Stanley Clarke - Schooldays (with Ray Gomez) Montreux 1977 

Ray Gomez..................what a incredible guitarist. It just shows you that great talent and great fame and fortune do not always go hand in hand.

Ray Gomez never got the recognition he deserved!

Awesome. Ray Gomez is one of the greatest most underrated guitarist. I saw them in 1977 at the Paladium in NYC. He blew me away. . These are the best musicians of their time

Ray Gomez. Wow. Only guy who can jump on stage, borrow Holdsworth's guitar, and steal the show. NYC 1988. Unforgettable.

Ray, one of the best guitarists in the world, yet still very much unknown.

Gomez is the reason I wanted to play, and did. Thanks Ray.

MONSTER OF GUITAR ...RAY GOMEZ

Raymond Gomez one of the best guitarists at that time for jazz rock. I wondered where he disappeared. Seen him live several times with Stanley Clarke.

Man Ray Gomez is 🔥🔥🔥

Fantastic musicianship from the whole band - great song too. Ray Gomez is incredibly underrated.

incredible what 4 strings in the right hands can do.

To this day you can’t find Ray Gomez on Wikipedia but I credit him as one of the musicians who made a major impact on my life and gave me sage advice on how to follow my dreams. Hope someday he reads this so he’ll know how much I appreciate him.

Most excellent stuff. I get flashbacks just looking at Ray's hair! the good old days, now.

Ray's solo is just so raw and intense....

I would have loved to see a side by side performance with Stanley and Jaco! MAN that would be a classic match.

I don't know a damn thing about a guitar or a bass but I believe these guys do! Absolutely mesmerizing.

Saw these guys at the Botton Line in NYC, one of the highlights of my young musical life.

I can just listen and listen to this classic

Ray just killed that guitar. He's got it

I saw stanley clarke as the opening act for bob marley and the wailers, 1979 in the old capital arena, both were magnificent, what performances, left there in a cloud of smoke...history.....

Saw them at the Orpheum theater in Boston mid 1980s what a show!

fantastic chemistry

Beasts Stanley Clarke and Ray Gomez on Guitar his playing is epic also another Guitarist I Loved he played with was Bill Conners

whoa... the stanley clark big band !!

Sensational!!!! Currently working on an album saluting Stanley and the late George Duke. Thanks for posting!!!!

Underrated as hell

What amazing beautiful piece of music ! ahead of its time for 1977 ! school days ! the record stores featured this record as a top seller !

Those were the DAZES of fusion 🔥

I just recently started listening to Ray Gomez and I'm really digging him!

Ray kills it!

Wow. Just wow. I just rewound this four times in a row to about 3:21. For myself, nothing is better than when a musician whose work you enjoy and admire and respect make it obvious to his audience that he's having a great time too. There's a similar moment at about 9:17. Stanley brings the whole band back into the main riff with both feet and as he does he watches to his right at Mr Gomez, and a grin pops up and you know they just absolutely nailed what they wanted to do... Thanks for the post

Thanks for posting, fantastic player, great instrumental.

Ray Gomez owning it!

Monsters at play.

Man mind blowing when I was in College and High School in the 70's

I've enjoyed Stanley Clarke's School Days album since music school in the 1980s. I always thought the guitarist was Icarus Johnson on this track based on the liner notes, and only for the last half dozen years or so have I known it was Ray Gomez. He is badass. Terrific. So emotional, fiery. Such a match for Stanley Clarke. I think I would have enjoyed seeing him like I took in Mike Stern at many live shows. More so maybe.

Exemplary showcase. This piece is still awesome, almost forty years later.

Woa! That wind section with piccolo trumpet!

9 minutes of this is not long enough! Wow!

Gerry Brown on drums!!

i love this because it felt just like my 70's school daze. Dont know if its the same for kids today because music today seems not be written not as an interpretive visceral soundtrack but as a fad.

this was an incredible time...

This is my favorite rendition of school days.. my second favorite is when Stanley played by George Duke👍👍

Ray is still here - lives between Spain and the USA - he has a new album out .. I will send you the link.

I like the change-up when the hornes all blew at 6:20

Incredibly underrated guitarist. I saw this lineup at the Hammersmith odeon London, Brand X supporting! 🤪

Extraordinary composition,melodic and beautiful then turns agressive and psychotic ,it fuckin rocks,great track.

Ray is my favorite guitar player now

Daaaamn that was excellent

Gerry Brown on drums. Gomez rocks!

they hit it OUT THE PARK on this one !!!!!

GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY !!!!!!

@phrygian3rd at 4.39 he really let´s everyone know what they are up against ... ! No pedals, no tricks ... sheer hardwork and immense talent.

I already know enough about guitar. I can't hear the keyboard good enough and the interplay of keyboard with Stanley Clarke. That's what I want to hear.

What ever happened to Ray? He was awesome!!

Not to those in the know. He's always been one of my very favorites.

Fabulous ✨

Excelentes músicos!

I was there that night!

Good stuff

I remember when FM rock stations had the guts to play this song.

Gerry Brown and Raymon Gomez. kill it. j . Blue

And this Ray Gomez

Fabulous stuff

2023

love the sequence starting from minute 6:00. minutes..... ahead. uhuuu cool

Don t forget the drummer, Gerry Brown , a great one !!!

King Ray - he´s so good. We just named him Jeff Beck Laughlin.

😍

Awsome!!!!

Fim de papo,, é muito bom

Ésto es pura caña, músicos de mucha calidad...

everyone: omg ray gomez is the best me: *literally just here for stanley clarke*

Gerry Brown on drums! ,!!

Hey thinking on it i seen this before years back but dam the sound great and i am checking this out year 2022

Mais qu'il est bon le niçois Ray gomez!!!!!!!

I think it is Ray Gomez and in fact .. I know ray Gomez and he thinks it´s him too. He he. That is most certainly the one and only Ray Gomez - there isn´t anybody else - then or now - who can do it like that.

I heard Stanley say that drummer Lenny White recommended Gomez to him. Stanley was going to have Jon McLaughlin play School Days on the album, but after hearing Gomez play it in the studio as great as Jon was/is he wanted to record Gomez for School Days....lol.

Still is awesome.

The Master of Bass..

Ray Gomez 👍👍👍

That strat is screaming.

I didn't know Doug Henning played the friggen keyboards too!

Wow thanks a whole lot now the sound man is good and he got some bad dudes as well

I could write this Comment on any music video on RU-vid: I'm so, so glad that the world's gone digital and international because it's now almost certain that everything uploaded will persist - in digital form - for ever. Somewhere. No need to worry about great artists like Zappa or Buddy Rich or Elli P being forgotten. [Hey, relax, I'm kidding!] The original recordings of performances and collections of rare vinyl may be lost in a fire; old tapes may be erased in error; Super 8 film footage may degrade or be hidden away by some jealous collector, but EVERYTHING that's great (and a lot that's not so great) is 'out there', somewhere - uploaded, downloaded, reproduced and stored in myriad forms. The past's secure in the future because it would be impossible to track down and destroy every instance of something once it's been set free. Yep, even my dodgy musical efforts. ;-)

Ray Gomez plays on Lenny White album Venusian Summer track Mating Drive check it out

@afrolisticks Yes that is Gerry Brown on drums. He and Stanley were in grade school together and beyond.

I want an Alembic period!

Ray Gomez plays like a god

OOOooohh Yeeeaaahhh!!!

The guitarist.

That's Ray Gomez all right - he has posted a pic of that blue strat on his facebook page recently.

I was to a S.Clark concert in Falkoner Theater in Copenhagen in the 70 also with G.Brown on drums, but i am wondering if it was the same group, anyway super concert.

Dear God In Heaven

ViVA Stanley Clarke com SchOOL Days !!

Ray Gomez amazing, there almost was a band which included Bill Bruford & Jeff Berlin, any recordings on their time together?

Classic. Stirring

Meaning in groups of 6this of course !

Jerry brown...does it !!

Interesting how Ray Gomez and Robben Ford have some similar looks, usually around the time they're leaving the planet for a few measures ;)