Posted on 10/03/2010 7:23:12 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
For me the solo on Heartbreaker seems like gibberish at times with such a fast, spastic blur of notes. It’s chromatic and there is the blues scale buried in it, plus standard 70 licks, intervals and what might be seen as the beginning of tapping. I finally bought the tab for it but haven’t really decided to master it. It has parts of the Alvin Lee’s “Going Home” (by Helicopter) solo in it that you hear on the Woodstock soundtrack — that one I did master — and its kind of kooky in general. Living Loving Maid solo is easy in comparison — mostly major pentatonic but with that quick chromatic run at the end. Good for you for figuring songs out by ear!
Two of my favorites jamming together here -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqU9RZqvFKY&p=FA8777B52753FB27&playnext=1&index=51
Unfortunately both of these guys are gone now.
Sorry to nitpick, but while I agree with the sentiment, Clapton is the only guitarist on “I Looked Away,” “Bell Bottom Blues,” and “Keep On Growing.” For whatever reason they put the three songs without Allman at the top of the record.
Also, George Harrison played the solo to “Something,” aside from the 1992 “Live in Japan” version which features both guitarists taking a section.
Good ear — “Valerie” has a wicked solo, along with some great fuzz work during the verses. I just don’t recall which session guy played it. I’m pretty sure that Glen Campbell was through with session work by then, so I don’t think it’s him.
While I am pleased as punch that Brian May is on the list, and BoRhap is a good solo, his entry should have been either “Brighton Rock” or “The Millionaire Waltz.”
I knew that, when the Monkees began, the music was pretty much .. if not completely .. performed by session musicians with the actors going through the motions. But I thought that, by the time Valleri was made, Michael Nesmith was good enough to have done the solo.
However, in going to Wikipedia, I found this:
The original recording (with instrumental backing by the Candy Store Prophets, plus session musician Louie Shelton contributing a flamencoesque guitar solo) was featured in the show's first season in 1967; a staged performance showed Michael Nesmith copying Shelton's guitar licks ---
Live and learn, I guess ...
I’m pretty sure Nesmith could have played the solo, and played it live. One of the sticking points early on was that the producers limited his musical input. By the third or fourth album, though, Nesmith played most of the guitar tracks, and Tork played a lot of the piano tracks.
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