Which McCready Guitar Solo is the best?

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  • cd21miller
    cd21miller Columbia, MO Posts: 302
    studio-wise -- go and black. go is just blistering and black just gets into your soul.

    also loved present tense to open the st. louis concert in 2003...wow...

    and to close -- ledbetter in cincy 2000 when he went into nugent and van halen. fun stuff.
  • andrew the legend
    andrew the legend Posts: 210
    Even flow any boot or any show.
  • zenith
    zenith Posts: 3,191
    i dont think i could pick a fav either - but i love corduroy anywhere, or in my tree on the melbourne 98 boot (call me a sucker, but i love this song)
    or any show im lucky enough to be standing in front of him at - just gives me goosbumps
    impatience is a gift ........
  • brooksyinc
    brooksyinc Posts: 16
    Alive. My fav PJ song. Killer solo, studio and live.
    Enough! I grow weary of your sexually suggestive dancing. Bring me my ranch dressing hose!
  • whgarrett
    whgarrett Posts: 574
    I would have to say the studio version of Down. Just my humble opinion.
  • TunnelThroughDenial
    TunnelThroughDenial Posts: 769
    Studio Go by a mile
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    |11.6.00Seattle|6.6.03Vegas|6.7.03PHX|5.25.06Boston|7.22.06Gorge|7.23.06Gorge|9.21.09Seattle|9.22.09Seattle |10.6.09LA|11.19.13PHX|11.29.13Portland|12.6.13Seattle |10.22.14Denver| 8.8.18 Seattle | 8.10.18 Seattle

    EV Solo |7.15.11 Benaroya|7.16.11 Benaroya|4.13.12PHX|10.30.14Redmond|
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  • Them-Bones
    Them-Bones Posts: 518
    Reach Down
    "If my thoughts, dreams, could be seen, they'd probably put my head, in a guillotine, but it's alright ma, it's life and life only."
  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    Top 3 id have to say

    By far his best solo is Immortality (any live version, especially Benaroya )



    Yellow Ledbetter


    and


    Reach Down

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  • AndySlash
    AndySlash Posts: 3,287
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    No one's mentioned Maggot Brain or November Hotel yet? :eek:

    we think alike, brother.
  • celebration
    celebration Posts: 318
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  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lY-KNvicrE

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


    nice of someone to mention the Milwaukee!!!


    looks like its studio GO, vs studio ALIVE...

    set up a poll anybody?
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  • bernmodi
    bernmodi Posts: 631
    Go, studio version: just amazing!
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uF4zYXzL_8

    GO!
    Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II, Sea I+II '24
  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    FrankieG wrote:
    I really love McCready's guitar solos during a concert.
    He is just so good at it, and it sounds perfect.

    What song do you think has his best solo in it?

    Name a specific boot or album if it really rocks.
    TODAY its PORCH from easy street. ohhhhhhh ho ho ho BAYYYBEEEEE!!!!!
    ~~~~~~ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD TIME~~~~~~
    Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
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  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    restlesssoul wrote:

    looks like its studio GO,
    mmmmmmm YES!!!!!!!!!!


    however, i nominate the one of a kind ALIVE solo that went down at the Hollywood Fonda :D
    ~~~~~~ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD TIME~~~~~~
    Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
    EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!

    "Pearl Jam fans are obsessed, they'd see the boys in HELL if tickets were sold."-CROJAM95

    It takes balls to put out a UKE album!
  • Evolution6579
    Evolution6579 Posts: 624
    All Or None - studio
    Nothing As It Seems - Benaroya
    November Hotel is pretty fucking awesome, too.

    I'd like to see Mike and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) do something together.
    Chicago 8-23-09

  • candleofthought
    candleofthought Posts: 897
    What! No love for GARDEN?
    There's alot to be said for Nowhere
  • Dogman3
    Dogman3 Posts: 330
    Alive.
  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    candleofthought wrote:
    What! No love for GARDEN?


    ooooh yeah, that gives me chills everytime. the soloing is sort of masked by eds voice at the end, but if you just listen to the guitar, my god. good call.
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  • Monkey Wrench
    Monkey Wrench Posts: 104
    This is a tough one. Please forgive me because I am not home with my collection to get the exact details but I'm going with a live version of Crazy Mary from ....if memory serves correctly a San Diego show.

    After the song and solo are done even Ed himself says something like "it's science I know .....but I just lit my cigarette on McCready's amp". Not an exact quote but something like that.

    That Solo is Gold Jerry, Gold, Gold I tell ya!
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