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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 03:17:42
Yeah, I know, the guitar solo as an artform is dead, whatever. Guitar solos rule.
My picks:
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters: this is a Hetfield rather than a Hammett, if I remember rightly, so it's obviously less flashy, but I think it works perfectly. Full of subtlety for a metal solo.
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe: my favourite Hendrix solo I think, again for the simplicity.
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb: I could've chosen so many from The Wall (Mother, Another Brick...), but this one has everything. Dave Gilmour always chooses excatly the right note.
I could go on. Wot no Van Halen, for example? What about you, kids?
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| ScottP |
Posted - 06/21/2006 : 13:16:03
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
What about "Maggot Brain" by J Mascis, on Mike Watt's Ball-Hog Or Tugboat? That has to be the silliest guitar solo ever. I love it.
Kinda playing the amp more than the guitar on that one. Cool. Interesting use of the wa wa as more of a tone shaper than the traditional method, too. |
| Carl |
Posted - 06/21/2006 : 12:18:21
quote:
Originally posted by edbanky
Also, I really love the one on "I'm Set Free" by the Velvet Underground. Also, I really love it. Partly it's because of it's only Mo Tucker's thumping sounds and the guitar with the reverb.
Is that the one that sounds like lead guitar in Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)?!
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 06/21/2006 : 10:43:37
quote:
Originally posted by edbanky
Also, I really love the one on "I'm Set Free" by the Velvet Underground. Also, I really love it. Partly it's because of it's only Mo Tucker's thumping sounds and the guitar with the reverb.
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I wouldn't even have started the topic if I knew there were Bush Ass Kissers here as I don't even want to hear there "outrage" and comments at all because I have heard them and they are all wrong.
Listen to the solo in I'm Set Free then Havalina, it's almost uncanny.
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| El Loco |
Posted - 06/21/2006 : 10:37:02
The solo in "Feel so good" by chuck mangione. SERIOUSLY |
| edbanky |
Posted - 06/21/2006 : 10:13:44
Also, I really love the one on "I'm Set Free" by the Velvet Underground. Also, I really love it. Partly it's because of it's only Mo Tucker's thumping sounds and the guitar with the reverb.
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I wouldn't even have started the topic if I knew there were Bush Ass Kissers here as I don't even want to hear there "outrage" and comments at all because I have heard them and they are all wrong. |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 06/21/2006 : 02:29:01
I like Bob Mould's solo on 'Celebrated Summer'. Also, on Bowie's 'Moonage Daydream', Mick Ronson treats us to a fantastic solo. |
| cassandra is |
Posted - 06/21/2006 : 02:00:44
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
What about "Maggot Brain" by J Mascis, on Mike Watt's Ball-Hog Or Tugboat? That has to be the silliest guitar solo ever. I love it.
Denis
Your team sucks
eh eh eh... I can imagine Jay playing that one while closing his eyes and shaking his hair to the rhythm
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| vilainde |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 23:55:33
What about "Maggot Brain" by J Mascis, on Mike Watt's Ball-Hog Or Tugboat? That has to be the silliest guitar solo ever. I love it.
Denis
Your team sucks |
| Broken Face |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 19:29:58
i generally agree, minus SRV. He's pretty fantastic in my eyes.
-Brian - http://bvsrant.blogspot.com |
| ScottP |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 18:57:17
Funny that this topic comes up- I was just driving home listening to the local classic rock station and they played Heart's "Magic Man". I'm not a huge Heart fan, but the solo in that song is so cool, creepy, backwards, and perfect, and the tone is so original, I'd have to say that's a great solo.
Right after that they played Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4". I guess Terry Kath was one of Hendrix's favorite guitarists, but the solo in this song is a complete whack fest. The shittiest guitar solo ever. It had to be said.
Gilmore, Gibbons, Zappa, Nuge, Walsh, Baxter, May, Workman, Rhodes, =vh=, Atkins, Slash, the original Cake guy, Tom Morello, Adam Jones, all interesting, smart soloists.
SRV, Clapton, Blackmore, Allman, Dime, Hammett, Yngwie, Vai, Satch, Page, Beck, Green, Trower, yaaaaawwwwnnnnnn. No fireworks for me for some reason. |
| ScottP |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 18:09:34
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Originally posted by Broken Face
Word! That guitar tone is great
-Brian - http://bvsrant.blogspot.com
I heard he uses teeny weeny little amps in the studio. |
| Broken Face |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 17:06:11
Word! That guitar tone is great
-Brian - http://bvsrant.blogspot.com |
| Newo |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 16:56:40
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Posted - 06/20/2006 : 10:47:18
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This choice isn't hip at all, but neither are guitar solos:
"Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart" - Stone Temple Pilots, soloist - Dean DeLeo
I love that solo. Thatīs my favourite of their records, the trebly guitar makes it for me.
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| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 15:50:57
I've always really dug Paul McCartney's guitar solo on TAXMAN. Simple, quick, but so "where the hell did he come up with that?"
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
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| BLT |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 15:08:36
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
I actually thought to myself when I started this thread, I wonder if BLT will suggest a Devo song...
Why, thank you.
I never hear mention of Bob1's guitar prowess but listen to any pre-Freedom of Choice Devo, especially the Hardcore comps. The guy's great. |
| edbanky |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 15:04:47
Frenetic Dinosaur Jr ones like "How'd You Pin That One On Me" or majestic tunnel ones like on "Keep The Glove" or "They Always Come". I also like a lot of Billy Corgan's ones. I also like ones you can sing, like the one on "Something" or the one on "Severed Lips".
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| vilainde |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 14:05:57
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
You've got to be kidding, Mike.
(by the way, that's Jon, not John)
Denis
Your team sucks
Why? It's a shit quote. He's just plain wrong.
Oops... Seems we're having all this discussion for nothing. Jon Spencer did write the liner notes from this CD, but the quote I'm referring to is not by him, it's by the guy who made the comp (from Rough Trade I guess) called Mick Petts, and he says: "Just to let you know for a record to stake a claim for 'authentic rock and rollness', at least half of the tracks must contain guitar solos. It's over 70% on this baby."
And I stand by it!
Denis
Your team sucks |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 13:41:36
quote:
Originally posted by BLT
Bob Mothersbaugh(Devo) solo on "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA"
Billy Zoom (X)...lots of great stuff but I especially love the solo in "The Have Nots"
Captain Sensible - if I had to pick one, it'd probably be either "Smash It Up" or "I Think I'm Wonderful"
I actually thought to myself when I started this thread, I wonder if BLT will suggest a Devo song...
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| WolfManMikeLonely |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 13:20:30
Richard Hell and the Voidoids(Robert Quine) - Love Comes in Spurts
I'm pretty sure it's Quine doing this solo, but I think I might have read somewhere that it's actually Ivan Julian.
"Hey fuck you if you don't like it."
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| BLT |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 13:18:53
Bob Mothersbaugh(Devo) solo on "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA"
Billy Zoom (X)...lots of great stuff but I especially love the solo in "The Have Nots"
Captain Sensible - if I had to pick one, it'd probably be either "Smash It Up" or "I Think I'm Wonderful"
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| Broken Face |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 12:13:51
"Apostrophe" - Frank Zappa, soloist - Frank Zappa
-Brian - http://bvsrant.blogspot.com |
| mr.biscuitdoughhead |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 12:02:49
I love Alex Turner's solo in the beginning of The Arctic Monkeys' song I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor.
I wouldn't say it's the best, though.
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| Broken Face |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 10:47:18
This choice isn't hip at all, but neither are guitar solos:
"Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart" - Stone Temple Pilots, soloist - Dean DeLeo
-Brian - http://bvsrant.blogspot.com |
| Carl |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 10:29:34
I like a lot of Kirk Hammet's solos. Jane's Addiction's Dave Navarro shreds out a wonderful jazzy lead on Been Caught Stealing.
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| El Loco |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 09:57:38
quote:
Originally posted by El Loco
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird......you all lose.
shame on you all |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 09:47:17
quote:
Originally posted by TarTar
I think Joey Santiago's solo on "Hey" is at the top of the pile when it comes to fantastic guitar solos.
one of the few solos i've bothered to learn
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| TarTar |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 09:45:10
Brokenface, I remember reading that it's actually Brian Bell soloing on "Why Bother?" I'll have to look into that, fact check it.
I think Joey Santiago's solo on "Hey" is at the top of the pile when it comes to fantastic guitar solos.
All the leads in "and your bird can sing" by the Beatles are marvelous.
Steve Malkmus has a great solo in that song "Church on White" from his first solo record.
Dean Ween's guitar work on "Buckingham Green" is so fuckin' brown!
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 09:30:30
yeah, sometimes Jon Spencer can be really "wrong" in interviews -although I like his music.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 09:27:07
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
You've got to be kidding, Mike.
(by the way, that's Jon, not John)
Denis
Your team sucks
Why? It's a shit quote. He's just plain wrong.
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| Newo |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 07:47:58
Adam Jones, Tool - Third Eye
Marc Ribot, Tom Waits - Way Down In The Hole
Dave Navarro, Janeīs Addiction - So What?
Django Reinhardt - Georgia On My Mind
Buzz Osborne, Fantomas - Simply Beautiful
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| jtjcp88 |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 07:09:14
quote:
Originally posted by marcus4realius
quote:
Originally posted by Broken Face
Yes i am. As much as i enjoy the Hendrix version, SRV's is 10x better in my opinion.
-Brian - http://bvsrant.blogspot.com
At least you didn't say the Sting version.
Please tell me your joking?
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| El Loco |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 07:09:02
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird......you all lose. |
| cassandra is |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 06:49:11
Three Imaginary Boys - The Cure: This one is really simple, but I love it, the sound of the guitar is... it gives me the thrills each time I hear it.
Tommy the Cat - Primus & Wynona's Big Brown Beaver - Primus: Talking about perfection? these ones are good examples.
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| marcus4realius |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 06:48:36
quote:
Originally posted by Broken Face
Yes i am. As much as i enjoy the Hendrix version, SRV's is 10x better in my opinion.
-Brian - http://bvsrant.blogspot.com
At least you didn't say the Sting version.
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"This is a weird story. President Bush has apologized today for scolding a member of the White House press corps for wearing sunglasses because he found out the reporter is legally blind. ... Bush also apologized for telling physicist Stephen Hawking `to get off your lazy ass.'"
---Conan O'Brien |
| Broken Face |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 06:35:44
Yes i am. As much as i enjoy the Hendrix version, SRV's is 10x better in my opinion.
-Brian - http://bvsrant.blogspot.com |
