The Greatest Guitar Solo You Can’t HEAR!

For many years I made my living as a sound engineer. I did monitors for some of your favorites bands and guitar players. During that time I got up close and intimate with their guitar rigs, mic’d them up and got to solo them I’m my head phones. The best guitar tone I ever heard was Christopher Cross, and he lived up to it with his playing…and I am a guitar player myself. Christopher Cross is criminally under rated as a guitar player

Watching Rick play air guitar with a guitar in his hands is the best thing ever.

Who else is back here after watching the Chris Cross interview all the way through? I love the lead isolated, on a 59 LP no less. What a treasure. Dam thats good.

All that Yacht Rock stuff is top tier musicianship. Even if you don’t dig it you have to admit they are some highly competent professionals.

Christopher Cross wrote and played some of the most beautiful and peaceful music ever. "Sailing" is such a masterpiece of a song

Former radio station Program Director here... my speculation is the track was intended for the "Adult Contemporary" format. Intense guitar solos could keep a song off the air, or day-parted till after 8 PM. Christopher Cross' successes like "Sailing", "Arthur's Theme", "Laura", etc. were all right in the pocket for the A/C era. I'm stunned he can play guitar at that level. Michael Omartian, as producer, possibly made the decision a Christopher Cross voice was the unique instrument vs trying to launch another guitar player.

That is a blistering solo! I had no idea that was Christopher Cross himself playing it! My utmost respect to the man 44 years later!

Rick's enthusiasm when someone is ripping it up is always so infectious! Cross was gettin' it!

I never knew that Christopher Cross was a guitarist of any note. I thought he was a singer songwriter who just strummed an acoustic. You learn something new every day. Well, you do on Rick's channel anyway.

Rick, tonight we saw Christopher Cross at Epcot and he ended with this song - of course. And yes, the guitar solo was definitely up in the mix. So I stopped by the tech guys and spoke with Dave Swanson, who was on the mixing board. I asked him if he was aware of this video...and he was! He said he DEFINITELY keeps Christopher's solo up at the end of this song...and I told him we came specifically to see that solo...we had a good laugh. You're doing great work on your channel...and the WORK you put in is obvious. This is not happening by accident. Nice job!

Dude, THANK YOU. I was a teen when Ride Like the Wind came out. I would obsess over that solo and I've played it hundreds of times always aching to hear it properly. What a treat, can't thank you enough.

Yacht rock is making a comeback, people are just now understanding this great slew of ultra-smooth records from the late 70’s and 80’s and they really pop up against the rest.

I used to work with a guy who toured with Christopher Cross in the sound crew. He always spoke highly of Mr. Cross, and said he was very pleasant. It's nice when talented people turn out to be good people as well... :)

I love the entire "yacht rock" genre for two reasons. 1) it reminds me of being in my parents car listening to AM radio in the late 70s and 2) if you really listen to many of these bands they contain some of the jazziest-rock guitar work of all time. Really prog stuff blended with balls-out rock. Very seldom do you hear anything like that now.

I love watching the interview with Christopher Cross today. He's part of my musical foundation that can never be taken away!

Wow, wow, wow. Not only because of the Chris Cross solo but your having given it the attention it deserves. Love this episode, Mr. Beato.

The year is 2022 and we JUST found out that Christopher Cross could shred

Can we say Christopher Cross is one of thee most underrated guitarists ever? That is indeed a killer solo.

I heard Ride Like The Wind, on a Huffy bicycle commercial on TV. Fell in love with the song instantly. And my dad bought me a Huffy Pro Thunder BMX, great times!

Rick figured out a clever way to get Christopher to come on his show 🤪