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I love B. R. as a song, I think it's amazing and original, but the solo is very far from being the best one imo. I think that even Killer Queen's solo is better. |
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Now, I'm putting that up against one of my favorite solos from Stevie Ray Vaughan taken from the commercial release, Live at the El Mocambo: Texas Flood.
3:49 starts the solo solo breakdown |
Now let me go back to Lady May.
:cool: Really? against my 2nd favorite by Prince (for a short segment comparison). And, in all honesty, I never heard Prince better this ending of Let's Go Crazy LIVE or otherwise. |
Well, I think people have chosen it becasue it's very popular, it becomes more famous every year, specially after the movie in 2018, so I think it's normal that readers have voted for Brian May as the best guitarist, but I don't really understand Bohemian Rhaposdy having the best solo. Stairway To Heaven usually wins this, and it's surprising that being such a famous song it hasn't won this time. I don't think Stairway has the best solo either, but I think that it is not only better than Bohemian Rhapsody's, but also more iconic and legendary. So now I was quite surprised when I saw this. And Bohemian Rhaposdy is a marvellous composition, one of rock music's best songs and one of the most representative ones, too. But it doesn't shine thanks to the solo, I'm sorry.
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Bolded two: Hotel California's ending is not a solo; there are about five guitars going. At best it's a guitar chorus outro. Maybe. Best, certainly most unexpected wtf solo... (from 2:48) from wiki While the Carpenters were working on the song, Carpenter decided that a fuzz guitar solo should be included. Karen Carpenter called guitarist Tony Peluso and asked him to play on the record. Tony remembers: "At first I didn't believe that it was actually Karen Carpenter on the phone but she repeated her name again. ... It was at this point that I realized it was really her and that I was speaking to one of my idols." She told him that she and Richard were working on a song called "Goodbye to Love", that they were familiar with Tony's work with a band called Instant Joy, and that he would be perfect for the sound they were looking for.[3] Peluso first played something soft and sweet, but then Richard Carpenter said: "No, no, no! Play the melody for five bars and then burn it up! Soar off into the stratosphere! Go ahead! It'll be great!"[4] John Bettis has said that Richard Carpenter kept calling him, raving about the guitar solo. He was wondering why Richard was going on about the solo until he heard it. The lyricist said he cried when he first heard the song because he had never heard an electric guitar sound like that. He said Tony Peluso "had a certain almost cello sounding guitar growl that worked against the wonderful melancholia of that song". He went on to say the "way it growls at you, especially at the end" was unbelievable.[5] |
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And people refer to Hotel California's ending as a guitar solo. I'm not an expert on this, but it always appears on the top guitar solos lists. P.S. Thanks for posting the video, right now I can't listen to it because I'm connected to an online German lesson, but I'll listen to it. |
If I made a list of my top 50 favorite guitarists, Brian May wouldn't even make the list.
If I made a list of my top 50 favorite guitar solos, the solo in Bohemian Rhapsody wouldn't even make the list. If I made a list of my top 50 favorite rock groups, Queen wouldn't even make the list. |
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