Underrated Guitar Solos

Underrated Guitar Solos

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cherryowen

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11,683 posts

203 months

Saturday 7th July 2018
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Mrs O, earlier, wanted to watch a documentary on Motown which is fair enough; she loves the genre.

There was another programme that, as she switched channels, was playing Celine Dion's version of The Power Of Love and she suggested that the version by Jennifer Rush was much better. I suggested that - as she would have been stationed overseas with the RAF at the time - you could not get away from that fvcking tune in this country at the time. It was hateful and everywhere.

Anyway.

I followed on by mentioning "Everything I Do" by Bryan Adams, and said that despite its relentless banality and sixteen fvcking weeks at #1 I could forgive it for having a well crafted guitar solo yikes

Seriously, it's not fast, is well measured, with slides and bends in just the right places.

Example

IMVHO, ^ that is an underrated guitar solo.

Any more for any more?

popegregory

1,423 posts

133 months

Saturday 7th July 2018
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Can we include the organ middle part in LA Woman? That’s brill.

Billsnemesis

817 posts

236 months

Saturday 7th July 2018
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May people only now the single version of Wuthering Heights but the solo on the end of the album version is rated by those who know it - perhaps "under appreciated" rather than "underrated"

cherryowen

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11,683 posts

203 months

Sunday 8th July 2018
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I've just thought of another one:-

Goodbye To Love


Escapegoat

5,135 posts

134 months

Monday 9th July 2018
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Brian Robertson in this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsGl-0pzEEc

Short and sweet, starts like a lot of hard rock numbers with nice but standard licks but then the second half goes WTF in a wonderful way.

Roofless Toothless

5,613 posts

131 months

Monday 9th July 2018
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Hundreds of 'em by Frank Zappa.

LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

195 months

Monday 9th July 2018
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Digital Love by Daft Punk

American Girl by Tom Petty and the Grartbreakers

The end bit that radio always cuts off/talks over in Sultans Of Swing!

coffeebreath

181 posts

92 months

Monday 9th July 2018
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Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night

HOGEPH

5,249 posts

185 months

Monday 9th July 2018
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Love is the law.


John Squire/Seahorses

cherryowen

Original Poster:

11,683 posts

203 months

Monday 9th July 2018
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Escapegoat said:
Brian Robertson in this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsGl-0pzEEc

Short and sweet, starts like a lot of hard rock numbers with nice but standard licks but then the second half goes WTF in a wonderful way.
Lizzy are underrated full stop IMO.

Go to 3:10 in this to hear John Sykes' finest live solo; spine tingling:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRf-vGVNsBc&li...



irocfan

40,155 posts

189 months

Monday 9th July 2018
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I suspect it's underrated these days but 30 years ago the solo from Beat It was amazing - still love it

OldGermanHeaps

3,801 posts

177 months

Monday 9th July 2018
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Short but sweet one right at the start of i'll be waiting by the offspring before they became ste https://youtu.be/RcExJ39RFeQ

vsonix

3,858 posts

162 months

Monday 9th July 2018
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Marty Friedman on 'Holy Wars' by Megadeth
Trey Spruance on 'Evidence' by Faith No More

popeyewhite

19,626 posts

119 months

Monday 9th July 2018
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Roofless Toothless said:
Hundreds of 'em by Frank Zappa.
They're not underrated though.

Malam

719 posts

202 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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popeyewhite said:
They're not underrated though.
They are by many 'guitarists' who have no idea what's really going on.

Escapegoat

5,135 posts

134 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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cherryowen said:
Lizzy are underrated full stop IMO.

Go to 3:10 in this to hear John Sykes' finest live solo; spine tingling:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRf-vGVNsBc&li...
Notsureifserious.gif !!

That's surely Gary Moore's solo, which Brian Robertson refused to change (he recorded the pretty definitive Live and Dangerous version, IIRC), and that Sykes solo is just a mildly tweaked version, played with far less emotion. IMHO. YMMV! smile

Anyhoo, another contender from Mr West (defintely underrated):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVG7eQ1TcNo

(skip to 1:50 if necessary)

popeyewhite

19,626 posts

119 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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Malam said:
popeyewhite said:
They're not underrated though.
They are by many 'guitarists' who have no idea what's really going on.
I don't think true guitarists underrate him at all, perhaps he's a bit too subtle though for modern rock shredders. Vai certainly rated him. Not sure Frank rated many other contemporary guitarists, though IIRC he was impressed by McClaughlin.

HarryFlatters

4,203 posts

211 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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The guitar solo in My Sharona by The Knack is absolutely brilliant, yet never gets a mention or credit.

LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

195 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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HarryFlatters said:
The guitar solo in My Sharona by The Knack is absolutely brilliant, yet never gets a mention or credit.
Yes excellent choice-it's almost like it's been dropped in from another song.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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To be fair most of Lizzy's stuff is acknowledged already. Under the radar perhaps the solo on the end of I'll Be Alright Without You by Journey.from the album Raised On Radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA9PdeYhtjQ