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| From | "Barry S." <BarryS@lernerweisslaw.com> |
| Subject | Re: Favorite Guitar breaks... |
| Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:09:03 -0800 |
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We're talking little breaks, not full-out solos, right? Well then
that's easy as pie: Todd Rundgren, Black & White, following the "blood
on the moon", "patterns running across the floor", and (especially)
"tell me the truth" lines.
--- Barry Schlom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org
> [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Miguel Motta
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 1:00 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Favorite Guitar breaks...
>
> ...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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