Favorite Non-Metal guitar solos

[mdmatt4ever]

Clapton's solo career wasn't even close to remarkable. Most of his later material is pop-rock garbage (Blues Power, After Midnight, Hello Old Friend, Let It Rain, Promises, etc). The only thing close to remarkable he did after Cream was Derek and the Dominoes and even that is debatable. Bell Bottom Blues is a fucking great song though. You can't really call his tenure with Blind Faith remarkable, either, because they only did one album. Cream was the best shit he did. Every Cream song I've heard is awesome.

Cocaine is pretty sweet, too. That's about it though.

Everything SRV did was remarkable. He truly was a prodigy that was taken too soon. Clapton was past his peak while SRV wasn't.

first off clapton didn't writ after midnight or cocaine so any problms with those songs aren't his fault. next you say claptons later material is pop rock then you name songs from his first few solo albums in the 70's finally claton wanted his solo stuff to be more radio friendly and used his side projects for his other stuff. in the 80's he shifted to synth sounding radio crap so he could make a comeback. i've never heard anyone dis the layla album

 

[The Ozzman]

By later stuff, I mean most shit after Cream

 

[The Ozzman]

Well shit, fuck JJ Cale then.

 

[Matt]

EDIT: Fuck you for editing my post, Mathias. Don't be like Dodens and fucking edit my shit for no reason

Dude it was a joke, chillax

I like both players and wouldn't either to kick the bucket.

 

[The Ozzman]

Dude it was a joke, chillax

I like both players and wouldn't either to kick the bucket.

I like both too, but if I had to choose one, it would have been Clapton.

 

[razoredge]

Neither should/should've died.

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[razoredge]

What a fucked up way of thinking! Normal people would have said the helicopter shouldnt have crashed... if they felt the urge to open their mouths, not looked for some sacrificial lamb.

Clapton never stopped putting out good music, regardless the vein it was in, it was always Clapton and he playing what came to him at the time. 461 Ocean Boulevard was a great album. Not all of Creams music was to die for.
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I loved Terry Caths guitar work in 25or6to4

 

[The Ozzman]

Given the conditions that night, I don't think it could have been avoided.

 

[BloodSword]

Clapton should have died in the helicopter crash instead of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

From what I understand, that was Clapton's seat on that helicoptor, that SRV took. SRV was tired and wanted to go back to his hotel in Wisconsin to get some rest, and Clapton gave him the seat. For me, that decision changed contemporary electric blues. Period.

 

[The Ozzman]

From what I understand, that was Clapton's seat on that helicoptor, that SRV took. SRV was tired and wanted to go back to his hotel in Wisconsin to get some rest, and Clapton gave him the seat. For me, that decision changed contemporary electric blues. Period.

THIS

 

[Vimana]

I love RATM, but Tom Morello's solos sound like a dog humping a banjo.

Not the ones I listed. Some of the ones on the battle of los angeles were like that. But I like pretty much all the ones on the first album.

 

[razoredge]

and Holly, Valens & Richardson shouldnt have got on that plane, talk about change in the music scene. not to many years after that we got stuck with the beatles

and Jimi and Janis shouldnt have done all the drugin and drinkin

and Skynyrds plane shouldnt have crashed

and Chris Oliva and his wife shouldnt have got in a car that day

but guess what shit happens and in the end none of "this" matters

 

[sceloporus]

Clapton should have died in the helicopter crash instead of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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Clapton is a poser IMO, SRV could kick his ass any day.
I wish clapton wouldn't of had him killed.

 

[Vimana]

What did Clapton try to be that he wasn't?

 

[sceloporus]

A southern blues artist(he is from England).

 

[Vimana]

I don't think he tried to be southern or anything. He just liked Blues and copied B.B. King. Just cause he's a white guy playing Blues doesn't mean he's a poser. Cause then Jimmy Page and lots of other Blues/Blues influenced guitarists would be posers.

 

[sceloporus]

As I said, he is a poser IMO. It pisses me off when people compare him to B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Albert King ect. Blues is a southern American style, I don't like it when people from England come over and try to make money off of it. I don't mean to say we wasn't a good guitar/vocalist but he shouldn't be compared to REAL blues artists.

 

[Vimana]

Sorry, I skipped the IMO part.

 

[ramses]

Ummm...non metal guitar solos
Yes-(Steve Howe)2nd solo on Awaken-after Wakemans keyboard solo
Spock's Beard-Walking on the Wind
Yes-(Trevor Rabin)Hearts-last solo on song
Marty Freedman-all of them on his Oriental-feel album Scenes
Alex Masi-Silver Memories the only non metal Instrumental off his Vertical Invader album
Heart-What about love I know, gay song, but the solo in it just has as great atmosphere to it.

 

[razoredge]

nothing gay about Heart