Mystical, Timeless Guitar Arrangements

[Hootad Binky]

The thread about "dated"-sounding albums got me thinking about how a guitar can articulate a melody and create a mood if arranged properly into a timeless sound.

Here's one example:

"Hynotized" by Fleetwood Mac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg4KMEg34Jc

Super clean jazz guitar (sort of a Wes Montgomery arrangement) with the cool vocals of Bob Welch (remember "Ebony Eyes" and "Sentimental Lady"?) plus Nicks/McVie on backing vocals. Nice!

Other candidates:

Don't Fear the Reaper
Blue Grass and High Tides
Cinnamon Girl
Do You Feel Like We Do?
I Will Follow (U2)
Uncle Salty (Aerosmith)

[Mudder]

Riders on the Storm. It's easy for me to close my eyes and drift with that song.

[rwe333]

Robert Fripp's melody on "Starless" from King Crimson's Red.
John McLaughlin playing the melody for "In a Silent Way" on the Miles Davis of the same name.
Jeff Beck on so many things...
Tons of Brian May...

[Kalalau Hiker]

Tony Williams Lifetime w Larry Young and McLaughlin

mystical AND timeless as it was free form, arranged by the listenong improv capacity of 3 masters, time went ALL over the place in multi polyrhythms, and took you where you'd never been before

"Where Do I come from".... amazing

[aram]

Subterranean Homesick Alien


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byN3JDPoJRo

[rwe333]

...'course there's John Abercrombie's appropriately titled Timeless ECM debut...

[daddyo]

The thread about "dated"-sounding albums got me thinking about how a guitar can articulate a melody and create a mood if arranged properly into a timeless sound.

Here's one example:

"Hynotized" by Fleetwood Mac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg4KMEg34Jc

Super clean jazz guitar (sort of a Wes Montgomery arrangement) with the cool vocals of Bob Welch (remember "Ebony Eyes" and "Sentimental Lady"?) plus Nicks/McVie on backing vocals. Nice!

Other candidates:

Don't Fear the Reaper
Blue Grass and High Tides
Cinnamon Girl
Do You Feel Like We Do?
I Will Follow (U2)
Uncle Salty (Aerosmith)
Great song. But Nicks didn't sing on it, just McVie.

[arfalax]

The thread about "dated"-sounding albums got me thinking about how a guitar can articulate a melody and create a mood if arranged properly into a timeless sound.

Here's one example:

"Hynotized" by Fleetwood Mac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg4KMEg34Jc

Super clean jazz guitar (sort of a Wes Montgomery arrangement) with the cool vocals of Bob Welch (remember "Ebony Eyes" and "Sentimental Lady"?) plus Nicks/McVie on backing vocals. Nice!

Other candidates:

Don't Fear the Reaper
Blue Grass and High Tides
Cinnamon Girl
Do You Feel Like We Do?
I Will Follow (U2)
Uncle Salty (Aerosmith)


Green Grass and High Tides is probably what you were referring to, great song.

The guitar interplay of Wagner/Hunter and the overall experience of the Intro to Sweet Jane seems like a candidate to me.

[Kalalau Hiker]

...'course there's John Abercrombie's appropriately titled Timeless ECM debut...

totally beautiful song .....classic

[Strat335]

Thanks for posting this, I always loved that album! Crap, now I need to find it and buy the CD. lol

[Thwap]

Trower-Bridge of Sighs

[Kalalau Hiker]

for subtlety
In a Silent Way

group spontaneous "arranging" ... Bitches Brew

complexity and dynamics
Mahavishnu Inner Mounting flame LP
Chicks RTF ... Hymn of Seventh Galaxy

[TieDyedDevil]

John Abercrombie: Timeless

[Mudder]

Trower-Bridge of Sighs
Great song, I always stop what I'm doing when it comes on. Check out the cover by Opeth, respectable.

[harvestmark]

"Diamond Dust" from Jeff Beck's "Blow By Blow".

Mark Miller