Worst solo ever.

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mshilarious said:
Except Jesse Michael Garcia :D
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Damn you!!



How about the solo in "The Man Who Sold the World"? The David Bowie version.
 
I have been trying to get through my first listen of Audioslaves "Out of Exile". There are several candidates for worst solo ever on this CD, as far as I am concerned.

I think it is a fair statement that just because a guitar solo is technically proficient, it doesn't mean it is particularly relevent or musical (paricularly if the song is weak).

OTOH Just because a tune has a lame guitar solo doesn't make it a good song.
 
mshilarious said:
You guys ever listen to Ornette Coleman?
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Ornette is amazing... back in my day... when at Berklee... Ornette was my god.... also Coltrane.. its funny I never emulated guitar players except maybe Joe Pass.. who was in a class by himself.

I have read articles with Vernon Reid when his band was popular and he was going for a coltrane style of playing.. if i recall it was something like sheets of sound...... Insert stupid joke if you dare dis a master of modern music....

sLY
 
Anyone heard Pete Townshend's solo on the last Bowie LP?

That shit was pretty awful.
 
MadAudio said:
Oh, SNAP!


Yeah, Vernon Reid comes from a jazz background. I've seen Living Color play live twice and those guys can PLAY! You naysayers are just jealous. :eek: :D
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I'm sure they can. Terrible solo, though - minor pentatonic would have done the job, but here comes the tremolo bar wanking.
 
Supercreep said:
I'm sure they can. Terrible solo, though - minor pentatonic would have done the job, but here comes the tremolo bar wanking.
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Could you be more wrong? The answer is no! The solo isn't full of pointless divebombs, the tremolo is used for some amazing bends to microtonal notes. The last few bars of that solo is some of the greatest tremolo work ever.

As for pentatonic sufficing, go back to the riff of the song (one of the great all-time riffs). A pentatonic solo after that would be a tremendous disappointment.

Mmmm . . . I just listened to a bunch of clips from Vivid. Such a classic album. Makes me feel young again, cruising around in a T-top Nissan Pulsar :o :o :o
 
ido1957 said:
OMG that made my ears bleed :eek: IT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It sounds like someone trying to chase raccoons away from there garbage cans by smacking them with an out of tune banjo.
 
legionserial said:
The 'solo' you keep going on about isn't really a solo though is it. Its better classified as a musical interlude. In case you didnt notice its the vocal line played on a guitar....thats not a solo.

And one other point...Kurt Cobain is a songwriter. No one ever said he was a guitar virtuoso. But how many albums have you sold through good songwriting so far?

Oh and the worst solo ever has to go to Kirk Hammett for his tuneless piece of crap in 'The Frayed Ends of Sanity'
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Ew - I must holeheartedly disagree. I love all the leads on the Justice record. Tuneless? Not to my ears. Melodic and dramatic. I think it smokes. But hey, who am I to blow against the wind?
 
I have this video of fred durst attempting to play a lead, or solo, or something. It was a live thing and he had just finished playing a cover of Nirvana's Nevermind, which was alright. Then he does some weird riffing in drop-d, attempts to do a bend, failing miserably, does more riffage which is incomprehensable, tries another bend, and then figures out that he sucks and then says "shag my friends tonight". It hurt my ears. I can't find the site that I found it at, but if someone knows, please post.
 
I think it was the one in The Go Go's "We Got The Beat".
 
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Supercreep said:
Living Colour, Cult of Personality. Worst. Solo. Ever.


Doogle, You are a prick.
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That is my all time FAVORITE guitar solo. If that solo was played note for note on the saxophone, I think the brilliance of it would make alot more sense to people, especially bop and free jazz worshipers. I've gotten into near fist-fights with people over this solo, and whether it is horrible or genius. I've actually won people over by making them listen to it while cosidering it being played note for note on a sax. I think it totally goes over the head of alot of people who don't have jazz backgrounds, and they just assume it is someone with no idea or thought to it.

My favorite diss of this solo has to be Phil Collens of Def Leppard trashing the solo in a guitar magazine. Def Leppard has laid down some of the most tired and yawn enducing guitar solos I've ever heard. But his assessment of the tune just showed me how far over his head Vernon Reid is. Then of course, he went on to proclaim TLC one of his biggest musical influences. HA HA HA!!! What a dork!
 
If that solo was played note for note on the saxophone, I think the brilliance of it would make alot more sense to people, especially bop and free jazz worshipers. I've gotten into near fist-fights with people over this solo, and whether it is horrible or genius. I've actually won people over by making them listen to it while cosidering it being played note for note on a sax. I think it totally goes over the head of alot of people who don't have jazz backgrounds, and they just assume it is someone with no idea or thought to it.
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The best thing about a guitar is that it's not a saxophone and the best thing about rock is that it's not jazz.

I thought the jazz enlightened/elite/intellectual superiors were supposed to worship tone. The tone on that solo is hilarious.

Agreed on the yawn factor for Def Leppard though.

I also immediately thought of CC DeVille when I saw this topic. Can he just be declared the winner?
 
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