Favorite guitar solos
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Im Sorry. No comes close to Jimi Hendrix. I know lots of people did guitar and were really good, but Hendrix mastered the guitar. Even today people try to play like him and they don't come close to even sounding like his playing.
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No one can come close to the skill Hendrix had. If they did they would be famous. No can match or come close to Hendrix's style. Once you hear Hendrix playing, it still blows you away because it is so amazing.
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The reason a technically superior guitarist isn't as famous as Hendrix is because, as you said, no one could match his style. And yeah, his music blows me away; don't get me wrong on that!Queeaqueg wrote:No one can come close to the skill Hendrix had. If they did they would be famous. No can match or come close to Hendrix's style. Once you hear Hendrix playing, it still blows you away because it is so amazing.
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Hendrix rules there is no denying. But Gilmour has an extremely subtle touch that is a lot harder to really pick up. He made it seem extremely easy to play guitar, but you take a closer listen and you can hear all of the amazing things he is doing. Just listen to Animals really close and tell me that Gilmour isn’t absolutely amazing.
Gilmour belongs with Hendrix and Clapton, only he isn't really flashy like they are. And while both Clapton and Gilmour live, never call someone else the best living guitarist.
Besides, while Hendrix was a masterful guitar player, he was a really bad vocalist. Everything that is Not guitar in the Jimmy Hendrix experience borders on blowing.
Gilmour belongs with Hendrix and Clapton, only he isn't really flashy like they are. And while both Clapton and Gilmour live, never call someone else the best living guitarist.
Besides, while Hendrix was a masterful guitar player, he was a really bad vocalist. Everything that is Not guitar in the Jimmy Hendrix experience borders on blowing.
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Gilmour is an absolute God.
The outro solo on "Pigs: Three Different Kinds" is so few notes, but it's played so powerfully that it still blows me away. Add to that "Sorrow", "Not Now John", the solo for Brian Ferry's "Is Your Love Strong Enough", and every freakin' note on the "About Face" album (especially the "Murder" solo.
Jimmy Page has got some great stuff, but my favorite solo of his, follow me here, was on the B side of the 12" dance remix of The Firm's "Radioactive" single. The song is called "Live in Peace", originally from one of Paul Rodger's solo albums, later on "Mean Business" by The Firm. That one's a killer, and it's been as good every time I've seen it live.
"A Piece of Time" by Andy Summers
"In My Car" by Joe Walsh
"Astronomy" by BOC/Buck Dharma
"In My Dreams" by Dokken/George Lynch
"Me Wise Magic" by Van Halen/Eddie Van Halen-note for note, this song is the most technically perfect guitar playing I've ever heard....And I've been playing for 25 years.
"Like a Prisoner" by Eric Clapton
The outro solo on "Pigs: Three Different Kinds" is so few notes, but it's played so powerfully that it still blows me away. Add to that "Sorrow", "Not Now John", the solo for Brian Ferry's "Is Your Love Strong Enough", and every freakin' note on the "About Face" album (especially the "Murder" solo.
Jimmy Page has got some great stuff, but my favorite solo of his, follow me here, was on the B side of the 12" dance remix of The Firm's "Radioactive" single. The song is called "Live in Peace", originally from one of Paul Rodger's solo albums, later on "Mean Business" by The Firm. That one's a killer, and it's been as good every time I've seen it live.
"A Piece of Time" by Andy Summers
"In My Car" by Joe Walsh
"Astronomy" by BOC/Buck Dharma
"In My Dreams" by Dokken/George Lynch
"Me Wise Magic" by Van Halen/Eddie Van Halen-note for note, this song is the most technically perfect guitar playing I've ever heard....And I've been playing for 25 years.
"Like a Prisoner" by Eric Clapton
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Cail wrote:Jimmy Page has got some great stuff, but my favorite solo of his, follow me here, was on the B side of the 12" dance remix of The Firm's "Radioactive" single. The song is called "Live in Peace", originally from one of Paul Rodger's solo albums, later on "Mean Business" by The Firm. That one's a killer, and it's been as good every time I've seen it live.
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~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
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and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
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I agree with Power to Believe-awesome CD (thanks!)
Walter Becker on Bodishatva (...I'm gonna sell my house in town...
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Stills and Young talking to each other on their gits on Southern Man off 4-Way Street (Live) amazing stuff even makes the youn'uns sit up and take notice...
Walter Becker on Bodishatva (...I'm gonna sell my house in town...
)Stills and Young talking to each other on their gits on Southern Man off 4-Way Street (Live)
amazing stuff even makes the youn'uns sit up and take notice...fall far and well Pilots!
oh yeah!!! Bodishatva!!! 
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
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lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
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I love the brilliantly simple solo,in the Neil Young vein.Example:On Fleetwod Macs The Chain the passage where Lindsay Buckingham just repetitively picks the same note for like 20 or 30 seconds,he could have played anything,but what he did play fit to perfection.There are more Allman Brothers solos than I care to list right now that rank amoung my faves,I really like the two guitar harmony thing.
...yeah keep us together, runnin in the shadows, yeah...
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
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Randy Jackson (Zebra) has got a nifty little solo on their cover of "Slow Down".
Lindsey Buckingham is one of those players that you really have to listen to. The guy's got some great stuff, but it's not in your face.
Lindsey Buckingham is one of those players that you really have to listen to. The guy's got some great stuff, but it's not in your face.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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