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RaiseTheKnife
I think it's a combination of both great tone, vibrato, flow and speed. Taylor never had the speed, which comes naturally comes to anyone with enough mastery of the instrument.
I'm not a fast guitar player, but I can still play any Taylor solo note for note after a day of two if I want to learn it. It may not sound like Taylor but from a technical standpoint he has never played anything which requires 5+ hours of daily practice like those others players I mentioned.
I don't quite agree w/ you Knife; MT didn't do it for drawn out passages, but I have heard him play fast. Esp. in the live 73 shows. Stones music just doesn't call for that kind of playing.
Again - it seems that it was a choice of his, the way he played. He comes from the school of Blues, and I personally take his style of Blues over Jimmy Page Blues. He plays differently on his solo stuff.
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beachbreak
I really don't have any favorite RW solos. I prefer Keith's virtuoso chord and riff playing. I know Keith enjoys the "weaving" with Ronnie, but personally I preferred the more lead playing style of Mick Taylor.
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RaiseTheKnife
I think it's a combination of both great tone, vibrato, flow and speed. Taylor never had the speed, which comes naturally comes to anyone with enough mastery of the instrument.
I'm not a fast guitar player, but I can still play any Taylor solo note for note after a day of two if I want to learn it. It may not sound like Taylor but from a technical standpoint he has never played anything which requires 5+ hours of daily practice like those others players I mentioned.
I don't quite agree w/ you Knife; MT didn't do it for drawn out passages, but I have heard him play fast. Esp. in the live 73 shows. Stones music just doesn't call for that kind of playing.
Again - it seems that it was a choice of his, the way he played. He comes from the school of Blues, and I personally take his style of Blues over Jimmy Page Blues. He plays differently on his solo stuff.
When I say fast I mean this kind of speed: John Petrucci solo. Not the Clapton inspired hammer-on licks Taylor always played. Taylor had other qualities to his playing and not being a fast player does not make one less worth as a guitar player, but the fact still remains that you can't call Taylor a fast guitarist or a virtuoso. BTW Taylor was much closer to being a ''virtuoso'' than the sloppy Jimmy Page was.
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beachbreak
Ronnie talented but the Angie solo just doesn't move me at all. I didn't hear Wild Horses.