Greatest Guitar Duet?

Found this greatest guitar solos thread

How about something by Bream and Williams? Try this one example for starters. I think it is from an old album called “Together”

Nao

Very nice, I’d vote for that.

How about this?

Does that count as a duet? :slight_smile:

I think Neil Finn and Tim Finn do some very good guitar duets together.

John McLaughlin and Paco DeLucia, playing “Frevo Rasgado” on the Friday Night in San Francisco CD.

Well, hard not to disagree with anything by John, Al and Paco. Elegant Gypsy remains at the head of my playlists. The only reason I didn’t nominate a tune from them is that I didn’t know whether they were all Trio pieces rather than duets.

But who is counting when the quality is so very good.

Nao

The “Frevo” piece is a duet, as is at least one other tune on the album. I was fortunate enough to see these guys on the tour they did for this album, and they did a fair amount of switching off…John and Paco, Al and Paco, Al and John, and of course lots with all three of them together.

It was a turnaround concert for me…I went in as a hardcore DiMeola fan, and left the show much more impressed with John and Paco.

Well Tom, it is probably our duty not to keep it to ourselves. So: admittedly a trio: but for the uninitiated, have a look at this: This is the trio “improvising” around one of their recorded works.

Nao

PS: Watch, for Paco breaks a string mid performance…doesn’t seem to bother him too much though!

Wailin’ video, Naomi…thanks for that link.

Here’s a decent duet featuring Al with Larry Coryell, working out on Chick Corea’s “Spain”.

And another duet, this time Paco and Larry kicking up a Mediterranean Sundance.

John Williams with Julian Bream are great together, but they totally ruin Cordoba when it’s the two of them. John Williams does it much better on his own.

Thanks for the video links in the above replies.
Awesome stuff, including the trio. If I’m allowed to hijack my own thread, (it was dying anyway) this is one of my all-time favorite music clips. Despite Tommy Smothers referring to it as “la guitarra grande,” you probably could not consider a stand-up bass, let alone drums, anything close to a guitar duet. Anyway, I get a huge kick out of it.