11 Sep
2008
11 Sep
'08
12:50 p.m.
On Thursday 11 September 2008 10:31, Dave Phillips wrote:
I've worked out the solos to Cream's Badge and
to Dire Straits' Sultans
Of Swing, now I'm on to Joe Perry's leads in Aerosmith's Walk This Way.
Yeh, pretty old school, but still great solos.
Not to hijack a thread or anything, but what guitar solos that are widely
regarded as great aren't "pretty old school"? The last one I heard in
mainstream rock that I really liked was Kim Thayil's solo in Black Hole
Sun in the early 90s, and that one was as overplayed as Stairway. I like
some Queens of the Stone Age solos but don't know if Josh Homme is
regarded as a guitar god like Clapton, Knopfler and Perry either. Same
with the Mars Volta. And I like a lot of indie rock but I'm not really
hearing too many future inclusions in Guitar Hero from that direction.
The kids who are picking up a guitar for the first time today, what are
they trying to play? It's not really the kind of thing you can google.
Rob