Best spoken intros to guitar solos....

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"That ain't workin" [Dire straits, Money For Nothing]
"Ok lads, fill the skip [half man half biscuit, ?]

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Play the Blues, Edge"

(ducks, runs..)

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rock me, Joe"

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't remember what song/album it's off of at the moment, but I swear to god there's some Primus song where Les goes "Ler, you're a god-damn BASTARD" and then Ler rips into this fucking monstrous stumbling drunken carnie behind the wheel of a Mack truck guitar solo.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"Solo!" in Elastica's "The Bitch Don't Work", which of course is a homage to "Chorus!" in Wire's "Map Reference".

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Hetfield says something that sounds like 'VEESAVAY!' before the solo on Master of Puppets. It's pretty cool. I also like it how he says 'Go' in quite a deadpan way before some of the fast bits in their songs.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Take it, Nils." (Neil Young, "Lookout Joe")

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Guitar, ready set go." Jonathan Richman to himself (forget the song).

― Asthmatic Cajun (Asthmatic Cajun), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"guitar." archers of loaf, 'freezing point'

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"Take it Lou" - Beginning of a Great Adventure, Lou Reed.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Solo!" in Elastica's "The Bitch Don't Work", which of course is a homage to "Chorus!" in Wire's "Map Reference".

Big & Rich do the same on "Real World".

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave225 is right. I like both the Reed and the U2 cases.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The Darkness' "Guitar!" is pretty cool. Also, Matthew Sweet's, "All right" on "Divine Intervention."

― phil d., Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Kurt's throaty chuckle and then whiney 'one more solo' on Gallons of rubbing alcohol...

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Angelo yelling "play it goooooldfinger!" leading into the guitar solo on Fishbone's "Party At Ground Zero" has always been one of my favorite parts of that song.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

genuinely great shouts for the guitarist by the vocalist

hey! it's been done!

― piscesboy, Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"move over, rover
and let jimi take over!"

― you will be shot (you will be shot), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"NO MORE GUITAR HEROES!"

― briania (briania), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Now then"
Performance, Happy Mondays

― wtin, Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The drunken introduction PJ Proby gives Jimmy Page on "Mery
Hoppkins Never Had Days Like This" where he keeps saying "Don't think he's quite ready for us, but he's coming real soon, RIGHT NOW!!"

(BTW This is the funkiest track Led Zeppelin ever recorded"

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mother Earth Is Pregnant...."

― George Clinton, Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"Anyone here seen the guitars? Ah, this must be them now."

Jazz Butcher, "The Jazz Butcher vs. The Prime Minister."

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a lovely superfast solo on the last Primus EP.

Les - Go Ler!!
Ler - (3.75 seconds of light speed skronk guitar soloing)
Les - Thanks Ler!!

― mzui, Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"I shot my mouth off and you showed me what that hole was for"

--the Pretenders' "Tattooed Love Boys," whereupon the band essays a brief instrumental breakdown and rolls into the late James Honeyman-Scott's polystylicstic scorcher. Seems like Chrissie Hynde makes some other kind of non-verbal exclamation before he goes off, too.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

and then my mind split open

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Draw blood."
- "Werewolves of London", Warren Zeavon

I thought that had already been said, but I guess not.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is a ultra geek mixtape in the making.

"My mixtape themes are much more creative than yours."

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"c'mon, steve"

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"One. Two. Fuck. You." -- L7, "Drama"

― rainman (rainman), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"TORTURE TIME NOW!"
Frank Zappa before 8+ min of guitar strangulation on the live Torture Never Stops

― Angus Von Santana, Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Maggot Brain" Funkadelic

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, rub it on me! RUB IT ON ME, DWAYNE!

The Jesus Lizard - Nub

― Palomino (Palomino), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

'That's alright, I've still got my guitar'
Hendrix, Red House

lock thread

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 16 September 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Say hello to my friend, the Blue Angel"
Pseudo-Crowd member, in awe: "Oh my God! It's his guitar!"
Prince, I Wish U Heaven (parts 1, 2, & 3)

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

take it, joe. TAKE IT.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Make me cry" - Eddie Vedder in Yellow Ledbetter

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"And then my mind split open..." seconded, thirded, etc.

(Coincindentally, also the best SOLO!)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"'That's alright, I've still got my guitar'
Hendrix, Red House"

scotstvo just made my legends list. although jimi does give a rather sexual "look out" just after "guitar".

― Darraghmac, Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Okay, Marco, let's see what you can DO!"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Similarly, "Eat your heart out, Do It"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

LET EACH NOTE I PLAY BE A BLACK ARROW OF DEATH SENT STRAIGHT THROUGH THE HEARTS OF ALL THOSE WHO PLAY FALSE METAL

Joey DeMaio, Manowar, Hail to England, bass solo, lock thread

How am I supposed to believe the hyperfast playing isn't altered when even the spoken intro is pitchshift effected down an octave?

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Oh, get em all" Kinks / ...and I can't remember if it's All Day And All Of The Night or You Really Got Me. I think, the former.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"TORTURE TIME NOW!"
Frank Zappa before 8+ min of guitar strangulation on the live Torture Never Stops

what about watermelon in easter haaaaay?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Electric Six, "Improper Dancing"

"Stop!!!"
(song stops)
"Continue!!!"
(solo)

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"If I heard mortar shells, we'd cuss more in our songs, and cut down the guitar solos"

― Mike Dixon, Friday, 17 September 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't know if this is true or not (it means the difference between this one qualifying for the thread), but someone once told me that, while Sting yells "Henri!" before the guitar solo in Fall Out , it's really Stewart Copeland playing it. Apologies if it's a shite rumour, but a great call-out if it isn't.

― Trouble Hand, Friday, 17 September 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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