Best 'Let It Be' Guitar Solo

I thought the thread title meant the Replacements album

good poll! single in a walk. the album version is weak and meandering by comparison. anthology version is barely there, and naked is okay i guess.

Album!

http://www.youtube.com/v/i8cNHCP3juQ&feature=player_embedded&fs=1&hl=en#!

― ENBB, Friday, December 3, 2010 1:39 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark

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hmm, hard to choose between the Album version and the one off ...Naked. I'll have to re-listen closely before voting.

I thought the thread title meant the Replacements album

― curmudgeon, Friday, December 3, 2010 2:32 PM Bookmark

That would be the one on "Sixteen Blue", no poll is necessary.

thought the thread title meant the Replacements album

― curmudgeon, Friday, December 3, 2010 2:32 PM Bookmark

That would be the one on "Sixteen Blue", no poll is necessary.

I always preferred the freeform Stinson/Ginn atttack in 'Seen Your Video'

of these four, I'll pick the album version altho isn't there another version that isn't here - the one that George is shown playing live in the Complete Beatles doc?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhIeRaYNhpw

Album version by a mile

The single version is Scotty Moore sinking in a stew of over modulation- Harrison's signature, and something he does more artfully then anyone. The rest are more bluesy. He's best when a bit rigid and square, keeping his rockabilly roots at the forefront.

hmm, hard to choose between the Album version and the one off ...Naked. I'll have to re-listen closely before voting.

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The album solo guitar tone really cuts through, the rest are real murky and don't cut in the mix. I voted for the album version, but if he would have had that tone on the "naked" cut, it might have been different.

The album solo is the one I've always preferred, guess I'll stick with it--is it just me or is that the most Claptonesque of the four? I can't stand Clapton but it sounds like a good version of his style. The anthology one doesn't have the drama or arc, but lots of nice bits

The one Phil Spector picked.

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Album version. And "We're Coming Out." Come on, what's wrong with you guys?

After a few months of hearing the only version that was available back in the day (single) when the album finally made its way into my hands I was so freaking damn joyously glad to hear a real solo. So, uh, that one.

album by a mile -- one of the first solos i learned to play, i think...

The album solo is the one I've always preferred, guess I'll stick with it--is it just me or is that the most Claptonesque of the four? I can't stand Clapton but it sounds like a good version of his style. The anthology one doesn't have the drama or arc, but lots of nice bits

― iago g., Saturday, December 4, 2010 7:01 AM (3 days ago)

sad but i thought it felt very "Slash"! #godhelpme

single feels a bit half baked. anthology is extremely baked. naked is meh. album is awesome from the first crunchy notes.

Yeah, the album version is so good, it's almost not worth polling.

It does illustrate another reason why that Let It Be Naked thing is so horrible. I know it's supposed to be a pseudo-release of Get Back, the album, but it definitely feels like Paul McCartney playing George Lucas. Granted, George Lucas never had Roman Polanski take over and issue the release the final version of "Star Wars", but there's definitely some reconstruction going on with Naked, from the sequencing to which solo is used for "Let It Be".

I can hear Paul now, "Yeah, George really went out there with that original solo, but let's it take it back down to a version more like the single, let it blend with the rest of the song. He and John are dead now anyway, so what are they gonna do?"

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