The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Howdy y'all.

This has been a crazy day. I don't like it so far. But at least the meatloaf I'm having for lunch is excellent.

QotD:
What are your some of your favorite guitar solos.

(extra points for your favorite SF guitar solos)

I got into work to find that the hard drive in my work laptop (which is all of 6 months old) died. Grr. This is going to be a huge pain in the ass.

Fortunately, I mostly just use it as a glorified terminal to a Linux system, so I didn't lose any actual work, but this means that at least for today I'm stuck using the Linux system, which isn't set up as nicely (there's a reason I brought a Mac to work instead of putting up with Linux).

Also, on the plus side, my hard drive was mostly backed up at home (although I don't know how complete the backup is and there could very well be a lot of important stuff missing). I wouldn't trust the backup to do a full system restore from, but it'll definitely be useful for recovering a lot of my installed software and settings and so on. Again, assuming the backup made it that far.

Still, not the best start to what is probably going to be a lousy day.

At least I already have a reservation at the Apple Store support desk, and the laptop is only about 6 months old so there shouldn't be any problem getting it serviced (and it's clearly the hard drive - when it spins it makes a rather loud KTHUNK noise). Of course this means I probably won't be getting a free upgrade to the much better model of MacBook which came out a couple weeks after I bought mine. Oh well.

qotd: the guitar solo in Frankie's version of my 120MPH is pretty great. I can't think of any other solos offhand.

Workin' and then playing at The Olive Branch in Tilton.

I got the shrinkwrap equipment for my CDs yesterday. Yay!

QotD: I love the guitar solo in Love At First Sight by XTC.

QotD: the one that comes to mind right off is the "Intro" part to Sweet Jane on Lou Reed's "Rock 'n' Roll Animal." Jerry's stuff on the studio version of the Dead's Help-Slip-Franks is also right up there.

Today is water therapy class and lunch with my mom (who, in answer to a previous QotD, I see just about every day. My dad passed away in 1991). We didn't have an official instructor for the class today, people just came and walked laps in the pool, so I got to bring music... today I played my Bob Dorough jazz CD and nobody complained. Next Tuesday we may see how they feel about Hank Williams' Greatest Hits.

I've been fighting a cold / sore throat for the past week or so, and I think I've just about beaten it, though I wouldn't mind some extra time for sleep somewhere here...

This weekend, our animal rescue group is having a big fundraiser called "Beauty to the Rescue" - one of the local salons is donating a big chunk of every cut, perm, etc. to the group. On Saturday, they wanted a dog to appear on TV to help promote the event, and it looks like our current foster dog, Gwen, gets to be on TV!



Maybe not the dog I would have chosen first to promote an event called "Beauty to the RESCUE," but she's beautiful in her own way... I guess...

Charles (KA)

DRC: got a Credit Card fishing (phishing?) scam call today. Searched the number and turned up a couple of websites already discussing the number. So I call AT&T department after AT&T department to report what one of their customers up to.

Whenever you called the number back there was this obviously FAKE 'out of service' recording of a an 'out of service' recording. You can even hear two male voices in the background at the very first part of what must actually be voice mail. ( 954-535-9912 if you are at all curious - google search will bring up discussions on it too)

QOTD: Pink Floyd - David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (there are two and they are both great, but the second one is one of the best solos EVER.)

I may chime back in with songfighter guitar solos but its taking me some time to think back. (I remember Frankie Big Face's band had a guitarist that pulled off a nice face contortor')

QOTD: Surprisingly, the most famous ripping guitar solos known to mankind, aren't my favs. I tend to lean towards more of the melody driven solos which are generally slow and soulful.

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Probably one of the best examples of a melody driven solo that I can think of right now. I just love it when the guitar picks up the vocals almost as a second vocalist, if you know what I mean.

But here are a few of the more famous ones that fit in my favorite list:
FreeBird by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Still to this day I play it for inspiration.
Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb. David Gilmour has always been a huge influence.
Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood and many more by SRV.
Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven, and many more. Jimmy Page is incredible.

QOTD bonus:
Paco Del Stinko's Hit By A Train and many more PDS songs. I fucking love that song and I add it to everyone of mix CDs I make and many others. In fact, poker night was at my house last Wed. I generally have my Ipod plugged into my stereo set to random. One of Paco's songs came on, can't think of the name right now, but it's the one about bugs, and one of the guys asked what the fuck is this? I told him it's some freak from back east. They all looked at each other and said, dude, you have to burn me a copy of this shiz.

QotD: Wayyy too many to count, honestly. There's a song by John Petrucci And Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater (who do a whole album of keyboard-and-guitar songs) who have a song, can't think of the name (not that it matters if they're all instrumentals), track two on the album in question. I don't know if instrumentals really count or not, but there's a guitar part at about minute 8 of a 10 minute song where the guitar kicks in the overdrive for an awesome minute-and-a-half lick.

QotD: Zappa's "Watermelon in Easter Hay" FTW.

Fave Songfighter guitar solo: Boltoph, from my cover of "My Sharona."

I'm with Hoblit!

QOTD: Pink Floyd - David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (there are two and they are both great, but the second one is one of the best solos EVER.)

Also, if you like that, I recommend the guitar solo from Over the Rhine's "When I Go" - but the live version only from the CD "Changes Come" (I think) - saw that live and it was fantastic. That was by a guy named Paul Moak.

As for SF I comment pretty often on guitar solos in songs, but I don't remember which are my favorites... tho Starfinger's sea bass solo on my Fight the Sea is particularly great - that's a bass guitar, does it count?
-bill

Kia Ora from Taranaki, Aotearoa (or New Zealand, as the pakeha's like to call it)

Crossed the ditch to check the place out. My wife has been offered a job here. If we like it, we may emigrate for a while. Got Indian takeaway last night. Good curry. Taranaki has already passed the first (and probably most important) test.


QOTD:
Part Company by the Go-Betweens.

That isn't on Youtube, so I'll link to the 2nd best guitar solo ever - Streets of Your Town by The Go-Betweens. Solo at around 2:10 was apparently played on a guitar bought for $10 at a garage sale, or something like that.

HeuristicsInc wrote:I'm with Hoblit!

QOTD: Pink Floyd - David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (there are two and they are both great, but the second one is one of the best solos EVER.)

Funny, after I first read the QOTD my first though was Pink Floyd! No song in particular, just Pink Floyd.
You would think when someone mentions guitar solos, you would think of Steve vie, Joe Santrini, or Eddie Van Helen,
But their mostly just flashy player, making guitar solos memorable might be another acquire skill.

Sultans of swing by Dire straits has a great solo by Mark Knopler.

Caravan Ray wrote: [Possibly moving to New Zealand]

dUdE! Isn’t that like treason or something?

drë wrote:

HeuristicsInc wrote:I'm with Hoblit!

QOTD: Pink Floyd - David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (there are two and they are both great, but the second one is one of the best solos EVER.)

Funny, after I first read the QOTD my first though was Pink Floyd! No song in particular, just Pink Floyd.
You would think when someone’s mentions guitar solos, you would think of Steve vie, Joe Santrini, or Eddie Van Helen,
But their mostly just flashy player, making guitar solos memorable might be another acquire skill.

Sultans of swing by Dire straits has a great solo by Mark Knopler.

Especially coming from a guitar player. As I said:

Surprisingly, the most famous ripping guitar solos known to mankind, aren't my favs. I tend to lean towards more of the melody driven solos which are generally slow and soulful.

Steve vie, Joe Santrini, or Eddie Van Helen are all amazing guitar players, but it's so mechanical and just walking the neck. Well, Eddie is pretty cool, but guys that just run scales don't hit my soul bone.

Mark Knopfler is a soulful guitar player and I like his style.

<b>BLT, i think i found all the bold in your original post very intimidating. Also the length of the post did not help. i mean, i'm really lazy and if I see a post 3 paragraphs long, with bold text all over the place the slacker inside of me tells me “bblllaahhh”.. Keep moving down.
I mean the human eyes are a precious thing (just ask a blind man), so when they are screaming STOP! STOP! You just have to listen to them.
Now unless you have a 40+ inch monitor where each letter is as big as a finger nail, then it might make it easier.
But am telling you brother, reading long bold text in a shitty 17” LCD monitor at work is not for everyone. You need patients, determination, and time. I don’t have either of them. But if people can find it within them to reach the end of a long and boring post, god bless their soul.
We all know text can be boring to read, especially under harsh circumstances, so I give you props for always trying your best when posting, with the little funny animated icons and all.
Am pretty sure if we could embed flash and audio into this board, you probably be doing it all over the place, but hey at least you don’t spam like Glenn case, man can that guy spam.
Hey that reminds me of a couple of spam joke:
• How many spammers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: They can't. They all expect it to remove itself.
A: None. You opted in to the dark on one of our partner's web sites.
• Q: What do you do if a spammer throws a pin at you?
A: Run like hell - he's still got a hand-grenade between his teeth.
• Q: How do spammers teach their kids which way to put their underwear on?
A: Yellow in the front, Brown in the back!
• Q: What do you call a spammer wearing a suit and tie?
A: The Defendant.
• Q: How do you get a spammer out of a tree?
A: Cut the rope.
• Did you hear about the latest spamvertised invention? It's a solar-powered flashlight.
• Following the assault of a young woman, the police rounded up the usual suspects for a lineup; suddenly, the spammer stepped forward and screamed "That's her!!"
• What are the two biggest spammer lies?
The check's in your mouth, and I won't come in the mail.
• When a spammer gets divorced are they still legally brother and sister?

Ok enough fun for today. I been at work now for over 6 hours, and done about 30 minutes worth of work. Slacking does get old sometimes. But shit! You get paid for it, so WTF. Man, if am ever a boss, and have to pay someone to do work for me out of my own pocket, and catch them slacking I’d probably be piss. Ops started to get side track their, should get back to the topic at hand. So Victoria Secret right, apparently they caught themselves becoming to sexy? Did I read that right, Victoria Secret is getting tire of being sexy. 1+1=2, sky=blue, and Victoria Secret= sexy.. Something’s just add up. Can the number two get tire of being next to a pair of number 1's and just go: “you know what fuck you! i'm moving up to the teens range…" no , it just doesn’t happen. But when is all said and done is just another day, full of work, numbers, and guitar solo's, so you know what. God bless you.
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Clearly the best ever is the one note solo in Buzzcocks' 'Boredom'.

No need for bold, see?

drë wrote:<b>Bold Rant
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Ok, can we stop making fun of MY grammar mistakes now? He's a frickin' computer programmer for GAWDSSAKES!

J$ wrote:Clearly the best ever is the one note solo in Buzzcocks' 'Boredom'.

Or the one on Rabbit One by Masters of Reality. Who did the one-noter a few months ago here, was it a drunken Boltoph song?

I share the David Gilmour love and Jimmy Page, especially when he was all fragile sounding on In Through The Out Door. I'm probably the only one, but maybe that's good. (Shhh! It's supposed to be a secret!)

One of the greatest has to be All Along The Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix. The solo is like a little story within the song, full of color and landscapes.

And BLT, anytime you want me, just give me a ring - I'm all yours, man!

yay, I'm sitting in the genius bar waiting area, typing on my iPod. So awesome.

drë wrote:

Caravan Ray wrote: [Possibly moving to New Zealand]

dUdE! Isn’t that like treason or something?

Not sure. I don't think there is any precedent. We're probably the first Australian's to ever even consider it. The traffic across the Tasman Sea usually only flows exclusively westward. But there's so many kiwis in Brisbane and Sydney now - New Zealand itself is probably the best place to go to get away from them.

...and, as much as I hate to admit it - Steinlager is quite possibly the world's best beer.

j$ wrote:Clearly the best ever is the one note solo in Buzzcocks' 'Boredom'.

or The Ramones I Wanna Be Sedated.

I agree - less is more when it comes to guitar solos (the Go-B song "Part Company" I mentioned earlier is a bit on the wanky side - I think it uses 4 different notes)

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb

True dat. I love that song.

I know you all hate Dream Theater, but all I can think of now is John Petrucci's solo in 'Under A Glass Moon' from Images and Words. Really creative solo.

BLT Hoblit Dre Hinc Paco Reist wrote: QOTD: David Gilmour

Am I trippin' or is it his birthday today - cool coincidence

drc: Well, I have come to the solid conclusion that Vista is the absolute worst platform on which to try and record multitrack audio. Period. Vista is killing my inner child. Every audio app I've tried today crashes after getting a couple tracks done. This is maddening. I have a hard drive kicking around with a fresh install of XP on it, and I am going to put it back in my 'puter and *sigh* re-install all my audio apps. Fuck Vista. Fuck it in it's stupid, bloated, "your favorite apps will crash on this, guaranteed" ass.

qotd: I have no idea. While I kind of roll my eyes at complete fretboard wankery, I have to admit there are some wankers who make interesting solos. I guess my favorite guitar solo is the first Black Sabbath album

In related news, I heard this band on the radio the other day... DRAGONFORCE. They are the *worst* crap I've ever heard in my entire life. My 10 year old daughter was even pulling faces and saying "What IS this stupid crap, dad?" I gave her a pat on the head and said "That's my girl"