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Sgt. Crackpot · **Posted:** Mon December 14, 2015 12:40 pm

All of the Mike solos.

Norris · **Posted:** Mon December 14, 2015 12:44 pm

Stone's Brain of J solo beats many of Mike's solos.

Birds in Hell · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:38 pm **Posts:** 15192

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Stone's Brain of J solo beats many of Mike's solos.

It is the very best.

Norris · **Posted:** Mon December 14, 2015 12:47 pm

I think you're right.

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47401

Birds in Hell wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Stone's Brain of J solo beats many of Mike's solos.

It is the very best.

meh

Norris · **Posted:** Mon December 14, 2015 2:16 pm

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Stone's Brain of J solo beats many of Mike's solos.

It is the very best.

meh

Do I have to post the video again?

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47401

cutuphalfdead wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Stone's Brain of J solo beats many of Mike's solos.

It is the very best.

meh

Do I have to post the video again?

My opinion cannot be changed.

Norris · **Posted:** Mon December 14, 2015 2:50 pm

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Stone's Brain of J solo beats many of Mike's solos.

It is the very best.

meh

Do I have to post the video again?

My opinion cannot be changed.

Play the video.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Mon December 14, 2015 3:11 pm

There are basically two kinds of PJ solos: the ones that tell a story, and the ones that are just a blur of energy and could be easily replaced with a different solo.

Story solos include NAIS, Immortality, Alive, etc.

The energy ones are Brain of J, Do the Evolution, MYM, etc.

Discuss.

Norris · **Posted:** Mon December 14, 2015 3:12 pm

sounds like you're overthinking guitar solos

stip · **Joined:** Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm **Posts:** 40066

tragabigzanda wrote:

There are basically two kinds of PJ solos: the ones that tell a story, and the ones that are just a blur of energy and could be easily replaced with a different solo.

Story solos include NAIS, Immortality, Alive, etc.

The energy ones are Brain of J, Do the Evolution, MYM, etc.

Discuss.

That's pretty on. the 'story solos' have a tone to them that don't make them easily transferable to other songs. You could lift the brain of J solo and drop it into MYM, and vice versa, and it would have been fine.

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47401

cutuphalfdead wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Stone's Brain of J solo beats many of Mike's solos.

It is the very best.

meh

Do I have to post the video again?

My opinion cannot be changed.

Play the video.

I'm assuming you mean this one:

Spoiler: show

McParadigm · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 1:56 am **Posts:** 21861

LetMeSleep wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Sleight of Hand? I dunno.

I don't really care for their solos, so I prefer when they either skip them or use them as sort of interludes. The more "rock solo" it gets, the more unremarkable it becomes.

I'm pretty sure I agree with you as moments like the solos in Ghost, SoLaT, Sad or even Brain of J are much more appealing to me than an Even Flow or MYM or LB.

In the true solo sense then Alive, Immortality, NAIS are great and immediately came to mind.

Sad and Ghost are both good ones. I don't really care for the overly 'lyrical' solos, though. They feel....tepid to me, I guess. Like, with NAiS, I love the sound of it and the production and the atmosphere etc, but the playing itself sounds like Dave Gilmour not really caring about some friend's track he's guesting on. Live versions of that song are just awful to me, because the writing/soloing suffers from being divorced from that canvas.

The Immortality one kind of deconstructs, so I do like that one quite a bit.

EJ · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:15 pm **Posts:** 7049

Immortality

and, specifically, the 1995 Self Pollution radio one.

bada · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 5:53 pm **Posts:** 12085

The first two albums and Temple are his high water mark. Solo wise. I don't think its an accident that the more the band sounds like Bad Company the more comfortable Mike feels. He usually has one solo (post Vs.) per album where he constructs parts (I guess we are calling them stories here) that if you hummed it to someone they would know what song you are doing.

Birds in Hell · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:38 pm **Posts:** 15192

As far as the composed solos go, I really love Daughter's.

stip · **Joined:** Thu December 13, 2012 6:31 pm **Posts:** 40066

that's a good one. Not to flashy, but a great fit for the song.

darth_vedder · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:52 pm **Posts:** 6363

I was listening to Melbourne '98, and the Go outtro solo was pretty damn good.

darth_vedder · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:52 pm **Posts:** 6363

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Stone's Brain of J solo beats many of Mike's solos.

It is the very best.

meh

I think those two are on to something.

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