I have actually. Not that anyone noticed. Don't really have much time to blog these days:
https://betterrightthanhappy.com/category/music/
Not really a solo but, Creep by Radiohead. That noise is incredible, horrible, and unforgettable all at the same time.
I remember when that song came out thinking "Well, those guys are a one-hit wonder if ever I heard one."
Who knew?
Radiohead had to settle up with The Hollies over their unconscious copying of the bridge melody from "(All I Need is) the Air That I Breathe." At least they did the right thing when it was brought to their attention. Alan Parsons engineered that hit single, BTW; and Eric Clapton supposedly loved it. john
Another little Mark Knopfler gem can be found between the only two verses of the short song "Redbud Tree" from his album Privateering.
Marty Friedman's solo towards the end of "Poison Was The Cure" from Megadeth's Rust In Peace album.
There's also SRV's work on Bowie's 'Let's Dance' LP, particularly China Girl; what a player.
Geoff
The first time I heard Creep was at my friends house. I had built him a pair of studio monitors for his new home studio and he called me and said I had to come over right away! He said it was important for me to hear something on my speakers. I get there thinking something was wrong with them. He says listen to this it will blow your mind! He plays Creep. At first I was like ok…then that guitar noise came and we just looked at each other in disbelief. He said it was the most amazing use of effects and distortion he’d ever heard. He thanked me for the speakers I had built him that could reproduce that sound at volume! His name is Saul Hudson, you know him as Slash! Those were the days!
I don't like the track at all, but John Lennon's playing at the beginning of "Why" by Yoko Ono is in that 'noise' vein: distorted, not really musical but very effective. It's hard to spot where the intro stops and the Ono-wailing starts
Geoff
Geoff
The start of 'Ohio' CSNY.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ohi...#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e39e54fd,vid:CY0GqJ-Bjc0
https://www.google.com/search?q=ohi...#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e39e54fd,vid:CY0GqJ-Bjc0
one minute, 30 seconds into The Titanic Song "It Was Sad When That Great Ship Wend Down" from the 1959 Chet Atkins Living Stereo album "Hum & Strum Along with Chet Atkins" (odd to me with all the Oceangate stuff for this song not to 'resurface" ....)
GUITAR BREAK
GUITAR BREAK
Wow, thank you, Bate, for sharing this piece - I could listen to this solo non-stop 😍
Actually, that's an interesting thing - some melodies seem to be composed exactly to be short - they are perfect in their shortness but some... like this one by Geoff Reeves, his flight across endless space of American prairies... they just need this more space to sound perfect =)
I would consider James Honeyman Scott’s solo on the song “Kid” with The Pretenders to be one of the greatest, so I will.
The start of Fleetwood Mac's
Oh Well
Oh Well
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage: Watermelon inEaster Hay (not very short but very involving, love the tone of his guitar and tube amp so much..)
In my opinion, all of Fleetwood Mac's 'Then Play On' is classic.
Eddie Van Halen did a nice little solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat It". He didn't accept payment or take credit for his contribution. Never told his bandmates either, until they commented that the solo sure sounded like Eddie.