The official best guitar performances and/or favorite riff discussion thread

Duane Allman (Sky Dog) playing "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed", shortly before his death. He blows me away. I also think that we should have a thread about great guitar players and their guitar face. Example below:
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CoffeeDrinker said:
Man, this is really impressive. Totally professional and skillful. I hate it when guitar people think just a few years of knowing the pentatonic/blues scales can make you as good as B.B.
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There's a difference between understanding what someone is doing and being able to recreate it. That's like saying, I have a pretty firm grasp on the English language, so I must be able to write like Hemingway.
 
Chemically Insane said:
Recreating ot is the easy part anyways... they didnt have anyone to copy off of when they first played it ;)
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Yeah true. Though recreating something isn't just a matter of playing something note for note. Especially with someone like BB who has such a deft and confident hand on the guitar. Not everything he plays has to be difficult or complex because he is past the point of showing off.

As a contrary example, I actually prefer Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of Voodoo Child (Slight Return) over the original. It's almost like he loved the song so much and got so much joy out of playing it that he put that much more of himself into playing it. Stevie might not have been as creative as Hendrix, but if Hendrix could make a guitar talk, Stevie could make it roar.
 
n3wt said:
As a contrary example, I actually prefer Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of Voodoo Child (Slight Return) over the original. It's almost like he loved the song so much and got so much joy out of playing it that he put that much more of himself into playing it. Stevie might not have been as creative as Hendrix, but if Hendrix could make a guitar talk, Stevie could make it roar.
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I agree on this one. People, listen to his version and be floored!
 
My favorite songs for guitar would have to be:
Since I've Been Loving you - Led Zeppelin (but then again, Page is always amazing <3 )
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Little Wing - Hendrix
 
Joe Bonamassa killing some blues. Best musician/guitarist/anything I've ever seen live.

Joe Pizzarelli killing some jazz guitar. Never heard anybody that has mastered the whole "sing along as I'm soloing" quite as well as Pizzarelli. Shit is insane.
 
Don't need to link anyone to Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower. There's an insane lick in that solo which is so deliciously off-beat - or dancing around the beat - that it gives me the shivers each time, guaranteed.

A couple of other awesome guitarists:

Derek Trucks

I saw this guy on tour as a member of Eric Clapton's live band, and man - Clapton looked like an amateur next to this kid.

Petri Walli (Kingston Wall)

The best guitarist to come out of Finland, I think. Shame he took his own life so early.
 
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