Baker Street

[CJ]

Can someone tell me who played the guitar solos on Gerry Raffety's Baker Street. Raff Ravenscroft played the sax solo.

[XXX]

Can someone tell me who played the guitar solos on Gerry Raffety's Baker Street. Raff Ravenscroft played the sax solo.

Hugh Burns :guitar:

This song kicks ass. That's all there is to it. This one, besides Steely Dan's "Deacon Blues," is one of my all-time favourites. They're my theme songs!

[Earth-Angel]

Admittedly, I love the Foo Fighters version more than the original.

[pete38890]

Gerry Rafferty set the tone. The edge that Dave Grohl put on it made you believe the lonly, desperate life on Baker street.

[XXX]

"Baker Street" is a classic. This is what put the "night sound" in soft rock. You hear it again in bands and singers like Glen Frey, Steely Dan, and Mike Post. Of course, the album Baker Street wasn't the first to bring this sound to light. I've said it before and I'll say it again. It all initiated with the Taxi Driver score by Bernard Herrmann (a.k.a. god's gift to film scoring I'mnotworthyI'mnotworthy ). There may have been others before that, but once you hear the first few bars of that Jazz score it really hits you how much music began to sound like that afterwards

[Earth-Angel]

Gerry Rafferty set the tone. The edge that Dave Grohl put on it made you believe the lonly, desperate life on Baker street.

Absolutely Pete

Winding you way down to baker street

Light in your head and dead on your feet

Well another crazy day

You?ll drink the night away

And forget about everything

This city desert makes you feel so cold

Its got so many people but it?s got no soul

And it?s taking you so long

To find out you were wrong

When you thought it held everything

You still think that it was so easy

You used to say that it was so easy

But you?re trying, you?re trying now

Another year and then you?d be happy

Just one more year and then you?d be happy

But you?re crying you?re crying now

Way down the street there?s a lad in his place

He opens the door

And he?s got that look on his face

And he asks you were you?ve been

You tell him who you?ve seen

And you talk about anyting

He?s got this dream about buying some land

He?s gonna give up the crack and the one night stands

And then he?ll settle down

In some quite little town

And forget about everything

But you knwo he?ll always keep moving

You know he?s never gonna stop moving

Cause he?s rolling, he?s the rolling stones

When you wake up it?s a new morning

The sun is shining it?s a new morning

You?re going, your going on

[XXX]

I thought it went: "he's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands"

That's it! I'm playing this as soon as I clock out

[Foxy]

Anyon heard the Foo Fighters version?

The original is always gonna be the best, but this is a good alternative...

[Earth-Angel]

Yeah Foxy! That's the one Pete and I mentioned earler, the lyrics are also the Foo's version

[Foxy]

Ah sorry, didn't quite read it properly - obviously!