What is the Best Saxophone Song?

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The discussion revolves around sharing links to various songs and artists, highlighting personal favorites and recommendations. Participants mention iconic tracks like "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty and "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses, emphasizing their appreciation for guitar riffs and vocals. Dream Theater is frequently praised for its musicianship, particularly the drumming and progressive compositions. Other notable mentions include artists like Yngwie Malmsteen, Tommy Emmanuel, and Mary Black, showcasing a wide range of musical styles. The thread encourages exploration of new music and sharing of lesser-known talents.
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Winzer said:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bkQxrdOk8Us
You really have to watch the whole thing, it is absolutley stunning.
It tops for my favorite organ piece- the video really does not do it justice though.
Wow, that was very nice. It makes me think of the contrast between people's will to create and destroy (or maybe that was mostly the organ). I'll have to keep an eye out for other performances too. Thanks.
 
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  • #402
Evo,

Sorry if this was already pointed out to you, but here is the Authorative Vaseline Machine Gun

It's the last in a short medley.

Good sound too.
 
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  • #404
One of my favorite songs from long ago.
THE BYRDS "Eight miles high"


The Byrds - "Eight Miles High" - Live extended version, classic birds.


The Byrds - "Turn, turn, turn"


The Byrds - "Mr. Tamborine Man"




Eight miles high bass solo - for any base players here :biggrin:



I miss the 60's and early 70's. :-p
 
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  • #405
Dead Can Dance - Don`t Fade Away


Ronan O'Snodaigh is the drummer in the back usually. He plays a large drum and you can see him in the video "Toward the Within" bopping up and down when they play 'Rakim'. He really gets into it.

Thanks to Evo for turning me onto DCD. :!) :cool:
 
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  • #406
Astronuc said:
Dead Can Dance - Don`t Fade Away


Ronan O'Snodaigh is the drummer in the back usually. He plays a large drum and you can see him in the video "Toward the Within" bopping up and down when they play 'Rakim'. He really gets into it.

Thanks to Evo for turning me onto DCD. :!) :cool:


It's totally great, and Toward the Within is a great DVD.
 
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  • #407
radou said:
It's totally great, and Toward the Within is a great DVD.
Yeah! I have to get it.

I love Yulunga, the music is great and I love the folks in the video. I have a preference for so-called 'primitive' societies anyway :-p , as opposed to modern industrialized culture .


Also Lisa Gerrard has a website - http://www.lisagerrard.com/

There is a CD called https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005A8IY/?tag=pfamazon01-20, not to be confused with the Movie, DVD and soundtrack of the same name. On the CD Baraka, there are two really beautiful pieces of music Berceuse (for Elain) and Berceuse (Reprise). I wish they had developed those further.
 
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  • #408
For those of you who like classical music here is "The Ballad" by Ciprian Porumbescu, and some beautiful images from my country - Romania (you know, Dracula.. :-p)
 
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antonantal said:
For those of you who like classical music here is "The Ballad" by Ciprian Porumbescu, and some beautiful images from my country - Romania (you know, Dracula.. :-p)
That was lovely. Is it such a somber place to live? It looks quite tranquil at first glance, but then you get the sense that there's really this subdued yearning everywhere. All of the pictures look that way. Is it the sky? What is it? Hah, it's so strange. :smile:
 
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  • #410
honestrosewater said:
That was lovely. Is it such a somber place to live? It looks quite tranquil at first glance, but then you get the sense that there's really this subdued yearning everywhere. All of the pictures look that way. Is it the sky? What is it? Hah, it's so strange. :smile:
Maybe it's because there's no living creature in those pictures, and combined with the yearning feeling expressed by the song (it sounds like the "Marche funèbre" by Chopin in some parts at the beginning) and the cloudy skyes, it gives you a melancholic mood - kind of like I was feeling the last evening :smile:
 
  • #411
A different rock group with violin, electric organ and synthesizer.

Kansas - Dust In the Wind


Kansas - The Pìnnacle


This was incredible in concert!

Kansas - Icarus


Kansas - Carry on my wayward son
 
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  • #412
Cool video with

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man


Another favorite form EL&P
C'EST LA VIE
 
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  • #413
Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo 1973


Hush (1968) :smile: the threads


Burn (1975)


Highway Star


Smoke On The Water - not bad for some old rock & rollers :smile:
 
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  • #414
Apparently no one has mentioned Bon Jovi.

Bon Jovi - Wanted dead or alive (live) - 13-08-1989 (Richie Sambora on a :cool: 3 neck guitar with 10-strings (a little like an electric mandolin), 6-strings and 12-strings)
 
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1,683 guitarists play 'Smoke on Water'
http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/44371689

06/06/2007 1:00 PM, AP
Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Kansas - More than 1,680 guitar players turned out, tuned up and took part in what organizers say was a world record rendition of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" — a song that was the first many of them ever learned.

Some came from as far away as California and Germany on Sunday to take part in a Kansas City radio station's effort to break a Guinness world record for the most people playing the same song simultaneously. The record had been 1,323 people playing the same song in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1994.

"It was cool to see little kids playing, people who had been playing for their whole lives, like older people, and then I'm sure there were people like me who just picked up the song a couple days before," said Autumn McPherson, of Winfield, a senior at the University of Kansas.
:smile:
 
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  • #419
I love listening to the electric guitar and here are a few of my favourite rock songs that have either infectious riffs or breathtaking solos.

Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin
Freebird - Lynrd Skynrd
Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd
High hopes - Pink Floyd
Highway Star - Deep Purple
Smoke on the water- Deep Purple
Machine gun - Jimi Hendrix
Iron man - Black Sabbath
One - Metallica
Fade to black - Metallica
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Sweet child of mine- Guns N Roses
Hallowed be thy name - Iron Maiden
You got another thing comin - Judas Priest

I have a lot more but these are currently my favourites. Any additions to this list are most welcome. Rock on!
 
  • #420
If you like electric guitar solos, check out any of Robben Ford's CDs that he recorded with Rosco Beck and Tom Brechtlein (The Blue Line). His tone is gorgeous and his solos are infectious!
 
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Is there anyone that doesn't like this song?

 
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  • #423
wilgory said:
Is there anyone that doesn't like this song?



Eh, it's a bit campy, but it's alright. I prefer the Slipknot version.
 
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  • #424


I got stripes

marlon
 
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  • #425
Chi Meson said:
Evo,

Sorry if this was already pointed out to you, but here is the Authorative Vaseline Machine Gun

It's the last in a short medley.

Good sound too.
:cry: :cry: :cry:

I :!) Leo Kottke!

Thanks Chi for that video, that was awesome!
 
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  • #426
Huckleberry said:
I was reminded of this song when I heard a version of it played by a local Phoenix band Gloritone. I hadn't heard it since the 80's. I like this song. Your link seems to be dead. Here's a new one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo40aTe_3JM&mode=related&search=
No, you have to listen to the original version, it's all the soft background sounds that make it so funny when you listen to the contrasting words. :biggrin:

 
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  • #427
Hey, that is different. I remember that version of the song from way back. Haven't heard that in a while. Did they drop the "Be quiet, big boys don't cry" from the newer version? That part stood out as unfamiliar to me.

"I'm not in Love" is a weird song. It's like an anti-love song, but at the same time it is a love song. When I hear it I feel regret. I get the impression that every word in the song means exactly the opposite of what it says, and that it is someone attempting to convince himself the words are true for consolement.
 
  • #428
arunbg said:
I love listening to the electric guitar and here are a few of my favourite rock songs that have either infectious riffs or breathtaking solos.

Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin
Freebird - Lynrd Skynrd
Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd
High hopes - Pink Floyd
Highway Star - Deep Purple
Smoke on the water- Deep Purple
Machine gun - Jimi Hendrix
Iron man - Black Sabbath
One - Metallica
Fade to black - Metallica
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Sweet child of mine- Guns N Roses
Hallowed be thy name - Iron Maiden
You got another thing comin - Judas Priest

I have a lot more but these are currently my favourites. Any additions to this list are most welcome. Rock on!

I love all these songs. You've got great taste.

That reminds me, I got tickets to Ozzfest 2007 at the Gorge in WA in July. I'm so psyched to be going, even though I've never heard of the musicians that will be playing this year. Last Ozzfest I went to was in 2000 in Phoenix. I knew all the bands then. I must be getting too old to keep up with the latest music trends.
 
  • #429
Huckleberry said:
Hey, that is different. I remember that version of the song from way back. Haven't heard that in a while. Did they drop the "Be quiet, big boys don't cry" from the newer version? That part stood out as unfamiliar to me.

"I'm not in Love" is a weird song. It's like an anti-love song, but at the same time it is a love song. When I hear it I feel regret. I get the impression that every word in the song means exactly the opposite of what it says, and that it is someone attempting to convince himself the words are true for consolement.
Yeh, it's a love/anti lovesong. That's the best I've heard it described. The original with all the soft background lulls you into thinking that it's a love song, but if you listen to the words, it jerks you out of that. It's rather sad.

I've always loved this song.
 
  • #430
Chi Meson said:
Evo,

Sorry if this was already pointed out to you, but here is the Authorative Vaseline Machine Gun

It's the last in a short medley.

Good sound too.
It starts at 2:11

Back in the 70's I was dating the sound guy at Liberty Hall in Houston and B B King and Muddy Waters were playing that night. My boyfriend left me in charge at intermission and I played Vaseline Machine Gun over the PA and got an uproarious applause after it played. It just wasn't that well known, it still isn't and it's such a shame.
 
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  • #431
I think the thread is large enough that I need to split it into different genres.

First, there will be the Evo genre. :-p

Seriously, does someone want to help me split the songs up? Then I can link them in the GD Classics thread.

I know Astronuc likes Moody Blues as much as I do (I think).

Here's one I think we missed.

Watching and waiting



Forever Autumn

 
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  • #432
Night's in White Satin

 
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Madredeus, a great band from Portugal. My dad brought their CD some day and I can't stop listening to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI5a2JxlJbw"

Edit: and btw, the singer is beautiful, which makes them even a greater band. o:)
 
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  • #434
Guitarist Dominic Frasca playing 10 a... Guitarist Dominic Frasca playing 10 and 6 string.


Different but complex - Incredible Guitar player totally awsome - kind of like Satriani
 
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  • #435
Evo said:
I know Astronuc likes Moody Blues as much as I do.
Yep. :-p They were one of the first groups I collected in total - their earlier material actually. Their mix of rock and symphony is a benchmark.

I guess I need to build that time machine.


One of my favorite Moody Blues tunes is Gypsy


another favorite - only on one of their live albums
Justin Hayward/Moody Blues/What Am I Doing Here?


And yet another - Candle Of Life (1970)



Here is something a little more rowdy.

Cream - Crossroads live 1968


Cream-White Room


Cream was Eric Clapton (guitar, vocals), Jack Bruce (bass, vocals) and Ginger Baker.
 
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  • #436
I shared one of my favorite Moody Blues songs with my 19-yr old daughter.

Her response was - "They really can't sing. Those are some of the worst vocals I've ever heard. But I love the lyrics."

She doesn't like Justin Hayward's vocals.

On the other hand, I do. I like what I like, and that's what counts.

It is nice however when one can share music with others who also appreciate the same music. :smile:


Then later, my daughter writes -

Justin King - Guitar Master. Pretty impressive playing.
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=24052


"Don't be mad at me Dad, but this guy is better than Hendrix.

I love his playing. Upbeat, in major chords - it has a positive, "happy" vibe. And an acoustic is always good."


Well - no he's not better than Hendrix. He's different - like the late Michael Hedges, but King is not better than Hendrix.

Hendrix is Hendrix - there's not better. That's like saying red it better than blue is better than green.


IMO, Stevie Ray Vaughn is as great and very close to Hendrix in some respects, but again different. Satriani is equally great, but different.


I don't know why people need to select the greatest or the best or number one. In the end, it doesn't really matter.
 
  • #437
Aqua "Goodbye to the circus"
 
  • #438
Guns 'n Roses-Knocking on Heavens Doors



Iron Maiden-The Dance of Death



Pink Floyd-Comfortably Numb



Pink Floyd-The Dark Side of the Moon



Pink Floyd-Welcome to the Machine



System of a Down-Chop Suey



System of a Down-Spiders



Train-Drops of Jupiter



Marilyn Manson-Sweet Dreams



Marilyn Manson-Coma White



David Bowie-The Man Who Sold the World



Hope they haven't been posted already... didn't go through all the posts.
 
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  • #439
Astronuc said:
Well - no he's not better than Hendrix. He's different - like the late Michael Hedges, but King is not better than Hendrix.

Hendrix is Hendrix - there's not better. That's like saying red it better than blue is better than green.

That might make some sense if you mean to compare them as composers, but as performers it makes a lot of sense to say one is better than the other. And this guy is a more capable performer than Jimi Hendrix.
 
  • #440
Evo said:
Night's in White Satin



Dually. For some reason, what I consider some of the greatest songs of all time could be interpreted as sounding just a bit depressing. I can't count the number of times that while I was listening to Night's In White Satan, someone would ask me if I'm feeling ok.:-p

One group that I've been in love with since the second I heard them was Pink Floyd. I just can't get enough of that ethereal guitar.

Pink Floyd - 'Echoes'
Part1 -
Part2 -

David Gilmour - 'Coming Back To Life'


Bill Withers - 'Ain't No Sunshine'
 
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  • #441
Some of the more mellow Satriani - live

Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You (Live 2006)



Joe Satriani - Love Thing (Live in San Francisco)



Joe Satriani - Until we say goodbye (Live in San Francisco)
 
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  • #442
black like me from the new spoon album is so great.

they let u listen to the whole album here:
http://www.mergerecords.com/gagagajuke/

ga ga ga ga ga has to be their best album.
 
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  • #444
Supertramp - Downstream (some mellow tramp)


Supertramp = Crime of the Century (live)


Supertramp - Hide in Your Shell - 1977


Supertramp Breakfast in America (live)



Supertramp incorporated a saxphone into several of the compositions

Supertramp - give a little bit (live)

Give a little bit
Give a little bit of your love to me
Give a little bit
I'll give a little bit of my love to you
There's so much that we need to share
So send a smile and show you care

I'll give a little bit
I'll give a little bit of my life for you
So give a little bit
Give a little bit of your time to me
See the man with the lonely eyes
Take his hand, you'll be surprised

Give a little bit
Give a little bit of your love to me
I'll give a little bit of my life for you
Now's the time that we need to share
So find yourself, were on our way back home

Going home
Don't you need to feel at home?
Oh yeah, we got to sing

Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home (great harmonica and sax)

(keep this track turned down for the first few seconds)
So you think you're a romeo
Playing a part in a picture-show
Take the long way home
Take the long way home

Cos' youre the joke of the neighborhood
Why should you care if youre feeling good
Take the long way home
Take the long way home

But there are times that you feel youre part of the scenery
All the greenery is comin' down, boy
And then your wife seems to think youre part of the
Furniture oh, it's peculiar, she used to be so nice.

When lonely days turn to lonely nights
You take a trip to the city lights
And take the long way home
Take the long way home

You never see what you want to see
Forever playing to the gallery
You take the long way home
Take the long way home

And when you're up on the stage, its so unbelievable,
Unforgettable, how they adore you,
But then your wife seems to think you're losing your sanity,
Oh, calamity, is there no way out?

Does it feel that you lifes become a catastrophe?
Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy.
When you look through the years and see what you could
Have been oh, what might have been,
If you'd had more time.

So, when the day comes to settle down,
Who's to blame if you're not around?
You took the long way home
You took the long way home...

Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments
(fitting video)
Even in the quietest moments
I wish I knew what I had to do
And even though the sun is shining
Well I feel the rain --- here it comes again, dear
And even when you showed me
My heart was out of tune
For there's a shadow of doubt that's not letting me find you too soon
The music that you gave me
The language of my soul
Oh lord, I want to be with you.
Won't you let me come in from the cold?

Don't you let the sun fade away
Don't you let the sun fade away
Don't you let the sun be leaving
Won't you come to me soon

And even though the stars are listening
And the oceans deep, I just go to sleep
And then I create a silent movie
You become the star, is that what you are, dear?
Your whisper tells a secret
Your laughter brings me joy
And a wonder of feeling I'm natures own little boy
But still the tears keep falling
They're raining from the sky
Well there's a lot of me got to go under before I get high

Don't you let the sun disappear
Don't you let the sun disappear
Don't you let the sun be leaving
No, you can't be leaving my life
Say that you won't be leaving my life
Say that you won't be leaving my life
Say won't you please, stay won't you please
Say won't you please, stay won't you please
Lord, won't you come and get into my life
Lord, won't you come and get into my life
Say won't you please, stay won't you please
Say won't you please, stay won't you please
Lord, don't go

And even when the song is over
Where have I been --- was it just a dream?
And though your door is always open
Where do I begin --- may I please come in, dear?


Supertramp - The Logical Song
 
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  • #446
The best/worst song for me was "For a Dancer" by Jackson Browne. I was suffering through the brain-cancer and death of a sweet lady who had hooked up with a fellow guitarist that had been my friend for over 30 years, and I stumbled onto a live version of this song, done by Browne and David Lindley, and I could not stop sobbing. The song captures her perfectly. Linda was a member of a Chicago improv group, and could take a second to turn any circumstance into a statement or deflate a pompous idea with a pin-prick. I miss her.

Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down
I don't remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must have thought youd always be around
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
Now youre nowhere to be found

I don't know what happens when people die
Cant seem to grasp it as hard as I try
Its like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening
And I can't help feeling stupid standing round
Crying as they ease you down
cause I know that youd rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
(right on dancing)
No matter what fate chooses to play
(theres nothing you can do about it anyway)

Just do the steps that youve been shown
By everyone youve ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Anothers steps have grown
In the end there is one dance youll do alone

Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Dont let the uncertainty turn you around
(the world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound

Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you'll never know
 
  • #447
Die Miestiersinger von Nurnberg
 
  • #448
I do-98 degrees ...i luv this song;)
 
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  • #450
I can't believe there isn't more Zappa. "The Adventures Of Greggory Peccary", I probably the best song ever.
 

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