OT: What Are You Listening to Now?

[Walt Cronkite]

First few pages of this thread already have some gold. Definitely vote yes to more stuff like this.

[yosemiteben]

I'm down to resuscitate the album of the week bit too

[yosemiteben]

Just watched that Yacht Rock Documentary, loved it. Had no idea that Toto was basically the backing band on Michael Jackson's Thriller.

[fatlever]

Just watched that Yacht Rock Documentary, loved it. Had no idea that Toto was basically the backing band on Michael Jackson's Thriller.

My favorite song when I was 10 years old was Rosanna. I was obsessed with that song. I guess I had good taste even back then. Not sure if you know this YB but my all time favorite band is Steely Dan. And it's not even close.

That's pretty cool that all that stuff was kind of born out of the studio brilliance of Donald Fagan and Walter Becker. All those dudes started on those mid 70s Steely Dan Records. That being said, I also had no idea that Toto was basically the backing band for the entire thriller album And a ton of other super famous songs from that era. Which is kind of crazy when you think about it because Toto had two huge hits by the time thriller came out in Rosanna and Africa, hold the line several years before that. I don't know what the modern day equivalent of that would be. Nobody does bands anymore in pop music.

[luciano-davidwesley]

Love me some Steely Dan

[Diop]

I've recently found Richard Cheese and I can't stop listening to him.

Watch on YouTube

he's locked down a lot of his songs so hey can't be viewed on here

[Diop]

Watch on YouTube

[yosemiteben]

Watching the stream of night 1 of Phish's Mexico run. One of these years I'm gonna to get down there for a run.

[fatlever]

i'm still cleaning up my all-time fave guitar solo google sheet. fixing broken links. making some edits. making sure links start at the guitar solo.

[JustBuzzin]

Gelo Tweaker

[yosemiteben]

Throwing this album out there to check out for the resurrected album of the week this week (click album cover for Spotify link):

Artist: Mdou Moctar
Album: Funeral for Justice

Watch on YouTube

[fatlever]

Fats' Favorite guitar solos of all time
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a5TPd-RYQx1NR8hkEpvZ1_cAbb_XGxaVw1SE2gOZsaE/edit?usp=sharing

notes
- Link to a Google Docs spreadsheet
- If you hover over the link and click it should take you directly to the start of the guitar solo. If not you're doing it wrong.
- Clearly this is a heavily biased ranking of my favorite guitar solos. This is in certainly no way representative of the most iconic guitar solos or hardest or best. It's purely guitar solos that have always stuck in my head that I've listened to hundreds of times that I never get tired of. Purely a matter of personal taste.
- The top 10 are pretty much solidified but everything else kind of moves up and down depending on mood that day.
- Obviously I'm leaving out a lot of genres of music that I don't particularly listen to. There's no metal from the 80s or 90s. or country and very little blues. I have tons of jazz fusion guitarist solos on other playlists but some of those get a little hard to rank so I've only put a handful of my favorite jazz fusion solos on here. Mostly George Benson.
- Clearly there are a handful of the most iconic guitar solos of all time missing. Most notably, stairway to heaven and free bird. Not to take anything away from those guitar solos but I'm just sick of them after hearing them them 10,000 times. I was never a huge Zeppelin fan anyway. of the 70s guitar bands they were not particularly that interesting to me. And free bird is one of the most overrated guitar solos of all time, imo. If you want southern rock with a kick ass guitar peak check out green grass and high tides by the outlaws.
- yb You are probably wondering where is all the goose in Billy Strings. You'll have to direct me to some of your all time favorite goose guitar solos or Billy strings solos. Maybe if I listen to him enough times they'll get stuck in my head enough to make the list. - - The ranking is definitely heavily biased towards songs I have listened to over decades.
- Clearly this list leans heavily towards a handful of guitarists that are my all time favorites - Trey Anastasio, Jerry Garcia, Carlos Santana, Dwayne Allman and Dickey Betts, Frank Zappa, George Benson.
- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60ZKMoWE015PSIE1YXETtY?si=b2a62769d7ca43bb&pt=9dc90fc75b0aeac9c3bb12aa3d41fad6
- Link to a Spotify version of most of these songs if that's of any interest to anyone. hopefully That link works

I would love to hear other people's favorite guitar solos.

[Diop]

Watch on YouTube

I loved this version when it came out, i love "covers" that really make the song their own.

Im a late fan to Body Count.

[Liver_Pooty]

Somebody kill me please. Adam Sandler wedding singer

[Walt Cronkite]

The sound of silence

[yosemiteben]

Album of the Week (click album cover for Spotify link)

Artist: Kiki Gyan
Album: 24 Hours in A Disco 1978-82

Watch on YouTube

[fatlever]

man i love 70s soul/funk.

fats top 5 fave 70s soul/funk artists
1. Tower of power - Not only the greatest horn line of all time, but my favorite drummer of all time and my favorite bass player of all time.
2. Earth wind and fire - Not quite as good as Tower of power but pretty close.
3. Stevie wonder - what else can you say about the goat
4. George Duke - Brazilian love affair is the peak soul funk brazilian jazz fusion album of all time.
5. Richie Havens - Most people only know him from his Woodstock appearance, but he made a handful of soul-funk albums in the 70s which are pure gold.

hm : george benson, isley bros, bill withers, al jarreau, marvin gaye, boz scaggs, labi siffre,

[yosemiteben]

How you feel about more jazzy / fusion stuff like Return to Forever or Mahavishnu Orchestra?

[fatlever]

How you feel about more jazzy / fusion stuff like Return to Forever or Mahavishnu Orchestra?

I'm a huge huge huge fusion jazz fan from the 70s. I've been into Chick Corea return to forever stuff since The 90s when I was in college. I hung out with a bunch of jazz nerds that turned me on to a bunch of stuff like this. One of the very first cds I ever bought was returned to forever romantic warrior. Romantic warrior still has my favorite piano solo of all time. The last five minutes of that song is **** nuts. Herbie Hancock head hunter... There's never been an album that only had 4 songs that was that amazing. I actually had the pleasure of seeing Herbie Hancock and the headhunters play live at a reunion show in Charlotte in the 70s. There was like 100 people there. It was pretty amazing. I saw John Mclaughlin the guitarist from Mahavishnu Orchestra live in Asheville in the 90s with his jazz trio. Pretty insane. Dennis Chambers was the drummer and he's crazy talented.

[fatlever]

https://youtu.be/6ETla9zs5SI?t=451
cued at start of chicks solo
this piano solo... bonkers... stanley clark going crazy on bass
i saw stanley clark at ovens in 90s
saw pat metheny also at ovens in 90s