Underrated, overlooked
Just built a playlist of great songs with great guitar solos on nuTsie.
As opposed to just great guitar solos. These are solos that take the song to another level. Kick in the afterburners, so to speak.
I tried to avoid the obvious heroes and wankers, the noodly guitar workouts that hopelessly hopeless 14 year-old boys spend hours in their bedrooms trying to learn.
OK, there is one Stevie Ray Vaughan solo here, but it’s on a David Bowie song. The great wankers are so often better on other people’s records.
These are real songs…mostly real POP songs…that happen to be set apart from the pack by containing incredible guitar solos.
Only one guy gets three tracks: Elliot Easton, from the Cars. Hard to say enough good things about him or to describe how hard it is to do what he makes sound so easy, which is to create a tidy little musical statement within an already great song…and to take that great song to an even higher level of excitement and engagement.
Give me your suggestions and I’ll add them to the list.
If I were going to go for total guitar geekery, I would only make one stop, and that would be with Jeff Beck, who blows everyone else away. Because he’s not a guitar geek, per se; he’s more virtuosic than any of his peers yet always sounds like he’s actually playing music instead of just playing the guitar.
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