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| From | Ken Kase <kenkase@nighttimes.com> |
| Subject | Re: Favorite Guitar breaks... |
| Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:19:05 -0600 |
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How about Pete Towshend's solos in "I Can't Explain"?
-- Ken Kase
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On 2/15/05 2:59 PM, "Miguel Motta" <a2j@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> ...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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