[bomp] Re: Guitar solos

[Sknoof@xxxxxxx]

<< On that note...a new thread. What are some of your favorite guitar solos
to 
listen to? BUT PLEASE UNDERSTAND...I'm not talking about "good" solos like 
something that showcases skill or accomplished playing...Screw that. :> I'm 
talking about more oddball picks that you always like to hear, even if the 
playing itself isn't so hot. >>

My stock answer to that question -- since it's usually (but not in this case)
asked by Clapton-Heads (or worse!) is, of course, "Cinnamon Girl" -- and then
I go into a long diatribe about how perfect one note can be if it's the RIGHT
note, and I do not let them escape the conversation until I can see they've
been bored 3/4 of the way to death.

However, I'd also choose every example you mentioned...

<< "I Heard Her Call My Name" - Velvet Underground. Now THAT'S a solo
(either 
one) >>

Somewhere there's a tape of me "playing" that song in 1968 -- when I didn't
own an amplifier yet -- squealing the guitar through a Panasonic reel-to-reel
tape recorder turned all the way up (this was back in the days when they had a
record-monitor function which served little purpose other than to allow your
mic to feed back.)

<< "La Bamba" - Richie Valens. I love it because it's so incredibly 
basic...Just a few notes up and down, and he doesn't care...he's having fun
just 
groovin'. And so do we. >>

One song that takes that same idea a bit further is "Don't Want To Cry" from
the first Buckinghams album.  Carl Giammarese was one of theeeee most
underrated American guitarists of his day.  But on that particular record he's
just an
over-adrenalized kid who sounds like he's bouncing off the studio walls.

<< "Combination Of The Two" - Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Hilariously 
and beautifully demented. >>

Yeah!  And I'll also nominate that completely atonal opening to "Ball And
Chain."

<< "Tomorrow" - Strawberry Alarm Clock. Actually the playing isn't so bad,
but 
it's that long last sustained note (stereo version) that I wait for. Love
it. >>

That's a spectacularly twisted solo, and so is the one in "Incense And
Peppermints."

But I'm gonna tell all your friends that one of your favorite guitar solos is
by the guy from Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Funny thing about that sustained-note business is that I was just talking
about it on another list yesterday.  Cheers to the absolute master of the
form,
Michael Knust (R.I.P.) from Fever Tree.  He could get perpetual feedback on
virtually any note in the scale without having any other tones creeping their
way
into the perfection.

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