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Guitar World: 100 best solos

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by tommyp, Jan 18, 2007.

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  1. Fenian_Bastard

    Fenian_Bastard Guest

    Damn, now THAT'S a call.
     
    Fenian_Bastard, Jan 29, 2007
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  2. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    No love for Marty McFly's tributes to Chuck Berry, Pete Townshend, Angus Young and Eddie Van Halen on "Johnny B. Goode" ???
     
    Double J, Jan 29, 2007
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  3. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Figured this could use an updating.
    David Gilmour. Comfortably Numb. Live in Gdasnk. 2006
     
    Chef2, Mar 29, 2017
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  4. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

     
    three_bags_full, Mar 29, 2017
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  5. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    I had forgotten about the 3 minute Prince solo in there that is absolutely incredible.
     
    Chef2, Mar 30, 2017
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  6. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I said this on a thread several years ago about that Prince solo. I thought it was really self indulgent on his part -- a giant "look at me!"

    The whole thing was supposed to be about George Harrison, and instead he was itching to make it about Prince. That said, I was bored to tears before he stepped on stage -- it was a really poor cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, with a couple of geriatrics baked out of their skulls mumbling in monotone -- which wasn't much a tribute either. The only excuse for it could I come up with was that Prince was trying to pump some oxygen back into the room.

    The solo on that song was brilliant in its subtlety, and what Prince did was the opposite of that. If the aim was to honor George Harrison and the original song, I really thought it failed.
     
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    The Big Ragu, Mar 30, 2017
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  7. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Revisiting this thread it is hilarious to see Clive Davis take credit for Springsteen's stage prowess. His book, The Soundtrack of my Life, (which came out in 2013), is one huge ego trip with endless name dropping and he takes credit for discovering every major artist of the last 150 years. To me the most interesting bits - not the revelations of his personal life with seems to take up the last quarter of the book - are the rare occasions when he mentions he whiffed on somebody.
     
    Huggy, Mar 30, 2017
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  8. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Fair point. There was a whole bunch of "Look at me go!" in that solo. If you just heard it, and didn't see the video of it, would you have a different perspective?
    Soundwise, I think it's incredible.
     
    Chef2, Mar 30, 2017
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  9. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    I thought watching it was what made it better. He put his style on it
     
    three_bags_full, Mar 30, 2017
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  10. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Fitting this thread should reemerge on Clapton's 72nd birthday
     
    Huggy, Mar 30, 2017
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  11. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    Is the guy between Tom Petty and Prince somebody I should know?
     
    justgladtobehere, Mar 30, 2017
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  12. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Dhani Harrison apparently thought it was all right.

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    The original solo of WMGGW was not restrained or subtle; that was the whole point of bringing Eric Clapton in to play it.

    If George had wanted the solo to be restrained and unobtrusive, he would have played it himself. He brought in Clapton, who was known at the moment as the most spectacular soloist (with the exception of Hendrix).

    Bringing in Prince 40 years later was pretty much the same thing.
     
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    Starman, Mar 30, 2017
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