worst guitar solos

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Chris Baxley wrote:

> While on the subject of bad guitar solos, how about _intentionally_
> bad solos?  I can think of a couple:
>
>      Canyons of Your Mind - Bonzo Dog Band
>      Woly Boly - Butthole Surfers
>
> And as for age/energy loss, I'd say Iggy Pop, who must be pushing 50,
> has more raw energy than all of Limp Bizkit and Blur combined.

        Yeah, but, while we're here... <lowers voice conspiratorially>
does anyone else but me reckon Graham Coxon of Blur is actually possibly
the single most psychedelic guitar-player of the 90s "pop" music scene?
Indeed, his stuff on _Blur_ is, while quite possibly full of cut-ups and
studio trickery I'm sure, comparable, for me, only to, well, Jimi, for
sheer variety and unexpectedness. He has nothing like Jimi's level of
skill but the imagination and the effects... I may be childish and naive
however. _Blur_ beats _Stupid Dream_ by Porcupine Tree for
psychedelic-ness any day. And of course much of it sounds like early Bevis
Frond but that, as they say, is another story. Considering how much I used
to hate them, it pains me to say it, but of late Blur have become a damn
good band. Yours,
                  Jon