Ray Gomez never got the recognition he deserved!

Ray Gomez..................what a incredible guitarist. It just shows you that great talent and great fame and fortune do not always go hand in hand.

Awesome. Ray Gomez is one of the greatest most underrated guitarist. I saw them in 1977 at the Paladium in NYC. He blew me away. . These are the best musicians of their time

Ray, one of the best guitarists in the world, yet still very much unknown.

Gomez is the reason I wanted to play, and did. Thanks Ray.

Ray Gomez. Wow. Only guy who can jump on stage, borrow Holdsworth's guitar, and steal the show. NYC 1988. Unforgettable.

Raymond Gomez one of the best guitarists at that time for jazz rock. I wondered where he disappeared. Seen him live several times with Stanley Clarke.

Fantastic musicianship from the whole band - great song too. Ray Gomez is incredibly underrated.

Man Ray Gomez is 🔥🔥🔥

To this day you can’t find Ray Gomez on Wikipedia but I credit him as one of the musicians who made a major impact on my life and gave me sage advice on how to follow my dreams. Hope someday he reads this so he’ll know how much I appreciate him.

MONSTER OF GUITAR ...RAY GOMEZ

incredible what 4 strings in the right hands can do.

I would have loved to see a side by side performance with Stanley and Jaco! MAN that would be a classic match.

Ray's solo is just so raw and intense....

Most excellent stuff. I get flashbacks just looking at Ray's hair! the good old days, now.

Saw these guys at the Botton Line in NYC, one of the highlights of my young musical life.

Ray just killed that guitar. He's got it

Sensational!!!! Currently working on an album saluting Stanley and the late George Duke. Thanks for posting!!!!

I don't know a damn thing about a guitar or a bass but I believe these guys do! Absolutely mesmerizing.

I can just listen and listen to this classic

I saw stanley clarke as the opening act for bob marley and the wailers, 1979 in the old capital arena, both were magnificent, what performances, left there in a cloud of smoke...history.....

Wow. Just wow. I just rewound this four times in a row to about 3:21. For myself, nothing is better than when a musician whose work you enjoy and admire and respect make it obvious to his audience that he's having a great time too. There's a similar moment at about 9:17. Stanley brings the whole band back into the main riff with both feet and as he does he watches to his right at Mr Gomez, and a grin pops up and you know they just absolutely nailed what they wanted to do... Thanks for the post

Thanks for posting, fantastic player, great instrumental.

Beasts Stanley Clarke and Ray Gomez on Guitar his playing is epic also another Guitarist I Loved he played with was Bill Conners

Ray is still here - lives between Spain and the USA - he has a new album out .. I will send you the link.

What amazing beautiful piece of music ! ahead of its time for 1977 ! school days ! the record stores featured this record as a top seller !

fantastic chemistry

Gerry Brown on drums!!

I just recently started listening to Ray Gomez and I'm really digging him!

Exemplary showcase. This piece is still awesome, almost forty years later.

9 minutes of this is not long enough! Wow!

Woa! That wind section with piccolo trumpet!

I've enjoyed Stanley Clarke's School Days album since music school in the 1980s. I always thought the guitarist was Icarus Johnson on this track based on the liner notes, and only for the last half dozen years or so have I known it was Ray Gomez. He is badass. Terrific. So emotional, fiery. Such a match for Stanley Clarke. I think I would have enjoyed seeing him like I took in Mike Stern at many live shows. More so maybe.

Ray Gomez owning it!

i love this because it felt just like my 70's school daze. Dont know if its the same for kids today because music today seems not be written not as an interpretive visceral soundtrack but as a fad.

Ray kills it!

What ever happened to Ray? He was awesome!!

Underrated as hell

Man mind blowing when I was in College and High School in the 70's

I like the change-up when the hornes all blew at 6:20

I already know enough about guitar. I can't hear the keyboard good enough and the interplay of keyboard with Stanley Clarke. That's what I want to hear.

Incredibly underrated guitarist. I saw this lineup at the Hammersmith odeon London, Brand X supporting! 🤪

this was an incredible time...

Saw them at the Orpheum theater in Boston mid 1980s what a show!

Daaaamn that was excellent

Extraordinary composition,melodic and beautiful then turns agressive and psychotic ,it fuckin rocks,great track.

Ray is my favorite guitar player now

Monsters at play.

@phrygian3rd at 4.39 he really let´s everyone know what they are up against ... ! No pedals, no tricks ... sheer hardwork and immense talent.

Excelentes músicos!

Gerry Brown on drums. Gomez rocks!

This is my favorite rendition of school days.. my second favorite is when Stanley played by George Duke👍👍

whoa... the stanley clark big band !!

Fabulous ✨

I was there that night!

they hit it OUT THE PARK on this one !!!!!

I think it is Ray Gomez and in fact .. I know ray Gomez and he thinks it´s him too. He he. That is most certainly the one and only Ray Gomez - there isn´t anybody else - then or now - who can do it like that.

Good stuff

Fabulous stuff

Hey thinking on it i seen this before years back but dam the sound great and i am checking this out year 2022

love the sequence starting from minute 6:00. minutes..... ahead. uhuuu cool

Not to those in the know. He's always been one of my very favorites.

I heard Stanley say that drummer Lenny White recommended Gomez to him. Stanley was going to have Jon McLaughlin play School Days on the album, but after hearing Gomez play it in the studio as great as Jon was/is he wanted to record Gomez for School Days....lol.

Fim de papo,, é muito bom

Those were the DAZES of fusion 🔥

Ésto es pura caña, músicos de mucha calidad...

Gerry Brown on drums! ,!!

And this Ray Gomez

Gerry Brown and Raymon Gomez. kill it. j . Blue

Still is awesome.

I remember when FM rock stations had the guts to play this song.

Don t forget the drummer, Gerry Brown , a great one !!!

Mais qu'il est bon le niçois Ray gomez!!!!!!!

everyone: omg ray gomez is the best me: *literally just here for stanley clarke*

Awsome!!!!

@afrolisticks Yes that is Gerry Brown on drums. He and Stanley were in grade school together and beyond.

King Ray - he´s so good. We just named him Jeff Beck Laughlin.

Wow thanks a whole lot now the sound man is good and he got some bad dudes as well

I could write this Comment on any music video on KZfaq: I'm so, so glad that the world's gone digital and international because it's now almost certain that everything uploaded will persist - in digital form - for ever. Somewhere. No need to worry about great artists like Zappa or Buddy Rich or Elli P being forgotten. [Hey, relax, I'm kidding!] The original recordings of performances and collections of rare vinyl may be lost in a fire; old tapes may be erased in error; Super 8 film footage may degrade or be hidden away by some jealous collector, but EVERYTHING that's great (and a lot that's not so great) is 'out there', somewhere - uploaded, downloaded, reproduced and stored in myriad forms. The past's secure in the future because it would be impossible to track down and destroy every instance of something once it's been set free. Yep, even my dodgy musical efforts. ;-)

The Master of Bass..

I didn't know Doug Henning played the friggen keyboards too!

I was to a S.Clark concert in Falkoner Theater in Copenhagen in the 70 also with G.Brown on drums, but i am wondering if it was the same group, anyway super concert.

Ray Gomez 👍👍👍

That strat is screaming.

That's Ray Gomez all right - he has posted a pic of that blue strat on his facebook page recently.

😍

Ray Gomez plays on Lenny White album Venusian Summer track Mating Drive check it out

I want an Alembic period!

The guitarist.

GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY !!!!!!

Ray Gomez amazing, there almost was a band which included Bill Bruford & Jeff Berlin, any recordings on their time together?

Ray Gomez plays like a god

AlwYs licked Ray Gomez obvious jazz chops but with great feel he was on Nirada Waldens Lps and Flora Purims eariel work Just remembered hes on a Ray Barretto Album called Eye of the Beholder with an all star line uo of greats he must have been respected but he seemed to dissapear Was he ill ? Great player

Interesting how Ray Gomez and Robben Ford have some similar looks, usually around the time they're leaving the planet for a few measures ;)

ViVA Stanley Clarke com SchOOL Days !!

Dear God In Heaven

Meaning in groups of 6this of course !

2023

Flea learnt from this stuff. And also J. Pastourious.

OOOooohh Yeeeaaahhh!!!