Polo Reacts

[Wathen1955]

to hearing Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird for the first time. He has no idea he will be listening to the greatest guitar solo of all time.

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Polo Mars is a hip-hop record producer. Born December 26, 1979

[KenHorse]

It's a good solo but hardly the "best of all time"

[Bill]

"I don't do drugs, but if I did, this is something I'd definitely have playing in the background."

[LATB]

The reaction YouTube videos are played out.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

It's a good solo but hardly the "best of all time"

For me that attraction is the charging "freight train" impact. That driving beat and the solo over top is just strong energy.

[Taurus]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

It's a good solo but hardly the "best of all time"

Agree, best is David Gilmour on Comfortably Numb.

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[KenHorse]

Originally Posted by Taurus

Agree, best is David Gilmour on Comfortably Numb.

https://youtu.be/vi7cuAjArRs?si=9YTFjT35nIQj4TFN

My 1st thought as well

[KenHorse]

That whole Pulse concert was ****ing incredible! I've seen it half a dozen times now

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by Taurus

Agree, best is David Gilmour on Comfortably Numb.

https://youtu.be/vi7cuAjArRs?si=9YTFjT35nIQj4TFN

Wrong

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[Yadkin]

Whenever that song is on the radio I change the channel.

[KenHorse]

Originally Posted by Anjdog2003

Wrong

https://youtu.be/vkUpfw4Hf3w?si=Z-elc3dH28j6U6AN

No accounting for taste it seems

[73sbVert]

[QUOTE=Taurus;2212110]Agree, best is David Gilmour on Comfortably Numb./QUOTE]

And a great homage to the same (IMHO)

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[KenHorse]

[quote=73sbVert;2212384]

Originally Posted by Taurus

Agree, best is David Gilmour on Comfortably Numb./QUOTE]

And a great homage to the same (IMHO)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FwrXiM6590s

Not bad but nowhere near the soul that Gilmore put into it

[MadInNc]

2022 video…old news

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

No accounting for taste it seems

You didn't listen to the whole song. If you did you wouldn't have made that comment. You talk about soul, Gilmore doesn't even compete with Moore on soul. Moore was know as one of the best blues guitar players ever. Gilmore had a Band around him playing hit singles. Gilmore was good but don't compare soul with a hit single player with a great surrounding cast to a man that played strictly blues.

[Anjdog2003]

ALAN HOLDSWORTH

Perhaps the most technically proficient guitar player ever. Alan Holdsworth had an advanced understanding of music, theory, chords, and scales. His extremely polished legato playing style combined with his use of very advanced chords and scales to make him arguably the best guitar player in recent memory. Holdsworth’s playing was so incredible and advanced that he makes major shredders feel like they’re just learning the minor pentatonic scale.



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[KenHorse]

Originally Posted by Anjdog2003

ALAN HOLDSWORTH

Perhaps the most technically proficient guitar player ever. Alan Holdsworth had an advanced understanding of music, theory, chords, and scales. His extremely polished legato playing style combined with his use of very advanced chords and scales to make him arguably the best guitar player in recent memory. Holdsworth’s playing was so incredible and advanced that he makes major shredders feel like they’re just learning the minor pentatonic scale.



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Playing soulless while being "technically proficient" means nothing in my book. There are plenty of technically proficient musicians out there. That doesn't make them great.

Terry Kath wasn't the most technically proficient but played with a TON of emotion and competence. Mark Knopffler and Carlos Santana, the same.

And I'd take any of 'em over Holdsworth. Even SRV was better in my book

[Anjdog2003]

Van Halen, Frank Zappa, Shawn Lane, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Neal Schon and Gary Moore have proclaimed Holdsworth one of the most advanced guitarists of his time. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen brought Holdsworth to the attention of Warner Bros. Records executive Mo Ostin. Van Halen had previously enthused about Holdsworth in a 1980 issue of Guitar Player magazine, saying "That guy is bad! He's fantastic; I love him", and that Holdsworth was "the best, in my book". Furthermore, in a 1981 interview for Guitar World magazine, he said that "To me Allan Holdsworth is number one"



And don't bring in Carlos Santana when talking about great guitarist. Terry Kath, SRV Mark Knopffler, and Jeff Beck, yes. And i've seen them all including Jimi Hendrix

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

Playing soulless while being "technically proficient" means nothing in my book. There are plenty of technically proficient musicians out there. That doesn't make them great.

Terry Kath wasn't the most technically proficient but played with a TON of emotion and competence. Mark Knopffler and Carlos Santana, the same.

And I'd take any of 'em over Holdsworth. Even SRV was better in my book

To make him arguably the best guitar player in recent memory. Holdsworth’s playing was so incredible and advanced That he makes major shredders feel like they’re just learning the minor pentatonic scale. That what was said about him by the experts in music.
But this doesn't make him great, gotcha. I can see you're a musician.

[LATB]

All this talk about great guitar and blues players and no mention of Derek Trucks?