs and so when they come along to a concert they expect to hear all the old favourites with a smattering of the new stuff....and the great thing about gio is hearing some great old favourites (no, not the smiths) but within the programme there's usually a couple of songs not heard before which open new experiences....an example of this would be 'the the' that was played the other night....i hadn't heard that before and i loved it.

cheers frae the dale

cheers frae the dale

Hoppo had a brilliant story about Stevie Nicks. I miss Hoppo...

*sigh*

Waddy Watchell (Warren Zevon, Iggy Pop, Linda rondstant, Stevie Nicks, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan etc etc.)

Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen

Dan Tyminski (Alison Krauss, Union Station, Leann Rimes, Brad Paisley, Joan Osborne, Reba McEntire, Dolly Parton, and Alan Jackson)

The Soggy Bottom Boys - Man Of Constant Sorrow

Martyn Joseph - Dolphins Make Me Cry

There was a thing on Chris Evans recently where they asked Brian May who, in his humble opinion was the greatest guitarist ever, and he replied -

Jeff Beck

so they asked Jeff Beck the same question and he replied


.......?

Jeff Beck?

from the wonderful 'rogues gallery' cd

'mingulay boat song'...................richard thompson

cheers frae the dale

None of these are answers to the above..

Eric Stewart: wonderful and mostly understated player, however, a blistering display and completely controlled performance can be found on

Blackmail - 10CC

This has the big advantage of being contained within a pop song, so the guitar is not an end in itself, which makes it drivetime friendly.I know this is in the library, because I delivered it.

Rory Gallagher; just awesome, but to get us a way from a night of guitar solos, try

Just The Smile - Rory Gallagher lovely Pentangle type acoustic playing, most lovely and commended to the blogotariat.

No Problem - Knut Reiersrud form the album Tramp;

this is simply glorious -just beautiful - Ry Cooder, eat your heart out (check this out on Spotify etc) might be in the library, was played on Global Gathering a few weeks ago.

more to follow

regardez youse

henri

Tom Verlaine & Richard Lloyd

Television - Prove It

Adrian Belew

Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love

Fancy a wee slide anyone;

Down in the flood - Derek Trucks

Zydeco Shuffle - Sonny Landreth

and from this side of the puddle;

Into the deep - Johnny Dickinson

#70 Hank Marvin

Ooops!

Should have added

B-)

Martin Taylor - Johnny and Mary

Can I put a wee shout in for

Blowin Free / Wisbone Ash - Ted and Martin Turner and Andy Powell

In My Own Time / Family - Charley Whitney on guitar...

#54 Billy - a belated thanks for introducing me to them, they're a joy to hear and watch!

Tony Iommi

Despite losing the tips of his fingers aged 17.


"Supernaut" - Black Sabbath

Kris Drever put down a couple of solo guitar tracks on his "Black Water' album, namely 'Rodney's Glory' and 'Honk Toot'... amazing stuff, especially live!

#82

So they were originally a Django tribute band.

Best I've seen:

Hocus Pocus - Focus - Jan Akkerman
ETI - Blue Öyster Cult - Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser

Best Guitar Solo:

Young Girl Sunday Blues - Jefferson Airplane - Jorma Kaukonen

Johnny "Guitar" Watson - A Real Mother For Ya

#70.
At 12:33 8th Sep 2011, You wrote:

There was a thing on Chris Evans recently where they asked Brian May who, in his humble opinion, was the greatest guitarist ever, and he replied -

Jeff Beck

so they asked Jeff Beck the same question and he replied

Martin Taylor

Big 2nd for Billy In Alloa, but would also like to hear

La Mer - Martin Taylor from the latest album

regardez youse

henri

#64 So it’s de rigueur and I have carte blanche?

It's enough to give you the bleus

Loving the music of Joni Mitchell and Steely Dan on whose albums he appears I have to mention the great Larry Coryell ."Kid Charlemagne"from Steely Dan's "The Royal Scam"would be cool.Other favourites of mine are Duane Allman whose amazing guitarwork with Aretha Franklin on "The Dark End of the Street"or even better Wilson Picket's barnstorming cover of "Hey Jude which has blistering guitarwork at the end by him.Pat Metheny I love and the extraordinary bassplayer Jaco Pastorius of Weather Report too.Weather Report's "Teen Town"or "Birdland"would be great buy lets hear two legends together Duane Allman and Wison Pickett on "Hey Jude" or Aretha's "Dark End of the Street"Cheers,Willie Bartke

The unmistakable sound of the Funk Brother, Dennis Coffey:

It's A Shame - the Detroit Spinners

regardez youse

henri

Aye, I remember the days the days when the only guitarist anyone had ever heard of was Bert Weedon.

#90 What a track. That and rubberband man were the Spinners best.

#90 #92 Brilliant henri

Rubberband man has to be a great shout for tomorrow too....

#91
And such an unfortunate name too.

I know it may be uncool but I like Mason Williams "Classical Gas"!Cheers,Willie Bartke

Daniel Lanois "The Maker"or his great guitar on Emmy Lou Harris's cover of Hendrix's"May this Be Love"Cheers,Willie Bartke

"You're my guitar hero"

The Clash - Complete Control

WATERMELON IN EASTER HAY from GUITAR by FRANK ZAPPA

TREACHEROUS CRETINS from SHUT UP ‘N PLAY YER GUITAR by FRANK ZAPPA

too much to choose from – zoot allures!

#95

Nothing wrong with it,Willie. I like lots of uncool stuff. Jim frae Eskine gave me into trouble for insisting on getting Transglobal Underground's 'Chariots' on GIO, by fair means or foul. Sister Margaret's banana loaves were utilised as was the ayatollah's inability to walk.......

But it was condemned by the man who brought us 'Fish Heads'... obviously all my taste is in my mouth..

on the subject of taste, Rory Gallagher's posthumously but recently released album ' Notes From San Fransico' contains a couple of stoaters.

Wheels Within Wheels - Rory Gallagher (you forget what a great singer he was, Noel & Liam must be proud.)

regardez youse

henri

PS .. I like Sounds Orchestral too...

John McGeoch

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Spellbound

Magazine - Shot By Both Sides