As I've said many times here on youtube,, Larry's the MOST unique guitarist in the world! Fact! I've heard hundreds of players, literally, but no one else gives me the goosebumps! That,, is first and foremost, his reason for playing, he's admitted so in interviews! We are all blessed in this world, and it's so much better with Larry to thrill us! He delivers the shivers!
Really, I don't know wtf you all are going on about. He gets Kid Charlemagne mostly right, but in Don't Take Me Alive he skips ahead a couple measures and gets hopelessly crossed up, and just never recovers from it.
Can't you guys hear that?The DTMA solo is a train wreck! Granted, you may not have the pitch and tempo memory that I have, but you at least ought to be able to tell that it is not like the original.
Its called getting older and more burned out, folks, sorry.
@ScorningMensa HaaHaa! I was thinking the same thing! I am an avid Dan fan and this guy, although insanely talented and legendary for his solos with The Dan, seemed WAY OFF here. He did butcher the DTMA solo and did skip quite a bit on it. Ha! You are right on with your assessment.
You,, are a mental case! I am laughing "so" too hard WOW! Now, youre as wrong as General Custer, who said, "oh,, they're JUST Indians!" Larry's super! Lets see you perform like Carlton, I was at this concert, it was great. I saw him twice that tour, both times he was super! I studied his playing technique, it's THE most difficult of all rock styles. Because he incorporates bending, sliding, pre-bending, and vibrato techniques that makes Larry,, well,, LARRY! 100 gold records!
It would've been so cool if Michael Scott had started wailing Don't Take Me Alive at The Dundees. Larry reminds me off Michael a little...or at least his brother... and even if they would've done like....??..... Dueling Kid Charlemagne??....that would've been awesome!!
I love it when a musician can duplicate his work from the recording. That is what I never liked about Clapton or Hendrix. It seems as if they just got lucky in the studio. I also wish singers would stick to their original phrasing. Michael Stipe has a bad habit of changing his. David Bowie is awful live.
@Janko1492 It's a valid point, but I think there are different personalities involved. Some people get bored faster with their last trick. It doesn't make them worse performers. Anyway, these are really precise solos, but they don't feel anything like the studio versions even though the melodies are basically the same. Everybody's looking for each performance to have something the others didn't, and won't. Larry's that way, too, just extremely dextrous.
Carlton has played some of the most enduring guitar solos of all time. Even now, more than 30 years after The Royal Scam came out, the Kid Charlemagne and Don't Take Me Alive solos are just as amazing. Real genius.
Put it where you want it...shows where the musicians really have fun...I love the sax solo and how he gets into it with LC. It is defiantly the icing on the cake.
.. this makes me SO HAPPY .. thanks so much for posting, and thanks to all of you on stage that night, and Mike Post for the sublime Hill Street Blues theme ...
@Entertainmentwriter Doubtful that the solo was pre-written. But the end result has to sound like a Steely Dan solo and they didn't want the musicians inscribing their own personalities into the song.
What I love about LC is that he's a really a composer who's also a great guitarist. It's not about shredding or showing off with a ten minute solo, it's about adding something special to the tracks he plays on - it could just be a couple of phrases, but they're always memorable.
I went to a LC concert in Newport Beach, CA the same year he performed this concert, though there weren't any Steely Dan songs in the repertoire... an unforgettable show to be sure!
I didn't know about the shooting accident before, makes you even get a higher esteem of the man! A lot of Steely Dan's fantastic records wouldn't be what they are without LC!
OK. I watched Hill Street all through its original run, and we've had LC albums since not long after that, but it was today, a century later, that I finally figured out that's his guitar work on the theme. Shoot me now.
Oh, and Don Imus used to use the original Crusaders tune as his bumper music back in the 70s. Larry's version is much better.
We all should also take into account that Larry not only is a superb player, but was King of the studios in LA., he CREATED THE L.A. SOUND! In the 1970's thru the 1980's, he nearly singled handedly created a sound that is truly his own, has been imitated by many other players, but not duplicated at all! It's one thing to be a ghreat player, but to also CREATE your own sound, and technique! Really, tell me who sounded like Larry, BEFORE Larry?!?!? Life is so much better with his music, Thank God
I heard an interview with him shortly after his On Solid Ground album debut and he said he was shot in the neck in his driveway while he was going out to get the newspaper by someone he had never seen b4 or knew. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Poor guy. On Solid Ground is an amazing album and one of my all time favorites
You're incorrect. He was shot near his 335 recordingstudio by someone that was robbing him. He was shot in the throat which shattered his vocal cord. Anyone but Larry would never recover from that but Larry did. And for the record, geetarnut is correct. Larry is and has always been unmatched in his ability and songwriting in general.
I saw Larry with his son and a drummer in NYC last summer at the blue note and he is still smoking hot!!! Forget about his age and his tragic injury...he's simply one of the best ever.
@coolioto LC was shot through the left side of his throat in 1988, narrowing missing his jugular vein and spinal cord. It happened outside the door of his studio when he apparently tried to shut an open door. He basically had to re-learn fingering and the entire use of his left arm because of nerve damage, not to mention learning how to speak again. He's made the most remarkable of comebacks don't you think? BTW, it was a random act not a targeted one.
Ah yes, Mr. Carlton. Larry is hands down the best guitar player that ever lived. There are two types of guitar players: Larry and everyone else. And to his ability; Larry got shot in 1989 to the throat, after this was recorded. Having been shot, yes, it did affect his ability. Check out his performance with Lee Ritenour in 1995 doing a different version of room 335, it's a video that's still on YouTube. It's fantastic.
At my advanced age, I've finally decided to tackle the Kid Charlemagne solo; being able to see his left-hand positioning sure helps!!
Oh, and lest we forget.... TONE, TONE, TONE!!! Larry could plug a bottom-of-the-line Squier into an AM radio, and he'd STILL sound amazing! Gahd, this guy raised the bar in so many ways. :-)
Larry is the shit. So smooth and effortless. I would love to see this guy come to Vegas to see him just one time. I think the solo by Baxter in Dias in My Old School is my Favorite and as you know Dennys solo on there first hit Back Jack put this band on the map. Just an incredible group.
Okay, the opening song that he performs (and wrote) "hill-street blues" theme. Mike post helped write it but it really belongs to Larry. Next, he performs his infamous guitar solo from "Kid Charlemagne". He wrote the solo (possibly the best guitar solo of all time) Third, he performs a solo from Don't Take Me Alive (again, he wrote) for Steely Dan. Then he finishes with "put it where you want it." "Kid Charlemagne" and "Don't Take Me Alive" were songs from "The Royal Scam."
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sauquoit13456 17 hours ago
As I've said many times here on youtube,, Larry's the MOST unique guitarist in the world! Fact! I've heard hundreds of players, literally, but no one else gives me the goosebumps! That,, is first and foremost, his reason for playing, he's admitted so in interviews! We are all blessed in this world, and it's so much better with Larry to thrill us! He delivers the shivers!
geetarnut 1 month ago
Got a case of dyn-o-mite - I could hold out here all night
dm7b5 2 months ago
lameplanet-that was very well said. Pure genius.
minter74 4 months ago in playlist Larry Carlton et al
Really, I don't know wtf you all are going on about. He gets Kid Charlemagne mostly right, but in Don't Take Me Alive he skips ahead a couple measures and gets hopelessly crossed up, and just never recovers from it.
Can't you guys hear that?The DTMA solo is a train wreck! Granted, you may not have the pitch and tempo memory that I have, but you at least ought to be able to tell that it is not like the original.
Its called getting older and more burned out, folks, sorry.
ScorningMensa 5 months ago
@ScorningMensa HaaHaa! I was thinking the same thing! I am an avid Dan fan and this guy, although insanely talented and legendary for his solos with The Dan, seemed WAY OFF here. He did butcher the DTMA solo and did skip quite a bit on it. Ha! You are right on with your assessment.
TheRynoCrow 3 months ago
@ScorningMensa Can't you tell that he's just jamming on this? You sound like some kind of perfectionist mental case...chill out ,Felix.
gi624 2 months ago
You,, are a mental case! I am laughing "so" too hard WOW! Now, youre as wrong as General Custer, who said, "oh,, they're JUST Indians!" Larry's super! Lets see you perform like Carlton, I was at this concert, it was great. I saw him twice that tour, both times he was super! I studied his playing technique, it's THE most difficult of all rock styles. Because he incorporates bending, sliding, pre-bending, and vibrato techniques that makes Larry,, well,, LARRY! 100 gold records!
geetarnut 1 month ago
Steely Dan should have bought Larry a condo in Hawaii for the amazing work he did on those "records."
mminer58 5 months ago 4
Awesome
platelets4life 6 months ago
I absolutely love this amazing piece of music. Your a legend Larry.
lenapaco 6 months ago
It would've been so cool if Michael Scott had started wailing Don't Take Me Alive at The Dundees. Larry reminds me off Michael a little...or at least his brother... and even if they would've done like....??..... Dueling Kid Charlemagne??....that would've been awesome!!
gi624 7 months ago
Thanks so much for posting! Carlton is simply the best.
kierk58 9 months ago
the consumate pro
jorbv8 10 months ago
I'd like to see him do that again using his 335!
mazsenior 11 months ago
AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nippon1971 1 year ago
I love it when a musician can duplicate his work from the recording. That is what I never liked about Clapton or Hendrix. It seems as if they just got lucky in the studio. I also wish singers would stick to their original phrasing. Michael Stipe has a bad habit of changing his. David Bowie is awful live.
Janko1492 1 year ago
@Janko1492 It's a valid point, but I think there are different personalities involved. Some people get bored faster with their last trick. It doesn't make them worse performers. Anyway, these are really precise solos, but they don't feel anything like the studio versions even though the melodies are basically the same. Everybody's looking for each performance to have something the others didn't, and won't. Larry's that way, too, just extremely dextrous.
mtut 8 months ago
LARRY IS THE MAN!
zosojplp 1 year ago
everything he does is pure GOLD!!!
rhymos 1 year ago
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vinniecolaiuta89 1 year ago
I think HIS guitar solo in "Kid Charlemagne" is the best.
vinniecolaiuta89 1 year ago
Brilliant!!
bonniekilty 1 year ago
Carlton has played some of the most enduring guitar solos of all time. Even now, more than 30 years after The Royal Scam came out, the Kid Charlemagne and Don't Take Me Alive solos are just as amazing. Real genius.
blahkaw98 1 year ago 2
Larry is the man, love his style
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sunaJH 1 year ago
Is there gas in they car?
vinnycriss 1 year ago
@vinnycriss Yes. There's gas in the car.
brucealan1280 1 year ago 2
@brucealan1280 I guess the people down the hall you how we are.
vinnycriss 9 months ago
My favorite guitar tone ever, next to Holdsworth.
youtoobaccount11 1 year ago
Absolutely outstanding.
duncanstpt 1 year ago
Put it where you want it...shows where the musicians really have fun...I love the sax solo and how he gets into it with LC. It is defiantly the icing on the cake.
austenbosten 1 year ago
Awesome LC is a guitar god for sure. I wish he hadn't changed the "Don't Take Me Alive" intro though. Sax player is really good too.
DigAPony69 1 year ago
5:42 Larry melts off my face
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Jwicksuvm 1 year ago
Awesome
Fusongs 1 year ago
Ridiculously good
chelseamatt 1 year ago
Love his phrasing and note choice.
diabeticmonkey 1 year ago
.. this makes me SO HAPPY .. thanks so much for posting, and thanks to all of you on stage that night, and Mike Post for the sublime Hill Street Blues theme ...
Stevieraylittlewing 1 year ago
@Entertainmentwriter
It's "Put It Where You Want It" by The Crusaders.
lameplanet 1 year ago
@lameplanet Thanks very much.
Entertainmentwriter 1 year ago
@lameplanet Thanks very much. Do you think Carlton composed the intro to Don't Take Me Alive, or was he simply playing what Becker and Fagan wrote?
Entertainmentwriter 1 year ago
@Entertainmentwriter Doubtful that the solo was pre-written. But the end result has to sound like a Steely Dan solo and they didn't want the musicians inscribing their own personalities into the song.
habyss 1 year ago
@Entertainmentwriter
Becker would have played it had he wrote it. I'd imagine.
citizenblah 1 year ago
This,,, my friends,,,, is MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to God for Larry carlton!
geetarnut 1 year ago
What I love about LC is that he's a really a composer who's also a great guitarist. It's not about shredding or showing off with a ten minute solo, it's about adding something special to the tracks he plays on - it could just be a couple of phrases, but they're always memorable.
lameplanet 1 year ago 7
@lameplanet What is the name of he song after the Don't Take Me Alive intro? Thanks.
Entertainmentwriter 1 year ago
Larry has what all Guitars ists should have...!!! A Sense of melody, and a Guitar.
pngaia 1 year ago
wow..in credible...thanks !!!
empiricalpoet 1 year ago
Don't Take Me Alive...just so amazing and effortless. Wow.
Entertainmentwriter 1 year ago
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Entertainmentwriter 1 year ago
Best guitarist I ever heard hands down, this guy is gas!!
squonkdh 1 year ago
Greatest Guitarist ever!!!! Thanks for Posting!!!!
xylfox 1 year ago
I went to a LC concert in Newport Beach, CA the same year he performed this concert, though there weren't any Steely Dan songs in the repertoire... an unforgettable show to be sure!
NAVMAR21 1 year ago
That Valley Arts Special sounds great! Is that Kirk Whalum on sax?
giguild 1 year ago
I didn't know about the shooting accident before, makes you even get a higher esteem of the man! A lot of Steely Dan's fantastic records wouldn't be what they are without LC!
netherworldman 1 year ago
A true artist.
fireflyfingers 1 year ago
OK. I watched Hill Street all through its original run, and we've had LC albums since not long after that, but it was today, a century later, that I finally figured out that's his guitar work on the theme. Shoot me now.
Oh, and Don Imus used to use the original Crusaders tune as his bumper music back in the 70s. Larry's version is much better.
CaptainsbIog 1 year ago
Love the saxophone harmony with the guitar on the final solo. Larry is tearin shit up!
Hanz780 2 years ago
We all should also take into account that Larry not only is a superb player, but was King of the studios in LA., he CREATED THE L.A. SOUND! In the 1970's thru the 1980's, he nearly singled handedly created a sound that is truly his own, has been imitated by many other players, but not duplicated at all! It's one thing to be a ghreat player, but to also CREATE your own sound, and technique! Really, tell me who sounded like Larry, BEFORE Larry?!?!? Life is so much better with his music, Thank God
geetarnut 2 years ago
@geetarnut ....YES!
Fulltondano 1 year ago
I heard an interview with him shortly after his On Solid Ground album debut and he said he was shot in the neck in his driveway while he was going out to get the newspaper by someone he had never seen b4 or knew. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Poor guy. On Solid Ground is an amazing album and one of my all time favorites
jjp4mma 2 years ago
You're incorrect. He was shot near his 335 recordingstudio by someone that was robbing him. He was shot in the throat which shattered his vocal cord. Anyone but Larry would never recover from that but Larry did. And for the record, geetarnut is correct. Larry is and has always been unmatched in his ability and songwriting in general.
burnettvicefan 2 years ago
I saw Larry with his son and a drummer in NYC last summer at the blue note and he is still smoking hot!!! Forget about his age and his tragic injury...he's simply one of the best ever.
notesau 2 years ago
He is the best ever when it comes to guitar playing. No one can touch him. Also, the fact that he is also a great songwriter puts him at the top.
burnettvicefan 2 years ago
What's his injury?
coolioto 2 years ago
@coolioto LC was shot through the left side of his throat in 1988, narrowing missing his jugular vein and spinal cord. It happened outside the door of his studio when he apparently tried to shut an open door. He basically had to re-learn fingering and the entire use of his left arm because of nerve damage, not to mention learning how to speak again. He's made the most remarkable of comebacks don't you think? BTW, it was a random act not a targeted one.
tripleheshy 2 years ago
So its Larry playing on the theme song? i did not know.
analyzingfunny 2 years ago
He wrote the theme song to begin with.
burnettvicefan 2 years ago 2
Him and Mike Post.
BassmanII 2 years ago
Kid Charlemagne is my best guitarsolo all rock music！！！
JAZZY0212 2 years ago 2
He doesn't make it seem effortless but it sounds so perfect.
MrChillininthecrib 2 years ago
what a dilight to hear him play but what do you guys think of his more recent work personally I don't hear him play like this annymore
yschepers12 2 years ago
Ah yes, Mr. Carlton. Larry is hands down the best guitar player that ever lived. There are two types of guitar players: Larry and everyone else. And to his ability; Larry got shot in 1989 to the throat, after this was recorded. Having been shot, yes, it did affect his ability. Check out his performance with Lee Ritenour in 1995 doing a different version of room 335, it's a video that's still on YouTube. It's fantastic.
burnettvicefan 2 years ago
I will check it out, I think you an I have writen to eachother about him allready.
I so glad to meet you again, if not nice to fiend somebody who appriciates his music like I do.
I will see him live on a jazz clinic in November, with autoraph session.
He will play, teach and talk about his guitars. I can't wait to meet him face to face.
yschepers12 2 years ago
How did the injury affect him?
coolioto 2 years ago
At my advanced age, I've finally decided to tackle the Kid Charlemagne solo; being able to see his left-hand positioning sure helps!!
Oh, and lest we forget.... TONE, TONE, TONE!!! Larry could plug a bottom-of-the-line Squier into an AM radio, and he'd STILL sound amazing! Gahd, this guy raised the bar in so many ways. :-)
BuzzcutGtr 2 years ago 2
Larry is the shit. So smooth and effortless. I would love to see this guy come to Vegas to see him just one time. I think the solo by Baxter in Dias in My Old School is my Favorite and as you know Dennys solo on there first hit Back Jack put this band on the map. Just an incredible group.
skipper8257 2 years ago
Larry is the epitome of a great guitarist. He is in a class all his own
benvye 2 years ago 2
Love it, Larry Carlton has a very unique tone. Sounds the same no matter which guitar he is playing.
larrystarstruck 2 years ago
This is awesome - Carlton is a genius. Kid Charlemagne solo is my fave of all time.
22fitzp 2 years ago 14
fuckin sweet!
rndyrhds65 2 years ago
thanks for sharing, Larry is incredible!
deetz3 2 years ago
My all-time favourite guitar solo: Kid Charlemagne - the man is fantastic
boiledwater62 2 years ago 24
still wish i could play like him over anyone else
mindlepin 2 years ago 3
awesome man
RiXaTi6 2 years ago 2
Amazing clip. I've had the audio of this for a couple of years now, so it's great to actually 'see' it.
Thanks :)
JAY132 2 years ago
Okay, the opening song that he performs (and wrote) "hill-street blues" theme. Mike post helped write it but it really belongs to Larry. Next, he performs his infamous guitar solo from "Kid Charlemagne". He wrote the solo (possibly the best guitar solo of all time) Third, he performs a solo from Don't Take Me Alive (again, he wrote) for Steely Dan. Then he finishes with "put it where you want it." "Kid Charlemagne" and "Don't Take Me Alive" were songs from "The Royal Scam."
burnettvicefan 2 years ago
last one is "put it where you want it" by the crusaders, in which carlton played. nthis song was also covered by AWB (alan gorrie wrote it)
depailler80 3 years ago
Awesome, thanks for uploading.
Hanz780 3 years ago
awesome clip!
TSPenn1 3 years ago
Thanks
c16031 3 years ago
He's also playing Steely Dan's "Don't Take Me Alive"
bellyup123 3 years ago