July 28, 2004

• His argument against comfortably numb is that it was edited together in the studio.. not that it wasn't creative. But this technique has been used time and time again, not least by Zepplin on the solo for Stairway to Heaven (guitarist plays solo many times on different tracks, then the best bits are x-faded into the final version). These days they just use Pro-Tools to digitally splice the best bits together. And if you're gonna start criticising Pink Floyd for technical studio fuckheadery, then you might as well dismiss everything they've ever done. Besides, Gilmour has played this solo note for note at gigs for years, so its not like he couldn't play it. Motorhead is *supposed* to sound like that. And he picks Willie the Pimp as Zappa's worst offence? Blimey, much as I adore Frank, there were worse solos than that. I would think the Inca Roads solo is worse at that tapping bit. Other than that, I generally agree with his conclusions, but these lists always suck. So you have an opinion about music? Post a Best Of/Worst Of list to the internet.
• And I always thought Kiss sucked. I can't stand them.
• Mick Ronson "not a virtuoso soloist"? Mick Ronson? The man for whom the term "elegantly phrased guitar solo" could have been invented? Prescription: Take one "Life on Mars?" with a glass of water three times a day. Come back and see me again in two weeks if you're not feeling better.
• I've never even heard a lot of these song. And almost all the ones I know I can't recall how the solo went.
• I started reading it and thought to myself, "Jeez, this sounds like a stuck-up hipster writing for Pitchfork." And then I realized it was Pitchfork, and it all made sense.
• I've heard most of these, and of the ones where the guitar solo comes to mind, I'd have to say they were not bad at all, in fact one of my faves is in the list. But it's just some guy's opinion and he's entitled even if he isn't as smart as the average monkey.
• It must really suck to be so angst-ridden and hateful toward everything. I genuinely feel sorry for the author of this piece, what with so many fine antidepressants available these days. Clapton, Beck, Page, Gilmour, and Stevie Ray on a "worst-of" guitar list??? What kind of music does this guy actually like? Moby???
• 29. "Anastasia (Pulling Teeth)" by Metallica What an unfortunate misspelling. I disagree with many of the conclusions, but there's some decent writing here. Fun article.
• Michael Sandlin wrote this. Michael Sandlin. Yeah, that name ranks right up there on all of our "Favorite Guitarists of ALL TIME" list. Oh, wait... Do some of these solos smell? Sure, (depending on your frame of reference). But they are also somebody's favorite moment of guitar bliss, and to casually piss all over that for a cheap laugh is dispicable. Just another attention whore why finds it easier to write snarky articles than actually create something meaningful. Come to think of it, that is what too many critics do these days?
• the_bone wrote: "29. "Anastasia (Pulling Teeth)" by Metallica" Ah, but Anastasia is a little know work of Burton's centering on the mystery of what really befell the Romanov bloodline.
• The tone of that article reminded me of Jack Black's character in "High Fidelity". You're favorite band sucks, and if you disagree you're fuckin' wrong!
• well these lists are stupid, but I think they're fun. right now I am enjoying Neil Young's Down by the River (thanks #2!) ahhh!! beautiful... but hey, what do I know? I like YES!!! bwah ha ha hah!!!!
• hold on a minute -- he called foreigner a "Zepellin-clone." this guy has not clout after a statement like that.
• All guitar solos are awful. 3 chords good, 6 (or more) chords bad! 3 chords good, 6 (or more) chords bad! 3 chords good, 6 (or more) chords bad!
• I'm totally with this guy on Neil Schon. The man is the wimpiest guitarist of all times.
• Y'know I always hated that solo on "I love Rock 'n Roll" - so much so that I mocked it in conversation without the song being played even remotely recently. And yet the last few times I've heard the song I think I understand it now. Joan Jett isn't playing Beethoven, her thing is to be down and dirty and that's *all* that solo is. Grunge,grunge,scrape,baritone-waaahhhhhh - I actually like it now. Dissin' Willie the Pimp? Jesus H. Christ in a Chicken Basket has the man NO SHAME? That solo friggin' rolls! Especially those hammer-ons that get all ethereal with the band pumping behind like a wood-fired steam engine. And now my final thought. While these lists are fun and only produce vehement reactions on any side, they are sorely misguided. Music is all we have left of the original God, and we should cherish it. So take care of yourselves - and each other. *air guitar fade-out*
• Sully! Dust off that vinyl copy of ESC4P3 and listen to the opening crunchiness "Keep on Runnin'"! Dig up HSAS and check out Top of the Rock! Your comments are reminiscent of the (No More) "Lies" from the first Schon & Hammer! although the Schon guitar was admittedly pretty goofy looking (far right)
• Pete, this is my idea of a guitar hero. This is another guitar hero of mine.
• I am an enormous fan of Bob Dylan's. He has, however, some of the most awful guitar solos I have ever heard. Bob likes to get stuck on usually two notes. He plays them back and forth and back and forth. This can go on for nearly a minute sometimes. He apparently is searching in his head for where it should go. Sometimes he goes somewhere and it is just great. Other times he seems to never escape the two notes. Since I love Bob, I generally find the whole thing to be charming and occassionally fascinating. If I did not love Bob, I would undoubtedly think that he is one of the worst guitarists on earth.
• Mmmm Mouldy. Yeah I wouldn't begrudge you them Sully. Out of curiosity (and knowing full well you see where it's going) how about Santana?
• I loved Mick Taylor's work on the Dylan album Infidels. Boy, did the Stones go to hell after Taylor left.
• Out of curiosity (and knowing full well you see where it's going) how about Santana? Good guitarist, but his music bores me. Making a hit with the singer of Matchbox 20 is not going to endear to the artist.
• okay just wondering how far the wank factor played into your qualifiers. :)
• I've got to agree with Sully on Santana. I can listen to him play and think, "Wow, that's one really damn talented guitarist," but my appreciation goes no further than that. "Smooth" had a decent hook (before it was run to death), but overall the music itself ain't nuthin' special to me.
• okay just wondering how far the wank factor played into your qualifiers. :) Not very high, Pete. Not very high at all. I would rather listen to the Shaggs than Phish any day.
• just asking about Santana as Schon was in his band at 16 before leaving to form . . blah blah blah. Very similar approaches. Me? I'm all about the Angus. We need more Angus! No pedals, just an SG and a devilishly hot blues scale. Ay! I don't get so much into the wanketry that I'm all about Vai et. al. (although they are undoubtedly virtuosos) but I like seeing how far into the moment someone can take it before realizing that it's time to turn the ship around and get it back in safely.
• I second the Angus!
• Pete Best: HSAS? How about their "Whiter Shade of Pale" (except for the solos, of course)? My favorite Schon was on Santana 3 when he was still wearing diapers. Speaking of Sanatana, I guess if all folks know about him is post "Smooth", they wouldn't get him either. Now the earliest stuff had a raw intensity that was hard to beat. And you don't exactly LISTEN to his solos... you sorta just FEEL them. Sure, much of it sounds similar, but I contend he is one of a handful of players you can hear a few notes from and recognize instantly. I've been trying to get to that place, and I've been playing 44 years.
• Y'know I never *got* their cover of Whiter Shade of Pale . . thought it stood out like a sore thumb on that rekkid. And FWIW, almost everyone I've seen comment on it - the Hon. Mr. Carlos Santana is widely regarded as The Man by those who work with him.
• No, GuitarMonkey, I've listened to quite a lot of Santana's stuff from his youth -- and I agree with you, he is a fantastic guitar player. You're right, I could pick him out of a lineup after just a handful of notes. I envy his ability, but his music just never moved me. He's always been an interesting case for me, in fact, that I can see such rare talent and yet not be blown over by the music itself.
• Santana is one of a handful of soloists that play straight from the soul. You can see by the look on his face when he plays that the music is coming from so deep inside him that it actually causes him pain. This comes across MUCH more live than in the studio stuff, by the way. I'd put Cream-era Clapton and Stevie Ray in the same category. (I once saw a concert of his that left me physically and emotionally exhausted, just watching it) The technically proficient and lightning-fast players have a certain appeal, but it's just not the same.
• oh...and on the subject of Angus, put me down as "Fuckin' A".
• I saw a live show of Blues Traveler and that John Popper guy played the guitar-hell out of that harp. Remind me to relate the story of how he got to walk again sometime. *hoping nobody knows that myth story*
• rocket88: El Mocambo rules!
• 20 Greatest.
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• Fuckin' Chuck Berry. Led the way, and still waiting for someone to catch up.
• Mmmm. Wanky! Spanx fishy! Um, I got stuck in the tattered crowd-video footage of Van Halen - anyone know the way out? . . .
• Alright- somebody tell me if that's drool or sweat 26 seconds into the Queen video.
• Definitely drool. Judging from the glasses of water, I'd guess Freddy liked to keep well-hydrated.
• Eeewww.
• How about Prince doing While My Guitar Gently Weeps? solo starts at the 3:30 mark or so
• That was pretty damned awesome. best guitar solo in a song ever...no question...hands down...holy shit...prince is the real deal Prince is the real deal. Half Little Richard, Half Jimi Hendrix and Half James Brown, plus Himself in the bargain. And Dhani looks so much like George. Heh. Attaboy.
• First time I watched it, I did so just because I love the song. I didn't even know Prince was involved. I was enjoying listening to Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty, and I was enjoying watching Dhani. I had no idea who the guy slightly off to the side in the hat was. Once he stepped into the spotlight, I was nearly as delighted as Dhani looked.
• Santana is one of a handful of soloists that play straight from the soul. He's been playing the same solo for at least 30 years now. You can see by the look on his face when he plays that the music is coming from so deep inside him that it actually causes him pain. That's a muscle memory thing. You twist the face to match the articulation of the phrase. It helps you get the phrase out expressively. No pain is involved.
• You don't play, do you?
• Does thirty years of gigging count?
• On Santana: Never been a huge fan, but saw him live in 1980ish, and it was special. Huge, emotive tone, and enormously positive energy--this was clearly a guy who just fucking loved to play. Gave me an entirely different opinion of him. He looked more happy than pained, though.
• Oh, and I play, too, for whatever the heck that's worth.
• Oh, and I play, too, for whatever the heck that's worth.
• Often I'll play the same note TWICE IN A ROW. Fucking shitty wireless.
• I'm pretty sure Wolof does play- and he's right!
• (shoulda checked the preview before answering for wolof. Though he should know that you haven't paid your dues until you've done thirty one years of gigs.) That said, I saw Santana in 1975- blew my mind. But the two hits of mescaline and his almighty kick-ass latin percussionists had everything to do with *that* reaction. As a guitarist, I put him in the *meh* category; Hendrix, Prince, Alan Holdsworth, Metheny and Mclaughlin (et al) all play circles around him.
• The original link is dead but I sure hope that Ted Nugent appeared somewhere on that list. His lameness is only matched by his pretentious egotism. One of his solos was transcribed in Guitar Magazine some years back and was helpfully annotated by Ted. It included comments like "and this is where I really took the music to another plane" and "this lick transported me to the level of Uber Guitar-God" etc. The solo itself was a collection of fairly standard rock guitar cliches albeit played fast and undoubtedly ear splittingly loud.
• Nugent is pretty awful, but wank-for-wank I don't think anyone will ever out-pretentious the Paganini-fellating Yngwie Malmsteen.
• Strong contender for wankiest of the wankers there, Bone.
• Oh sure, pick on Yngwie. No, no I get it, talk about preening, self-absorbed, pretentious wanking and out come the Yngwie haters. And for good reason. Anyone seen that YouTube video with the shredtastic 8-year old who sounds well-nigh indiscriminate from Satriani? It's a fine line between technique and . . umm . . the other part where it's awesome.
• Does thirty years of gigging count? Apparently not. So you don't like Carlos. To each his own... Much of that top 20 list are great songs, and great players, but not what I would call the greatest solos. Considering the source though, I can understand them. But what's with Nirvana's SMTS doing at 26? The solo was a note-for-note doubling of the vocal line. It's pretty telling that the best guitarist in that band was the drummer.
• It's pretty telling that the best guitarist in that band was the drummer. Tough, but fair.
• Skunk Baxter should be somewhere on the good list- continually underrated throughout his career.
• I saw Santana with The Rolling Stones The opening act? Iggy Pop He got booed offstage
• Apparently not. This really makes you look an absolute twat. I have nothing against Carlos whatsoever, but he has done exactly zero in the new department for a very very long time. And if you think it hurts to get all that music out, you should feel sorry for that poor B. B. King, who apparently gets the blues every night and pulls the faces to prove it.
• Chy was right.
• You certainly pulled that out of your soul. Or something that rhymes with it.
• vole?
• If I had the time I'd post an inline pic of Santana with the "I'm not good enough for Wolof" caption. Look, your only purpose in this thread seems to be to dig up a comment I made TWO AND A HALF FUCKING YEARS AGO and shit on it by telling me I was wrong. WRONG...about a musical opinion. Do you know how fucking stupid that makes you? If you don't understand my point, and I'm sure you don't, then ignore it...or mumble your disagreement to yourself and move on. Now do you have something constructive to add to the conversation or are you just content to be a fucking contrarian troll?
• LOL!
• Dole?
• Actually, rocket88, you seem to be the trolling one from where I'm sitting. Wolof expressed an opinion -- so what if it's contrary to your own? You were the one who tried to invalidate his opinion by assuming he didn't play. Well guess what? You guessed wrong, sucka. Every comment since has been digging yourself deeper. I mean c'mon, if you're gonna dig, DIG. Mock up a FREE CHY! poster or something. C'mon man! FLAME OUT IN STYLE!
• Moley-moley-moley!
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• WRONG...about a musical opinion. You don't play, do you?
• Troll!
• Wol!
• James Brown would fine you both and still put on a kickass show. Um . . which, doesn't say much of anything. But it is the Innernet. So . . there. And fwiw, I agree that Santana trades almost entirely on that big sweet fuzz tone, the solos are similar if not the same and the followup to Supernatural was lackluster. Still it's like a good item on the menu, everytime I have it, I like it. And now, my interpretive dance piece about the work of Frank Lloyd Wright . . .
• Does thirty years of gigging count? As long as it's not jazz
• Wolof expressed an opinion -- so what if it's contrary to your own? He didn't express an opinion, he quoted mine and categorically declared it wrong. As has been stated before by an ex-monkey, this is SOP for Wolof. He contributes little but contrarianism. Well guess what? You guessed wrong, sucka. Not really...I figured either he didn't play or he didn't play with enough soul to understand. Looks like it's the latter. C'mon man! FLAME OUT IN STYLE! Never...at least not over a wanker like this. He'd have two notches on his belt...we can't have that.
• rocket, why are you being such a dick? seriously if you have such a problem with his opinions, respond to it in a civilized fashion There's no need for all the fucking hostility fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck ugh argh ugh
• Jesus, rocket, don't get your man-panties in a wad. Your favorite band SUCKS. Get over it.
• What the fuck is with these heelies? Am I even spelling that right? Am I saying it right? I think that is the term for those sneakers that kids wear that have the wheel on the heel that allows them to skate/glide. Sounds fun and all, but who the fuck thinks it's a good idea for them to be doing it in stores? I was in Lowe's and I watched an 8 or 9 year old girl crash into some display, fall down, and start crying. She gets up and gets consoled from her mother. Within another minute or two, she is skating around again on the things right in front of her mother. No problem for mom. I have never seen a parent tell their kid not to skate around (I suspect the kids who have parents who would tell them not to do it don't do it in the first place). The stores themselves seem to not have policies. If I owned a store and saw that going on, I would see two things: enormous liability for lawsuits when some kid inevitably gets hurt; and unusual wear (ie, damage) to my floors. Wal-mart is the only store I know of that explicity bans them. I asked the manager at PetSmart this past weekend if I rolled in on my roller blades if she would tell me I couldn't. She said she would. I am only moderately irate right now. Once the hate in me grows a bit more, I plan to make an fpp out of it and mail anthrax to anyone who disagrees with me.
• Several of the floor staff in my local supermarket go around on inline skates. They're quite good skaters, but I've seen a few near collisions.
• Not really...I figured either he didn't play or he didn't play with enough soul to understand. Looks like it's the latter. Jackie Stallone just read my ass. The third "dumb fuck" line to the left has your name on it. Right on top of the aisle. Go there. Big Chy man will be waiting right in front of you.
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• David Lee Roth rejoins Van Halen for first tour since 1894
• 1894 sounds much more accurate, oddly enough.
• respond to it in a civilized fashion I think you'll notice I did until I was called a twat.
• While these lists are fun and only produce vehement reactions on any side, they are sorely misguided. Music is all we have left of the original God, and we should cherish it. So take care of yourselves - and each other. Quite.
• Fish-Y! Fish-Y! Fish-Y!
• O Fish, O Fish, O Fish, O.
• David Lee Roth rejoins Van Halen for first tour since 1894 Hmmm... one of my coworkers is DLR's next-door neighbor. I might have to go get the inside-story on this one... ) to fish tick! I think we have in our midst, a new master of the high form... *bows* The fact that the 50 Worst Guitar Solos? thread spiraled into the mess above is ironic, to say the least. *pulls out air guitar*
• But what's with Nirvana's SMTS doing at 26? I was connected to Nirvana through friends, but I was never a guitarist for Nirvana! And anyway, I was only 18 then. Aye!
• Wot-wot-wot? All I did was quote petes.
• Oy beleeve 'ees on about the gifts! Mm! Yes, yes, quite. And Kurdt gets points for the Jagstang and diliberate phaser abuse.
• Yessee, it twas 'da giffys, 'ol ticky!
• I think you'll notice I did until I was called a twat. And he said that what you said made you look like a `twat' because you repeatedly accused him of knowing nothing about music ("Do you play? ... Apparently not"). In other words, you responded to an on-topic observation about a musician -- not about you the poster, but the musician -- with attacks on the poster. And that is lame. I don't agree either with Wolof or what he said, because a twat is a very fine thing, and I rather doubt that you look like one. If you look like one, plz send photo kthx. But you both need to unbunch the man-panties. I sentence Wolof to an hour of quietly listening to Santana fanboys rave and burble, and you to an hour of being trapped in an automobile with nothing but a BEST OF JOURNEY 8-track tape. I dreamed last night of trumpet lessons. Or rather, I dreamed of interviewing potential trumpet teachers who all wanted to know why I'd let me embouchure go to hell. Too much pumpernickel at dinner, I think.
• *steps back from the canvas* I think the cat's tail is swooshing away the ill-tempered comments. Simple, elegant and emotional. Yes. It quite stills me. *steps up close* Why, there's nothing here but small colored dots! Insert Chy here -----------> __________
• trapped in an automobile with nothing but a BEST OF JOURNEY 8-track tape. Ah! . . And . . And just what is wrong, pray tell, with the Best of Journey?? I-i-i-It says "The Best of" right there on the 8-track! It's the Best! She loves to laugh . . (Duhn-na!) . . She loves to sing . . (Duhn-na!) . . She does everything . (Weee-do-weedle-weedo-doo)
• Journey's first greatest hits album was released in 1988. 8 tracks were through being manufactured by 1983. Am I the only one around here who treats these threads seriously anymore? Even if you had a secret copy of the nonexistent "Journey's Greatest Hits" in 1983, you would be missing everything from Frontiers, singles off of both the Vision Quest and Two of a Kind soundtracks, and Raised On the Radio. Get your facts straight, mortals.
• My belief in the glory of Neal Schon trancends your petty limits of time and space. I do have some very real brain damage caused by long (10-12 hour) car trips in a 1975 -- or was it a 1978? -- Pontiac Firebird with an 8 track player and exactly three (3) tapes: 1) Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack); 2) Journey's EVOLUTION; 3) Santana's ABRAXAS recorded in quadraphonic (and played, mind you, on a stereo 8-track player). Listening to 50% at a time of ABRAXAS for hours on end was pretty fucking trippy. It changed me.
• Also transcends your small-minded orthographic conventions. I must fly free, free! Free as a... ummm... a free thing. Yeah.
• Not to mention the Evolution, Infinity, and Departure albums were recorded on one of those shoebox-sized portable cassette recorders with the built-in microphone. Not a lot of people know that. They just played in Neil's living room and dropped that sucker in the middle of them all. So all you haters who want to say the sound quality sucked and the engineers must have been high on something just step off. The recording technique is solid. The recording technique is good.
• *cranks up golf bag* So let's dance! ♪ ANY WAY YOU WANT IT THAT'S THE WAY YOU NEED IT ANY WAY YOU WANT IT ♫
• Where did these drinks come from?
• OK, people- this is quite simple: Every musician I like is great Everyone else sucks. Any questions? Good!- that's finally cleared up. I'm glad we had this little chat.
• Freebird!
• Only the godlike Peter Frampton can make his guitar talk!
• *obeys the kamus*
• When Frampton would sing, "Do you feel like I do?" I'd always think, "Embarassed?"
• Damn, I've been waiting for the right moment to finally watch Prince doing While My Guitar Gently Weeps (blocked at my work), and it's been removed from teh ewetubes! *grumbles*
• Fear not, sugarmilktea.
• Funny, having been on a Traveling Wilburys kick over the weekend... wasn't expecting to see Prince alongside Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty. Nice! Thanks, bernockle!!
• Being that both Dylan and Prince hail from Minnesota originally, I petitioned the remaining Wilburys to have Prince replace Dylan. This video is proof that they have embraced my idea. Tour and album to follow.
• I'd buy a ticket and a cd. I'm fairly confident that the guitar Prince used in that performance self-incincerated. I have an intersting Dylan story via one of my old professors who went to school with him in Minnesota. I thought I wrote in in the pages of Mofi before, but cannot find it. Time doesn't permit now, so perhaps tomorrow if anyone cares...
• Thx bernockle, man that Harrison tribute looks pretty cool. I don't play but i do love to watch great playing (=great music and not just technical fireworks) You guitar heads out there, can you share some more of your fave guitar videos?
• Clapton & the Band from the Last Waltz (note Robbie's quick save when EC's strap comes loose) Some great playing from both in later solos.
• the guitar Prince used in that performance self-incincerated. That's true, but the hat ascended.
• *does a Sign O' the Times* Praise Grog!
• How about this: Life Without You, by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
• Not With Eddie (short and sad LA Weekly article about Mr. Van Halen).
• holy crap that was sad. I guess maybe it's a good thing that it's "just" liquor. Maybe.
• Best guitar solo I ever saw played was played by a guy named David Grissom, playing for Joe Ely, on a song called postcard from L.A. There's a pretty good version of the solo on that same song on the Ely album entitled Live at Liberty Lunch (I think that's what it's called; had it on cassette, and haven't seen/listened to it in 10+ years). Grissom did some time playing with John Cougar Mellencamp, I think, after Ely. No clue what he's up to now. But boy, he told a story with that extended solo.
• In case there's any doubt Santana sold out.
• He probably won't change the menu for 30 years, at least.
• It's words three-through-six in that article that tell the story there.
• David Grissom plays.
• That YouTube Grissom solo is way more guitar wanky and directionless than I remember him being, and than the solo on that Liberty Lunch record is. But thanks for the find in any case, SB!
• You're welcome! All the usual online sources didn't turn up anything sadly especially the LA song you recommended. It's tough being a guitarist who plays but doesn't sing...
• Reminds me of Eric Johnson. Either you're part of the ballcap-wearing-bored-girlfriend-having-guitar-geeky-masses or you're not.
• Eric Johnson plays.
• Would have been better if smoke started coming out of his ears during the faster runs.
• 2007 Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame R.E.M., Patti Smith, Van Halen, Grandmaster Flash, Ronettes Inducted Roth peevish, Eddie rehabbin'; both absent. No mention of Alex, which furthers my obviously correct theory that he's behind all the turmoil
• It's always the drummer's fault
• Unreleased Jimmy Page Guitar Riff To Be Retrieved From Secret Vault To Save Rock And Roll The Guardians said recent developments in the music world, such as the unaccountable popularity of the Dixie Chicks and Sufjan Stevens, have created a "perfect storm of lameness" from which rock might never recover. While Iommi refused to say when the vault would be opened, hard rock sources believe it will take place just prior to next month's Fall Out Boy–Honda Civic tour, which many fear will suck the remaining lifeblood from all that still rocks.
• Does it still count as satire if it's so very true?
• Lovely soloing.
• Yes, very nice. A little hot tone-wise. He misses some of the bite and clarity Skunk got because the fuzz kinda takes over. And how can you have fifty-eleven horns and have a thin horn sound? That's unpossible! /fuss /whine
• Steely Dan were masters in the studio, and it could never quite be pulled off properly live. I'd still love to see them though. The "Peg" solo from Aja is everything a guitar solo should be...interesting melodically, faithfully follows the chord changes, and wankery-free.
• Thanks to HWingo for today's FPP inspiration (and Der Bluegel as well). Regardez
• More about the drums than the guitar, but: Santana - Soul Sacrifice (Woodstock 1969) A more than worthwhile live rock performance, I'd say.
• Hendrix on fire.
• Frankenpick.
• But will it return me to 1984? I bet I really could have done something if I knew then what I know now . . .
• I think if Mark Manning and Bill Drummond (another 'pool grad, kit!) couldn't save the world with the Lost Chord, Jimmy Page won't be able to.
• Van Halen scraps shows due to Eddie's "mystery" ailment.
• YouTube shuts down 'Shreds' videos I can't tell you how many people I saw be fooled by those. Okay it was 3. and one of them was me.
• Ridiculous. Parody is fair use.