I always loved and still do The Walkers Brothers No regrets, bit like the carpenters stuff, a great guitar solo just bursts out of the song from nowhere, same as My Love by Wings, they hit you when you least expect, but mighty fine they are.
They had some really cool stuff, I like what Scott Walker did later too (avante garde).
Lindsey Buckingham's solo on I'm So Afraid is one of my all time favorites:
This solo from the guitar player from Argentinian band, Autumn Moonlight:
And Dave Flett's solo on Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band:
I think sometimes if you try to play too technically, you lose something in the music - like you're playing for another guitar player. I like to play for people. The more sophisticated and mature guitarists become, the more they go with the feel.
Paul McCartney-Taxman McCartney, Harrison, Lennon-The End Hughie Thomasson, Billy Jones-Green Grass And High Tides Andy Summers-Bombs Away Mick Ronson-Moonage Daydream Joe Walsh-Those Shoes, Victim Of Love, The Bomber David Gilmour-Another Brick in The Wall Pt.2 Earl Slick-Men Without Shame
Everything from Pat Metheny. Sometimes I'm a minimalist. That song is the one comming to my head when thinking on Pat. The studio solo is perfect, but live is always a plus.
For a melodic one Snoogans beat me to it with Kate Bush but kind of in a similar 70s pop vein...
For a WTF face melting one, this changed my life... goto 1:57 and 5:28 if you just want the solos
and another great solo over a funk groove...
That solo in Goodbye To Love is probably the most wonderful solo with the most teeth-gratingly awful fuzz tone in recorded history. And you nailed it with Reasons To be Cheerful. The Blockheads were a monster funk outfit. Those geezers could give Nile Rodgers and Co. a real run for their money!
And I love the "Sic 'em, boy" solo (4:20) on Foetus' "Bedrock", to me it is just two Strats howling in feedback with some whammy manipulations, noisey but very effective in this lovely ode to a sociopath.
Dime in Cowboy's From Hell Lowell George in Dixie Chicken Doc Watson in Salt Creek great fun to play too. Blackfoot: Rickey Medlocke on Train Train Most recent: BLS, Zakk Wylde: The Only Words. Damn tasty.
"These riffs were built to last a lifetime." Keith Richards
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They had some really cool stuff, I like what Scott Walker did later too (avante garde).
Lindsey Buckingham's solo on I'm So Afraid is one of my all time favorites:
This solo from the guitar player from Argentinian band, Autumn Moonlight:
And Dave Flett's solo on Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band:
- Ritchie Blackmore
McCartney, Harrison, Lennon-The End
Hughie Thomasson, Billy Jones-Green Grass And High Tides
Andy Summers-Bombs Away
Mick Ronson-Moonage Daydream
Joe Walsh-Those Shoes, Victim Of Love, The Bomber
David Gilmour-Another Brick in The Wall Pt.2
Earl Slick-Men Without Shame
For me - Easy by The Commodores is a prime example.
Sometimes I'm a minimalist.
That song is the one comming to my head when thinking on Pat. The studio solo is perfect, but live is always a plus.
And I love the "Sic 'em, boy" solo (4:20) on Foetus' "Bedrock", to me it is just two Strats howling in feedback with some whammy manipulations, noisey but very effective in this lovely ode to a sociopath.
Lowell George in Dixie Chicken
Doc Watson in Salt Creek great fun to play too.
Blackfoot: Rickey Medlocke on Train Train
Most recent: BLS, Zakk Wylde: The Only Words. Damn tasty.
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