Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.
And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.
I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.
I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.