I remember Phonte posting up this funny ass piano solo on a James Brown song before too. I don't know why, but horrible solos on songs are great to me...I can listen to it hundreds of times and still be entertained.

What's some more that y'all can post?

can't find it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ftcHN3PXE&t=3m53s

it's not even that the solo is really bad on its own, but it becomes laughable for the way he threatens to blow our minds with his axe skills and then goes into that bullshit while shouting out some of the best guitarists as if he's matching or even paying tribute to them in any way.

(Let's not even get into how he compares Jerry Wonder's stiff-ass bass playing to Bootsy's)

The whole thing just makes me cringe

>it's not even that the solo is really bad on its own, but it
>becomes laughable for the way he threatens to blow our minds
>with his axe skills and then goes into that bullshit while
>shouting out some of the best guitarists as if he's matching
>or even paying tribute to them in any way.

Yeah, that's fucking embarrassing. You can hear a dozen different dudes playing at a higher level than that in any random Guitar Center, any random day of the week. It's not bad, it's just very rudimentary.

for the exact same reasons you named.

the ground like Clay Matthews did Kevin Kolb's jaw.

That was "5 year old at Guitar Center" bad.

Since 1976

Dre was already playing guitar on Idlewild and TLB according to the credits, surely he was just really drunk and/or high in the studio that day?

I'm usually a big fan of Tom Morello's solos, but this one sounds like the prolonged torture of a cat...

It starts at the 2min 30 mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1mexmK6bDY

It's still a pretty good song though

I can't think of a worse solo really, on a major label production.

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“The other dude after me didn’t help my case. It was just like…crazy nigga factory going on.”
Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. “I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,” he says. “Never did.”-- Andre B

100 G's and whatever I do, you gotta use it.

There’s a storm coming. You and your friends better batten down the hatches cause when it hits you’re all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us"-Selina Kyle

There’s a storm coming. You and your friends better batten down the hatches cause when it hits you’re all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us"-Selina Kyle

fuck the guitar

I had always just cut the song off after 3 Stack's verse in fear of Ross coming back lol

No way a man with good hearing would let that ride on a proper release. You wanna throw that on a free mixtape, cool but Jimi himself couldn't sell me on that horrible solo. I would've been like "word, that's how you feel about me, Jimi?"

>No way a man with good hearing would let that ride on a
>proper release. You wanna throw that on a free mixtape, cool
>but Jimi himself couldn't sell me on that horrible solo. I
>would've been like "word, that's how you feel about me,
>Jimi?"

again. If you have to review this album or song, or even if you are just talking casually about the song, please make it a point to mention how awful this guitar solo is.

Prince wept

i wish i knew song titles so i could post links to video.

but damn i've heard some organ solos on JB's records and James Brown records that just...no, James. LOL

EDIT: Listening to it now, I'm actually not mad

http://youtu.be/jbWTYhTDLlk

but as has been said above, "at least it's in tune"

That Andre solo is like 9/11... It's changed everything. Solos I used to call bad, I can't even call them bad no more

it just goes on. i remember that one after looking it up.

and then i found this on discogs:

http://www.discogs.com/James-Brown-At-The-Organ-Handful-Of-Soul/master/274846

and now I must have it.

can't remember what it sounds like though.

He obviously didn't have much technique but his note-choices were really nice even if he had a tendency to play some really off-notes at times which I suspect had more to do with lack of technique than bad intentions. He kills it on "Funky Drummer" for example; that's some cool solos there IMO. For some bad examples, I can't come up with any off the top of my head but the "Sho' is funky down here"-album (which was allegedly his attempt at psychedelic rock) has some very awkward stuff which is sort-of predictable I guess-he probably wanted to "wild out" in that context...

http://youtu.be/KLEBzIv10WY

*says not a word*

http://tinyurl.com/9v9n7gz

Do the little keyboard noodlings in the breaks even count as "solos"?

http://youtu.be/R8AOAap6_k4

Whatever... they're pretty uninspired.

Plus, I'll admit to just looking for an excuse to post this vid because I never fail to be amused by the over-enthusiasm of the bass player and the coked-up, mega-mulleted engineer.

Also: Linda is so fucking cool.

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I ported to these boards... does that song sound like it came right out of The Golden Child?

(c) Dr. Claw

They still play it regularly on the radio. Anyway, that's the type of non-Prince/MJ "R&B" that crossed over here. I always liked the song BTW, great melody even if it is repetitious and I dig how the girl sings it

I love it

>Also: Linda is so fucking cool.

SERIOUSLY!



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpxNRXbqPPM

I find it kind of endearing though

B.o.B. has a new video out feat André3k - NO LIE, its called:

Play the Guitar HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH

and now he shooting a video for it? wtf? that easily would have been the best song on the album and who wastes an Andre feature..I mean Andre completely blew him out the water but damn.

I'll Follow the Sun comes to mind.

His lead playing was so suspect that McCartney played the majority of the lead parts on Sgt. Pepper and even on George's own Taxman.

But he also had some really great ones later on (Something, for one) that more than make up for it.

Shit is almost always total off key nonsense. But I still bump some Slayer though.

On their own, they are tuneless wankery with no redeeming musical values but in the context of Slayer's often very tight and rigid songs, they give a sense of craziness and spontaniety to the proceedings. I also like the way he and Hanneman shifted the Judas Priest- alternating solos approach to the left while still retaining the dynamic. Basically, in JP, Glenn Tipton played the melodic, classical-inspired solos wheras KK Downing spazzed out with the whammy-bar and played more in a post-Hendrix (minus the blues) style. In Slayer, Hanneman pretty much played like Downing and King like a mongoloid but you still get the contrast.

I should also mention though that those tuneless solos became a cliche in more extreme thrash and early death metal as well so the concept has pretty much been played out for 20 years or so; it doesn't have much left to offer and most lead-guitarists in the at least more notable metal-bands seem to have abandoned it, at least as the dominate lead-style.

...Robin Thicke's last track on his most recent album Love After War, the track called "What Would I Be", he has a very short piano solo that i was unimpressed by. Of course i am not the best on the keys nor are some other artists i look up to (like Gil Scott-Heron), but still unimpressed. Probably because i was expecting some freal down home blues slash gospel jammin on the track. Still a nice song.

there's a certain admission he makes

http://youtu.be/X7k4QQ0UjsQ

it's as if he read this post !