I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it fo...
Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.
My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.
Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to ...
It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.
And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.
The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.
There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.
