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Posted by Carl Salad on 11-20-2008 at15:02:

Favorite guitar solos

I just got a bootleg of Mike Roe and Mark Harmon playing at Park Crest Assembly of God (2004), and there's a long and beautiful guitar solo on "Go with God."

So what are the best guitar solos in the Mike Roe/Lost Dogs/77's oeuvre?

Posted by peawinkel on 11-20-2008 at20:00:

I really dig Mike's solo on Eleanor, It's Raining Now by Lost Dogs - Live at Katy , Tex this past summer.

Posted by 77 bc on 11-20-2008 at20:42:

RE: Favorite guitar solos

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Originally posted by Carl Salad
I just got a bootleg of Mike Roe and Mark Harmon playing at Park Crest Assembly of God (2004), and there's a long and beautiful guitar solo on "Go with God."

So what are the best guitar solos in the Mike Roe/Lost Dogs/77's oeuvre?

I may have to drag out the DVD of that show and give it another listen.

Cool

Posted by me-is-e on 11-20-2008 at21:51:

That is challenge to come up with off hand. I think I did like "Go with God" from that show, but enjoyed the extension of "Love Like Gold" even more. Very Mike in the Jerry Garcia vein to me. I do love that stuff!

I remember some performances on the official DVD I enjoy too. I need to take another look to name names.

Posted by larryl on 11-21-2008 at02:33:

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Originally posted by 77 bc

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I may have to drag out the DVD of that show and give it another listen.

Cool

make sure to check out terry's solo on "dust on the bible". it's great, and the young people love it!

Posted by Doctor Love on 11-21-2008 at07:54:

Run Run Rudolph

I thought this thread would be about my recorded solos, not obscure hard-to-trace bootleg DVD and soundboard solos.

The amount of recorded solos I've done over the years (including ones on projects I've produced or guested on) are too numerous to corral into one favorite, but off the top of my head one of my favorites of all time is the one on "Run Rudolph Run" from Happy Chrimbo. If we ever do a Greatest Hits album, this track will be on it -- it is by far and away the best version of this song available by anyone, anywhere, and that includes Chuck Berry's AND Keith Richards' one. Dave Edmunds tried it too, and so did Bon Jovi. Our version rules, and it's more Chuck Berry than Chuck himself! (just listen to that fade-out and you will feel like I did when I was a small child and thrilled to those cool fade-outs on my old Chuck Berry records. There's something magical about these things that just can't be planned. To God be the Gloria ~~)

We tip our hats to all the versions that have gone before us and could not have done ours without theirs for inspiration, but I'm sorry folks -- our Rudolph rules!!! Get a really good set of headphones and put this on and just try to not butt rock.

Just sayin' .... Big Grin

Posted by 77sfan on 11-21-2008 at18:19:

RE: Run Run Rudolph

Wow Doc. don't break yer arm pattin yerself on the back! Big Grin

Posted by Doctor Love on 11-21-2008 at23:13:

RE: Run Run Rudolph

Well, it's not quite all that. I always marvel when a recording comes out like this because there is something fundamentally mysterious about the whole thing. You only have so much control over it. If we went back to do it all again, it would never sound the same.

Most folks know how critical I am of almost all of our work, so when I think something is cool I get pretty worked up about it because that's generally rare for me ~~ Cool

Posted by TJ 2.0 on 11-22-2008 at06:15:

I have always said, and still say, that the extended solo on the "88" version of "Can't Get Over It" is one of the main reasons I learned guitar almost 20 years ago.

That, and the lead in "Don't, This Way" shaped my early guitar playing, without a doubt.

Posted by 77 bc on 11-22-2008 at06:30:

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Originally posted by 77 bc

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I may have to drag out the DVD of that show and give it another listen.

Cool

That's the song that the sound guy had trouble with the sound board. I think Mike's guitar wound up getting a sudden 20db boost. At the end of "Dig My Heels", you can hear Mark say "Dude, your guitar is so loud, I can't hear a thing"

There are so many memorable and incredible solo's that Mike's done, that, for me, it's impossible to pick. After straying away from the band, due to being disappointed by AFD (like the songs, don't care for Charlie's influence), the song/guitar work that pulled me in like a tractor beam, was "Don't This Way" from Sticks & Stones.

"Say So Long..." on FWS, and the Dick Dale influenced solo on "Ride the Waves" (actually I hear more of a Jim Thomas sound) would be close seconds.

I haven't said it in a LONG time, but for me, FWS ranks WAY up there in my all time favorite recordings. I would consider it to be Mike & Mark's "Pet Sounds" of their collective catalog. I am sure that with all the layers of stuff in there, it was a real labor of love to mix/produce, and I am thankful that you guys decided to share the love!

While I like a LOT of guitar players, and their style, when I think "favorite" guitar players, I am drawn back to the ones that can fill space and time with something melodic & memorable. For me, this puts Mike at a level, for me, that includes the company of Mark Knopfler & David Gilmour.

Posted by 77sfan on 11-22-2008 at07:42:

RE: Run Run Rudolph

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Originally posted by 77sfan
Wow Doc. don't break yer arm pattin yerself on the back!

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Originally posted by Doctor Love
Well, it's not quite all that. I always marvel when a recording comes out like this because there is something fundamentally mysterious about the whole thing. You only have so much control over it. If we went back to do it all again, it would never sound the same.

Most folks know how critical I am of almost all of our work, so when I think something is cool I get pretty worked up about it because that's generally rare for me ~~ Cool

Oh, I know how critical you are of your work, I was just pokin fun at ya. Big Grin

Posted by MarkyMark77 on 11-22-2008 at13:57:

When I play solos, they usually come from a combination of David Gilmour and Mike.

FWS is great. I love the vibe of the record.

Posted by Carl Salad on 11-22-2008 at21:19:

Great solos:

Lovely Man
Stranger Won't You Change Your Sinful Ways
Mary and the Baby Elvis
You Don't Scare Me (beginning of the 88 version)

Posted by Doctor Love on 11-22-2008 at21:23:

Doc's picks

I like all of those!

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Originally posted by Carl Salad
Great solos:

Lovely Man
Stranger Won't You Change Your Sinful Ways
Mary and the Baby Elvis
You Don't Scare Me (beginning of the 88 version)

Posted by MefLiszto on 11-22-2008 at21:29:

I love the Nuts For You extended jam on the "It's For You". Also, I think the outtro guitar licks on Don't, This Way really leave the listener with the feeling of unrequited longing implied in that song.

Posted by juan ahmal on 11-24-2008 at09:34:

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I've always loved the solo at the end of Some Kind of Dream on The Boat Ashore. There's something about the way it starts picking up just as the song begins to fade out that makes me sit in silence wishing I could hear just a few seconds more of it.

Posted by Doctor Love on 11-30-2008 at22:16:

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The wildest thing about the first half of this solo is that it was copied note for note from a fake guitar solo done on a keyboard on Bruce Spencer's original demo -- the part where the guitar does a pig squeal was a total surprise, but that phrase was me still trying to play Bruce's solo exactly to the letter. After the piggy, I went off on my own merry way. I completely forgot about that solo, but I was quite proud of it at the time. I would have never played anything like that without Bruce's influence so you can thank him for that one.

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Originally posted by juan ahmal
I've always loved the solo at the end of Some Kind of Dream on The Boat Ashore. There's something about the way it starts picking up just as the song begins to fade out that makes me sit in silence wishing I could hear just a few seconds more of it.

Posted by peawinkel on 12-01-2008 at16:05:

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The chorus on that song always reminds me of Eric Clapton

Posted by Kit on 12-01-2008 at23:20:

Roe's got some cool guitar work on the Love Coma song, "She Was". You can hear a 30 second snippet of it if you go to the below link and click on "She Was" in the selection of tracks available for purchase. Mike's guitar work begins at the 0:18 mark in the sample (actually, he could have been strumming before that too, but I think it's just Chris). Mike pretty much solos on the parts all throughout the song where Chris isn't singing. Anyways, good stuff. It's a shame more people haven't heard it.

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Posted by Ron E on 12-02-2008 at09:22:

As a Daddy, how do you encourage the kind of talent being talked about? Bruce, the drummer, picks up (figuratively) the keyboard and plays an imaginary guitar riff. The guitarist then copies it. I know there has to be some kind of inner talent, but I really believe there have been a lot of amazing talents that died breathing coal dust, sweeping buildings, or worse as politicians because they never got to try anything amazing. I don't want my kids to be those people.

Am I wrong? Does the cream always rise?