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A Very Personal Appreciation â Whenever someone would ask me what my favorite guitar solo was (itâs happened more often than you think), I would instead point them to the song âTokinâsâ on the album Number 5 from The Steve Miller Band, and tell them to listen closely to the guitar player. The guitarist gets no solo in this song. He opens the song with a strong identifying lick, and then disappears for the verses, returning to play guitar fills on the four choruses. But what fills! My definition of a great guitar solo has three components: you should not be able to anticipate what the next note will be; the next note should sound perfectly right as if it was the only real possibility; and listening to it should put a smile on your face. This guitar playing meets all three of those, plus every note is struck clean and bright. This, I tell my questioner, is musicianship of the highest caliber.
The guitarist on Tokinâs was Wayne Moss. We lost Wayne Moss on April 20. I learned this when I saw his obituary headlined on the home page of The New York Times online. Unbeknownst to me, Wayne Moss was, as Times put it, a âmember of Nashvilleâs A-Team of first-call studio musicians,â as well as being a prolific producer. He played on âPretty Womanâ, âJoleneâ and many other Dolly Parton songs, and Bob Dylanâs âI Want Youâ, to name just a few. While it is always sad to lose a great musician, we are so fortunate to live in a time when recorded music exists and is plentiful, so that their music will always be with us.
Now go and listen to âTokinâsâ, and see if youâre not smiling by the end of the song.
A Very Personal Appreciation â Whenever someone would ask me what my favorite guitar solo was (itâs happened more often than you think), I would instead point them to the song âTokinâsâ on the album Number 5 from The Steve Miller Band, and tell them to listen closely to the guitar player. The guitarist gets no solo in this song. He opens the song with a strong identifying lick, and then disappears for the verses, returning to play guitar fills on the four choruses. But what fills! My definition of a great guitar solo has three components: you should not be able to anticipate what the next note will be; the next note should sound perfectly right as if it was the only real possibility; and listening to it should put a smile on your face. This guitar playing meets all three of those, plus every note is struck clean and bright. This, I tell my questioner, is musicianship of the highest caliber.
The guitarist on Tokinâs was Wayne Moss. We lost Wayne Moss on April 20. I learned this when I saw his obituary headlined on the home page of The New York Times online. Unbeknownst to me, Wayne Moss was, as Times put it, a âmember of Nashvilleâs A-Team of first-call studio musicians,â as well as being a prolific producer. He played on âPretty Womanâ, âJoleneâ and many other Dolly Parton songs, and Bob Dylanâs âI Want Youâ, to name just a few. While it is always sad to lose a great musician, we are so fortunate to live in a time when recorded music exists and is plentiful, so that their music will always be with us.
Now go and listen to âTokinâsâ, and see if youâre not smiling by the end of the song.
I just heard Summer Breeze yesterday on my smooth sounds station and was wondering which one had passed before. I guess theyâre both gone now. I still have their album in my basement.
To Dash.
I think Hummingbird is my personal favorite, and back in the daze they were definitely one on my favs.
