This is from his 1978 darkness tour,great solo,he is very underrated on guitar:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...mwjXjJsen8

thebanishedone said:

This is from his 1978 darkness tour,great solo,he is very underrated on guitar:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...mwjXjJsen8

Most who've never seen him live don't know that he can shred. He's said that, when he released his debut, locals were shocked that it contained virtually no lead guitar flash, as that's what he was known for.

Nobody writes songs like that any more. Not even Bruce.

You've lax standards, mate:

Bruce was not known as the fastest guitar player before he got famous

and that was not a great jazz rock guitar solo.

duccichucka said:

thebanishedone said:

Bruce said that he was known as the fastest player in Jersey.

Yup. Apparently was known as the fastest gun on the Asbury scene.

thebanishedone said:

duccichucka said:

You've lax standards, mate:

Bruce was not known as the fastest guitar player before he got famous

and that was not a great jazz rock guitar solo.

Bruce said that he was known as the fastest player in Jersey. And this solo is jazz rock oriented just like the song itself

Bollocks.

And you've managed to change your tune in the process. You've gone

from Bruce was the fastest guitar player and he played a great jazz rock solo

to he was the fastest guitar player in NJ and that his solo was jazz rock oriented.

I highly doubt that Springsteen was the fastest guitar player in NJ at any point

when he's only four or five years older than Al Di Meola, for example. And that guitar

solo in the Youtube clip is mostly re-stating the original melody of the composition;

that is hardly the grounds for having a great jazz rock guitar solo: he played nothing

musically interesting.

Springsteen is a great singer/songwriter who can handle rhythm guitar well. But

you got stars in your eyes if you think he's playing a great jazz rock guitar solo here or

fits the bill for superlative jazz rock guitar playing.

If you want a great jazz rock guitar solo, google "John McLaughlin" and simply choose

any of the videos that pop up!

Doesn't matter whether Bruce is the fastest or the flashiest guitar player. What matters is the fact that he is a very solid and competent guitar player and those who didn't get to witness it live missed out on a treat.

purplethunder3121 said:

Doesn't matter whether Bruce is the fastest or the flashiest guitar player. What matters is the fact that he is a very solid and competent guitar player and those who didn't get to witness it live missed out on a treat.

Well said and I agree.

I just couldn't let Springsteen, with a guitar out of tune, basically playing the melody

of a jazz influenced song for a solo go down on this thread as an example of him playing

a great jazz rock guitar solo period.

The baddest musician in the Asbury Park scene during this time wasn't Bruce; it was

David Sancious.

duccichucka said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Doesn't matter whether Bruce is the fastest or the flashiest guitar player. What matters is the fact that he is a very solid and competent guitar player and those who didn't get to witness it live missed out on a treat.

Well said and I agree.

I just couldn't let Springsteen, with a guitar out of tune, basically playing the melody

of a jazz influenced song for a solo go down on this thread as an example of him playing

a great jazz rock guitar solo period.

The baddest musician in the Asbury Park scene during this time wasn't Bruce; it was

David Sancious.

Maybe, but I don't have any David Sancious and the E Street Band records in my collection!

I do have some records where David was IN the E Street Band though.

RodeoSchro said:

duccichucka said:

Well said and I agree.

I just couldn't let Springsteen, with a guitar out of tune, basically playing the melody

of a jazz influenced song for a solo go down on this thread as an example of him playing

a great jazz rock guitar solo period.

The baddest musician in the Asbury Park scene during this time wasn't Bruce; it was

David Sancious.

Maybe, but I don't have any David Sancious and the E Street Band records in my collection!

I do have some records where David was IN the E Street Band though.

I know what you are trying to get at (and it's a really bad argument by the way*) but

any Bruce Springsteen fan's record collection without David Sancious's own solo work

is lacking. Sancious's influence is all over the first couple of Bruce Springsteen and

the E Street Band's releases!

*Just because David Sancious wasn't fronting those early E Street Band outfits doesn't

mean that he wasn't the most respected musician in the Asbury Park scene. It is possible

that he did not want to go around as David Sancious and the E Street Band.

duccichucka said:

RodeoSchro said:

Maybe, but I don't have any David Sancious and the E Street Band records in my collection!

I do have some records where David was IN the E Street Band though.

I know what you are trying to get at (and it's a really bad argument by the way*) but

any Bruce Springsteen fan's record collection without David Sancious's own solo work

is lacking. Sancious's influence is all over the first couple of Bruce Springsteen and

the E Street Band's releases!

*Just because David Sancious wasn't fronting those early E Street Band outfits doesn't

mean that he wasn't the most respected musician in the Asbury Park scene. It is possible

that he did not want to go around as David Sancious and the E Street Band.

duccichucka said:

duccichucka said:

I highly doubt that Springsteen was the fastest guitar player in NJ at any point

when he's only four or five years older than Al Di Meola, for example.

He never claimed to be "the fastest guitar player in NJ". He was referring, specifically, to the scene in Asbury Park, at the time.

Ace said:

duccichucka said:

I highly doubt that Springsteen was the fastest guitar player in NJ at any point

when he's only four or five years older than Al Di Meola, for example.

He never claimed to be "the fastest guitar player in NJ". He was referring, specifically, to the scene in Asbury Park, at the time.

Springsteen aint shit.

thebanishedone said:

This is from his 1978 darkness tour,great solo,he is very underrated on guitar:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...mwjXjJsen8

thebanishedone said:

Ace said:

He never claimed to be "the fastest guitar player in NJ". He was referring, specifically, to the scene in Asbury Park, at the time.

Hey Ace that is not the point here Ducichuka just wants to degrade my posts as invalid,empty stories

Banished, yours are fanboy posts obviously written by someone

who has Bruce stars in their eyes.

And I just wanted to clarify what you were saying:

1). Bruce Springsteen may have been the fastest player in the Asbury Park

scene at some point but he was overall a competent guitarist

2). The jazz rock guitar solo played by Springsteen in the Youtube clip is

simply a solo built upon revoicing the melody from the song Springsteen is

playing - it's hardly "great." What makes listening to this particular solo

worse is that Springsteen's guitar is out of tune!

3). Bruce Springsteen is a competent musician but the musician who was better

respected during his Asbury Park heyday was multi-instrumentalist David

Sanscious.

4). I've mentioned Al Di Meola as an example of a Jersey born and bred jazz

rock guitarist whose playing gives one a better chance to listen to a "great jazz

rock guitar solo" before Bruce Springsteen does.

Co-sign. David Sancious is a beast on the guitar. And we already know about Al Dimeola.

Bruce would probably be the 1st to admit he's not much of a lead guitarist. But some of the little things I've heard him do were pretty cool. I always dug his "Tele gone haywire" tone.