FIVE EPIC GUITAR TRACKS
I'll start with Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page showed in “Stairway To Heaven” how he is able to handle a two-fingered guitar. He masterfully uses various techniques, adding elements of blues and folk. The result was a very memorable two-minute solo. We're listening.
David Gilmour's guitar sounds different in Pink Floyd's “Comfortably Numb". His solo seems to consist of two parts – quite calm at the beginning, it becomes more intense in the second half, gaining dynamics and power.
The Eagles' ”Hotel California" stands apart from them. If there's anything better than a guitar solo, it's a two-guitar solo, as demonstrated by Don Felder and Joe Walsh. Felder leads his part smoothly and melodically, and Walsh adds energy by playing not only with his hands, but with his whole body.
Another unforgettable double solo, with which Lynyrd Skynyrd musicians Allen Collins and Gary Rossington entered rock history, is heard in the song “Free Bird”. Unlike Felder and Walsh, Allen and Gary's solo is fast, passionate, emotionally intense, and the audience just goes crazy from it.
And for dessert, my favorite dish is a solo by Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler in the song “The Sultans of Swing”. Surprisingly, you can often find the opinion on the web that Mark is supposedly a mediocre guitarist. Listening to what he does in the Sultans, it's hard to believe.
Of course, these are not all great guitar solos. There are many others, but more about them next time...
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God will you lead me where I roam?
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My, oh my, you sure know how to arrange things
You set it up so well, so carefully
Ain't it funny how your new life didn't change things?
You're still the same old girl you used to be
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The Eagles in 1976, shortly after Joe Walsh joined the group.
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Song Review: Eagles - “Life in the Fast Lane” (Live, 1994)
There will be two versions of “Life in the Fast Lane” on Eagles’ forthcoming best-of set.
But the band graciously chose a third rendition - on video and culled from 1994’s Hell Freezes Over - to announce Take it to the Limit: The Essential Collection.
Don’t worry, Eagles fans, this one sounds pretty much like the studio version and the in-concert take from Eagles Live that’ll appear on the 51-track collection of previously released material that spans seven studio albums plus Live, Freezes Over, the Millennium Concert, Live at the Forum ’76 and Live from the Forum MMXVIII when it arrives April 12.
The band presumably believes this version is among the weaker of the three. And, despite its polish, it is pretty uninspired as the individual Eagles look and sound as if they wished hell’d stayed warm a bit longer.
Grade card: Eagles - “Life in the Fast Lane” (Live, 1994) - C+
3/5/24
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