What guitar solo do you think should be longer?

[Jonny Come Lately]

Originally posted by Lynch
^^^ that's a cool song, I don't think I have heard it before. The only album of theirs that I own is Brothers in Arms which is a nice album, but something I haven't listened to much in years. Other than that, I constantly have to hear Sultans of Swing on the radio (seems like a daily thing for FM radio to play that track at least once) and occassionally Industrial Disease.

If they had more tracks like the one you just posted, I think I'd own all of their albums.

Although Where Do You Think You're Going is from Communique, I think it's closer to the self-titled debut album in style - it's got the warmer electric guitar sound of Communique but otherwise has the raw quality of the debut. The debut does contain Sultans Of Swing (great track but it gets played on a very regular basis over here too) but apart from that it's an underrated album, and very different in style from Brothers In Arms. If you like the track I posted I'd suggest checking out 'Setting Me Up' and 'Six Blade Knife' from their first album.

 

[Johnny-Too-Good]

'Run Like Hell' - Pink Floyd. Every time I'm listening to it (and this has been going on 35 years) I want more. I put this down to some serious production errors, or more likely 'Roger issues'. The Floyd were never bothered about the length of tracks, and yet here was one which begged more, and they missed it!

 

[LG]

'Run Like Hell' - Pink Floyd. Every time I'm listening to it (and this has been going on 35 years) I want more. I put this down to some serious production errors, or more likely 'Roger issues'. The Floyd were never bothered about the length of tracks, and yet here was one which begged more, and they missed it!

That is my favorite track from The Wall,,,

I'll have to play Delicate Sound of Thunder (My VHS tape) and see if David stretches out a bit with the solo, so many people think the solo in Comfortably Numb is one of the best ever, but I like Run Like Hell and the intro of Sorrow more myself.

 

[Jet]

Haha thanks for the info lynch. I've loved this song for years but never knew Eric played on it. Bit disappointed to discover my favourite guitar playing by George isn't even him!

Such a great song though, and deserves longer in my opinion

But now you can appreciate Eric Clapton (Slowhand) as no chump-change guitar player.

 

[Jonny Come Lately]

Originally posted by Lord Grendel
That is my favorite track from The Wall,,,

I'll have to play Delicate Sound of Thunder (My VHS tape) and see if David stretches out a bit with the solo, so many people think the solo in Comfortably Numb is one of the best ever, but I like Run Like Hell and the intro of Sorrow more myself.

Personally it's my second favourite on the album (after Comfortably Numb), definitely one of their best songs overall though, and I love the live versions - the version on The Wall is meant to sound like the band playing in a concert and it translates well to an actual live setting.

I think on Delicate Sound Of Thunder (and P.U.L.S.E), Run Like Hell has a considerably longer introduction played by Gilmour and the main guitar line is played a third time at the end of the song, rather than merely twice as on the album version, so the song comes out over seven minutes if memory serves, rather than just under four and a half minutes like the album version.

Having said that this video shows that even on the original The Wall tour in 1980-81 the song was longer live than it was in the studio:

 

[TheSound]

As a general rule I think I'm probably mostly in favour of shorter guitar solos, rather than longer ones, though not as much as I'm against drum solos! ... but I think my favourite guitarist is probably Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, and I’d like his solos which runs through and finishes off ‘Yellow Ledbetter’ from the ‘Lost Dogs’ album to go on a lot longer, especially when they play it live like here, which they do at every PJ show as it’s their most go-to encore’song - I like it where the rest of the band always just stops playing half way through, and they just sit down on stage and let him get on with it, so I could probably listen to him doing this for a good few minutes more no problem, but it all ends too soon.

 

[AboutAGirl]

My #1 pick for this subject is Neil Young's World on a String. It's such a sweet, tasty little solo that just begs for more. And with very few solos on Tonight's The Night as it is, this would have been a very good candidate for an extended instrumental break.

Here's a link directly to the guitar solo.

 

[LG]

Thanks LG, but I see the video has been removed by YouTube or Google. (Not really sure anymore) If you find the time, you are welcome to replace it with a working version.

Happens all the time unfortunately, but I put a new one in it's place Jet.

 

[LG]

Personally it's my second favourite on the album (after Comfortably Numb), definitely one of their best songs overall though, and I love the live versions - the version on The Wall is meant to sound like the band playing in a concert and it translates well to an actual live setting.

I think on Delicate Sound Of Thunder (and P.U.L.S.E), Run Like Hell has a considerably longer introduction played by Gilmour and the main guitar line is played a third time at the end of the song, rather than merely twice as on the album version, so the song comes out over seven minutes if memory serves, rather than just under four and a half minutes like the album version.

Having said that this video shows that even on the original The Wall tour in 1980-81 the song was longer live than it was in the studio:

DSOT and PUSLE are both excellent but I've always preferred DSOT, they never made a DVD so I've kept my VHS copy and even made a back-up in case I need one.

Usually they do stretch out a bit on songs when playing them live, I'm sure they also make a few subtle changes when touring just to make it more interesting for them when they are performing live.

If I had to pick one solo from Gilmour that I think is just perfect, it's the intro to Sorrow off DSOT (The tape not the CD or album), it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck and like many of his peers have said over the years, he seems to be able to get more out of 'one note' than any other guitarist of his generation.

 

[Musikwala]

This has nothing to do with the topic of longer guitar solos but I just wanted to say that my favourite Gilmour solo of all-time has to be the one at the end of High Hopes on The Division Bell. That is the pinnacle for me!