i like some of the band of gypsy solos.

who knows...machine gun.

the rest. to hell, i say.


duane denison? i can't get enough.

you're thoughts on the guitar solo.



(i didn't search. hope this topic ain't covered.)

The solo on Wilma's Rainbow by Helmet is fucking brilliant, a wall of tripped out nuttery.

But most are pointless nonsense.

Jimi Hendrix wouldn't be the same without the solos.

"Fire" live benefits hugely from the mental solos. Plus the improvisation wouldn't work.

Tom Morello needs solos too. He's programmed to play them and crashes if he is not allowed.

most of the time they are crap, the concept is a bit crap, but the brilliant ones compensate imho.
like the one by lou reed on "i heard her call my name"

Both solos on Thin Lizzy's "Cowboy Song" are amazing--badass, to be sure, but also controlled and melodic and wholly integrated into the fabric of the song. This, it seems to me, is the key to an effective solo--that it complements and enhances the song rather than the song becoming a foundation for the soloist's flights of fancy. Greg Ginn straddles this fine line precariously--and thrillingly. So does Jimi Hendrix.

Some outstanding solos occur not as "leads" but as solo passages played underneath the song proper, such as Cheetah Chrome's fills on the last chorus of "Not Anymore" or that wigged out shit Lindsey Buckingham does on the tag-out of "You Make Lovin' Fun," some of my favorite guitar playing ever.

I love guitar solos, especially when played by this guy:





















Not really.

You haven't experienced guitar soloing until you've witnessed one that lasts 30 minutes. I went to an open night where everyone and anyone was encouraged to take to the stage and, ahem, 'jam'. A few Green Day/G'n'R covers later a young black man takes to the stage with his own Jackson guitar. I have seen him before. He is the same young man that walks through the town wearing outrageous wigs (at one point over some quite substantial dreadage) and a long leather overcoat (right throughout the year I might add). The guy stood next to me laughs knowingly and turns to the bar with his face in his hands. A few moments later and I'm convulsing with laughter as this guy has started to do an impression of Yngwie Malmsteen taking Thurston Moore apart with a battleaxe. We clapped at the end of his 'set' and got told in no uncertain terms by the bar staff not to encourage him. He continued playing, until the sound guy just pulled the plug on him. He went quite mad. It was only when this happened that I realised that this guy was probably a bit troubled, and that laughing at him wasn't a good idea.

So there we have it, guitar solos are mad. NO, I mean 'ill'.

that marquee moon solo is a good one.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:controlled and melodic and wholly integrated into the fabric of the song. This, it seems to me, is the key to an effective solo--that it complements and enhances the song rather than the song becoming a foundation for the soloist's flights of fancy.

Perfect.

I can't think of a single solo on the following albums that i'd get rid of or consider crap:

Apocalypse Dudes by Turbonegro
Van Halen I -- I mean, come on! "Eruption!"

Um, ok, that's all i can think of right now. Post-lunch coma setting in.