George Conway’s Top 5 Rock Guitar Solos!
And some Talking Feds news
Hi everyone, short, sweet, and hopefully upbeat this morning, starting with another top 5 list from a Talking Feds stalwart.
Most everyone knows George Conway’s great commentary shredding Trump. But did you know about his shredding rock guitar?
Here are George’s own 5 favorite shredding rock guitar solos. As you’ll see, he is something of a classicist.
Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin/Jimmy Page)
Hotel California (Eagles/Don Felder and Joe Walsh)
Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd/David Gilmour)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen/Brian May)
Free Bird (Lynyrd Skynyrd/Allen Collins)
I play some guitar myself, though not at George’s level. But let me round out the list with a few of my favorites:
The incandescent Prince solo on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame (he sidles in from stage left at about the 3:28 mark)
Hendrix’s cover of “All Along the Watchtower (solo at 2:15); and
Richard Thompson’s virtuoso work on “Vincent Black Lightning”
Prince:
Hendrix:
Thompson:
TALKING FEDS PODCAST NEWS
Those of you who follow the Talking Feds podcast, which is the granddaddy of all Talking Feds franchises, may know that we’ve been doing a series episodes to gear up for Trump 2.0. To date we’ve dropped episodes focused on the Department of Justice, National Security, Economic Policy, Immigration, and State and Local Power. You can find them all at talkingfeds.com wherever you get your podcasts. And just this week we published the last in the series, this one on healthcare, entitled “There’s No Vaccine For Crazy.” Our calling card at Talking Feds is the fantastic round table format of three experts. Here are some of our recent guests:
This week’s lineup is characteristically stellar. We have Dan Diamond, national health reporter for the Washington Post; Zeke Emanuel, oncologist and world leader in health policy and bioethics; and Kavita Patel, professor of medicine at Stanford and former Obama administration official.
The focus inevitably is on the appointment of RFK Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary. There’s some debate about how wacky Kennedy really is—he now says, for example, that he supports vaccines—but I think the answer under any view is too wacky to run a $2 trillion federal agency. Moreover, Trump is strikingly cavalier and hands off about Kennedy’s prospective tenure, saying that he intends to “let him go wild on health.” We go over in depth not just the vaccine issue but also Obamacare, abortion, Kennedy’s confirmation prospects, and more.
And finally, thank you to those subscribers who joined our live chat Tuesday. We’ll be having more of those so stay tuned. By the way, there was discussion about whether we should give a name to our stalwart crew of supporters, with suggestions of Feds Heads and Harry’s Heroes (that wouldn’t be my vote, but the people rule in this Substack!). Reminder that anyone who comes up with the winning name gets a Talking Feds mug!
Talk to you later.
Prince was off the charts during “While my guitar gently weeps”.
Yikes. No mention of Carlos Santana