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| From | "Miguel Motta" <a2j@bellsouth.net> |
| Subject | Favorite Guitar breaks... |
| Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:59:50 -0500 |
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...as I sit here at home bored-out-of-my-head after a minor surgery (never thought I'd actually want to go back to work)... I was thinking about guitar breaks in songs that have caught my attention...
...Thinking about those guitar breaks that you wait for anxiously when hearing one of your favorite songs... Just thought some of you would like to list some of your favorites... You know...the kind that make you break out the air guitar and wail along...
Some of my favs...
The "brutal" (at the time) guitar break in "You Really Got Me" (complimented nicely by one of the Davies brothers chiming in with "Oh, Get 'em all!" just before unleashing that lethal solo...
George Harrison's most brilliant guitar break in "All My Loving" ... dunno, just sets the stage for everything that would encompass Beatlemania in years to come...
Keith Richard's very tight solo on The Stones' "Down the Road Apiece" (Around & Around deserves a mention too)
Badfinger fared very well in this department with the very tight break in "Look Out California" on their reunion "Airwaves" album (the one on "I Got You" from the "Say No More" album wasn't too bad either)
And probably my favorite... tour-de-force breaks (two, count 'em ...two!) on The Beatles' "Long Tall Sally"... don't know if such musical power was ever captured before in a recording studio (legend has it recorded in one take... not sure if this is true)... McCartney's screams just before Harrison lashes out two of the best guitar solos recorded just rounded out the effect perfectly...
There are probably more... and if more auditeers chime in I might try to jog my musical memory even more...hehehe....
Cheers,
Miguel
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