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Which of these, to you, is the best guitar solo?

1. Ted Nugent "Fred Bear"
2.  David Gilmour "Comfortably Numb"
3.  Jimmy Page "Stairway to Heaven"


Posted - May 18, 2018

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  • 5808
    1.Guns and Roses, Sweet Child Of Mine

    This post was edited by Baba at May 19, 2018 7:34 AM MDT
      May 18, 2018 12:21 PM MDT
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  • 44178
    I'll check it out.
      May 18, 2018 12:52 PM MDT
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  • 44178
    Good, but not one of the choices. Check this one out...solo at 5:30. My all-time favorite solo. Backup is just as awesome.
    This post was edited by Element 99 at May 18, 2018 1:10 PM MDT
      May 18, 2018 1:06 PM MDT
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  • 6023
    Wow ... none of those compare to a Jimmy Hendrix solo.
      May 18, 2018 12:47 PM MDT
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  • 44178
    I don't know why, but I am the only one I know from our generation who is not a Hendrix fan
      May 18, 2018 12:53 PM MDT
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  • 6023
    I didn't used to like his music at all ... but after listening to more instrumental guitar music, I've gained an appreciation of his talent.  
    Though I still occasionally hit the "fast forward" on his longer pieces. 
      May 18, 2018 12:57 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Ted Nugent should never be mentioned anywhere for anything.  Unless you mention that he is a pig, a pervert and a total degenerate.  He is way below Roseanne Barr as far as nutbag conspiracy theorist, racist morons.  So what if he can play a guitar?  Woody Allen makes good movies, it still doesn't erase the fact that he should not be working nor mentioned for anything employable.    So TED?   If you include him, Charlie Manson was supposed to be pretty good on the guitar as well.  Let's pick him.

    The other two, Page and Gilmour, are sane and should be considered.  Both are great.  But then again, so are about 300 other people.

    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at May 18, 2018 1:14 PM MDT
      May 18, 2018 1:07 PM MDT
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  • 44178
    I wasn't asking about Nugent...only the guitar riff.
      May 18, 2018 1:12 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    I answered.  Who cares about a riff when you are playing a record by the most loathsome moron on the planet next to Trump.



    Why the Hell Are We Listening to Ted Nugent?
    His behavior has been subhuman, and his music bad, for decades
    By Peter Gerstenzang
    Feb 21, 2014

    Have you heard any remarks about the U.S. president from Sammy Hagar lately? Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon? Eddie Money? How about Kansas? Have you noticed any of them taking time out of their touring schedules of state fairs and rib festivals to speak unkindly about our commander-in-chief? I didn't think so. I use these well-meaning saps as examples for a reason. They were all gigantic in 1978. Playing to stadiums full of beered-up stooges who yelled, "Take off your top" to anything remotely female. And they're all as vital and relevant now as songs about CB radios and Disco Ducks. But one of the kings of these stadium roofie fests who sadly is still relevant is Ted Effing Nugent. He was huge 35 years ago, too. Even at his peak (the year of Elvis Costello and Blondie), many of us still thought he stunk like a loincloth that hadn't been washed since the Paleolithic Age. Yet somehow, this sexist, lyrically challenged musician has grabbed the ear of the press. He recently referred to our president as a "subhuman mongrel." He probably says kinder things about the animals he slaughters. But what all the outrage about Ted Nugent's comments in the past couple days misses is that Nugent never deserved our attention. Why does he have it now of all times?

    I don't know what's scarier. That a washed-up troglodyte is using the language of the KKK about President Obama and it's become news. Or that Greg Abbott, the Texas attorney general, running for governor, is happily bracketing himself with Nugent, letting him campaign for him and referring to this Fred Flintstone as "My blood brother" and "A fighter for freedom in this country."

    Aside from the fact that Abbott seems to have learned his political lingo from 100 viewings of Red Dawn, The Nuge's words are particularly hurtful and ugly, coming, as they do, at this time in history. We've just had a jury in Florida not convict a trigger-happy racist Michael Dunn on a murder charge. Fellow bigot George Zimmerman was even luckier. He killed an unarmed Trayvon Martin and was set free. So even as the country appears to be loosening up about gay marriage and marijuana, a certain segment of it seems to want to make up for this open-mindedness by declaring open season on African-Americans. Nugent's remarks would be ugly as sin about anyone of color. But the president of the United States? It's pathetic enough that would-be politicians are using washed-up rockers to campaign for them. But what some of us are really lamenting here is the end of civil discourse. Sad, right? Abbott, clearly, has not distanced himself from Nugent's remarks. And I think it will come back to bite him on the ass. But those words of this reeking rocker simply cannot go unchallenged.

    Nugent is a well-documented perv and fake patriot and has managed to do something stomach-churningly evil in almost every decade. In the '60s, this gat-lovin', elk-killing flag waver, by his own account, managed to take enough drugs to cover his legs with so much shit that he got out of going to Vietnam. In the '70s, aside from the fact that he pounded the unremarkable "Cat Scratch Fever" into the ground, he made a stadium sport of having sex with underage girls. As the Dallas Morning News reminded us on February 17, "Nugent admitted having affairs with several underage girls." "I was addicted to girls. It was hopeless," he said.

    Even waxworks classic rock stations don't play Nugent's work. So, like many a failed entertainer before him, the only option left was to try and drum up some attention in another arena: politics. What can we do about this hateful attention seeker? You can certainly protest his appearances. You can write him a letter and tell him if he's a real American, he'll stop making hateful remarks about the president. And that if he must speak, he should leave out words like "mongrel" when he spews his essentially unintelligible jive. When he said in 2012, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year," he got a visit from the Secret Service. How he walked out of that one, I'll never know. Something tells me, these days, that if Trayvon Martin had said such a thing about a white politician, he'd have been lynched.

    Finally, we and (hopefully) other reasonably moral, relatively unbiased Americans can do something very simple. Just ignore the bastard. Like Octomom or Joe the Plumber, this is just a freak show. Outrageous stuff that gets the public's attention for a while but soon becomes a flaming bore. A bit like dropping your pants in public. Although in Ted's case it's a bit more complicated. If he hasn't changed his since the '60s, his look and stench may be a little harder to ignore. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at May 18, 2018 1:18 PM MDT
      May 18, 2018 1:16 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    But how do you REALLY feel? :-/
      May 18, 2018 8:31 PM MDT
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  • 44178
    Funniest answer of the year. HAHAHAHA.
      May 19, 2018 6:21 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    I prefer Nugent on 'Journey to the Center of the Mind' when he was with The Amboy Dukes. 
      May 19, 2018 6:21 AM MDT
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  • 44178
    Indeed. I have it going through my brain right now. Ahead of his time.
      May 19, 2018 6:23 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    not sure
      May 18, 2018 2:32 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Of those three, Comfortably Numb.
    I like Billy Gibbons’ work on “Rough Boy”. This post was edited by Don Barzini at May 19, 2018 6:55 AM MDT
      May 18, 2018 8:33 PM MDT
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  • 17364
    They are good but I like this one  better.





      May 18, 2018 10:03 PM MDT
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  • 44178
    A masterpiece. A great hyped up version of the recording. It looks like he is in a high school auditorium.
      May 19, 2018 6:29 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    The song 'Telegraph Road', by Dire Straits (featuring Mark Knoppler)  is about U.S. Route 24 that meanders through Toledo and Detroit. That's an instumental version he is playing above.
      May 19, 2018 6:39 AM MDT
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  • 44178
    We used to go up to Monroe on 24. Fastest I ever drove a car. 115 and I backed off. Stupid teenager. The AW Trail is a mile from my house.
      May 19, 2018 6:53 AM MDT
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  • 2327
    Stairway to Heaven. It's my favorite solo. 

    Mark Knopfler's Sultan's of Swing is also amazing, and different each time he plays it. 



      May 19, 2018 8:27 PM MDT
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