Sustain

Kossoff
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Carlos
Honorable mentions: Mick Taylor, Steve Hackett

Lol, yeah carlos was my #2, but I deleted it so there could be at least one more post in the Sustain thread. Altho Jorma pulls some good sustain I must say.
Nigel Tufnel: Showing Marty his Les Paul
(Imitates vibrato)
You can go have a bite and
(imitates vibrato)
you'd still be hearing that one.
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Well dang BrerRabbit, you beat me to the Spinal Tap joke. I can recite that movie from memory.

hahaha, yeah man, sorry, but there is always room for more Spinal Tap knowledge. Was listening to Free today, diggin the Kossoff, kid just does not release the deathgrip. Wonder how often he had to replace his frets, you can hear them getting ground down to nothing.

Peter Green
Someday, everything's gonna be different
When I paint my masterpiece.

Jimi. Machine Gun.
Robin Trower. Daydream (off live album)
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I would say Nugent but I think I’m confusing sustain with feedback.

Gary Moore get killer sustain on Parisian Walkway on several live video on YouTube. Les Paul and a stack of Marshalls. There is a vid on YouTube of Gary playing The Messiah Will Come on a red Strat. Gary does some shredding and if anyone has played an electric guitar any faster I haven't seen it.

I would say Nugent but I think I’m confusing sustain with feedback.
No confusion at all, sustain can create feedback... Ted's "Hibernation" from "Tooth Fang and Claw" has amazing sustain feedback, all natural no fx.

Jack Pearson?

Leslie West

B.B. King Live at Cook County Jail....How blue can you get

Love him or hate him, he's GOT to be in this conversation.......Trey Anastasio. That dude can hold a note for as long as he wants to.

^^
beat me to it
YEM is a perfect example

Trey on the studio version of "Reba."
Steve Hackett on "Firth of Fifth."
Mick Taylor on "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and the live Mayall stuff.

Leslie West
Exactly

Kossoff
"
I think if you started another thread entitled Vibrato" hes at the top of the list

Hahaha, am just impressed that a "Sustain" thread has any replies at all. Re Leslie West, I have a live recording of Nantucket Sleighride where he does indeed use sustain to great effect. Man I would love to hear him live again.

Hahaha, am just impressed that a "Sustain" thread has any replies at all. Re Leslie West, I have a live recording of Nantucket Sleighride where he does indeed use sustain to great effect. Man I would love to hear him live again.
check out the live recording on side 2 of flowers of Evil Dream Sequence roll over beethoven he holds that note for a day or so.....

Flowers of Evil has always been on my radar forever but for some reason I haven't gotten to it. Will check it out.
This has me pondering what is the record for longest sustained note? Bending, feedback allowed, but that string has to be clamped to that fret and vibrating the entire time. Or open I guess, but open and fretted would have to be two different categories in the Rocknroll Olympix Sustain Event.
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Kath on intro to “Listen” off CTA. Gibson SG w/ humbuckers. Sustain for days.

The late great J. Geils
the way he holds that note at the end of Serve You Right To Suffer -- his sustain on the end of his I Don't Need You No More solo -- you are missed bro

Neil Young with Crazy Horse on Ragged Gory and Psychedelic pill

For sure, forgot about Neil. That live record Weld (Ragged Glory) is pretty much one long note.
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