HOW TO PLAY STRAY CAT BLUES ROLLING STONES SOLO

[@GuitarPilgrim]

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[@simondavis942]

The whole album is insanely great guitar playing

[@kdavis63]

Mick is out of this world. His solo on Love in Vain from 72 is crazy so good. Mahalo for the great lesson.

[@tacticalix]

My God. i was JUST watching this documentary and thought the SAME thing. His solos on this song are nothing short of mesmerizing. I watch it multiple times every time. I think he was (actually) TOO good for the Stones. By far their best guitarist. I think it ate away at Keith....and Mick actually (through Taylor's SHEER playing ability) outshined the 'other Mick'. When he played HE was the star. And the one that 'moved like Brown' didn't like that and he and Keith just made it abundantly clear that the REAL loyalty was between them, Charlie and Bill. AND they didn't want to give him any writing credits....resulting in Keith and Mick being worth half a Billion and Mick virtually nothing today. Wow.

[@chiefline7084]

When the Stones finally do their last live gig Mick Taylor better be invited to play a song or two. Just wouldn’t be right without him being on stage

[@gusdogbrownlab435]

For me probably the best of the Stone's stuff had Mick Taylor in it

[@paullavallee1631]

You are getting fantastic tones out of that Tele

[@stormymunday9836]

MT had total knowledge of the fretboard. He could weave in and out of major and minor pentatonics (his solo on "Sympathy") and he was master of soloing from one end of the neck to the other (most guitarists merely start over when they run out at one end). I have many live Stones recordings with MT and he seldom played the same solo twice (even on two shows on the same day).

[@haysfordays]

I've heard some bootlegs that we're literally some of the best guitar playing I've ever heard. He had moments where he was scary good. Good point about his fretboard knowledge. He was fierce all-around.

[@stormymunday9836]

@@haysfordays Yes, I have many also and his work on "Gimme Shelter", "Midnight Rambler" and "YCAGWYW" is incredible (especially the '73 Tour. Like Johnny Winter, he never plays the same solo twice, even on the afternoon and evening (same date) shows.

[@Boerikoe]

Mick Taylor took the stones to a level that they have never returned to again after he left them. He put SOUL into their work. Harmony, melodious, sweeping you up and taking you with on a soothing and wonderful trip.....

[@scottythetrex5197]

His playing on the 72 tour was even better. As was Keith's rhythm playing. The two were an insane combination. I think the best lead/rhythm team ever.

[@CraigHollabaugh]

Ah the ol' Clapton double stop, you gotta love it. Thanks GP, now back to Ya Ya.

[@TrapperJohn72]

This is the Stones at their peak.

[@agold1702]

That album and that song are forever buried in my bones. Thanks for breaking this down.

[@stevet.4974]

I havent played in 2 months, been thinking of what to do upon re-entry. Living inside the Get yer Ya yas out with headphones sounds like a great option, thanks for reminding me of it.

[@sapelesteve]

Yet another fantastic guitar riff that I had forgotten about. Thanks Thom for keeping the musical past alive and well! Hope that all is well with you & your family! 👍👍🎸🎸👏👏

[@SunsetSamurais]

"Yeah ! Man ! Mick Taylor's Solo's On Stray Cat Blues Off Of Get Yer Ya Ya's Out By The Stones Is My Very Favorite Song & It Is Definitely My Most Favorite Album For Sure ! Excellent Lesson My Brother !"

[@frankvaleron]

For me Mick Taylors finest moment is the solo on Sweetheart like you by Bob Dylan

[@pheldge8806]

Hi, I remember listening to the vinyl LP back in the 70 ' when I wad a teenager, and the guitar was very audible, this solo was magic and still is to me, and it shows the brillance of Mick Taylor ... maybe it got remastered

[@gregyoung9757]

That’s fantastic. I learnt to play guitar by listening to the Keith Richards parts of that album. I loved Mick Taylor’s parts but couldn’t work most of them out! There’s an interesting video clip of Keith & Jimi Hendrix back stage at Madison Square Gardens on one the nights that album was recorded.

[@mikeberg5003]

The start of that solo is very reminiscent of the lead at the end of Sway

[@HanWinters]

Leuk man, aandacht voor de Stones en best album ever! En uitmuntend gitaarspel en lesje wederom!🙂

[@gravl1]

Mick’s solo in Sympathy on this record is epic. The greatest long-form solo ever recorded.

[@carlmasiello3879]

I like kefs too I feel it

[@tommym321]

Your touch and intonation on this song is second to none. How the hell can I even get close? I’m trytrying and I’m not a beginner at sll

[@edwardcornish5086]

The American 69 tour when they were back from a long time of not gigging, and needed to prove themselves again, had changed from Brian Jones to Mick Taylor and were just the five of them on stage, was the best they ever were!

[@ale74511]

Fantastic class and sound

[@tommybotts]

Stray Cat Blues came way before Sweet Home Alabama....

[@nicolasmouton9209]

thanks so much for your lessons

[@123jkjk123]

Yes, a lot of the riffs are not that unique individually, but it's the way MT shifts between the different pentatonic scales that makes it so good. On this it looks to me like you start on Cm then go to Gm and finish up on DMajor.

[@CitizenofMelee]

You just made me want to go back and re-examine some old Stones.

[@cripzrus]

Can you do us The Bear from John Mayalls Laurel Canyon. One of my all time favourite Mick Taylor works.

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Thank you for the suggestion. I will take a look.

[@corkleijn4493]

Awesome!

[@martonjancsak]

Mick is a beast. And soo freaking underrated.

[@DQSoft]

"It sounds familiar..." glad to see I was not going crazy!

[@chiefline7084]

Yah but this was before Sweet Home wasn’t it?

[@jonnybeck6723]

Love your Tele

[@1francemi]

Bravo! Sei un ricercatore veramente in gamba. Possiedo l'album di Mick del 79, amo tanto " Slow Blues" ...quegli accordi e la melodia . Ciao

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Grazie!

[@BobMunzing]

Always enjoy your videos. But you touched on a pet peeve of mine with the Sweet Home Alabama riff. Ed King played the riff after the G starting with an A#, not an A.

[@vanniniguto314]

The 73' Brussels Affair recordings shows Mick Taylor and Bobby Keys at the best era of the stones.

[@oddshot60]

Can You Play THIS lick? I wonder if you play the James Burton lead electric guitar intro, solo and fills from the Judy Collins version of Someday Soon as found on the studio album Who Knows Where the Time Goes? NOT the Buddy Emmons Steel parts ... a LOT of vids out there on that ... but NOBODY on YT has ever done the James Burton stuff. That is a shame because this tune REALLY helped to get Country Rock rolling back in the day. I'll keep asking.

[@skintslots]

I thought the riff you played sounded more like Fire and Rain by James Taylor than Lynryd Skynryd personally.

[@grubbetuchus]

Well, thank you for noticing. Yes, he's the best and you dissected just a tiny slice of what he does that's so beautiful to the guitar. On the ":country lick", I would suggest a "bend and hold", keep the G string bent a whole note while you grab the notes on the E and B strings with your index finger on the E string and your pinky grabbing the note on the B string, and then do a declension on the G string (unbend that note that you have kept bent, hence the "bend and hold"). Clapton is a toad. He doesn't come close to Taylor. Taylor has a wide variety of vibratos, one of them being a really nice butterfly vibrato. He's the opposite of the oft-played spasticated vibrato, yuck to those'

[@tacticalix]

Also reminds me of 'Your Time Is Gonna Come' by Zeppelin.

[@idolhanz9842]

The entire 1969 gimme shelter movie soundtrack and the extras found on the dvd mostly, not the bluray release. ..

[@tommym321]

1:09

[@robertgrisanti]

You have an interesting accent where are you from ? Really like your videos and like your playing a lot -

[@Chevelle602]

That sounds is also " Your time is gonna come" Led Zeppelin I

[@tommym321]

I’ve been working on this riff for weeks, and I am not a beginner. When playing the second chord (the C chord) I cannot seem to get the D string to ring out when I have the C note on the A string fretted; my ring finger is always causing the D string to go dead. Frustrating.

[@georgebetts5567]

Very very similar to Old Man

[@tacticalix]

THAT'S (to this day) what Mick and Keith did to Mick Taylor....'buried him in the background'....and now haven't compensated him fairly for being a CORNERSTONE in some of the Stones' best work. UN-denibly.

[@karlwanninger7675]

Taylor is playing more or less the solo Keith Richards recorded on "Beggars Banquet". Btw, "Straycat Blues" was published 1968, "Sweet Home..." came out in 1974, if someone copied the musical idea...

[@Orwell_2984]

THE great time of The Rolling Stones !!!!...after and now...🙄

[@ignacioernesto]

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[@stratman9449]

Mick Taylor had all the talent AND opportunities in the world back then....but then he just "faded" away......and left the "stage"......shame really...but hey...it'S his life.