This just in: Non-Guitarists don't give a crap about guitar solos.

[amigarobbo]

By that definition rap is the penultimate form of music. 

Being down with the latestest trends I picked up a copy of Public Enemy's 1990 album Fear of Black Planet the other day, I couldn't get over the massive sound and power of the music, the production was HUGE, in a good way.

Still prefer the first album though.

 

[stratamania]

It's funny that Fire was posted. I was trying out an amp the other day. I asked for a Suhr Classic S to try it with as they have SS frets. And for some reason I played the opening part of that song. I don't think I've played it for years.

Trilogy, is probably the most commercial of Yngwies albums. Also the Alcatrazz stuff has some focussed soloing in the songs.

 

[zebra]

There are different types of solos.  One of them is the type you can sing along too.  This is a prime example of that type (it starts at 2:36).  Gotta love Johnny Marr's sense of economy.  Also, it's the first solo I learned how to play!

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[stratamania]

It's clear we don't all like the same things, and neither will an audience. And you can have different types of audiences.

Now here's a different question, when is a guitar solo not a guitar solo ?

Is the Johnny Marr, example in between Morrisey's lyrics a solo or merely an instrumental break ?

 

[zebra]

It's clear we don't all like the same things, and neither will an audience. And you can have different types of audiences.

Now here's a different question, when is a guitar solo not a guitar solo ?

Is the Johnny Marr, example in between Morrisey's lyrics a solo or merely an instrumental break ?

That's a good  question - maybe we could quantify it by assigning a minimum number of bars for a solo?

 

[stratamania]

It's an interesting one because there are short and long solos.

This for example has a short solo around 2:46 but also some beautiful fills through a lot of the song, which would not fall under at least to my mind being a solo. But most of those fills would not be out of place in a lot of solos.

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