Funny, all this talk about Stamey has me thinking about his guitar outro on
"When We're Alone," which is already a damned-near perfect pop tune. That
break has always been one of my favorites.
It just makes the tune.

john


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Kase" <kenkase@nighttimes.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: Favorite Guitar breaks...


> How about Pete Towshend's solos in "I Can't Explain"?
>
> -- Ken Kase
>    Editor
>    www.nighttimes.com / Night Times, LLC
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
>