NB: I would like to begin this post by saying I’m pretty damn proud of myself for figuring out how to post links to Youtube videos that only contain the wee sections of the songs you’re meant to hear (not the whole song). What a time-saver. I am a tech wizard!
So.
I’ve been paying attention to the music at work, and noticing some pretty great solos in some of the songs. The world is full of great solo turns, of course, but these are just a few of those that have caught my ear as they emanate from the in-house system:
Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar (RIP Bobby Keys)
Spandau Ballet – True (OMG everything about this is so painfully 80s)
Huey Lewis and the News – The Heart Of Rock ’N Roll (I had to include the “Johnny! Ow!”)
Billy Joel – New York State Of Mind (returning here after also appearing in the piano solo post! I do love this song)
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You don’t like George Michael? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws
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I do like him, they just weren’t playing him at work at the time. Which, come to think of it, is odd. That stuff is everywhere 24/7…
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No kidding!
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CB is a card carrying Sax freak. Can make shit sound good. Yeah Bobby Keys is good on the Stones cut. So is Sonny Rollins on ‘Waiting For A Friend’. An all time fave. The solo on Joels song is perfect. I know these are random on your part which is cool.
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Yup totally random. I dig the sax. Some of my best friends were sax players (I doubt they still play, alas). Anyway, I still gravitate towards the trumpets, but that’s because I was one of the crazies in the back row waiting for that fff so we could blow up the room with volume heh heh heh…
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That’s funny. I’d be there with you. Trumpet wan’t an instant love for me but it is now.
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So much fun to play, very versatile. I played every instrument in the room over the five years I was in the band, but I always went back to the trumpet. It’s my spirit animal.
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You must go nuts with ll the good Jazz horn guys.
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Yup, for about as long as I can remember. It’s a beautiful world.
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I have zero complaints about seeing Billy in back-to-back posts!
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Me neither!
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Whenever sax solos are mentioned, I immediately think of the great Clarence Clemmons of Bruce Springsteen fame.
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Yeah! Funny, I haven’t heard the Boss at work in a while. Otherwise, it’d be here, most likely!
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And by Boss I meant Bruce Springsteen, not my boss. I have to listen to that guy.
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I knew that but that’s too bad you have to listen to the wrong ‘boss.’
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Nah, he’s alright. Understands I don’t wanna be micromanaged and leaves me to do my thing. I can dig it, and the work gets done.
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Good.
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It’s actually really good! When I was a manager, that’s how I did it – train the people, then trust them to do the thing and leave them alone. Be there when they need help. I always thought a manager that hovered and made a nuisance of themselves didn’t have enough to do in their own job.
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Just to say Brown Sugar night be one of the finest records ever made… that’s all I wanted to say
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Damn right!
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