Guitarists' Essential Works

Timi · **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:55 am

One may call the guitar solo of "Constant Motion" fast wankery, but I love it. It is extremely impressive and has some great parts in it.

Sodacake · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:00 am

Best solo on that album is Forsaken.

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 11747

George wrote:

Goodbye Porkpie Hat (jmac's version may be more influential... i think this one is even better; utter genius)

Hold on a minute...McLaughlin has a version of that song?!
You've got to be kidding me.

beaverteeth92 · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:09 pm **Posts:** 1163

Can we do one for Allan Holdsworth?

Dream Team · **Joined:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:14 am **Posts:** 32

Sherick wrote:

Under a Glass Moon, Another Day, Home, Lines in the Sand, Glasgow Kiss, and actually a song off their last album called Lost Not Forgotten all have great solos.

Thanks for injecting some sanity into this little JP debate! :tiphat:

Johny_The_Fox · **Joined:** Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:04 pm **Posts:** 144

can somebody do one for Fripp?

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4166

there are more knowledgeable and bigger king crimson fans than me... so they're also welcome to make a list or at least suggestions... but i'll try to come up with something later today... (-:

Johny_The_Fox · **Joined:** Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:04 pm **Posts:** 144

that would be nice, because he's high on the guitarist list but, But don't see any performance by bim on any greatest solo, riff, or overall performance list, No albums with him on greatest guitar albums, so I find it dificult to check him out. Untill now i've only heard Red and In the Court of the Krimson King.

and this

which I think is a great song!!!

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4166

indeed it is... i think it made my top 7 or so favorites when i posted my list in the kc thread a few months back.

Yousha · **Posted:** Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:09 pm

his album with giles and giles has some stunning guitar work.

and my personal favorite, though it doesnt feature much and it's only a 150 second song. but it's sweet as anything.

http://grooveshark.com/s/North+Meadow/3SCiKg?src=5

Gray · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:49 pm **Posts:** 3789

St. Elmo's Fire from Another Green World features Fripp on guitar. That surely belongs on his list.

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4166

thanks for all the suggestions, they're all good... yousha, i love giles, giles, and fripp, too!!
i haven't had enough time to finish this... but here's a beginning...

with Giles, Giles & Fripp... at this stage Fripp's playing draws mostly from jazz and classical techniques/concepts.
Suite No.1 (alt picking tour-de-force)
Erudite Eyes (one of the earlier instances of fripp stretching out a bit)
Tremolo Study in A
Make It Today (features a brief jazz solo)

with King Crimson
Fracture (i think fripp himself has more-or-less referred to this as his greatest guitaristic achievement)
Starless
Sailor's Tale

various collaborations, solo, and session work
Heroes - David Bowie
Wave - David Sylvian
Evening Star - Eno/Fripp
Super Heathen Child - Grinderman
Water Music II
Baby's On Fire - Brian Eno
Nil Recurring - Porcupine Tree
Angel Gets Caught in the Beauty Trap - No-Man (features only a brief fripp solo, but worth mentioning here because it's a great tune overall)
Windows Vista OS (-:

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 11747

Elephant Talk is a MUST for Fripp.

Gray · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:49 pm **Posts:** 3789

I know its a cliche by now, but 21st Century Schizoid Man is probably the first thing I'd have put down for Fripp.

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 11747

Absolutely.
"Cliched" or not, it's quite deserving.

The solo in Elephant Talk blew me away as well...

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