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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:	GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:	Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:	KDX200::COOPER

Created:	Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3280
Total number of notes:	61432

2792.0. "The Slowest" by TECRUS::ROST (Got a revved-up teenage head) Mon Aug 23 1993 15:57

    What's the slowest guitar solo you ever heard? Obviously some people
    are faster than others, so that's a factor, but for me, some things
    that make for a really SLOW solo are:
    
    1. clashes with the rest of the song so badly it makes you take your
    foot off the gas pedal when it comes on the car radio
    
    2. so slow you think the record was pressed as a 45 rpm by accident 
    
    3. Overall really dragging (in the words of Leonard Pinth-Darnell
       of SNL, "really slow"). 
    
    My 2 nominees would be:
    
    1. Robin Trower, "Bridge of Sighs", I don't think he really solos, just
       plays that riff over and over again till your brain melts.  
    
    2. J.J. Cale, "Crazy Mama", the notes get squeezed out like toothpaste
    
    Whaddya think?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2792.1		CSC32::B_KNOX	Rock'n'Roll Refugee	`Mon Aug 23 1993 16:06`	7
	A really slow, but really cool solo is ... Jeff Beck's cover of "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" /Billy_K
2792.2		GOES11::G_HOUSE	I think I am, therefore...?	`Mon Aug 23 1993 16:11`	5
	> 1. Robin Trower, "Bridge of Sighs", I don't think he really solos, just > plays that riff over and over again till your brain melts. I wondered what that stuff was!
2792.3		KDX200::COOPER	Testing my new personal name	`Mon Aug 23 1993 18:31`	1
	Love Hurts... Certainly.
2792.4		FRETZ::HEISER	slow burn	`Mon Aug 23 1993 18:46`	2
	"Comfortably Numb" - David "Pink Floyd" Gilmour. It's slow, but a classic 'slow burn.'
2792.5	Plucks per note ratio ?	SUBSYS::GODIN	My other preamp is a Tri-Axis.	`Tue Aug 24 1993 07:05`	13
	RE -2: "Love Hurts" by Nazareth may have the prize for lowest pluck/note ratio. He plucks once & the rest is done with feedback. A long time ago I covered a song called "Goin' Down Slow" & sometimes our guitar player would "ham it up" by playing exceptionally slow solos, but since it's not on vinyl, that doesn't count. The guitar solo to "Toad" by Cream has a long one note feedback "solo" just before the drum break, but since the whole song is an instrumental, I don't know if you can count this either. Paul
2792.6		QRYCHE::STARR	Rulers make bad lovers	`Tue Aug 24 1993 09:17`	4
	Santana's live version of "Europa"..... at one point he holds the same note for like 16 bars! alan
2792.7	that's the first one I thought of, too	GOOROO::DCLARK	dysfunctional by choice	`Tue Aug 24 1993 09:22`	4
	re .-1 I heard there's a Japanese boot where he holds that note for 59 bars.
2792.8	Can you top this: 8 bars of tied whole note	DREGS::BLICKSTEIN	DOS Boot	`Tue Aug 24 1993 15:40`	4
	Larry Carlton holds one note for about 8 bars on "Strikes Twice". Morse plays a GREAT slow solo on "Night Meets Light" (perhaps my favorite Dregs tune).
2792.9	far out	RICKS::CALCAGNI	speeding towards our sun, on a party run	`Wed Aug 25 1993 13:36`	5
	Even though I know Brian started this topic as sort of a goof, I'll bite anyway. Heard a good "slow" guit solo at lunch today, one that didn't spring to mind right away. Mick Ronson on Bowie's "Moonage Daydream". A cool long-tones solo, and an underappreciated guitarist for sure.