Favorite Guitar Solos (your list)

[sweatboard]

Yeah, I enjoyed the stuff that complainer brought up, I thought he shared his oppinion in a pleasent manner and had some interesting things to say, I was of course just having some fun, no malice on this end. ;)  But Freebird still fucking rocks.  Speaking of Free-Bird...................

[sweatboard]

And I KNOW this guy agrees with me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EC]

Holy motherfucking shit.  That is unbelievable.

[SmoothOprtr]

What is this?

[Complainer]

Complainer,

"By My Car" has some of my favorite MMJ lyrics.  I didn't get it at first - I shook my head, especially at that buying houses and paying rent bit.  BUT I think Jim is assuming a narrative voice.  Like when Faulkner writes as Benjy thinks in _Sound and the Fury_, he (Faulkner) sounds less intelligent than he is, b/c Benjy is retarded.  

Maybe you're not from the south, but down here there are a lot of folks who talk like the narrator of 'By my car'.  Also, after he asks her where she "go'd", the mean girl corrects his fucking grammar - "you said where you went"

I think he does this (assumes a voice - often an "average guy" voice) in other songs, as well. I think it's happening in "Old Sept. Blues", where the dude has a weird accountant's view of love "never were a drawback, always were an asset."

'Course, this is just my own damn opinion. I may be right or wrong.  

I don't think you deserved the finger, though.  I think (hope) that was just joking.  Sweatboard's cool.  We got drunk together virtually. ;D

Thanks for your post, Tundra. I hadn't even considered that she was correcting his grammar. That's a great way of reading those lines. The idea that she is more "cultured" than he is makes sense, considering both your comment and the fact that she apparently moves to Los Angeles, the "big city" (although I'd take southern honesty over L.A. bullshit any day, if I can stereotype for a second). I'm kind of leaning toward the notion of Jim assuming a voice in some songs, especially since I've gone on ten-minute raves to my girlfriend about how good certain lines are. I've always been confused about how Jim could write such great lines and then commit such stinkers to wax, but I have to admit that I'm overly picky about some things.

As for "The Sound and The Fury", that was...well, not an easy read, at least until I got a sense of the characters. Actually, it wasn't easy then either, but I'm glad I got through it.

[sweatboard]

Damnit to hell, I swear that image was up for a while.  Did anyone see it?

[sweatboard]

At any rate this has turned out to be a great dialogue on Jim's lyrics.  I never really thought he said "go'd".  I always thought he said "Where You'd go".  I have to say "By My Car" has always been one of my favorites. But you have brought up a good point Complainer about her moving on to a more "cultured" environment.  I play this song on my guitar quite a bit and I always seem to give out a little angry laugh after the lines "and you said where you went"

The fact that the song just seems like it was written on the spot is what I love about it the most.  It just seems like an immediate reaction that had to occur and there just happened to be a guitar around.    

[EC]

(I still see it, sweatboard.)

[SMc55]

(I still see it, sweatboard.)

Me too.

[wordawg]

Who is it?


word?

[sweatboard]

It was this guy with the most kick ass mullet of all time flippen a sweet bird.

[EC]

It was this guy with the most kick ass mullet of all time flippen a sweet bird.

What happened?  Where'd he go, and what is an angel fire?

(I'm really glad that the guy with the mullet isn't you.  I was worried.)

But where is he?

(If you find him again, and email him to me, I will host a link at my sight, because that shit is for real, and everyone should get to see it.)  :)

[wordawg]

But who was/is he?

[SMc55]

(I'm really glad that the guy with the mullet isn't you.  I was worried.)

That's what I was thinking. It is one spectacular mullet!

[Billo]

Favorite guiar solos
This one goes to 11
Mark Knofler (Dire Straits)Sultans of Swing
Michael Schenker (UFO) Love to Love
Walter Salas Humara (The Silos) Here's To You
John Fogerty (CCR) Ramble Tamble
Cesar Rosas (Los Lobos) Don't Worry Baby
Neil Young - Like A Hurricane
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Rude Mood
Bill Priddle and Greig Nori (Treble Charger)-Red
Mark Knofler -Romeo and Juillet
Bob Marley The open notes of Redemption Song
Eddie Van Halen - Ain't Taling 'Bout Love

[utonynashm]

I heard that tony nash guy is sweet......

and marc ford and warren haynes and jimmy page and clapton and so many other greats!

[tomEisenbraun]

MMJ - "The Bear" (that building bit on the electric right before the "forever")
Led Zep - "Ten Years Gone"
The Flaming Lips - "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" AMAZING song

[Chills]

Jimi Hendrix: Machine Gun  Live at the Fillmore East (two versions!)

[Complainer]

Jimi Hendrix - Where to start? How about Bold As Love. The second half of the song has a guitar solo with a weird spacey effect that gives me chills every time.

Frank Zappa - Take your pick: Dirty Love, Penguin in Bondage, Montana, Black Napkins, Leather Goods (especially the Whole Lotta Love part), etc. Damn, that guy could play.

Willie Nelson - Folsom Prison Blues w/ Johnny Cash

Neil Young - many

Peter Green - Jumping At Shadows (back when Fleetwood Mac were actually good!) Eat your heart out, Clapton.

[Garth69]

'The Rocker'-Thin Lizzy-Eric Bell.
One of the most underrated guys of all time. This was before the famed twin guitar lineup that produced nothing but one great solo after another, but Eric Bell was probably better than both guys put together.