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Wormboy 
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 Posted: August 19 2005 at 11:34 |
 Zitro wrote:
Worst Guitar Solos :
_ Yes - The Ancient (slide guitar solo) |
YES! THANK YOU!
IIRC, I think it's a pedal steel guitar solo. Technically speaking.
The double coyote bad solo!
Occasionally a solo is single coyote bad: you gnaw your arm off to
remind you not to listen to it again. Double coyote bad is where
you gnaw your other arm off so you will never have the opportunity to
do it again! 
But seriously, it is probably the most self-indulgent, absolutely
clueless solo I've ever heard. Did he not know how awful it
sounds?
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el_Sethro
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 14:03 |
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the only one that comes to
mind is Neal Morse's keyboard/organ solo on TransAtlantic's "My New
World" at about 10:18. It's not very long, but It's not in the same key
as the rest of the song, and it doesn't work at all, in my opinion. The
rest of the song is absolutely teriffic, though.
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Who you gonna call?
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Retrovertigo
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 14:08 |
Revan wrote:
me either...
Worst solos? Only one:
Oh yeah - Can
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Whaaaat?
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Odd24
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 17:29 |
The keyboard solo in Genesis' Your own special way is really nothing special, the only flaw on W&W.
Sorry, Tony Banks, but I like your solos in The cinema show and Riding the scree much better.
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Right down the line
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drumsandbass
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 17:54 |
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Renegade by Styx. And to be honest that one isnt one my favorite songs
either.
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Prosciutto
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 20:22 |
The sax solo by Nik Turner on the Hawkwind's classic "MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE", that my friends is the WORST solo I've ever heard by any instrument...
HAWKWIND RULES!! 
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Don't be a prog-hole, please...
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margaret
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:46 |
Prosciutto wrote:
The sax solo by Nik Turner on the Hawkwind's classic "MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE", that my friends is the WORST solo I've ever heard by any instrument...
HAWKWIND RULES!! |
didn't like that myself, but the worst solo I'VE heard by any instrument, to me is a no brainer, Ron Bushy's drum solo on In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 
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Space is dark it is so endless
When you're lost it's so relentless
It is so big, it is small
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margaret
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:48 |
Zitro wrote:
beterdedthnred4 wrote:
This may be blasphemy, but I just cannot take the atonal xylophone solo in Gentle giant's Knots |
A loathe that song!!!!
yes, that is a terrible solo ... especially whenever I compare it to the solo in 'Schooldays' from the same band. |
 a classic solo.
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Space is dark it is so endless
When you're lost it's so relentless
It is so big, it is small
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Drew
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:50 |
Dream Theater- Erotomania
No. JK- That Song "Love Hurts"
and I'll throw in- "Owner of a lonely Heart"
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BePinkTheater
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 22:44 |
the sympathy for the devil guitar solos always makes me vomit/ cry/ want to kill myself, and everyone in the rolling stones...those talents less pieces of sh*t... 
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I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t.
-Stone Beard
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salmacis
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 16:27 |
Must say one of the worst solos I've heard is a keyboard solo in 'Headlong' by IQ- it starts off fine, yet comes horribly unstuck near the end of the solo. However, the track does recover..
'Your Own Special Way's solo was totally irrelevant to the song- in a totally different key to the rest of the track, so it's clear it was added as an afterthought to me...The solo in 'Congo' must have a mention too-
Caravan's live album, 'A Knight In London', featured the returning Jan Schelhaas on keyboards. He made a mess of every solo he played- 'For Richard' and 'Nine Feet Underground' were really bad imo. However, in all fairness, this was I think his first gig with the band since about 1977, and the band have also condemned the DVD for various technical problems. I've not ever been hugely impressed by Schelhaas yet surely he's never been as bad as he was there?
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chopper
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 16:34 |
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On ELP's live album "The show that never ends" there is a version of
Lucky Man with a truly horrendous keyboard solo. Hard to believe it's
Emerson (perhaps it wasn't, perhaps a mouse ran up and down the
keyboard for a bit).
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salmacis
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 16:47 |
chopper wrote:
On ELP's live album "The show that never ends" there is a version of Lucky Man with a truly horrendous keyboard solo. Hard to believe it's Emerson (perhaps it wasn't, perhaps a mouse ran up and down the keyboard for a bit). |
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krusty
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 17:51 |
I remember a while ago I saw Hawkwind and for some reason Ginger Baker
was drumming for them. Now I don't know what he had been up to before
that gig but his drum solo was the worst I have ever seen, he kept
dropping sticks and fummbling around for replacements while playing
bass drum and hihat.
Why was he even playing a drum solo at a Hawkwind gig anyway?? jeez... 
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Prosciutto
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:30 |
Believe it or not Ginger was the band's drummer for about a year between 1979 and 1980, as far a I know, in the end he was fired by Dave Brock, don't know the reason...
Hawkwind rules!!
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Don't be a prog-hole, please...
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AbsentEnemy
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:41 |
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Starless - King Crimson. If that counts as a solo. Would it kill him to play a different note?
Owner of a Lonely Heart is sh*t as well. The funny part is that a while
ago in Guitar One it was voted as one of the best tones in a guitar
solo. Annoying fuzz and 87 layers of harmonizer too many? I don't think
so.
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" If the company of tumbleweed is unexpected fun, you're a cactus..."
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Yams
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:48 |
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The Starless solo builds up the song.
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AbsentEnemy
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 19:51 |
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...or atleast it attempts to. And fails. It goes on way too long IMO.
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" If the company of tumbleweed is unexpected fun, you're a cactus..."
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laplace
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 21:46 |
Rush - Bastille Day
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Philrod
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Posted: October 12 2005 at 01:18 |
Publius wrote:
Holger Czukay's gutiar sounds exactly the same in every Can song I have heard so far... |
Wel... he has his style
but it definitely works on a song like Paperhouse... I adore the solo on that song!
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