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  1. 07-15-2019 #1
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    Fave Acoustic Guitar Gems From Jazz-Rock Albums?

    Although jazz-rock/fusion albums are full of electric discharge & sparks, yet one can find on them some wonderful tracks with acoustic guitar. I've put my faves in this list:
    Allan Holdsworth - Mireilie (w/ Gong)
    Allan Holdsworth - Floppy Hat
    Allan Holdsworth - Kinder
    Allan Holdsworth - Last May
    Allan Holdsworth - Nevermore (w/ U.K.)
    John Etheridge - Etka (w/ Soft Machine)
    John Goodsall - Euthanasia Waltz (w/ Brand X )
    John Goodsall - Touch Wood (w/ Brand X )
    John Goodsall - Malaga Virgen (w/ Brand X )
    Daryl Stuermer - Renaissance (w/ (Jean-Luc Ponty)
    Al Di Meola - No Mistery (w/ Return To Forever) (title track)
    Al Di Meola - The Romantic Warrior (w/ Return To Forever) (title track)
    Al Di Meola - Love Theme from "Pictures of the Sea"
    John McLaughlin - A Lotus On Irish Streams (w/ The Mahavishnu Orchestra)
    John McLaughlin - In My Life (w/ Mahavishnu Orchestra)


    What are you faves?
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    If Summer Has It's Ghosts - Bill Bruford, Ralph Towner, Eddie Gomez
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    Quote Originally Posted by markwoll View Post
    If Summer Has It's Ghosts - Bill Bruford, Ralph Towner, Eddie Gomez
    Well, if you're gonna go in that direction then one might as well just nominate Towner's entire damn catalog and be done with it. Also, Jan Garbarek's Dis (which is largely a duo between Garbarek's woodwinds and Towner's guitars).
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    OP listed almost all the ones I could think of off the top of my head.

    I really enjoy John McLaughlin's acoustic playing on "Desert Song" from Stanley Clarke's School Days.
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    Great jazzy acoustic to start things off from this minor track from echolyn's acoustic ep from between Suffocating the Bloom and As the World. Great trumpet solo too. (At least I think its a trumpet).

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    John Scofield - Quiet (1996)

    Acoustic Sco, lovely album
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    Anything John Abercrombie and Terje Rypdal, plus Ralph Towner. Nevermore on UK's lp has a good solo by Holdsworth.
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    J McLaughlin's Belo Horizonte, My Goals Beyond, and Que Alegria albums.

    Larry Coryell - The Restless Mind, Standing Ovation, Splendid w/ Philip Catherine

    Al Di Meola - Cielo e Terra, World Sinfonia

    Oregon - Winter Light, Moon and Mind
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    One notable McLaughlin acoustic solo where you would not expect it - "Someone" from James Taylor's album One Man Dog. And I'll mention "Thousand Island Park" from Birds Of Fire since no one else has yet.
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    Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucia - Mediterranean Sundance (from Elegant Gypsy).
    "And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."

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    Gary Moore - The Inquisition with Colosseum II
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    Jonas Hellborg - Octave of the Holy Innocents
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    Al DiMeola - Cielo e Terra

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92uc...SLOyseVw65Ex5N
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    Love many that are posted.
    Some additions to bolster the thread.

    Corrado Rustici w/ Nova
    Poesia (To A Brother Gone) from Vimana
    Beauty Dream-Beauty Flame - from Wings of Love

    Jorge Strunz w/Caldera
    indigo fire - from "Sky Islands"
    Mosaico, Dreamborne - From "Time and Chance"
    Reflections of Don Quixote, Brujerias (Wicheries) - From "Dreamer"

    Steve Morse Dixie Dregs
    Northern lights from"Free Fall"
    Little Kids - from "What If"
    The Riff Raff - from "Night of the Liveing Dregs"
    Old World and Hereafter - From "Dregs of the Earth"
    Go for baroque - From "Unsung Heroes"
    Up In The Air - from "Industry Standard"
    Yeolde - From "Full Circle"

    Larry Coryell with Alphonse Mouzon
    High Love from the Back together again lp.
    Eyes Of Love from Eleventh House Level One
    Gratitude from Eleventh House "Introducing"
    Rene's Theme - Improvisations - Best Of The Vanguard Years

    Max Sunyer from the excellent band Iceberg
    Joguines from "sentiments"
    Riu D'agost - from"Arc en ciel"

    David Sancious and Tone - Sancious on guitar
    The play and display of the Heart /Sky Church Hymn #9 From"Transformation, the speed of love:

    So many more........maybe later
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    Quote Originally Posted by Magic Mountain View Post
    Jonas Hellborg - Octave of the Holy Innocents
    Are there any other Buckethead albums where he's all/mostly acoustic? (aside from Acoustic Shards which was a very early home recording)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave (in MA) View Post
    Are there any other Buckethead albums where he's all/mostly acoustic? (aside from Acoustic Shards which was a very early home recording)
    That is a great question. He has some very cool chill electric instrumental albums, but I couldn't think of any that were acoustic.
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    Side two of McLaughlin's My Goal's Beyond
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    ^ Did you just join, Agoston? Out of nowhere? Aah, of course - you just suddenly discovered PE while surfing in Budapest.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    ^ Did you just join, Agoston? Out of nowhere? Aah, of course - you just suddenly discovered PE while surfing in Budapest.
    You are a lunatic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by agoston View Post
    You are a lunatic.
    You are Svetonio, and this is your eighth identity in less than half a year. You are banned from here.
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    The administators should be able to track our IP's ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeuhlmate View Post
    The administators should be able to track our IP's ?
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