Members New Trail Posted November 4, 2009 Members Share Posted November 4, 2009 ....is one of my all time favorites. Short, fiery, nice choice of notes, unusual vibrato. Just played on the local radio station. Fahn....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MusicalSchizo Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 I agree. It's good stuff.Brian V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tele-vania65000 Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 Very melodic too. An over-looked classic. The solo in the middle of the song is great too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tucktronix Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 Looove that song. Ditto for the guitar solos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted November 5, 2009 Moderators Share Posted November 5, 2009 Wow... I used to sing that song in a cover band when it came out. That wasn't easy to sing either. The falsetto bits in each phrase. On an off night? Not pretty... Yeah, that guitar work smokes. I also love the little guitar motif he plays at the end of the middle solo right before going back into the chorus... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members J.Paul Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 yeah I agreenice solo(noodling actually.....)cool tone too- organic and natural within the context of a slicker bed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kramerguy Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 Fantastic band, solo. They really captured/created a major essence of the 80's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members js1 Posted November 6, 2009 Members Share Posted November 6, 2009 We're doing it with guitar/bass/drums, and it goes over surprisingly (to me) well. Though the guitarist doesn't like the end solo, so we leave it out. What'ya gonna do.... The trick to getting it to work is to get the bass/drums to groove the pulse. Get that wrong, and it feels like the worlds longest song (speaking from personal experience). js Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members New Trail Posted November 6, 2009 Author Members Share Posted November 6, 2009 ...... the guitarist doesn't like the end solo..... js "the guitarist doesn't like the end solo" = the guitarist can't play the end solo. Get rid of him. :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UberPwnage Posted November 6, 2009 Members Share Posted November 6, 2009 You can't play that song without the ending solo. That's blasphemy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members js1 Posted November 6, 2009 Members Share Posted November 6, 2009 "the guitarist doesn't like the end solo" = the guitarist can't play the end solo. Get rid of him. :poke: Pretty funny - believe me when I say that the solo would be one of the simpler ones that he would play in an evening. He just doesn't like it. I do. But, I haven't worried about it since the women dancing haven't complained about the missing solo. What's good about my guitar guy is that he's really good at constructing a part that draws on all the key arrangement parts, not only the guitar ones. For Everybody Wants To Rule, most of the parts are synth parts. He makes it work, and for that, I ain't gonna gripe about the solo. js Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MartinC Posted November 6, 2009 Members Share Posted November 6, 2009 What a great record those guys made. The thing about the guitar solos-they are very very well constructed, brilliant really, but the playing technique isn't that great. It's almost as if a really hip producer or session guy sang/wrote the melodies and then the guitarist played them, or perhaps they are heavily edited. The result is really great to me, but the kinda weak technique makes me wonder about the story behind those solos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted November 6, 2009 Moderators Share Posted November 6, 2009 What a great record those guys made. The thing about the guitar solos-they are very very well constructed, brilliant really, but the playing technique isn't that great. It's almost as if a really hip producer or session guy sang/wrote the melodies and then the guitarist played them, or perhaps they are heavily edited. The result is really great to me, but the kinda weak technique makes me wonder about the story behind those solos. That's a good observation. The technique does make it sort of exciting though. You're holding on waiting for it to derail but it just gets it... great ideas, executed by the seat of his pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MartinC Posted November 6, 2009 Members Share Posted November 6, 2009 That's a good observation. The technique does make it sort of exciting though. You're holding on waiting for it to derail but it just gets it... great ideas, executed by the seat of his pants. Agreed, however it happened, it worked. The guitar solos on that tune are great. That album is a pop masterpiece. Sorta like Cristofer Cross's first record. Bam, here we are to take over the charts, make a ton, and get famous! Write huge hits? Yeah, that's easy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members New Trail Posted November 6, 2009 Author Members Share Posted November 6, 2009 That's a good observation. The technique does make it sort of exciting though. You're holding on waiting for it to derail but it just gets it... great ideas, executed by the seat of his pants. Yeah, I like the technique. To me that's as much of the song as the notes. BTW I had read somewhere that there is a longer verson of the end of that song but as of yet I have been unable to confirm or track it down. I always wonder what happened where it f.a..d...e....d............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JimiRules Posted November 7, 2009 Members Share Posted November 7, 2009 Fantastic band, solo. They really captured/created a major essence of the 80's I agree. Just thinking about that song takes me back to elementary school. Another one of their songs that I really like is "Shout." I love the solo in that one as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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