Return to Forever IV: Frank Gambale's Guitar Solo (Sick Sweep Picking Alert!)
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Return to Forever IV guitarist Frank Gambale laid down this killer solo in Clearwater, Florida on Sept 11, 2011.
Lineup:
Chick Corea - keyboards
Stanley Clarke - bass
Lenny White - drummer
Frank Gambale - guitar
Jean-Luc Ponty - violin
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Frank needs more recognition.... his playing is truly remarkable. Even Holdsworth admires Frank's music..
Frank is so much more than a "shredder" or inventor of sweep - he's a thought, rythmic, melodic player who always plays exactly the right thing. Hat off.
All technical skills apart... the melody and the notes choices are amazing...
Great soul and spirit !! It gives EMOTIONS and THAT is music !
One of the greatest technical guitar players of all time imo.
I love the relationship that Chick and Frank have worked out over their many years of playing together between their respective instruments of support and interweaving. They're a joy to hear together.
perfect balance of melodic phrasing and extreme technique
Isn't Frank Gambale the pioneer of sweep picking? No wonder he's mastered this entirely.
He is one of the notable ones, but Les Paul and Ritchie Blackmore were sweeping before him.
@@anish3183 No one does what Gambale does. Les Paul and Ritchie Blackmore did mini short phrases but not anything like the sheets of sound all sweeping. Gambale now calls his technique "Gambale Sweep Picking" and that way there's no more controversy. Sam B. FG Admin
...thoughtful...
Yes I'm watching these again and once again being blown away by his tone, taste and style.
great solo, great feeling, one oft the best on this planet
Absolutely killed it. The best I've ever heard/seen from him.
I was at this concert on Sept 11. What an amazing performance everyone gave! Can't wait to see them again
As always with Frank, flawless! Absolutely top notch.
Just saw Frank at the NAMM show... blown away... period.
THE MASTER OF SWEEP PICKING RIGHT THERE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
I know. You've made that abundantly clear. And no one is arguing with you about that.
All I was saying was that I was impressed with this performance. I wasn't saying it was better, or more intense, or in any other way comparing it to old RTF stuff. I was just saying that I liked it. I don't know why that's a problem for you.
SICK is an understatement!
awesome frank ..
Frank is a master. Brilliant...
So many guitar experts on this page. Guys that eat Yngwie for lunch and Holdsworth for dinner. I'd pay a thousand bucks to see you all line up on stage and stand next to Frank Gambale and show him how it's done and then take questions with answers like: "y'know, Michael Rabin was all technique." and "Bach didn't know the first thing about composition."
Shiv Cwmlynx Yeah, some folks are never satisfied. They just feel like they need to one up other people, or reduce the things that they do to make themselves feel better. I would have melted had I seen this live.
+Shiv Cwmlynx that's just the thing, these guys that say that shit cant play for shit!
I have noticed everytime it is the guitarist with the biggest mouths that cant play well! all the greats like gambale,holdsworth,etc are down to earth and respect one anothers playing.
I used to tell various people Frank Gambale and Shawn Lane was and were as good as Allan Holdsworth too myself personally.
They said it is impossible to be as good as Allan Holdsworth.
I am glad someone else disagrees with them!
They are as good as Allan Holdsworth!
Can you imagine goin down the road tryin to hum that shit?
Yeah that's non guitarists for ya. Advanced players have informed opinions, beginners have some self awareness but it is always those intermediate players who are vulnerable to the Dunning-Kruger effect imo.
Unbeliveble !!!!
I think this guy is my favorite guitarist.
At the Sydney concert, which I had the great privelage to go to, Chick introduced Frank as 'one of the greatest guitar players in the world' and I agree and also if Chick says that, and chooses Frank to play in RTF IV then all your comments about Frank not having enough heart are null & void... 'Nuff said!
the smoothest touch
Back then, those guys had INTENSITY. They played it like they meant it, it had that fire and that's why it made such an impact on players, now guys don't have that same intensity. Can't fake intensity.
GREAT BAND!!!!
this was the one on the rtf IV live album!Goodness!Now that's a smokin solo!
Some wonderful sweet melodic phrasing going on there!
Wow!
Frank is so harmonically enlightened that there is no harmony in this world that he can't play good improvisation with melodic sense in it.
It really seems like he can do anything.
Great solo by Frank!
There are a lot of shredders out there, it's very common now to hear & see sweep picking as standard guitar vocabulary... and some great usage of the sound & texture, but FG still dominates with his amazingly musical senses of timing & flawless phrasing. He's an F1 driver at a stock car race.
$0.02
amazing solo, great frank...take classes with you someday, greetings from chile
Great!!!!
Hero.Musician.Legend.
WOW! JUST WOW!!!
@Easleytee that is very very true.....overall can argue
Uncle Frank's tone is smokin'! Anyone catch his rig at the show?
Sick
THAT guitar tone...
i was there! one of the best shows i've been to
He's not a gimmick player, he owns his style. Music is all about finding your voice and Gambale likes to sweep pick, so why should he change that? There are different skills involved with sweep picking as to shredding or squealing or whatever the hell else you choose to appreciate. He already proves that he can play any incredibly difficult melody and is a genius composer, so who really cares if he's partial to sweeping in his improv?
holy shit this guys a champ
He really enjoyed himself here!
Nice. Love that chromatic line @ 1:18-21. The next phrase cadence pretty swell too.
it's in the eye (ear in this case) of the beholder. All the names mention are great...not one better than the other. One other thing...they made it.
Best band forever
For me, I bought just about every fusion player album I could get my hands on. I like Al, but I liked Jan, Anthony Jackson, Gadd, Lenny as much. I still break out his first solo album, which I actually think is his best out of the bunch. I saw him perform opening up for Weather Report (Jaco), for the Black Market or it might have been the Heavy Weather Album, I forget. But most fusion albums after the 80's started because smooth jazz. ARGH!
I was there that night it was great
@sculptormills I was also at ruth eckerd hall on the 11th...awesome!
What's the song he plays over?
@Easleytee I mean, Lane was almost metaphysical. But when you get to their level, the skill is overwhelming. They both made good music, that's what counts.
I've seen DiMeola twice with RTF in the 70's, as well as his own band in the 70's when he was headling fairly big gigs (5,000+) and I'm comparing Gambale to DiMeola, and DiMeola is second to McLaughlin, so the pecking order is McLaughlin, DiMeola, and then MAYBE Gambale in terms of playing fusion, but there are other lessor known players I would consider to be as good if not better in actual playing style as a side man fusion player. Ray Gomez comes to mind.
respect
Still one of the best ever to grace the instrument and of course the crowd goes wild :)
DV mark amplifier + Carvin?
What is the name of this song ?
what song is this?
So, how many concerts did you attend back in the early to mid 70's when the fusion era was happening?
I saw the version of RTF do their reunion and though it was great they got back together, they came close to what they originally did, but it's kind of tough for even them to play like they did back in the 70's. Youth and that rawness they had is part of it. Back in the 70's, they were in their 20's & 30's, and that youthful energy/fire/internal drive that made it what it was.
OMG!!
For those that are interested, go to jazzfusion.tv and wolfgangsvault for soundboard recordings. That will keep you going for a few decades.
From my perspective, RTF in the mid 70's, was a 10, the reunion was about 6.5 to 7, maybe an 8 at best, because they lacked the energy, they were playing the songs how they are written, but they lacked that fire which brought down the performances, plus some of the songs were actually played slower and it almost sounded like they were "phoning in" their performances. This to me is about a 5 to 5.5 in comparison. Maybe I'm too critical for you, but that's how it appears to me.
Nice
f**k yeah
Yeah I realize all of that. Congratulations on liking the original lineup better. I came HERE and expressed that I thought he did a good job and you had to start proclaiming that I liked the wrong guitar player for this group. And I saw all your posts on other people's comments about how Gambale doesn't do it for you.
My point is, you can like or dislike whatever you want, but why waste your time raining on someone's parade? God forbid you let us enjoy this without your $0.02.
Show's over. He atomized the audience.
yeh, like you said....
what is the name of this song?!
Rayson Kong Senor Mouse
@kerryrock1 I have to disagree and also agree, Frank and Al have as much heart as Bill, but they all have different voices; with Frank, his phrasing does come from listening to horn players and using a technique which allows him to play very angularly as well as as fluidly at high speeds; like a horn player. But then, not all horn players play the same, look at say David Sanbourn and Ravi Coltrane which horn players do you mean?
@Tarazed7 Spain
I cannot understand the eight people that dislike this video...They must be deaf!!😡
Wow!!! I heard... Robert Bubby Lewis Is a damn amazing bassist...
I ,usually, don't dig guitar's solos, especially when there is sweep in it. But here I tell ya, this is some heavy shit!
First off, I like Chick, Lenny, Jean Luc Ponty, and practically all of the original fusion guys that came out of the fusion era, when this stuff was brand new. I've got all the albums, seen them in concert when it was fresh and new. Unfortunately, it's not close to how it was done back then. They don't have the same "spark" they had, then when you get someone that ISN'T the original player on the albums trying to pass this off, isn't doing it for me.
The song title is "Senor Mouse".
@gjmojo Read my statement to adios.. It clears it all up..
The sound engineers should turndown the keyboard volume a little bit, he is too noisy when frank was doing his solo
None. Because I was born in the 80's. I've seen Stanley Clarke, JLP, and Di-Meola in concert and have been very impressed. I've also seen Gambale live and been impressed. Sorry it makes you so upset that some people thought Gambale played well in this video.
I must've forgotten the youtube rule about how no one can enjoy a musical performance unless a bitter old man says it was the best performance of that music that he's ever seen.
FRANK GAMBALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
1- silverchair 2- powdeefinger 3-savage gardens 4-frank gamble
I don't know if you are aware, but Gambale is also considered smooth jazz, which is nothing but commercialized instrumental music for novices that don't understand, study or listen to REAL jazz. Sorry, but Gambale couldn't put a headlining solo band together and tour concert halls around the world, which I kind of feel is mandatory these days. I see him more as a side man for second level fusion bands. He's taking DiMeola's position because DiMeola has a credible, successful solo career.
Di Meola and Mclaughlin got their careers going in the 1970s. If they started out when Gambale did so, they would not of had as much success. If you spoke to Di Meola you would find that his audience sizes are much smaller now than they used to be. In the U.S. he has gone from concert size gigs to the club scene.
I like both Di Meola and Gambale a lot. In my opinion, for this song, Di Meola's approach seems to work better. This song has Latin and Classical influences, which are more in line with Di Meola's approach than Gambales.
Gambale using advanced sweep picking to play stuff Holdsworth can't even play is not cliché. Listen to "Truth in Shredding" where Holdsworth & Gambale play on the same tracks.You might not like Gambale's style or think he's too dry, but you can't accuse him of being cliché anymore than you can accuse Holdsworth or McLaughlin. McLaughlin still plays plenty of Mahavishnu type runs he was playing 40 years ago but his nonlinear, polyrhythmic approach outside of bebop clichés makes it sound fresh
monster...
He didnt invented sweep picking, but he is the best at doing it...
Actually he wrote the first book ever entirely about Sweep Picking. He also made the first ever video ever dedicated to Sweep Picking. No one does what Gambale does and no one wrote the method. Also, no one before or since does the sheets of sound Gambale does entirely with Sweep Picking. To stop all the controversy Gambale now claims he's the inventor of "Gambale Sweep Picking". Sam B. FG Admin
I watched this video 5 years ago and my dumbass didn't watch a single other video of frank or listen to a single one of his works until 2018..
Bill Connors was RTF's best guitarist... no doubt about that.. but Frank played quite well here... his phrasing is better than meola for sure..
the thing is that yjm dont know what a diminish chord is. diferent than that, frank knows what every chord in the world.
I'm comparing the same material by the original band to this, that's the comparison I am making.
@ 1:46 I had to change my shorts!
For me, only a few artists were spitting out really good albums in the 70's. I think once these guys started to over produce their CDs, do mostly over dub with ProTools, that's when the music scene was messed up. Some of the great players started selling out and then the next crowd of players are being brought up where they have chops for days, but can't play anything meaningful and they don't play WITH the others, they just solo for themselves and they kind of don't play with the melody line.
Probably the only Scientology event I would ever go :-D Even in Clearwater :-o
Senor Mouse!!!
Now I know why Steve Lukather who is regarded tops like Frank Gambale
@Easleytee Lane had severe time issues.. I even noticed it on recordings where he could have punched in and fixed it.. The fact that he left it was telling.. That is disappointing.. Lane was NOT a master, but if he would have lived longer? I bet you anything he would have gotten there..
@adios73 Shawn just didn't have the knowledge nor the timing to play with someone like Chick.. I know you guys are all huge Lane heads.. And I had done clinics with Lane and he was a sweetheart of a guy.I absolutely loved him..And he did some things I really like, but he isn't Frank.Once you reach a higher level of playing you will realize that there is a HUGE difference between Frank and Shawn, it comes down to time, groove, musicality, and command of the instrument.. This is NOT an attack on u
Jake, with all due respect, I don't smoke pot, so please refrain from slanderous accusations. I will definitely enjoy listening to original RTF, that's when they were into it while you enjoy second rate performances.
Maybe one of these days, you will get your ears trained on how to LISTEN and maybe one of these days you'll graduate to listening to Mahavishnu and actually understanding what those guys were all about.
@kerryrock1 Such a tired and cliche argument in the face of great musicianship. Very myopic on your part.
ii have a technike to be fast. thru your self from the empire state. haha
Señor mouse.
@TheDarkprinceofjazz You are comparing BB King to Frank and DiMeola????? That's like comparing a NASCAR driver to a Formula 1 driver, or a minature golfer to PGA Tour pro. Incredibly weak analysis. These guys can play ANYTHING that BB can play and with more feeling. BB can't even dream of playing what DiMeola and Gambale play.
this guy look like a mechanic
Not all music is built on cliches. McLaughlin doesn't play cliches, Al might every once in a while, but he's not as bad as others. I have not really paid attention to Al since his first few albums. Those are his best, when his work went downhill, I stopped listening. I might check them out over time, but I liked his first three or four albums. He's does have a weird mannerism on stage and he's not delved into jazz as much as I think he should have.