It’s a great solo. But the greatest ever? Whatever. My favorite is Alan Holdsworth in UK’s “In the dead of night”. Or Colin Bradley’s solo in the track “Shapeshifting” off Bark Psychosis’s album Codename: Dustsucker
I was a tour guide at paisley park for a while and it was such a treasure getting to walk into work every day and see and talk about the madcat guitar he played this solo with. fun fact! it looks like a telecaster but it was actually a cheap knockoff that, according to himself, he bought in front of a gas station from a guy for 50 bucks when he was on his way to play a show and forgot his guitar
Hello... relatively new to your site, but I've watched several of your videos and have really enjoyed them, and have learned quite a bit. This breakdown of Prince's solo was incredible, as was the solo itself, but even as a Prince fan I still take exception to it being called "The Greatest Guitar Solo Ever", when Mr. Hendrix left us a little something called Machine Gun. Message, intent, intensity, and special effects... it's all there. I'd love to see and hear your analysis of that, especially to see how you'd notate the bombs and machine gun fire. Either way, thanks for all the knowledge!
Hardly the greatest guitar solo ever. In fact it's mediocre. And drawing little icon and talking double talk will not make it so. Prince was talented, but not remotely one of the best guitarists of all time. Be reasonable.
You missed the best part. He didn't throw the guitar into the crowd at the end... he threw it straight up into the air and someone out of frame must've caught it cuz it never came back down.
About "heavyness" from a listener's perspective. There is a human quirk whereby if we find something beautiful, then try to understand it, it stops being beautiful. As a result, it becomes meaningless to try to define "what is beauty?". The moment we defined it, it stops being beautiful. Same thing with heavy. The bands give us some kind of musical puzzle, and once we figure it out, it stops being heavy, and we move on to something "more" or "newly heavy. That's my take on it anyway.
The version I really like is on Jimi’s ‘live at The Isle of Wight’ album. It has a chilling, almost foreboding vibe about it… the slight echo in Jimi’s vocals adds to that end of days feeling. Jimi would be gone just over two weeks later.
Maqam Hijazkar (Double Harmonic Major) is definitely more common in Arabic music than western music, but it isn't one of the more used music scales in our music.
Bro, the only thing you're missing from your retelling of this classic tales that… Everyone on-stage that night has NO idea where Prince's guitar went at the end of the solo. There are on-record interviews with a at least 2 of the band that night, and they have no idea where Prince's guitar went after he threw it up into the air. It might as well have disappeared. Truly it was a magician's show that night.
As a recording studio owner and music producer who is, ultimately, just a slightly-reformed drummer, this is an epic video. You're illustrating theory over emotional moments I had, watching Prince play, with additional context. Thanks man!
Gawd… where do I start? Just found your channel after you've obviously been around for years. Have you done a breakdown on Zack Wylde's solo in No More Tears by Ozzy? I think you're right in claiming Prince's solo on Gently Weeps is the best solo of all-time LIVE, Wylde's solo on No More Tears might be THE quintessential guitar solo in the studio. Thoughts?
I love RU-vid. You've obviously been around for a while, but just found you tonight (through a rabbit hole involving Big Country and Level 42). This is the most brilliant, imaginative format for music/audio channels I've ever seen. Congrats on being THIS talented! Insta-sub.
I mean, greatest solo ever? Good for sure but i would never put it in my top 5 or 10 even. Top 5: - bohemian rhapsody - octavarium (razor’s edge) - gravity - tornado of souls - free bird (meme value) Honorable mentions - the spirit caries on (only solo that has ever gotten me to cry) - comfortably numb
Shout out for Groening and Cohen, the creators of Futurama, if merely for how astute they were when it came to picking up on popular culture. Futurama was full of pop culture references that usually were only picked up on by people "in the know".
My ap test for music theory is tomorrow and I have always had trouble differentiating the textures, but this managed to break it down so easily that now im not as worried. Awesome video!!!
I can play 5 chords badly on a guitar (only took me 2 years ! ) and I have no idea what you are talking about from a technical perspective but both your and Rick B's breakdowns of my favourite ever song have motivated me to pull my finger out, thank you so much
you're a lefty, and left-handed people are creative. And if you flip your video horizontally, is that a negative Right Handed video? What about flipping vertically? Does that then become 1/-4/4? 😆
For me, punk is that kind of music I love to listen to and could technically write, but man, I'm not _that_ angry... As you said at the end, the important thing in punk is the energy and anger, the feelings on the lyrics.
I knew the answer to this question before I saw the video. I could have answered it even without seeing prince's video either. The answer is always Prince
