bluestreak
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fucking creedence clearwater revival you cunts 
favourite guitar solos
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bluestreak said:fucking creedence clearwater revival you cunts
Creedance are great.....proto metal...what a voice old foghorn has.
I cant remember the name of it but there's a buzzcocks song where he goes....'guitar solo!' and plays two notes....minimal ironic genius.
Another girl another planet....thats got a pretty great solo in it.
I also like (close your ears dub) some of Tom Morello's solos which can be unusual...sometime he makes his guitar sound like he's wiping it with a wet cloth and then throwing it downstairs (*note this is a good thing) - there's a great solo on audioslaves 'like a stone' for example.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Mick Ronsons work with bowie - great, slow, melodic and dirty. Moonage Daydream, Starman, all the Young Dudes and many more.
Or Nirvana - Kurts solo on teen spirit is beautiful, especially the long drawn out feedbacking note that carries on into the last verse.
Trouble with many guitarists is that they seem to think a guitar solo is an essential part of any song and should be a demonstration of speed and technique - no, it needs to compliment and work with the rest of the music. So the solos in Bowie's Jean-Jeanie, or the who's 'I can see for miles' (both essentially one note played dirty) are far more effective and powerful than 99% of the widdling of the likes of Ritchie Blackmoore, Steve Vie, Van halen et al.
Jimmy Page usually got away with it.
Or Nirvana - Kurts solo on teen spirit is beautiful, especially the long drawn out feedbacking note that carries on into the last verse.
Trouble with many guitarists is that they seem to think a guitar solo is an essential part of any song and should be a demonstration of speed and technique - no, it needs to compliment and work with the rest of the music. So the solos in Bowie's Jean-Jeanie, or the who's 'I can see for miles' (both essentially one note played dirty) are far more effective and powerful than 99% of the widdling of the likes of Ritchie Blackmoore, Steve Vie, Van halen et al.
Jimmy Page usually got away with it.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I pretty much hate all guitar solos - they're usually a most unwelcome interruption to the groove
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
My advice to you is to listen to 70s funk. The lead work is pretty central to the groove. (Classic case in point, Dance to the Music).Orang Utan said:
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I do and they are pretty much the only guitar solos I can abide - I was thinking more of rock guitar solosdanny la rouge said:
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Don't, then.Orang Utan said:
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I'm sorry, but I just can't help thinking of this fella:danny la rouge said:Don't, then.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Is that Yngwie Malmsteen? Nobody should think about him.
I fought and died during punk so that nobody would have to think about the likes og him again. Young people these days, they don't know what we went through.
I fought and died during punk so that nobody would have to think about the likes og him again. Young people these days, they don't know what we went through.
for true exponents of technique over soul see the lead solos in this dragonforce clip....fantastic technique but whats the point apart from making me laugh at the sheer preposterous nature of it...in the video one guitarist has a beer before coming in to shred the arse of his colleague.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
danny la rouge said:Is that Yngwie Malmsteen? Nobody should think about him.
I fought and died during punk so that nobody would have to think about the likes og him again. Young people these days, they don't know what we went through.
I remember buying an ish of "Guitarist" years back because they had an interview with (iirc) Andy Partridge of XTC, and there was a feature on Malmsteen in it. What a tosser!! He kept coming out with stuff about how he was the modern-day equivalent of Paginini (based, obviously, on his ability to arpeggiate, as it certainly couldn't have been based on his compositional ability, the twat.
). I got a metalhead mate to do me a tape of one of Yngvie's albums and my fucking G-d, what a load of dry-wank boring poseurship 
. It went BEYOND "all style and no substance" into "all technical ability and no emotion or soul".Horrible, truly horrible.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
danny la rouge said:Is that Yngwie Malmsteen? Nobody should think about him.
I fought and died during punk so that nobody would have to think about the likes og him again. Young people these days, they don't know what we went through.
Indeed.
I have seen bands recently where the members are all under 25 and the cunts are playing not just widdly guitar marathons - but drum solos! - and their mates applaud them!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Kaka Tim said:
Sick fucks!
Probably the sort of diseased individuals who'd masturbate in public!
In fact, that's kind of what they're doing, fret-wanking in the audiences' face!
Sunspots said:When it comes down to it, it's The Kinks' You Really Got Me. 15 perfect seconds of short, sharp, shock.
-No, hang on... I've just listened to All Day And All Of The Night. Not as good a song, but I think the solo's just that little bit rawer than the one in You Really Got Me.
Can't decide.
((((Me))))
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Sunspots said:I was going to go for something stratospheric by Eddie Hazel or Paul Leary, but...
When it comes down to it, it's The Kinks' You Really Got Me. 15 perfect seconds of short, sharp, shock.
Yeah - that is a great guitar solo.
actually - it may be have been Jimmy Page who plays it .. (he was a session player on several early kinks records).
marksims68
Have guitar will travel
My faves are......
Time - Pink Floyd
Floods - Pantera
Welcome to Dying - Onslaught
Fade to Black - Metallica
And on a non fretboard wankery note, Shadowplay by Joy Division, in fact anything off Unknown Pleasures.
yours in six-string riffery
Mark.
Time - Pink Floyd
Floods - Pantera
Welcome to Dying - Onslaught
Fade to Black - Metallica
And on a non fretboard wankery note, Shadowplay by Joy Division, in fact anything off Unknown Pleasures.
yours in six-string riffery
Mark.
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
That's true of a lot of cracking records made before he became a full-time member of the Yardbirds, e.g. Them's first album.Kaka Tim said:
han
love is the answer
Yep - Michael Jackson's Beat It is an absolute classic, and contains my fave guitar solo that instantly comes to mind....
Though I don't think a guitar solo has to be technically amazing or complex to be an incredible one. One that comes to mind is in 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' (Pink Floyd), where the solo is very simple, but placed at such a point in the track that its' impact is dynamite, and the simplicity and intense emotion of it takes you to another place....well it does me, anyway!
Though I don't think a guitar solo has to be technically amazing or complex to be an incredible one. One that comes to mind is in 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' (Pink Floyd), where the solo is very simple, but placed at such a point in the track that its' impact is dynamite, and the simplicity and intense emotion of it takes you to another place....well it does me, anyway!
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