Greatest Elvis guitar riff!!

[Guest]

Never Been To Spain
James Burton
Feb. '72

[E-Cat]

Baby, Let's Play House - Like A Baby - It feels So Right - Guitar Man - Promissed Land.

[Erhan]

I'm Left You're Right She's Gone
Baby Let's Play House
M. Train
Hound Dog
Jailhouse Rock
One Night
Reconsider Baby
Little Sister
Guitar Man
Big Boss Man
J.B.Goode
Baby What Do You Want Me To Do (long improvised version) Elvis
I Can help
I Wash My Hand In Muddy Water
Merry Christmas Baby
Faded Love
Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On
Steamroller Blues
Promised Land
Way Down
Old Mac Donald

[JerryNodak]

None of those listed. My vote goes to "Too Much"--Scotty Moore.

[GIRL HAPPY BOY]

there are a lot:
the opening for the great studio hit: SUSPICIOUS MINDS 1969
AINT THAT LOVING YOU BABY 1958
READDY TEDDY 1956
ANYPLACE IS PARADISE 1956
DIRTY DIRTY FEELING 1960
LITTLE SISTER 1961
BIG BOSS MAN - 1967 this one is great, hard to play!
GUITAR MAN 1967
JOHNNY B. GOOD 1969 ( live + studio from 1970)
And finally there is a very good playing on the ROUSTABOUT song
sincerely
LIOR

[Pete Dube]

Two of the wildest solos on any Elvis record are the one's on Shake, Rattle & Roll. Scotty burns those suckers up!

[Robert]

James' solo during "Reconsider Baby" 21/2'77 rulez....

Cheers, RJ

[Narek]

Definitely Hound Dog

among other good moments that were not yet mentioned I like the opening riff in Slowly But Surely

[Erhan]

Definitely Hound Dog

among other good moments that were not yet mentioned I like the opening riff in Slowly But Surely

Scotty seems suffert from inexperience playing distortion guitar and pedal...

[KiwiAlan]

None of those listed. My vote goes to "Too Much"--Scotty Moore.

Fully agree here. It is probably the only one he improvised and didn't follow the lead sheet. Perhaps with exception of Hound Dog where he translated the Bell Boys horns.

[Matthew]

Definitely Hound Dog

among other good moments that were not yet mentioned I like the opening riff in Slowly But Surely

Scotty seems suffert from inexperience playing distortion guitar and pedal...

Are you so sure its Scotty playing that line in Slowly But Surely, doesn't sound like him.

[WildStyle]

If we are talking guitar solo's... Heartbreak Hotel or Hound Dog.

If we are talking riff's... Little Sister.

Most seem to be talking guitar solo's though.

[Jamie]

hi,

loads of goodies on here but I have always preferred Hank and JB to Scotty. I think Scotty was definately ahead of his time it's just that I listen to the 60 and 70's more than the 50's material.

Therefore, I would go for Hank's riff on Little Sister from the early 60's. Then I'm torn between Mystery Train/Tiger Man - great work not just in the solos but all though the track (listen to the last couple of verses). The break in What'd Say is awesome - JB must have been knackered after that!

I also like another two in particular, one already mentioned is Never Been To Spain Feb 72 - I just love the tone on this one (Memphis Blues Chords so a guitar playing friend of mine tells me). JB's work on the MSG evening show is also top notch. Finally, one not yet mentioned - Faded Love. The mix on the import "whole lotta shaking going on" has JB way up front and it is a great solo as Elvis gives him room to play. It doesn't come across so well on the Essential Elvis BMG release as he is a bit back in the mix.

cheers Jamie

[Erhan]

Definitely Hound Dog

among other good moments that were not yet mentioned I like the opening riff in Slowly But Surely

Scotty seems suffert from inexperience playing distortion guitar and pedal...

Are you so sure its Scotty playing that line in Slowly But Surely, doesn't sound like him.

No I'm not really sure he could be Jerry Kennedy or Grady Martin...

[Erhan]

hi,

loads of goodies on here but I have always preferred Hank and JB to Scotty. I think Scotty was definately ahead of his time it's just that I listen to the 60 and 70's more than the 50's material.

Therefore, I would go for Hank's riff on Little Sister from the early 60's. Then I'm torn between Mystery Train/Tiger Man - great work not just in the solos but all though the track (listen to the last couple of verses). The break in What'd Say is awesome - JB must have been knackered after that!

I also like another two in particular, one already mentioned is Never Been To Spain Feb 72 - I just love the tone on this one (Memphis Blues Chords so a guitar playing friend of mine tells me). JB's work on the MSG evening show is also top notch. Finally, one not yet mentioned - Faded Love. The mix on the import "whole lotta shaking going on" has JB way up front and it is a great solo as Elvis gives him room to play. It doesn't come across so well on the Essential Elvis BMG release as he is a bit back in the mix.

cheers Jamie

James Burton's style very minimalist so Eddie Hinton and Jerry Stembridge were playing guitars on "Faded Love" and "whole lotta shaking going on" recording not J.B...

[Jamie]

Erhan,

is that right? I was sure it was JB on Faded Love. It certainly sounded like it - I just thought it been given a bit more room to experiment with the break.

Jamie