While we wait for me to get the courage up to finish curating the 30mins. Avant Garde audio initiative, here's a swell whimsical interlude, incorporating as it does some of the signature traits of th' Isle O' Foam™ what have endeared it to millions [Enis and Agina Millions, Mule Pucky, TX - Ed.], to lighten your step and put a sparkle in your eye as you go about your touchingly futile quotidian tasks!
You'll know boyishly lovable Rick Moranis from starring roles in The Secret Sandwich Club and I'm In This Picture And I Don't Like It, but did you know he's founding father of musical sub-genre "power pop"? Rick "spilled the beans" during recent visit to th' IoF©, but also revealed missing episode of pop history in FoamExclusive™! We relaxed poolside as Kreemé served signature loogie-n'-tubwater smoothies!
FT3 Heyyy Rickster! Ricky-rick baby! Lookin' good! How the fuck old are you anyway?
RM Ha ha!
FT3 Ha ha! So tell us about this power pop deal?
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RM [punches air] Rock n' roll! There was a bunch of bands. We changed names whenever we owed money! Ha ha!
FT3 Can you remember some of them?
RM Yeah! No.
FT3 Choo Choo Train?
RM You fucking kidding me? Are you serious?
FT3 And Velvet Crush?
RM What the fuck does that even mean? [shakes head] Crazy times! Hey - can you tell Kreemé I'm sorry about the beans?
Today's Freeload® includes The Reverbs, Choo Choo Train, and Velvet Crush. You need all these albums. If you gots 'em awready download again and donate to the homeless.
"To qualify for this Freeload™" simply tell us your favorite guitar solo! Here it is again, for those of you in remedial care: YOUR FAVORITE GUITAR SOLO!
ReplyDeleteWhoever was spankin' the plank on The Fall's cover of "F-oldin' Money," a solo so perfect the guitarist quit playing halfway through it
ReplyDeleteI only like air guitar solos. I play them when I envision seven seeds.
ReplyDeleteCan't make up my mind between Clash Complete Control and Buzzcocks Boredom, but on second thoughts howabout Eric Clapton on Viv Stanshall's Labio Dental Fricative
ReplyDeleteHere's my All Time Greatest Guitar Solo: L. Skynyrd's Free Bird. I WIN TH' FREELOAD®!
ReplyDeleteyou are, as ever, the winningest winner
DeleteI think it's unarguable. Not only are the dynamics extraordinary, the way it keeps on opening the throttle and changing up all the time throughout the song's duration, it's also fantastically tightly composed - live versions frequently sound almost note-for-note. It basically delivers eleven. Sweet song, too, one to get bare-chested and wave beer tins to. Boys could join in, too.
DeleteRic Menck once slept on my floor. Well, not my floor, but a floor very much like mine.
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of comment - at once provocative, erudite, and of the highest utility - you just don't get anywhere else on the internet.
DeleteYou're too kind Master Throckmorton, and we should thank God for Bernie Rhodes inventing the Internet....without whom etc......
DeleteOOO, lots of good ones, but in powerpop world...The guitars in a song called >Christabelle" by a group called Sorrows. Followed by the guitar lead in "My Sharona" by The Knack. Good and smooth and wonderful.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite guitar solo is deffo frank zappa's inca roads from one size fits all. Bevis Frond's once more is a close second.
ReplyDeleteBevis Frond's Once More, that a lot of guitar soloing, what an intro.
DeleteI agree with useo above ;)
ReplyDeleteHazell's Maggot Brain.
ReplyDeleteFreebird, Layla, Watchtower, Stairway all are up there and I like the work on Don't Fear The Reaper as well but I'm going to name Brian May's solo on Brighton Rock off Queen's Sheer Heart Attack Album which has a fine solo on it. Another one probably that wouldn't get a shout either is Carlos Santana but 'Jingo' has some great work on it. All that said even now you can't really beat Chuck banging out the solos on Johnny B Goode or Roll Over Beethoven and the likes or indeed the solos in instrumentals like the Surfaris 'Wipe Out'.
ReplyDeleteMainstream doesn't mean wrong. Familiarity and a general feeling of rock music being somehow passé (dahling) doesn't invalidate the passion and skill expressed by Santana (an eternal favorite of mine) or Dickey Betts tasering my synapses during Elizabeth Reed, or Jimi's unprecedented solo in Hey Joe, or any number of solos that bottle the lightning.
DeleteHmm.....unironically, Moranis did dabble in the music biz when he took a hiatus from the stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrsLAZQGIQM
ReplyDeleteNice lyrics!
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YZkzfoBZU
DeleteApparently he took time off from acting due to family matters. Not a fan of his music, but I admire him putting his family first. His films are family centric, too (for the most part). Was a fan of his when he was a regular on the late/great SCTV.
DeleteStevie Ray Vaughan's guitar solo on You So Heavy from Teena Marie's Emerald City
ReplyDeleteBaby's On Fire by Eno (Fripp on Guitar) come to mind
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DeleteThe solo at the end of Litter's "I'm A Man" is just about the most beautiful thing I ever heard.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a45lwOxMQfI&list=RDa45lwOxMQfI&start_radio=1
Oh, and answering your specific inquiry - for rock/blues, Allman's solo on Boz' Loan Me A Dime. For jazz, just pick anything that Paco de Lucia did on the Friday Night and Saturday Night lps recorded with McLaughlin and DiMeola.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite guitar solo is on Time Of Your Life - Ode To A Bad Dream, it doesn´t sound like the the guitarist is in the same song, let alone on the same planet as the rest of the band
ReplyDeleteRegards coolruler
"Freebird," unironically and Allman's "One Way Out"...and Sterling Morrison snuck in some surprisingly tight stuff now and then. Steve Cropper "Time is Tight"?
ReplyDeleteAlso, Mule Pucky is jus' abou'spittin' distance from here, as we are sadly reminded whenever the wind blows the wrong way, dangnabbit
ReplyDeleteZappa's Watermelon in Easter Hay & Santana's Samba Pa Ti.
ReplyDeleteIntro of "My Baby Baby Balla Balla": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht6X6Lcsr-s
ReplyDelete... sorry - that was a joke
my favorite is "Brothers in Arms"
David Bromberg, "Mr. Bojangles", live, from "Demon In Disguise."
ReplyDeleteJorma Kaukonen on the studio version of "Somebody to Love."
ReplyDeleteNo, wait. Lindsey Buckingham on "Countdown." No, wait ...
DeleteLet us remember Lindsey this way ...
Deletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2021/09/worlds-most-slappable-man-releases-new.html
Whoever is playing guitar on the Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby" set the gold standard for all time.
ReplyDeleteApparently David Marks (at least he said so). The song is indescribably gawjuss, the Beach Boys at their sublime best, and that guitar solo, set against the harmonic complexity, is perfect.Two notes? Or did I miss one?
DeleteSteve Hunter's intro to Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane" is finest kind
ReplyDeleteIf I have one, I must have forgotten the exact title, and composer. I had it on cassette, an Italian composer for solo guitar, starts with single tones played and the last part it is strumming chords. 18 or 19th century piece. Everything followed from that.
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