THERE’S SUPPOSED TO BE A GUITAR SOLO HERE …

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I know concert guitar solos are supposed to be uncool, indulgent and pretentious - and sometimes they are - but sometimes they’re thrilling.

This is one of those.

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As a teenager I listened to Live Killers a lot, and the stuff Brian May was doing with his guitar and his amps onstage sounded alien and dangerous to me. (The psychedelic breakdown during

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Of course guitar solos are self-indulgent; the guitarist is putting himself out there naked on stage, as it were. There was a series of LPs-later released as a boxed set-put out by Frank Zappa in the 70s called Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar where he plays long extended guitar solos. #niceworkifyoucangetit