September 2025 Challenge Response-Cloughie

[cloughie]

I wanted to use a Quist track & found 414 to be a great canvas with plenty of space to paint.

I did Brian’s solo which is minor pentatonic, and delicious. Then a couple run throughs using a more jazzy bluesy style with a bit of David Gilmour in there – mainly because the guy’s speaking to me more these days.

Hope you dig the mood here – intimate & blue.

Be kind to yourself (especially when you're trying to play this instrument!)
Brian Clough

“Got a lotta sinful ideas but they seem kinda sensible” Jim Casy the ex-preacher in The Grapes Of Wrath

[AndréM]

Excellent performance.
Great arpeggios and bends.

AndréM

AndréM

[Dieter]

Fine jazzy playing.

Dieter

[Alan L]

I love the whole vibe of this. Perfect blend of pentatonic riffs and more complex scale ideas. A very entertaining listen!

[Manfred M]

Yes, Cloughie, the Gilmour vibe really comes across. I enjoyed how you complemented this great backing track so congenially. Beautiful enough to melt away.

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[Tremelow]

Very nice how blend different styles Cloughie, at least to my ear. They blend in very niceley and that makes an interesting composition to listen to. The Gilmore-esque bends are spot on!

[John H]

Cloughie
DELICIOUS! This might be your best submission. Tasty, sultry, moving and really pleasant. You are making good music!

John

[Catherine Arsenault]

Cloughie that was truly beautiful!!!!!

[Martin W]

Oh yes , I think one of your finest to date, working in your own ideas seamlessly with the original lead , and not overcrowding the track.
The gilmour sound is there for sure .

Martin

[sunjamr]

Nice one, Brian – very professional sounding. I heard those Gilmour vibes toward the end. The older I get, the more I enjoy those slow jazzy blues tunes.

Sunjamr Steve

[JoLa]

Ooh wow, you got me at Gilmour vibe!
I’d love that any time any day – beautiful playing, Brian! I heard PF phrase there but then it morphed into your own incredible soloing with a delicately jazzy flavor, really nice! Excellent choice of the track and a nice reminder of this wonderful lesson.

🎸JoLa

[Bill]

Smoky and after hours vibes. Great touch Brian, very enjoyable. Like the Gilmore bends you got in there.

[Jonathan Amos]

Gilmour and maybe a bit of Peter Green? Great influences, that’s for sure. Nicely played.

Jonathan Amos, Matsuyama, Japan

The farther one travels the less one knows.

[JoeD1]

This was exceptional Brian. Very fine playing.

Joe

The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
--Graeme Edge

[Michael L]

Hi Cloughie, such a great bluesy vibe! I hear the Gilmore influence. A lot to enjoy here!

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