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Great songs with terrible solos

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  • dindudedindude Frets: 8537
    Can I nominate Whisky-in-a-fucking-Jar, my goodness that solo sounds like nails down a blackboard to me.
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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24806
    How Long by Ace - dull a ditch water solo.
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  • TeetonetalTeetonetal Frets: 7802
    DulcetJones said:
    Californication - RHCP.   Fruciante is another one of the long list of players I really like, except when they try to play a solo.  Most of the ones already mentioned fit here with the exception of Jimi Hendrix and Keef.  Some of their solos aren't spectacular but even the weakest ones have more soul than most of the victims of this thread.
    I really like that solo, fits, adds texture to the song. 
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  • TeetonetalTeetonetal Frets: 7802
    Jimi Page could have a lot of mentions in this thread..
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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24806
    Teetonetal;861590" said:
    Jimi Page could have a lot of mentions in this thread..
    Are you sure you don't mean Jimmy Hendricks?
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 28337
    Teetonetal said:
    Jimi Page could have a lot of mentions in this thread..
    ??? As a Zep fan, I can't recall any I don't like!

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  • hugbothugbot Frets: 1528
    dindude said:
    Can I nominate Whisky-in-a-fucking-Jar, my goodness that solo sounds like nails down a blackboard to me.
    I thought "that song doesent have a solo" then I went back and listend and realised I'd completely blocked it out of my memory until the part where the harmony guitar comes in. Its totally pointless.
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  • TeetonetalTeetonetal Frets: 7802
    edited November 2015
    axisus said:
    Teetonetal said:
    Jimi Page could have a lot of mentions in this thread..
    ??? As a Zep fan, I can't recall any I don't like!

    this is the one that stikes in my mind. Utter tripe. and badly played. But I love the song.

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  • TeetonetalTeetonetal Frets: 7802
    richardhomer said:
    Teetonetal;861590" said:
    Jimi Page could have a lot of mentions in this thread..
    Are you sure you don't mean Jimmy Hendricks?
    Quite possibly.. I think Jimmy / Jimi needs to be standardized. Should get the EU on it. 
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  • boogiemanboogieman Frets: 12365
    Deijavoo;861441" said:
    Purple Haze
    Whaaaaat??!!!
    Heathen.
    My trading feedback  http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57616/
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  • not_the_djnot_the_dj Frets: 7306
    To me the "MXR Blue Box" solo in Zep's Fool in the Rain is awful.....but then I'm not sure that's classed as a great song anyway.




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  • DesVegasDesVegas Frets: 4534
    vasselmeyer said:
    The obvious answer here is the solo on "Sympathy for the Devil". I don't know if there's a story behind it (can't be arsed searching for it) but the nasty tone used for the solo must have been deliberate.
    This, this, this, this and this .. i'm sure i've read on hear people saying it's amazing .. but man, it's dire
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  • 57Deluxe57Deluxe Frets: 7339
    edited November 2015
    just listen to the bollocks that this solo is!



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  • KKJaleKKJale Frets: 982
    ^ Nah, that's great. Pure attack. Nihilistic Chuck Berry. It's like a splatter painting, two fingers to the establishment. 
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  • not_the_djnot_the_dj Frets: 7306
    KKJale said:
    ^ Nah, that's great. Pure attack. Nihilistic Chuck Berry. It's like a splatter painting, two fingers to the establishment. 
    This. 

    That solo is awesome, and (I'm no where near old enough to know for sure) must have been pretty shocking at the time.
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  • GavRichListGavRichList Frets: 7162
    Johnny Come Home by Fine Young Cannibals. Brilliant song, ruined by all the hideous wind instrument solos.
    https://open.spotify.com/artist/350MeprlGRHZw73mPOJG2x?si=5stis2yVTPSxTKpEizaQ3g
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  • ElxElx Frets: 412
    ICBM said:


    Not sure about Here I Go Again (can't quite remember what the solo is like), but Is This Love has definitively the worst clean and worst distorted tones ever recorded, in the same song.
    ...and the worst snare drum sound ever!
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  • vizviz Frets: 10695
    Beat It. (only joking)
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • GrunfeldGrunfeld Frets: 4038
    edited November 2015
    DulcetJones said:
    Californication - RHCP.  
    This was going to be my choice too.  I think it takes the biscuit.

    Teetonetal said:

    I really like that solo, fits, adds texture to the song. 
    Arrrrrrrrrrrgh!  :bz

    how?

    Well, I guess we're all different.  But I still don't know how we can be that different!
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  • mudslide73mudslide73 Frets: 3072
    I learned the solo for Californication and it's bobbins. I can't understand what it is supposed be.. its like it was the scratch solo then they left it in.
    "A city star won’t shine too far"


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