Best Guitar Solos Not Performed By The List of Usual Suspects (i.e., Hendrix, Page, Clapton, SRV, Van Halen, etc...)
Submitted by BuckGS71 on Wed, 06/20/2001 - 11:51
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- - "Maggot Brain"/"Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic, solo by Eddie Hazel: Ten minutes of the most whacked-out, acid-drenched, fuzz-laden wailing not soloed by anyone named Hendrix. Legend has it George Clinton told Eddie Hazel to play "as if your mama just died."
- - "Baby's On Fire"/"Here Come the Warm Jets" by Brian Eno, solo by Robert Fripp: Disciplined and anarchic at the same time. Fripp hurtles this solo at you with some vicious, inspired feedback and distortion.
- - "Meeting of the Spirits"/"The Inner Mounting Flame" by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, solo by John McLaughlin: If you listen closely, you can feel the wires on your speakers melt. McLaughlin's Hendrix-inspired soloing is relentless and awe-inspiring.
- - "Girlfriend"/"Girlfriend" by Matthew Sweet, solo by Robert Quine: Another fuzzy solo, quick but stinging, which adds the right flavor to an already-great song.
- - "Like a Hurricane"/"Decade" by Neil Young, solo by Neil Young: Like any of Young's solos, it's ragged and disjointed, but it's just so damned beautiful.
Author Comments:
List compiled in no particular order. In fact, these aren't even "the best", just the ones I think are all worth listening to.
Great choice on the Funkadelic selection. Also nice insight on the Clinton legend. Always wondered where that playing came from....