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| From | Kerry Kompost <kerry_kompost@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: audities-digest V3 #314 (13 msgs) |
| Date | Fri, 20 May 2005 16:01:02 -0700 (PDT) |
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Robert Sutliff wrote:
>>Can you name a greater guitar solo than
urton Averre's on 'My Sharona?<<
>Um... not meaning to be a guitar snob but yeah, I can
think of a few hundred better solos.<
I agree with Mr. Sutliff, and I AM a guitar snob. ;)
The solo on "My Sharona" is cool, but it's basically a
'melodic' solo -- interesting in and of itself, but I
don't really hear a whole helluva lot individuality
within those notes. Still, it fits the song, and
that's what's important.
Not to get on my Mike Keneally soapbox again, but
Keneally is one of those musicians capable of playing
flawlessly -- you don't play in Frank Zappa or Steve
Vai's band if you can't -- but on his own albums
there's a wonderful raggedness and spontaneity in his
guitar solos that simply slays me. So uniquely him.
It's so obvious that the man is going for the soul of
the solo, rather than some perfectly executed passage.
I have no clue why I felt compelled to write this.
Time for my meds.
kErrY kOMpOsT
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