On the best of thread as the boys aint working now...Listening to Duane on "Done Somebody Wrong" from Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore...hard to beat although Taylor's take on Love in Vain circa 72 tour and Johnny Winters version of Highway 61 rate as well as many others...any thoughts slide fans?

Derek Trucks has had BIG shoes to fill, and I haven't heard anyone fill them as well as he has.

Well, Ry Cooder's stuff always sounded great to me, as did Muddy Waters. Problem is that everything they ever did was so good I can't single out one solo!

Elmore James deserves IMO to be mentioned in this thread

Sohoe Wrote:
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> Elmore James deserves IMO to be mentioned in this
> thread


He sure does.

Derek Trucks is very very good--a true keeper of the Duane Allman flame.

Listening to Metamorphosis today--Mick Taylor's slide solo on "I Don't Know Why" is really great. And, Ry Cooder, of course, is another superb slide guitar player.



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wayne perkins solo in 'worried about you' is the most incredible solo i have ever heard.

drew



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> wayne perkins solo in 'worried about you' is the
> most incredible slide solo i have ever heard.
>
> drew


Great solo, to be certain, are you sure it's a slide?

come to think of it, i'm not sure. anyone?

drew

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> come to think of it, i'm not sure. anyone?
>
> drew


It's not.... BUT, it is a GREAT solo, so it's cool.

What I love is when a band, especially the Stones, use the slide not only in a solo but as a flavor in the music that is accmpnanying the vox. Like in Soul Survivor the guitars do not sound like they ar chugging only on the chords. But the slide creates kind of this white-out.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

Rory Gallagher on Crest of a Wave

Brian Jones - No Expectations

Ry Cooder takes Sister Morphine to the moon and back in my opinion. The whole mood, the rise and fall of it is his magic slide...totally amazing. Listen to it again.
Ronnie and Mick T can not play like that.

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> Ry Cooder takes Sister Morphine to the moon and
> back in my opinion. The whole mood, the rise and
> fall of it is his magic slide...totally amazing.
> Listen to it again.
> Ronnie and Mick T can not play like that.

His slide playing on Memo From Turner is amazing as well

I would also strongly recommend his slide work on Captain Beefheart's Safe as Milk

Duane's Statesboro Blues is perfection and reinvented electric slide. Eric Clapton said "Before Duane there was just Elmore James licks and everybody knows those".

Sway!

Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
Recorded Dallas Texas - 3 December 1927

Mr Cooder stole it note for note for Paris Texas....
Can be found on the amazing 2CD set The Complete Willie Johnson - Columbia C2K52835
When Blind Willie sings he makes Howlin' Wolf sound like Donny Osmond......Essential Listening





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Tush - ZZTop

All Down the Line....Bedsrpring...damn Mick nails it...

Ry Cooder: the bible for white guys.
Brian Jones: everything, he was pure genius on that slide.
Howlin Wolf: same
Muddy Waters: everything
Keith Richards: Midnight Rambler (yes I love it)
Mick Taylor: his solo on Happy the winter tour bootleg 1973 (not sure which concert)
Ron Wood: everything on Love you live. Mostly overdubs but what the heck. Give him some neck. Listen to the solo on happy or the third side. Yummy.

Ronnie's 1995 take on the All Down The Line slide solo. Also Taylor's go at the same solo from Bedspring Symphony.

Honorary mention: The RJ slide solo on ABB and the badass licks on DTF from the same album. Also Brian's No Expectations slide from R 'n R Circus.

JumpingKentFlash



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Stevie Ray Vaughan has done some terrific work also...

keithfan64 Wrote:
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> Duane's Statesboro Blues is perfection and
> reinvented electric slide. Eric Clapton said
> "Before Duane there was just Elmore James licks
> and everybody knows those".


I love Mick T's and Ronnnie's slide playing...Keith's and Brian's too...throw in Ry Cooder -- All fantasic...Trucks is obviously something special

But Statesboro Blues, to me, is the best...Then, he could turn around and texture "layla" like that....

There is a very uplifting slide on Joe Ely's Love Is The Beating of Hearts...it soars...

"Crazy mama" by JJ Cale (he actually did not play the slide himself) - the best slide I have ever heard.

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> "Crazy mama" by JJ Cale (he actually did not play
> the slide himself) - the best slide I have ever
> heard.


Who played that slide ? I always assumed it was JJ Cale...

Charlie Patton - High Water Everywhere Part 1 & 2 - 1929


Charlie Patton 1929 - Photo from John Tefteller collection



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What about this Johnny Winter cover of Silver Train?

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George Harrison on the anti-McCarntey "How Do You Sleep?" John and George teaming up on Paul