Here´s to aging gracefully, growing as a person, and still shining as a super cool dude and incredible musician...thanks for the inspiration and the music, Larry!
Indeed. When he sadly passes away (as we all will), I will feel deeply because this man is easily one of my favorite musicians (and human beings for that matter). Carlton's mind and soul is just so beautiful.
I had the pleasure of meeting Larry in Indianapolis once… he was with Robben Ford and his son was playing bass that night. He was such a nice relaxed and humble guy… he made the entire experience of meeting a “guitar hero” fantastic. I’ll never forget that!
You, never heard 'Country Boy' by Albert Lee? You never heard of 'Brown Eyed Handsome Man' by Buddy Holly. Wow! Now that's what ya call real guitar playing. And Oh! Check out 'Warming up the Band' by Heads, Hands and Feet' Wow! Wow! and Wow!!!
@@kevincasson9848 Ah, I see you're doubling down on continuing your demonstration of just how desperately illiterate, brutish and toothless a hick you are. Yikes! And now, thanks to your reaction, it occurs to me that a component of your brutishness is your shameful lack of self-awareness.🐽
Sometimes a musician feels like a tightrope walker and the audience can't wait to see them slip. I still have a circa 1980 Guitar Player magazine with Larry on the cover.
How many guitarists are so good that they might be able to stake their entire career or be known for a handful of timeless, brilliant solos. With Kid Charlemagne and Don't Take Me Alive, Carlton did this. He is truly one of, if not the best, rock/jazz fusion guitarists of all time.
@@petestanton1945 : about Hendrix, the Voodoo Child/blues version of 14:55 min is by far his best one. Page did a lot of way more interesting solos than Stairway. Clapton? C'mon, everybody plays better than him. Maybe should you start listening to prog-rock solos, e.g. Fripp's on "The Night Watch" or Steve Howe on "Nous Sommes du Soleil", not even speaking about what Holdsworth did while in UK (the band). I have huge respect for Larry, as well as for Hendrix ot Page... But if you believe these are the greatest guitar solos of all times, your ears assuredly didn't went further than listening to the mainstream on FM radios in your car. When it comes to Eric... Well, he's truly a nice bloke with great culture and a lot of humour, you can talk about everything with him, except about guitar. He once asked the Mahavishnu for guitar lessons, since John gave guitar lessons to Page, Blackmore, etc etc: John declined, despite being offered huge money: Eric is hopeless...
Saw Larry at the Troubadour in Las Vegas in the early 80s. Small venue, itty bitty stage and packed with people. We were sitting so close to the stage I could have reached out and touched him. I just remember watching his hands the entire time. One of the best concert-going experiences of my life.
I was about 9 or 10 when Aja came out. Loved Josie, Peg, and the rest of the album.. It wasn't until years later in my 20's when I started going through Steely Dan's back catalog. The Royal Scam is hard to beat, and so is LC's playing.
A good number of distinguished guitar players consider the Kid Charlamagne solo the best solo ever recorded. ... But you could say that about all kinds of Larry Carlton solos.
@@chrispaul9068 When I was 16 I bought a guitar and I actually managed to learn it by ear pretty quickly (albeit without LC's feel of course). But I could never suss the outro! So, 30 years later I guess I could still probably play it up until that point😉
Saw him at the Playboy Jazz Festival in his first concert after his mugging in the 1980's. I have never seen any performer have a better time playing his music in my life. The sheer joy on his face was inspiring and I have been a huge fan ever since.
I saw Larry Carlton play in Vegas a few years ago. It was like I died and went to heaven. It was the most wonderful experience that I've ever going to concerts! It was a small venue. The sax player from Joe Bonamassa's band sat in that night. It was truly like watch Art being perform in front of your eyes. Thanks Larry!!!
Been listening to this extreme talent for 4 decades and he never ever lets my ears and musical soul down. KC solo REALLY is up there with the very best. Early Crusaders stuff with Sample is just pure magic.
@@garylove5475 I know Joe was the premier keyboardist on Aja. When that came out, I was a big Crusaders fan and when I heard the keyboard solo on "Black Cow," I said man that sure sounds like Joe Sample. I saw the Crusaders twice, without LC and saw LC and his band at a Newport Jazz festival in the 90's. Great show also. How time flies.
@@garylove5475 Yeah, Joe is one of my favorites also. I've heard of Oscar Peterson but never really listened to him. I'll have to check him out. Another Steely Dan tidbit, even sax man from the Crusaders, Wilton Felder played bass on their song Doctor Wu. As far as Aja goes, there is some debate that Victor Feldman played the Fender Rhodes and Joe, the clavinet. Once you hear the solo on Black Cow, you know it's Joe. I know, I have a lot of time on my hands.-lol Larry did a lot of work with Steely. "Don't Take Me Alive" is one of my favorite solo intro's to a song. He owned "The Royal Scam."
I saw the incomparable Larry Carlton in the early 90's in concert in Winston Salem. One of those concerts you always remember. What a classy guy! 'Kid Charlemagne' remains my favorite solo/outro period!
I love learning SD songs! This iconic song will challenge the best of us, that's for sure! Larry is an inspiration to all guitarists! Keep jamming Bro!
My funny story with this is, I fell in love with this solo years ago (30 years) fast forward to 2020... I loved LC from jazz stations never knowing he was the guitarist I fell 30 yrs ago for...damn, sounds beautiful ❤️
Larry Carlton has been an inspiration for 45 years and counting because of his true brilliance. Master of tone, taste, passion, musical knowledge......
The original solo is probably one of the best melodic guitar solos of all time, sadly his work with Joni Mitchell is even better but few people even realize he played some of his best work on Joni' early albums like Court & Spark.
Fantastic. Thank you so much for posting this. Larry is just a sensational person, musician and guitarist. There are but a handful of people on the planet that can conceive such epic musical ideas on the fly, under the pressure of being in a studio and then delivering such a jaw-dropping solo that could break AI.
This is genius at work! I don't think I could re-play a solo note for note I'd done so long ago...least of all with an elevated sense of brilliance as did Mr. Carlton! Simply awesome!!
Absolutely beautiful stuff. Mr. Carlton made the lofty Steely Dan cut back in the day and still has it!!! Thank you LC and FRD for sharing this amazing performance.
Always great to see a top musician at work and working it great. Glad i found this channel. Hopefully there's by this top guitarist more of this great Steely dan sound by this great guitarist.
You could tell at the end his spirit was loosed when he was removed from the constraints of playing verbatim. The man's a jazz musician not a parrot! ;) Loved this to bits and thanks, Larry for recreating one of the worlds greatest rock/jazz solos!
Legend. TBH tho, hearing him nail the solo is emotionally satisfying but hearing him free form on the outro is better for me! The solo is pure magic from an iconic moment in time and it will only ever be a reliving of that iconic moment. On the outro there’s room to play, room to feel, room to explore, and room to discover and that can be fresh and iconic every time!!!!
This performance was in ATX wss there with my wife and friends. Incredible performance from Larry and all the band. All incredible musicians! Larry said I brought the A team and he sure did.
An amazing guitarist??? Sorry just can't see it!! It bored me to death, it really did!. Din't want to be rude, however, could be that i just can't stand the song!.. An Albert Lee, or Eric Clapton he aint!!
@@kevincasson9848 And yet for some reason you felt "compelled" to "respond". Could you play this solo? There's a reason he has been one of the top session guitarists for many, many years.
Saw Larry in 78' or '79 - when his first solo album came out - in a little (and legendary) club at Syracuse University called The Jab. I was in the first row, about 6 feet from Larry. Maybe the most blazing couple of hours of guitar I ever witnessed. Powerful, melodic, tasty, burning. He played with a fire back then then he could sadly never recapture after he was shot during a robbery in his home. But Larry Carlton at his best was as good as these ears ever heard, and these eyes ever saw.
It’s pretty cool to see Larry playing his Sire H7 guitar. These are really affordable instruments! Just goes to show you don’t need to break the bank to play professionally
Indeed. When they announced this I thought he'd play one for one song live for the contractual obligation. Gotta give him credit for putting his money where his mouth is on these.
Very cool. Some years back when I went to see Steely Dan on tour, I re-familiarized myself with all the original albums and Royal Scam really stood out because it is dominated by Larry's guitar, and it's so rare than any of the session guys end up on more than one song. A far lesser known tune but with a very cool guitar by Larry is Everything You Did. I have messed with music my whole life but I'm currently a 64 year old beginner on guitar. Watching this video it looks so easy, I assure you it is not! I have learned tons about guitar and theory, and name about any chord and I can find it - if you give me 15 minutes. Ok 15 seconds maybe. But in terms of actually playing a song, there really aren't any. A horn player's approach to guitar... lol.
My favorite L Carlton concert, that I regularily listen to, incidentally happenned here in France, not too far from where we live . " Jazz a Vienne "With His son a Young organ player and a black drummer It s very very very nice✌️💝 not many performances have thé ability , like this one, to squeeze out some of my tears
I was at that Steely Dan show in LA that he talks about. It was 8/25/09. I was really excited to hear the solo that night since it’s one of my favorites and I didn’t know he was going to be there. I was actually pretty surprised and disappointed, but he is human after all. It’s interesting to hear him talk about it.
Nice! I saw him do this in Oakland a couple of weeks before this show and it was not too shabby either. Jake Cinninger also did it justice when I saw Umphrey's McGee cover Kid Charlemagne.
His solo in Kid charl. was what got me interested in Steely Dan though they had hits before that especially when Skunk Baxter was in the band and his playing. When he started his solo career I 1st heard him on an early morning jazz show, and bought his cassettes and it wasn't until I read an article on him that I knew he was the one who played on Kid and a studio musician they hired. We are still lucky to have him and lets not forget he once got shot in his own home by an intruder!
This video has very very special meaning to me since I was granted permission to meet Mr Larry C backstage prior to the show and sign my Sire H7 guitar, which is the model he is using here. Normally I am not nervous about this type of encounter but I was both enthused and nervous and probably sounded like a bumbling idiot during my few precious minutes with him. Such a nice guy and if I had to be on an island alone and could take music with me, his collection and Pat Metheny's would be all I need...oh yeah, and my Larry C 335 model!
My uncle Joe played ball for the LA Angels in the 60's and a bunch of the players would go hear Larry play.. I was fresh out of the Marine Corps and he asked me if I knew of Larry Carlton...Of course I didn't yet know...I was getting familiar with all the current heavy hitting rock and blues rock stuff... Larry did open my eyes and ears when I became familiar with his music
I had the opportunity to see Larry in Las Vegas several years back. I actually thought I was buying a ticket to see Larry Coryell. Best mistake I ever made. What a phenomenal musician guitarist. His version of the Lords Prayer on the guitar left a lasting impression on my soul. He and Tommy Emmanuel are the two best guitarists in the world in my humble opinion. If you get a chance to see either player don't miss it.
It seems so weird seeing him play a sire, although inspired by the '69 gibby, I went and found a '68 es 335 like Larry's back in 1980 after I heard his first solo album. He's been there as an inspiration for some 45 years and still is rocking!