Hi
I want to suggest another guitarist and solo that I never hear mentioned.
I have always thought Greg Lake played pretty tasty. Usually considered simply the vocalist, and over-shadowed instrumentally by Emerson. On Brain Salad Surgery, in the first part of 1st Impression, he plays the complete solo. Most people only hear the second part of 1st Impression because that part started out of a tambourine break at the beginning of the second side of the original album, whereas the first half of it started out of a long, drawn out mish-mash of artsy stuff, so it has never gotten much airplay. The second part, (the familiar one) only has the second part of the original solo, and that gives it a kind of ‘out-of-context’ weakness.
If you have never heard BSS listen to 1st Impression from the beginning. After the abstract part the band settles in to groove that is good and driving and the solo is a dandy one. (The second time around, when the last half only of the solo is repeated, the band has speeded up so much – they were playing real-time in the studio – that the music is rushed and sounds simply that – rushed, instead of driving.
Others on my list of tasty players would be Gilmour, Van Halen and Neil Schon, and, particularly for rhythm riffs, Martin Barre and Keith Richards.
Hi
I want to suggest another guitarist and solo that I never hear mentioned.
I have always thought Greg Lake played pretty tasty. Usually considered simply the vocalist, and over-shadowed instrumentally by Emerson. On Brain Salad Surgery, in the first part of 1st Impression, he plays the complete solo. Most people only hear the second part of 1st Impression because that part started out of a tambourine break at the beginning of the second side of the original album, whereas the first half of it started out of a long, drawn out mish-mash of artsy stuff, so it has never gotten much airplay. The second part, (the familiar one) only has the second part of the original solo, and that gives it a kind of ‘out-of-context’ weakness.
If you have never heard BSS listen to 1st Impression from the beginning. After the abstract part the band settles in to groove that is good and driving and the solo is a dandy one. (The second time around, when the last half only of the solo is repeated, the band has speeded up so much – they were playing real-time in the studio – that the music is rushed and sounds simply that – rushed, instead of driving.
Others on my list of tasty players would be Gilmour, Van Halen and Neil Schon, and, particularly for rhythm riffs, Martin Barre and Keith Richards.