Guitar solos result in songs being longer than 3 minutes. Given the average attention span of who the RIAA targets now, that would be disastrous.

if you think that guitar solos are gone, your obviously listening to the crap on the radio. give me a farking break- there is music that is just as jamming today as there ever was.

Off-topic, but there's nowhere else to say this...

WORST. SUPERBOWL. EVER!

*sob*

The Superbowl is on????

probably the same place the guitars and good music went. if anyone finds them, let me know.

Not sure, but I hope they stay there.

Superbowl is awesome. Suck it raiders fans.

Want a solo? Listen to Weezer: "Take Control"

guitar solo's are still around... they're just not forced down your throat these days

whats most telling about the music industry today is that the headliner at the super bowl halftime show was sting, doing a song that he did with the police in the 80s. not one song was new this year. that really says something about how shiatty music is.

what's this "superbowl" i keep hearing about?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they just called Pantera and Ozzy Osbourne death metal.

*Holding back laughter*

Yeah, "Take Control" did have a cool solo. And Bad Religion still has some of the best melodic soloing in punk rock. Solos are still there, they're just not as flashy or prominent.

::Finger-taps like a mofo::

Oh, and just in case anyone accuses me of trying to treadjack...

The reason is pretty obvious. These days so many of the mainstream musical acts out there are singer-focused (Britney, N'Sync)... are there any actual BANDS out there anymore? You know, where the guitarists are as much an integral part of the act as the frontman/singer?

Fark the Super Bowl. Fark it up its stupid azz.

The Hellacopters are the only consistently great rock 'n' roll band that can still pull off a geetar solo in every song.

Beyond that, good farking riddance. Take that, Eddie Van Halen!

guitar solos went the way of the hair band and rock ballad

Since they're mentioned in the article, what does everyone think of Audioslave? I like their stuff, but I'm not quite sure if I love it yet. Either way, Tom Morello kicks ass.

who cares? real songwrites don't need to use long, pretentious solos.

Guitar solos are alive and well. You just have to listen to the right kind of music.

Hahaha Raiders you eat shiat

HAhaha San Diego your city is about to be destroyed

MTV killed the guitair solo.

Audioslave's aight. There's one song on that album (sorry, I don't know any of the songs by name) where Morello goes off on a really sweet, melodic solo, unlike anything he really did in Rage. That totally made the album, as far as I'm concerned. Anyhow, I like Audioslave far more than RatM, and I'm disappointed they haven't caught on a bit better yet.

also: what happened to good guitar playing in general
what happened to real R&B (and Soul)
that stuff they call R&B is something else.


*turns up Curtis Mayfield, '

Nitram

Most of those artists who are considered "real" ones used guitar solos. Perhpas you can enlighten us with some of those who you think are "real"?

Guitar solos are alive and well. You just have to listen to the right kind of music.

Radio only plays top 40. Radio is dead, the thrill is gone.

Eddie.

Jimi.

Eric.

Joe.

BB.

Carlos.

They KNEW how to play. The only people who have any talent on guitar anymore are bands 90% of the public have never heard of because the radio stations would rather force Pop Flavor of the Month down our collective throats. God forbid you showcase a musician with talent.

Jonnyfish:

Since they're mentioned in the article, what does everyone think of Audioslave?

They sound exactly like you'd think they would. It's Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine in a head-on collision. A wreck is the result.

Carl Conrad!!! Judas stinkin' priest, Magoo!!!! I do agree with you though...music is sucks right now. I keep finding myself going back to classic rock songs. They are, by far, superior to today's crap.

Nothing SLAMS my eyes shut quite like Eric Clapton.

I downloaded a 14 min. live version of "Layla" just the other day. It is awesome.

Nuno still does solos. Wicked as ever. www.mourningwidows.com

They sound exactly like you'd think they would. It's Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine in a head-on collision. A wreck is the result.

Agreed.

14 min. version of "Layla"? That's got to be good. I only have the 7 min. and the accoustic versions.

random goodies from the past...

I recently heard some killer Frank Zappa guitar solos and
Prince can solo like crazy. Rick James can play anything. Beck can solo. ....

There seem to be plenty on my Hendrix and B.B. King boxed set discs.

I think they got out of hand and cliched in pop and people got sick of them. However, I highly recommend listening to anything other than that pop crap. Actually, a cool pop CD to get is the remastered Elvis Presley 30 hits disc, though you won't find many solos except Hank Garland's superb solo in Too Much.

Where did the guitar solo go?
That one is easy. They went over to europe. Bands like Soilwork, In Flames, Darkane and Opeth are keeping the guitar solo alive and well.

You know what sucks? I graduated in 89... as an aspiring guitar player everything that I spent years learning was obsolete by the time I learned it.

It's pretty sad when you can reduce the once-great Chris Cornell to warbling pointlessly over a flat melody like motherfarking Scott Stapp.

I like the way Rage Against the Machine disappeared just in time for there to be things for them to legitimately complain about.

I thought that guitar solos were on their way out because most bands these days can't play their instraments that well. Sure they can do some simple stuff, but that's about it.

455H47: That's gotta be the coolest Fark name I've ever seen. I want 455H47 to be my license plate number.

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they just called Pantera and Ozzy Osbourne death metal."

Actually, the article says, "Still, guitar solos remain a staple of the death metal genre, and "Dimebag" Darrell Abbot of Pantera and Zakk Wylde from Ozzy Osbourne's band are prone to soloing, too."

It's not saying that Pantera and Ozzy are death metal. It's saying that Pantera and Ozzy solo, and that death metal has solos. They are related to each other by the fact that they solo, not that they play the same genre of music.

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26-3 Buccanneers. Suck it, Raiders fans!

also, it is the mass-produced pop-crap that is being promulgated over the radio waves which is responsible for the sorry state of todays music.

Question: Where did the guitar solo go?

Answer: It didn't go anywhere. The same musicians (word choice intentional) that used to perform guitar solos are still performing guitar solos, for the most part. The record companies just don't promote them anymore, because the "right demographic" doesn't buy them.

Eh, screw the guitar solo, Bass Solos are where it's at.