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Me jamming to Saint stephen from "Live Dead". I also add a little improv here and there just to juice things up, but im no jerry :P
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Me and Ben jammin The Jerry Garcia Band version of Tore up over You.... The solo's are done by yours truly.... haha... enjoy!

my continuing effort to learn, play and video log Guitar World magazine's top 100 guitar solos of all time.

Now I can't shit on Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead (I like The Grateful Dead) but I WILL shit on the editors of Guitar World Magazine. I seriously don't know why this song is included on the list. There's no solo in it. There's lots of guitar (3 in fact) and lots of little licks here and there, but there's NO solo per say. I personally would call them "fills" because that's exactly what they are, guitar fills. not solos.

Now there are solos on this list that are not difficult and that's fine. They're iconic. Everybody knows them, they are part of a hit song that everybody knows. I don't think one could put Truckin' in that category either. Truckin' was never a "hit" though it is one of The Grateful Dead's more famous songs. The guitar fills that Jerry Garcia disperses throughout the song are not famous as far as I can tell. It's pretty basic blues licks. Nothing that really sets it apart from thousands of other songs with little blues lick fills throughout. I'm really puzzled over this one. Didn't really know what to do with it at first.

Then I figured that I'd go all in on it. Play every one of them until they stop at about the 3:30 mark of the song. I figure that should cover the "solo" aspect of it. The backing track that I used didn't have any guitars on it, so I put them all down. Acoustic, blues riffs and the main with the licks. The backing track musically was great but I can't say much for the dude singing Bob Weir's part. A bit shaky at times to say the least.

So basically Truckin' is a blues song in E major. The majority of the licks are E major pentatonic with a few following the chord changes to A and B. Like I said, it's pretty basic stuff. Nothing too complicated here. Now don't get me wrong, I actually like this song very very much. One of my favorite Dead tunes. I just don't personally feel it should be on a list of the Top 100 guitar solos of all time, but hey, that's just me. I can't agree with them all.

Until next time...

Again, thank's for checking out the list and following along. I'm having a blast with it.