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Stoneman
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4/1/2018 6:15:30 PM
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Best Guitar Solo I Ever Heard
Maggot Brain By Eddie Hazal (Parliament/Funkadelic). According to legend, George Clinton was high on LSD when they recorded the track and he told Eddie to imagine that his mother had just died when playing his solo. The result was one of the most emotional guitar solos I ever heard or studied. When I first heard it I was just a little guitar pup but I vowed that some day I would learn to play like the big dogs. Still trying to get there! Sorry the embed option would not work here so I could only leave this link that you can paste in your browser. Guitar playing worth a listen. No BS!
Much Respect, Stoneman
https://youtu.be/dh3bleXWaCk
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Larree
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4/1/2018 8:44:04 PM
Dude, I was a young teen when I first got turned on to Maggot Brain. Definitely a huge influence on my musical life. Respect! :)
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Stoneman
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4/3/2018 4:49:35 PM
Yeah, one of the best albums in my collection. Numerous people tried to buy it from me but I'll never let it go. It still plays like it did in the 70's. Real music with emotional grit.
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jingo
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4/5/2018 11:56:25 AM
Use your favored music browsing dealio to find the Swede band Maidavale, they do a version of Maggot Brain on their 2016 album Tales of the Wicked West. Old school rock leaning types might enjoy the album as well as the new one Madness is Too Pure (very far out, that one is)
Keep in mind that if you close both eyes your third eye is like your one eye, and it can get funky from time to time. Sometimes you need to sit back and let the universe slobber on it for a while.
Also worth a listen is the PFunk Reworked by Detroiters album, I am fond of the Dirtbombs version of Super Stupid found there.
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jingo
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4/5/2018 12:03:32 PM
Doh! The Maidavale track is called Heaven and Earth, kinda important detail :)
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4/5/2018 5:01:10 PM
As somebody who put a guitar solo on practically every song I ever did when I was an artist, it's something I think about. Probably the 2 I'd mention are both full songs of lead guitar, Cause We've Ended As Lovers covered by Jeff Beck, and Over The Edge by IMP's own Fozzie and Jack.
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Richard Scotti
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4/5/2018 5:16:40 PM
one of my fav guitar solos = Jimi Hendrix on All Along The WatchTower. It's a brilliant and well thought out solo, not a throw away improv. Every note counts and every phrase tells a story. It's nuanced and understated but powerful and emotional. It takes my breath away every time. Dylan said that he generally dislikes covers that people do of his songs but this one he really thinks is actually better than the original. The whole production is magnificent. They truly caught lightning a bottle with that one. I would have loved being there when they figured out how to record that amazing rhythm 12 string guitar part.
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Hop On Pop
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4/5/2018 5:56:31 PM
My favorite solo is not the typical, technically virtuosic solo. No, this solo is my favorite not because it is lyrical (which it isn't particularly), or even because it is so expressive (which it most certainly is), but because it does, for me, what I think all guitar solos, or any solos should do—it brings the song to a whole new emotional level.
It is, simply, transcendent.
The way that it emerges from the main theme to bring it all higher, make everything... just... more/I>.
And, then it drops away again, leaving you breathless...
It's like it carries you away on a huge tidal wave and then just drops you off... leaves you floating in a perfectly calm, still pool in the middle of a beautiful oasis.
There are 2 solos in the song, but the solo that I am talking about starts at about 2:45. Thing is... you really do need to listen to the entire song to get its full effect.
Let me know what you think. If you can hear what I mean.
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bp deignan
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4/5/2018 8:47:10 PM
I always preferred the lesser known version of "Watchtower" - by the guy who played the 12 string on Hendrix' track - Dave Mason.
I always thought this a great melodic solo....
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Hop On Pop
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4/8/2018 5:30:11 PM
Okay, so this song just came up in a shuffle for me, and I gotta say that the solo absolutely destroys!
Nels Cline, motherfuckers!!!
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Larree
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4/10/2018 2:05:39 PM
Great solos, Todd. Very tasty, and definitely worth the listens.
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