The guitar solo is dead.

[clamum]

There is a lack of solos these days. Maybe the musicians feel like it's outdated but they're just dating themselves since I doubt solos are gone forever.

I don't mind solos as long as they go with the feeling of the music in the song. In some songs they seem to be randomly placed there, but, for example, the solo in Nirvana's "Serve the Servants" is ****** perfect.

 

[Molondo]

Miss Guitar solos? Check out some Flamenco artist. Not the same but its still cool.

 

[oogabooga]

Listen to some Wilco - It's not fifty minutes of guitar tearing - but if you listen to Kicking Television (their live album) they have some pretty nice electric guitar work in there. Nels Cline ftw

 

[natep]

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: Fritzo
That person is a complete idiot. Solos are dead because of singer vanity- the singer doesn't want the spotlight taken off them. Everyone loves a good guitar solo- the air guitar was invented to show their love of it!

This is the reason music today sucks. People with influence are pushing their own ideas about what makes good music instead of letting the people choose what they like to listen to. Kids are getting saturated with drum machines and cookie cutter "singers" that have to look good more than sound good, so they think that's the way it should be. Clear Channel dictates what gets radio play instead of request from callers. Artists are being turned away from record contracts because they "lack the right look" or "they're not marketable".

It's just such a bunch of crap it makes my blood boil. The last 10 years will probably go down as the dark ages of music.

Exactly, I bet a band like Heart wouldn't be able to get a contract if they started out today.

I would truly be a sad man if I couldn't hear the occaisional, "oooooohhhhhhh barracuda"

 

[skace]

Heh, so much of my playlist contains guitar solos it's hard to fathom. But then again, since I try to listen to every genre, I am always discovering something that is relatively old instead of ground breakingly new.

 

[davestar]

Originally posted by: loki8481
I've always found guitar solos to be really boring and vain.

/flamesuiton

if I don't like the lyrics to a song, I probably won't be listening to it. for me at least, 95% of the enjoyment that I get from music comes from listening to amazing, or at least interesting, lyrics.

i'll never understand this. if lyrics are so important to you, go to a coffee house and listen to some poetry recitals. i'll keep listening to good music.

 

[Kalmah]

Originally posted by: davestar

Originally posted by: loki8481
I've always found guitar solos to be really boring and vain.

/flamesuiton

if I don't like the lyrics to a song, I probably won't be listening to it. for me at least, 95% of the enjoyment that I get from music comes from listening to amazing, or at least interesting, lyrics.

i'll never understand this. if lyrics are so important to you, go to a coffee house and listen to some poetry recitals. i'll keep listening to good music.

Agreed. Read a damn poem if you can't appreciate real music. I'm sure at least half of the mainstream pop is record company organized. (find a singer, hire musicians, hire writer for lyrics; musicians put together the most simple- yet catchy tune they can.. they tell the singer how to sing- profit. ITS NOT ABOUT THE MUSIC. It's more of an organized scientific musical approach than it is an art.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb

Originally posted by: MrPickins

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb

Michael Jackson?s Beat It featured guest appearances from noted soloists ? Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eddie Van Halen, respectively

Stevie Ray did not play on Beat It. He never played with Michael that I know of.

David Bowie?s Let?s Dance or Michael Jackson?s Beat It featured guest appearances from noted soloists ? Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eddie Van Halen, respectively

Reading comprehension FTW!

More like "bad writing, FTL", as far as that article goes.

uh no...at least not that part. everyone else but you knew how to read that sentence.

 

[SP33Demon]

That's right, F all of you who think the guitar solo is dead! Avenged Sevenfold won best new artist at the VMA's, proof that even the mainstream likes guitar solo's when done with skill.

 

[rbV5]

Threw on Iron Maiden's new CD, "A matter of life and death" track (1) "Different World",

*Three guitar attack...check!
*Awesome lead solo including dual leads+....check!

Didn't suck..... guitar solo is far from dead.....check!

 

[rbV5]

Threw on Bob Dylan's new CD "Modern Times", literally jut got it. Track #1, "Thunder on the Mountain"

*Guitar based blues rock....check!
*No less than 4 lead solo breaks.....check!

I'll be darned, didn't suck

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
More evidence that most music produced these days is utter sh!t.