Your favorite short solos.

kenposurf · Post by **kenposurf** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:24 am

After Midnight..E.C.

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:47 am

I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better.

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:44 am

Skunk Baxter didn't play on "Reelin in the Years", Elliot Randall did.

lshaia · Post by **lshaia** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:51 am

Short ones that give me goosebumps are:

EC - Politician, "Live Cream Vol. 2"
Robin Trower - the second solo on "I Can't Wait Much Longer" from "Live"
Dicky Betts - "One Way Out" from "Eat A Peach"
Ritchie Blackmore - "Space Truckin'"
Adrian Belew - "The Great Curve" from the Talking Heads' "Remain In Light"

winston · Post by **winston** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:57 am

Strange Brew - Cream
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Johhny B Goode - Chuck Berry
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Shapes of Things - Jeff Beck
Let Me Love You - Jeff Beck

To name a few.

lyle_from_minneapolis · Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:53 am

Elliot Randall, I mean, er, yes. (Now I have to learn about THIS guy---love the tone on that solo.)

Rattlesnake-y solo on Bowie's "Jean Genie" ...Mick Ronson?...

blazer · Post by **blazer** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:51 am

"Skunk Baxter didn't play on "Reelin in the Years", Elliot Randall did."

Correction, Skunk DID play on "Reelin'in the years" but he played rythm and the two part harmony licks. The solo is Randall but Skunk played on that track too.

lyle_from_minneapolis · Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:39 am

I just read about how Elliot came in and did the track pretty quickly after Fagen and Becker told him that Baxter had been trying to nail it two days.

35012 · Post by **35012** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:04 pm

John Lennon (?) on Every Little Thing and You Can't Do That, not only because these are some of the only Beatles Solos he plays but because he plays them in a way that, although completely different from George's style still fit in with the Beatles' music.

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:23 pm

I LOVE "You Can't Do That". Good call, Isaac!

hieronymous · Post by **hieronymous** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 2:57 pm

Jeff already got "My Generation" but here are some other good short bass solos, many of them played on Rics:

Geddy Lee/Rush: YYZ, La Villa Strangiato
Roger Glover/Deep Purple: Pictures of Home
Lemmy/Motorhead: Stay Clean
Cliff Burton/Metallica: Orion

Hmm, that's all I can think of right now...

nab · Post by **nab** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:45 am

So may great solos already mentioned, and many more to go...

No matter what you think of the song, Amos Garrett's solo on Maria Muldaur's "Midnight at the Oasis" is one of the most melodic I've ever heard (for some reason I always thought it was Ry Cooder).

bitzerguy · Post by **bitzerguy** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:51 am

George Harrison on "I Feel Fine". Ties everything together nicely.

...Dean

hieronymous · Post by **hieronymous** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:59 am

Just thought of another: Mike Gordon's short solos in "You Enjoy Myself" from Phish's first album, Junta.

admin · Post by **admin** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:22 am

I have always thought that Roger McGuinn's solo on "She Don't Care About Time" was a classic.