In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.
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It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.
I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.
Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.
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.
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.
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.
There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.
I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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