Jeez - I don't know where to begin!

Eric Clapton on the Yardbirds "I Ain't Got You"
Jeff Beck on the same bands "Shapes Of Things"
Verlaine & Lloyd on "Marquee Moon"
Paul McCartney on "Taxman"
George Harrison on "Nowhere Man"
Mitch Easter on Let's Actives "Waters Part"
Jim "Roger" McGuinn on the Byrds "Eight Miles High"
Jimmy Page on the (yet again) Yardbirds "Think About It"

Honorable mention - anything by Richard McGrath, Chris Stamey, Duane Allman,
Cliff Gallup, Scotty Moore, James Burton, Peter Green, Andy Powell/Ted
Turner, Keith Richards/Mick Taylor, Matt Piucci and everybody I forgot about
at the moment.

Bobby Sutliff
NP - Cream - NSU

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> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:59:50 -0500
> From: "Miguel Motta" <a2j@bellsouth.net>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Favorite Guitar breaks...
> Message-ID: <002901c513a1$4a6ee090$6401a8c0@mickey9iv6t2fx>
>
> ...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