So, I'll start with this, which is "Jingo", featuring Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton, at Clapton's "Crossroads" music fest. This is some KILLER stuff!Enjoy!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAf3gqdCrDs

Here's one by Stevie Ray Vaughan, called "Little Wing", originally done by Jimi Hendrix, one of Stevie's idols..Great dynamics...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAG-kX_IlUw

WOW! They really ROCKED together, didn't they? It was great the way Carlos made sure that Eric got his share of solo time, even directing his bass player over to him at one point. They are BOTH such great lead guitarists -- so natural and spontaneous. I've always wished I could play like that, so that the music comes straight from my soul, through my fingertips into the music, like it seems to do with them. It must be so satisfying...

I'll search for videos of my favorite artists. For now, I've got one I looked up for my birthday a month ago -- James Taylor doing "Secret of Life". It's not a concert, but a private recording among friends. This video is like the exact opposite of what you posted! Maybe it will help us all get a good night's sleep, anyway. I love the lyrics (I'm a lyrics person, maybe that's the singer/song-writer in me) -- they are good to remember when I get too serious about things...
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For a change of pace, here's one by Bruce Springsteen, a live acoustic version of "Youngstown." Kind of appropriate, too, since the Ohio primaries are tomorrow, and the main issue seems to be jobs, or lack therof..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smddcs5n0H0...feature=related

Jackson Browne
Lives in the Balance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFowNFvmUxw

Oooooo. Another favorite!

I love Bruce -- he's a real "bard" of classic proportions...

As soon as I can get the hang of it, I have a few favorites of the guitar-master ilk. I'll try, but I've gotta leave you all now because it going on midnight here and I've got to be up and about early for Primary Day in Texas!!!!
Sallie

Good luck with that, Sallie! And thanks for all your hard work there in Texas. Hope to hear good things from you tomorrow night about Obama's performance in the polls/caucuses there...

Pmm and Linda, excellent posts! I'm a big fan of both James Taylor and Jackson Browne. Sallie, welcome to our little "club" here! Everybody interested in checking out and/or posting your favorite vids, come on in!

Here's a cool little guitar instrumental by Bruce Cockburn,a Canadian dude who's been around for a long time, even though I've just recently "discovered" him. This is also my own latest project on the guitar. I've almost got it down, but not quite. Cockburn is also quite a singer-songwriter. I'll post one of his songs in that vein next..I've been wearing out his acoustic instrumental CD called "Speechless." I highly recommend it to anyone who digs good fingerstyle playing!

This one is called "Foxglove"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCBY9Fb8YGo...feature=related

Thanks for getting this started! Here is one of my favorites from the old days.

That's a classic, Aleman! I'm still a fan of Phil Ochs, even though he's been gone now for quite a few years. I remember listening to his album "All The News that's Fit To Sing" back in the late sixties. I have a book about him. Tragic the way his life ended. He was a true American rebel. One of my favorites of his was "Talkin' Vietnam Blues"..Strangely enough, I used to listen to that one before I went to 'nam..I don't know if that's available on You Tube, but if it is, I'll post it.

Thanks for putting this one up!

Here's a clip of a guy in a low-flying aircraft, with the Stephen Stills tune, "Tree Top Flyer" playing in the background. "Treetop flyer "refers to pilots in Vietnam who would fly "low and slow, just above the treeline"..This is my fave acoustic song by Stills.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BziHdAVNcK8

Another Bruce Cockburn song, this one with vocals, called "If I had A Rocket Launcher." This was written back in the days of Noriega and the Contras, I believe..A statement against war, and pretty political. But, we usually don't GET that "political" around here, do we?LOL



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCww3j2-w

Oohh, a youtube thread, love it!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5Kx3s_ab8Vc <-- the super-est super group ever, the Traveling Wilbury's "Handle With Care"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zOPGMIyMQ <-- Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison, Prince perform "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at George Harrison's RnR HOF induction ceremony...for my money, Prince SMOKES Clapton's original solo....rumor has it he had never heard the song before.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=p-3cXDaNYZ0 <-- one of my favorite singers, Matt Embree of The RxBandits and The Sound of Animals Fighting, covers Bob Dylan's "Masters of War."

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FRdk_exMkY0 <-- I Can Lick any SOB in the House's song "Westboro Baptist Church" (profanity)

Excellent,jlee562! That last one I hadn't heard before. Quite a little ditty!LOL

OK, I'm gonna post my quota on "funky lingo" songs, right here. So, if anybody is easily offended, you might want to skip this one. Anyhow, this is a liitle tune by the late great Warren Zevon, called "My S--t's F---ed Up"..I'd like to dedicate this to ol' George W and the Republicans...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdAGv7NFxIA

Zevon was a god! I sometimes find myself wondering when his next release will be coming along, only to return to reality and realizing that he is gone...........

Here is another oldie that you might remember.

Yeah, I remember that one, it reminds me of driving around in my Camaro in the early seventies, cruisin' for chicks! That was quite a "fiddle" solo there on the video, too!

This is another one by "The Boss," along with Eddie Vedder. He used to play this at Kerry rallies, and it's still music to my ears. If you've ever seen Springsteen play live, you know what a show the guy puts on..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4J54_MvGL0

Yay to It's a Beautiful Day!!

and also Warren..
I saw him with Jimmy Buffet and Jackson Browne in 1978 at San Jose State University

This one might catch you off guard...
I just love it cuz I love the movie Donnie Darko
Gary Jules version of Mad World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR91Rj1ZN1M

I also fell in love with the '60's band Sweetwater but I couldn't find a video
if you can ...listen to their version of Motherless Child

I think it is amazing
It starts off with almost a monklike chant and then turns into ultra fine psychedelic rock celebration
Her (Nancy Nevins)voice reminds me of Grace Slick and Pattie Santos
http://www.myspace.com/sweetwaterband

VH1 made a movie about them a while back...
they played at Woodstock

Beautiful! Reminds me a little of THIS GUY. Atkins was a favorite of my father, who also played electric guitar --mostly in our living room and with friends. I saw him in person (ten feet away) at a local fair a few years before he died. He could STILL play like he had 4 hands. Very talented and NICE man...

I had never seen the video or the movie before, but I enjoyed the clip. It was a little on the dark side, and kind of disturbing, but in a "cool" kind of way..

You're right Linda, the vocalist of Sweetwater does remind me a lot of Grace Slick. I hadn't heard much of that band either, but the first song reminded me of something I've heard by Delaney and Bonnie..Good stuff!

This a a clip from "Easy Rider", still my favorite flick of all time. Guess it was my youth or something, but I really dug this movie, and probably saw it at least five times.. ..Steppenwolf is playing "The Pusher", but it's only a short clip, as I just discovered..Oh, well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3sUglnCfTQ

Great song -- and so relevant today. Did he write it? I was never familiar with Ochs -- another tragic loss in the music field. What happened?

That's a great sound for Stills -- and he did it just last year!? I've always liked his raspy voice...

OMG!! I have the original Sweetwater vinyl. I saw them in an all day concert in Phoenix along with Steve Millar Band, Grateful Dead, and others. It was indeed a beautiful day!

Phil Ochs was a folk singer, who wrote and sang "topical" songs back in the mid-sixties. He was a classic "protest" singer. When the genre kind of fizzled out,his career went south, he became depressed and started drinking too much, and eventully hanged himself. A tragic story.

Here's an example of a really controversial song, that didn't exactly endear him to Richard Nixon.. This was recorded later on in his career, circa early seventies..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwsIeYTNLdo

Actually, the song came out quite a few years back, I'm thinking early nineties..You might have confused the date by the one of the video which was posted on You Tube last year, I think. I always thought Stills was the most talented musician of CSN & Y..

Here's one of my favorite songs, though not necessarily a favorite band... Simple Man Great lyrics and I love these types of heavy, dramatic melodies...

Here's another favorite by Lynyrd Skynyrd -- maybe I like them better than I thought! Gimme Three Steps More great lyrics..fun!

Yeah, it posted the title of the song at the beginning the YouTube video with the date following the title. Looked like the song info, but it must have been the video info. I've always liked him best, too, though Young is a close second...

I had heard of Phil Ochs but I never knew what he was about.
That was awesome.

I love Treetop Flyer too... Didn't Jimmy Buffet do a cover of that?

And I am embarrassed to admit that I have never seen Easy Rider. I will now tho...I love that song.

Great video, thanks especially for this one! This is vintage Atkins. Chet was simply THE BEST, bar none. The man slept with his guitar, I think! To this day, he is the standard by which most other serious guitarists measure themselves..George Harrison was a big Chet Atkins fan too.

Jimmy Buffet might have done a cover of it, but I haven't heard it. Buffet's another one of my faves!

Here's another clip from Easy Rider. This one's a little longer and features a couple of different songs. Jack Nicholson is the guy in the football helment, that was one of his earlier roles..Then of course, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHJNqn-miUc

Oh yeah, Neil's always been cool. He's a real rebel, and totally unpredictable as far as what he'll do next musically. It's what makes 'im interesting!

When I was a kid, my older brother had (and still does I think) every Chet Atkins album ever recorded. He was a true master of the craft. I don't know if you are into this sort of thing, but there are some amazing licks performed here.

We used to play a LOT of Skynyrd in the rock bands I used to play in! Their stuff is timeless, and both those songs were favorites of mine, too. Of course, EVERYBODY knows "Freebird"...I always loved those three-part guitar solos, we'd be JAMMIN'!

Jeff Beck and Tal Wilkenfeld at the Crossroads fest...Beck is bad-assed as always, but what really blew me away was this chick playing the bass! I thought she was about fifteen years old at first, then found out she was in her early twenties. Man, can this girl play a bass!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejgqyEviSyk

Two of my favorite youtubes

Van Halen "Right Now"( You have to read the words on the screen. This was done in 1984.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkQZOnCN3k

John Mellencamp on the plight of the farmer "Rain on the Scarecrow"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Iy2Jw4DVk

Although there is quite a display of tablas playing, McClaughlin also gets in some pretty intricate guitar work on this piece.

Van Halen was one of the few "80's" bands that I really liked. Eddie is a real original on the guitar, and this is one of their better ones. the words being displayed on the screen was a cool idea for that vid, I thought..

"Rain on the Scarecrow" made a powerful statement on behalf of family farmers. I always think of Mellencamp playing "Farm Aid" with Willie Nelson when I hear that one. And John's a loyal Democrat, so he's alright with me!

Ah, Mahavishnu! I don't know how this guy does what he does, I mean, what can you say? His fingers are flyin' all over the place. I've listened to his playing for years, and this guy is in another zone, man..

Here's some great flamenco, from Paco de Lucia..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0o8vszqVL2U

OK, let's bring some WOMEN into this mix -- Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit sung by the inimitable GRACE SLICK at the MOTHER of rock concerts, WOODSTOCK. An appropriate song for the political situation we are currently suffering, eh?

And another favorite song by another female rock icon, Janis Joplin with "Piece of My Heart" and "Mercedes Benz", a nice photo tribute to a unique female rocker. I was never a big fan, but these two songs, especially, were favorites...

And more female rock singers who made several favorites of mine, Heart: Magic Man and Barracuda!

And speaking of "hearts" , I came across this favorite in my search -- Neil Young in an early performance of Neil Young "Heart of Gold". What a sweetheart! He spends a few long minutes getting the right harmonica set up, but it's worth the wait, and we get to see his shy smile several times in the meantime...



OK, now I'll shut up and let someone else post!

All great stuff, pmm! I've always been a fan of the Airplane, and later, Jefferson Starship. Janis Joplin, a great female blues wailer, another tragedy..Heart, with Ann and Nancy Wison-HOT!What a talented singer and a fine guitarist those two sisters were! Neil Young is one of the great performers and songwriters of all time in folk and rock music.


This is my favorite all-time song by Bob Dylan, the "poet-philospher" of the folk-rock world. This song never got any airplay, because it was way too long, and didn't fit the mode of radio programming in general. To me, this was his masterpiece, although with all the other great songs he has written, I know not everyone will agree. Still, the lyrics are haunting, and this collage of images mirrors the lyrics, which, as usual for Dylan, are full of metaphore and open to individual interpretations. That's what made Dylan the most important and influential recording artist of my generation, imho..

"Desolation Row"




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMMZvbvUcAk

Vintage Dylan recorded in 1964 at the Newport Folk Festival. Pete Seeger and other folk icons are sitting behind Dylan, who is about 23 or 24 years old here..By this time he had already written such great anthems as "The Times They Are A Changing", Blowin' in The Wind", "Masters Of War", and "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall." This is "Mr. Tambourine Man", which was late made into a huge hit by the Byrds.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRbeUnn-AUA

Here's David Crosby and Graham Nash along with Jackson Browne doing a great classic that I made sure my kids heard and understood.

Wonderful song! He's an amazing song-writer. While I was there on YouTube, I started up another video of this song, just a partial clip of a young Dylan in concert. I was fascinated by his sweetness, shy and young, softly singing...and I just want to hug the innocent child speaking such piercing wisdom...

Tambourine Man is one of my favorites of his too, along with Rolling Stone. So many great songs...

I just went back to page one to see if I'd missed any, and sure enough here you are, jlee! All great songs -- I loved the first one with all those greats together. And of course one of my alltime favorites, "While my guitar.." That was a GREAT rendition. I never knew Prince played so well! This version rivals the one VV put up in another thread by the recently deceased, Jeff Healy. AWESOME

I was fascinated by the PASSION and ANGER embodied in Matt Embree's song. WOW. Good song. And the WBC song -- well some things DESERVE profanity! I really liked that raunchy rock song and the lyrics I could understand. Great down home PROTEST against the insanity of the WBC and too...