Talk:Guitar solo
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[edit] Changes
I made some significant changes here... hope I didn't annoy whoever did the nice job of writing the original article. I felt the rock-specific stuff needed to be clearly separated from the more general stuff, and I hope I did that. I also liked the fact that the article mentioned the minor pentatonic as an important scale in rock solos, and decided to expand on that a bit. Finally, I started a list of jazz guitarists.
Two things I didn't want to do straight off the bat:
1. I hate the descriptions of Hendrix, Zappa etc at the beginning fo the rock-specific section. I think these are just plain wrong, or at least very subjective. Anyone object if I completely rewrite this para?
2. IMHO the list of rock guitarists is way too long. We should have maybe up to a dozen historically important players and move this list into a separate "list of rock guitarists" page. It has far too many obscure names on it to be useful here.
Let me know what you think about these as I suspect they may be more controversial than my other changes.
Ornette 17:08, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for the changes, and I hope you can spare some more time on the article. Regarding 1) Not at all, please do, and 2) Agreed. — Matt Crypto 14:10, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Also -- any objection to removing the troll at the top of this discussion?
Ornette 13:41, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
- Done. — Matt Crypto 14:10, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Also -- is the comment at the top of this discussion genuine (in which case it's an example of why this page shouldn't degenerate into a list of 'my favourite heavy metal guitarists') or is it just a troll?
Ornette 14:00, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
- Hard to be certain, but it has little to do with the topic of writing an encyclopedia article, so I think we're better without it. — Matt Crypto 14:10, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Matt -- we collided while I was in the midst of another big-ish reorganisation -- I've tried to take account of your change but pls check to make sure I didn't mess up your intention. I'd better leave this alone for a while now...
Ornette 14:56, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Removed Billy Corgan and Kurt Cobain as notable soloists, because neither is notable in the least for their solo ability.
As "promised", I've moved the "notable soloists" lists to other pages. I think the result is a bit cleaner. Ornette 16:07, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Spinal Tap?
No discussion of the guitar solo can be complete without some mention of the classic scene in This Is Spinal Tap where Nigel Tufnel plays a solo scraping a violin across his guitar. Someone wanna write this up? A screen cap from the film would be good too, which I'd do except my copy of the film was stolen by junkie scumbags. Shermozle 10:43, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Removed a commercial link
I removed a link to a web site run by a guitar teacher and selling instructional materials. There are a lot of sites offering this kind of service and it would be inappropriate for Wikipedia to promote any particular one. Ornette 16:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] bass solos need their own page
i was surprised by the redirect, as they are often quite different. at least a stub would be nice. Joeyramoney 19:16, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] longest guitar solo??
Where the hell did this come from: "The longest recorded guitar solo in history is in Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd, at 4 minutes, 12 seconds"? There are tons of longer recorded solos. Look at any live Zeppelin or Cream album, for one.
[edit] Grunge solos
The article says that the guitar solo lost popularity in the late eighties, when in fact guitar solos were still prominent in the early nineties during the grunge era. I think the guitar solo lost popularity starting with post-grunge in the mid-nineties.
[edit] Proposed Reformating
This article should probably be renamed Rock Solos instead of being too guitar centric. Perhaps including mention of piano solos (a la Jerry lee lewis?), synth solos (Van Halen/Yngwie Malmsteen), and bass solos (Billy Sheehan). What this article should probably be about is the concept and role that instumental solos played in the developement of Rock and metal (regardless of instrument) Justinmeister 15:26, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
== Juvenile--
Obviously the person that wrote the article is extremely juvenile and below the age of 15. You only covered a very small portion of guitar solo theory. You did not inclued any information about jazz, classical, blues, or r&b guitar solos. God, kids these days.
