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Andrew Kneath
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:42 pm |
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Any guitar fans out there like to recommend any songs with great solos or guitar parts that we may not have heard or have forgotten?
Try to avoid the obvious Stairway / Hotel California choices.
I'll start...
Song : Loves No Friend of Mine.
Artist : Rainbow
Album : Down to Earth
Guitarist : Richie Blackmore
Comments : Standard Heavy Riffing track saved by a spine tingling solo!
Song : Juniors Farm.
Artist : Paul McCartney and Wings
Album Wings Greatest
Guitarist : Jimmy McCulloch (Denny Laine doubtlessly contributed guitars to the track too.)
Comments : McCulloch's finest hour. Great fun track.
Song : The Fletcher Memorial Home
Artist : Pink Floyd
Album : The Final Cut
Guitarist : David Gilmour
Comments : Nobody does big and epic like Gilmour.
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Kid Bailey
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:22 pm |
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Andrew,
I like the 3 you mentioned. Here are mine:
"I Don't Wanna Discuss It"
This is from Delaney and Bonnie's live record with Eric Clapton. I'm not sure anything with Clapton on it really qualifies as lost, but it's my favorite solo of his, and at one time I thought it was the best rock solo ever played.
"Goodbye to Love"-The Carpenters, with Tony Peluso on guitar-again, not really lost, but this is usually not one of The Carpenters' songs you normally hear anywhere. This,reportedly, was Karen's favorite single, and Richard thinks it's the best guitar solo ever. I think he may be right.
"Hippo Stomp"-Steppenwolf, from "Steppenwolf 7"
Larry Byrom was lead guitarist at the time-I can't swear he played this but I have no reason to think otherwise. This solo comes out of nowhere, blazes it's way through in fuzzy glory, and is quickly gone. Great stuff.
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:56 pm |
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Mick Taylor on the Stones' "Time Waits for No One." Just gorgeous playing. And the fade makes we wonder if there's a 20-min. version sitting in the vaults.
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72stones
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:40 pm |
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Jimbo,
He really just soars on that one doesn't he? Here's to hoping that there is, indeed, a long version of it somewhere.
I'll recommend some great Brian Jones slide work. Here's two for all of you. Listen to the fantastic work Jones did on "What A Shame" and "Little Red Rooster" from the Now album.
From the Ron Wood Era, there's his solo on "Hey Negrita" and then there's the Wayne Perkins solo on "Hand Of Fate". Both are from the Black and Blue album.
From my beloved Taylor Era, there's the solo he did on "Stop Breakin' Down" from Exile On Main Street. That one doesn't get talked about too much. Why? I don't know, because it's kind of a shame.
Good grief! I'd break the server if I listed all of the great solos I've heard from various artists over the years.
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72stones
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:42 pm |
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I also forgot to add Brian's solo on "I Just Can't Be Satisfied". It's just pure beauty.
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Glenn S.
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:27 am |
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I've always thought one of the all-time best guitar solos is on "Black Coffee in Bed" by Squeeze. Not even sure if it was Chris Difford or Glen Tillbrook, although I think the video implied it was Chris. What I like about it is that it is melodic, well played, and best of all gets out of the way in less than a minute.
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Greg Carrier
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:43 am |
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I've been listening to Bonnie Raitt's Give It Up the last few days, and I've always loved the guitar solo at the end of "You Told Me Baby." I think it's John Hall (Orleans) -- that's what the credits indicate, anyway.
BTW, the whole album is pretty great. Still head and shoulders above everything else she's done, and she's done a lot of excellent work.
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Andrew Kneath
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:07 am |
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Another nice little solo I really like is "Certain Kind of Fool" from The Eagles' Desperado album. On the BBC session they filmed around that time Glen Frey played it.
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:08 am |
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Ernie Isley on the Isley's "That Lady" (1973 version). Love that sinewy lead.
Neil Young guesting on Zevon's "Sentimental Hygiene."
And Lindsay Buckingham on "I'm So Afraid."
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Willy Wilson
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:27 am |
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Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
Pink Fairies (Paul Randolph) - Never Never Land
Cactus (Jim McCarty) - Evil
Chicago (Terry Kath) - Southern California Purples
Faces (Ron Wood) - Around The Plynth
Isley Brothers (Jimi Hendrix) - Testify (parts 1 & 2)
Q65 (Frank Nuyens) - Cry In The Night
Bob Seger - Back In 72 and Lucifer
Kinks (Dave Davies) - Big Sky
Pink Floyd (David Gilmour) - The Nile Song
Pretty Things (Dick Taylor) - SF Sorrow
The Who (Pete Twonshend) - Meloncholia and Young Man Blues (Studio)
John McLaughlin - Don't Let The Dragon Eat Your Mother
Peter Green - Bottoms Up
Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green) - Green Manalishi
Creation (Eddie Phillips) - Makin' Time
Deep Purple (Richie Blackmore) - And The Address
Grant Green - My Favorite Things
Larry Coryell - The Jam With Albert and Spaces (Infinite)
Herbie Mann (Duane Allman) - Memphis Underground
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:29 am |
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Rush--"La Villa Strangiato" from Hemespheres
Stevie Vai--"Stevie's Spanking" from Them or Us
Frank Zappa--"Whipping Post" from Them or US
Steve Morse--"Cut to the Chase" from Southern Steel
Steve Morse--"User Friendly" from Coast to Coast
Steve Morse--"Stressfest" from Stressfest
Jeff Beck--"A Day in the Life" from George Martin's comp record In My Life and the live version from both the recent BB King disc and a bootleg I have from The Tabernacle in Atlanta for a show I saw there. Can't pick between the two.
Jeff Beck--The entire Who Else! cd.
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Willy Wilson
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:09 pm |
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I forgot...
Jeff Beck - Superstition
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GoogaMooga
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:44 pm |
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1966 and all that
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Jimbo wrote: Ernie Isley on the Isley's "That Lady" (1973 version). Love that sinewy lead.
I second that!
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:29 pm |
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Jimbo wrote: Mick Taylor on the Stones' "Time Waits for No One." Just gorgeous playing. And the fade makes we wonder if there's a 20-min. version sitting in the vaults.
What album is that one on? 
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:37 pm |
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Andrew Kneath wrote: Jimbo wrote: Mick Taylor on the Stones' "Time Waits for No One." Just gorgeous playing. And the fade makes we wonder if there's a 20-min. version sitting in the vaults. What album is that one on? 
The song itself is on It's Only Rock 'n Roll. My wish is that there's a longer version in the vaults, although if there was, it'd probably be bootlegged by now.
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:42 pm |
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Here's a curve ball for you guys. Federico and I once discussed this on the phone a while back. Though it's an obvious song, the solo isn't so obvious because it doesn't really involve string bending or anything fancy. Instead, the solo invloves the absolutely beautiful sense of spacing between the notes. I speak of Jerry Garcia's work on The Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey".
I have spent quite a few times taking my hands and attempt to air guitar the notes to that thing repeatedly. I still can't get my hands to hit the majority of the notes in their proper spaces when I play. I always fall in or behind one of Jerry's notes or I'll even play a couple too many notes as I pretend to strum out the notes. It's absolutely uncanny how Jerry came up with the sequence to allow for the air to breath so uniquely during the solo. There's no simple pattern (at least for me) to follow. Try this one of these times. I bet you'll be all over the place or outright sloppy when you try to go along with it. I seriously doubt I'm ever going to be able to replicate with my fingers this solo. In my mind, it is reminiscent of how the rhythm playing of Keith Richards will oftentimes astound me because it's not always as simple as it would appear to sound.
BTW, I'll throw in my lot for a ton of great solos from any of the old '20s-'40s rural acoustic Blues artists on the Columbia Roots N' Blues series comps. There's a pirate's treasure worth on them.
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Wayne Russell
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:14 pm |
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GoogaMooga wrote: Jimbo wrote: Ernie Isley on the Isley's "That Lady" (1973 version). Love that sinewy lead. I second that!
I'm so glad somebody mentioned this. I hear this and wonder if this is where Hendrix was going before he died.
How about "Cosmic Slop" from Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:45 pm |
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Jimbo wrote: Mick Taylor on the Stones' "Time Waits for No One." Just gorgeous playing. And the fade makes we wonder if there's a 20-min. version sitting in the vaults.
That's in my top 2 or 3 Stones tracks ever. Amazing song.
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Andrew Kneath
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:48 pm |
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I love the playing on those 70's Isley records too. I guess "Summer Breeze" is another choice which is perhaps too obvious to be listed in this thread.
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:50 pm |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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You gotta really turn it up to even notice it, but the acoustic picking Townshend's doing under Entwistle's bass solo at about the 5 minute mark on Underture had my jaw on the floor the first time I noticed it.
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Wayne Russell
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:47 pm |
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Hank wrote: Jimbo wrote: Mick Taylor on the Stones' "Time Waits for No One." Just gorgeous playing. And the fade makes we wonder if there's a 20-min. version sitting in the vaults. That's in my top 2 or 3 Stones tracks ever. Amazing song.
Mine too. One of the very few songs that I can hit the repeat button on the player and listen to over and over again. The playing is majestic. One of the greatest solos of all time.
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Greg Carrier
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Post subject: Great Lost Guitar Solos Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:33 am |
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Nice to see Elliot Randall mentioned here. His lead guitar on Steely Dan's Reeling In The Years never fails to grab me.
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