Bend, reflect, refract
As I was moving slowly through the evening's rush hour traffic a couple nights ago I started thinking about guitar solos. First off, I am reading Chuck Klosterman's Fargo Rock City, which has a lot to do with spandex, hair and killer guitar solos. Secondly, I was listening to one of my favorite guitar solos [see the list for the YLT song]. So I thought I would compile a short list of some of my favorite guitar solos. This is not a comprehensive list, I'm fairly positive that I'll recall a great solo tomorrow or the next day, and maybe I'll add it then, but probably not. And though I love a lot of the so-called great solos, I will let them have their own list, this one is personal. Even so, I couldn't think of any Wilco solos to put on it, oh well maybe in a few weeks. Last comment: this is interactive, please let me know some of your favorite solos. you have my love. [band, song, album, guitarist, reasoning]
Yo La Tengo, We're an American Band, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, Ira Kaplan [assumption]: it just goes on and on and you begin to feel it within you.
Rancid, Maxwell Murder, ...And Out Come the Wolves, Matt Freeman: I realize that it's a bass solo, but it's freakin' incredible. Plus if you called Josh [Nibbles] circa fall of oh-oh you would probably get to hear it on his voicemail.
Cake, I will Survive, Fashion Nugget, Greg Brown: Really it's only in here because it's the first solo I tried to learn, I still remember some parts of it and it's been nearly ten years.
Neil Young, Cortez the Killer, Zuma, Neil Young: It's several minutes long and takes up most of the song. This is one of my favorite songs, and Young is one of my favorite musicians, highly influential to my love of music.
Quaker Gun, Guide to Overseas Travel, no album, Andrew Tucker: Yeah, Andy is my friend, but I'm not adding his solo to the list just because we're friends. Though the rest of the band doesn't care much for the song, it's one of my favorite QG songs, a great set closer too. Anyway, it has a lot of feedback, use of slide, and sometimes the mic stand is used in place of a slide. Great stuff.
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My name is Travis, but I go by The Vis to some. I run, read, live, love and write.
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3 comments:
very nice...some of mine
Radiohead's "There There"
Pink Floyd "Another Brick in the Wall" or basically any of David's solos.
Muse "Hysteria" or "Stockholm Syndrome
Dragonforce "Cry for Eternity" (metal on the clean channel!)
Aw, bless your heart for saying nice things about my caveman solos.
As for a few of my faves:
1) Wilco's "At Least That's What You Said" because it gives hope to inspired amateurs everywhere.
2) STP's "Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart" because I tried once to learn it in high school and I still haven't figured it out.
3)The Beatle's "Revolution" (the version on their greatest hits and not the white album) because it sounds like something is broken and broken is cool.
Oh gosh yes, "At Least That's What You Said." See, I told you I would recall more songs. This one would be top five too. Good call Tucker.
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