At this moment, the very start of Page’s solo from “In the Evening” takes it for me.
“What? A solo? Hold up, I’ve gotta turn this thing on!”
I thought this was going to be a PEW thread.
wtf, why did they leave that in??
(that was a fictional ad lib on my part)
I thought this was going to be a PEW thread.
i did too
And me.
The first note of EVH’s solo in “Beat It” sounds like he just flipped on one of those switches you see in old movies that control an electric chair, only instead of executing a prisoner it makes crazed shredding happen.
mods: please make this a PEW thread.
Am I the only person here who hasn’t paid any attention at all to PEW? I guess so.
the way the guitar solo on “search and destroy” is always great only cuz it was mixed like twice as loud as everything else.
“Sympathy for the Devil”
Mainly because of recognition, I admit. But what else is there? The beginning moment of a solo?
“Longest lasting sustain in a song” would be way more interesting.
wasted years iron maiden
“more than a feeling”
How about, for a change, the guitar solo intro for “The air that I breathe” the Hollies?
November Rain, guitar solo #3
sludgefeast!
At this moment, the very start of Page’s solo from “In the Evening” takes it for me.
“What? A solo? Hold up, I’ve gotta turn this thing on!”
YES! but it sounds AMAZING!!!!
Run Run Run is ace for the opposite reason.
“Ahh, a solo! Oooops, too loud . . . ”
The half-second pause in between Lou Reed’s “...And then my mind split open-” and the sudden feedback-shriek. That half-second is the only bit where his guitar’s not making some kinda noise.
(Velvet Underground, “I Heard Her Call My Name”, of course.)
oh yeah MVBOTM
thirded
(...but hmmm, on reflection, “Run Run Run” may indeed outdo “IHHCMN” by virtue of sounding entirely outplanned.)
all of a sudden not so OTM
November Rain, guitar solo #3
OTM.
Trey Azagthoth, “Where the Slime Live”
At this moment, the very start of Page’s solo from “In the Evening” takes it for me.
“What? A solo? Hold up, I’ve gotta turn this thing on!”
iirc Pagey got that sound by running a hundred-foot cable from a Fender Vibro Champ into a marshall 4x12 cab and kicking the cab down a flight of stairs at Headley Grange.
Either that or it’s some kind of rake/whammy thing. Which is possible, since it’s one of the few songs on which he used a strat.
Edge, New Year’s Day: the whole song is dominated by bass and keyboards and then Edge has that first blistering note.
Slash, Coma: it starts out with a speed metal riff and the solo seems to grow out of it organically.
Natalie Imbruglia’s studio musician, Torn: maybe my favorite first note ever in a guitar solo (of course, there’s like 6 notes total!)
iirc Pagey got that sound by running a hundred-foot cable from a Fender Vibro Champ into a marshall 4x12 cab and kicking the cab down a flight of stairs at Headley Grange.
oh fuck that’s awesome if it’s true!!!
Yes, Starship Trooper for the oldies
Spiritualized, Shine A Light (live at Albert Hall) for the younglings
“i heard her call my name” fourthed... also:
U2—“the fly”
built to spill—“carry the zero” (though the few seconds right before the start of the solo are where it really kills)
Lee (I think) on Sonic Youth’s “Washign Machine” does it for me every time.
“In The Evening” fourthed, or fifthed, whatever.
I really REALLY want that Jimmy Page/Headley Grange anecdote to be true! (Wasn’t that the same stairwell from where Bonzo’s drum kit was set up for “When The Levee Breaks”?)
I thought that was in a cathedral! Hmmm.
The Smiths—Frankly Mr Shankly
Okay, I made that up. YOU try mic’ing a tumbling 4x12 and getting the levels consistent.
blasphemy againts the new page religion
“Frankly Mr. Shankly” and “I Heard Her Call My Name” are good answers. I’ll also nominate the perhaps too obvious
Richard Hell and The Voidoids—“Blank Generation”
the knack—“my sharona”
the rapture “house of jealous lovers”
i love the retarded warble noises.
Adrian Belew in “The Great Curve”
also the beginning of “Frame By Frame”, altho not technically a solo.