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oustemnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:14 PM
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guitar solos that mimic the vocal melody
anyone else have a special place in his/her heart for them? A modern classic example, I guess, would be Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," but then there's also a bunch of others, e.g. the Buzzcocks' "What Do I Get?" and the Clash's "Police and Thieves."

I really like a lead that can take a song in a different direction, but for some reason a vocal-mimic guitar lead, executed well, really gets to me.
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AngryYoungMan Donating Member (856 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:16 PM
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1. "I Want You" by The Beatles
#1 example of this, in my opinion.

Pink Floyd tried this trick a few times, like on "Animals."

I'm trying to think of more...
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oustemnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:24 PM
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3. perfect example
boy, that lead is sending chills up my spine just thinking about it. The weird, cool, menacing tone it sets just by nuance alone. What an awesome song overall.
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deek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 12:18 AM
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11. absolutely
so intimate!
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LeftPeopleFinishFirst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 06:10 PM
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31. You stole my answer!
Edited on Fri Aug-08-03 06:11 PM by LeftPeopleFinishFirs
I Want You (she's so heavy) is a perfect example.
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:21 PM
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2. Jimi Hendrix - Rainy Day
better than mimicing - That guitar solo it actually sounds like talking

Sit back and groove on a rainy day.
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:25 PM
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4. damn you
Now I have to go find my copy of Nevermind...
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:26 PM
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5. Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But My Own
na na, na na, naaaa naaaa
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:27 PM
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6. "God Don't Ever Change" by Blind Willie Johnson
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DrFunkenstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:29 PM
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7. All Day and All of the Night n/t
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Fovea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:44 PM
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8. Hm...
Lowell George of Little Feat on the album Waiting for Columbus.
Lowell singing a trio with his own slide guitar and the lead in Dixie Chicken...and the soaring incredible lines of Rocket in my Pocket... DAMN!
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deek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 12:19 AM
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12. little feat
dixie chicken!
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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peterh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:54 PM
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9. I think Peter Frampton did a good rendition on his live album…
Just can’t remember the song right now.
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oustemnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 12:05 AM
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10. I Think the song was "I Want You" or "Show Me the Way"
I'm not by any stretch a big Frampton fan, but that's definitely a good example of, Cool melody, why not just fortify it? (S'funny, but I believe he played that one with the Heil Talk Box, which means he was both singing the solo and playing it on the guitar at the same time).
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:37 AM
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20. Yup, it was "Show Me the Way" with the Talk Box
Same here, not so much a Frampton fan, but that was a good one.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 12:21 AM
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13. Don't hate me, but
Mountain Song - Jane's Addiction
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oustemnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 12:31 AM
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15. the song does rule, as does the solo, as always for Mr. Navarro
(I was gonna suggest "Been Caught Stealing" for the best guitar solos thread, but I kinda got outta hand over there), but I don't believe it qualifies, as it doesn't follow the vocal melody, at least not closely.

And I could never hate you, DS1, even if you can't hear the guitar beauty of Television.
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Alexander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 12:23 AM
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14. "Start Me Up" by the Stones
Does that work? Because that song ruled.
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oustemnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 12:33 AM
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16. I think that one's actually the inverse case
it seems pretty clear (at least to me) that Mick was taking his melodic cues from Keef on that one, not the other way around.

You're right though, that's a good song. One of the last gasps of life for what was once one of the best bands going.
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DrFunkenstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 01:19 AM
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17. Like "Can You Hear Me Knockin"
The guitar kinda determines the vocal.
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MiddleRiverRefugee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 09:18 AM
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18. Bob Marley's "Is This Love"...
My favorite song of his.
Of course, in that case it's Family Man's **bass** which follows the vocal.
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southpaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 10:48 AM
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19. Twisted Sister...
We're Not Gonna Take It!

Sad that I should know that... but its true nonetheless.

Someone recently suggested that song as the Dem candidate themesong for 2004. Dee Snider would be proud.
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Character Assassin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:43 AM
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21. The master: George Benson's "This Masquerade" or "Broadway"
The guitar lead and the vocal are exactly the same effing thing.

That's one hot sumbiatch.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:50 AM
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22. I Don't Think That's What The Question Meant
You're right about George's ability to play/skat. It's pretty cool. Roland Kirk used to do that by humming and playing at the same time. Sometimes he did parallel harmony on vocal while playing a soprano and tenor sax at the same time, so he had three parts at once.

But, i think the question referred to a solo that was the same as the melody of the song itself. Hence, the suggestions proferred.

So, i think you're answer doesn't match the question, but thanks for reminding me about George Benson. I'm going to go home and listen to some later.
The Professor
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Eat_The_Rich Donating Member (106 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 12:59 PM
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23. Led Zepplin
Edited on Fri Aug-08-03 01:02 PM by Eat_The_Rich
The solo in "You Shook Me"

Or the slide guitar/vocal during the verse for that matter!
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 01:01 PM
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24. Todd Rundgren's The Ballad of Denny and Jean
Featuring Waldo the Singing Guitar:
"But you don't always know what to say
When they ask you, what do you say."
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 01:29 PM
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25. "I Saw the Light" qualifies as well, I guess.
Todd uses this method quite a lot.
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 02:13 PM
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26. "Estranged" by GNR
It has a few different solos that change as the vocal meoldy does.
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deek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 05:00 PM
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27. anything by satriani n/t
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 05:22 PM
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28. Allman Brothers' Whipping Post
although I don't know that you can call that a guitar "solo" since there are multiple guitars playing in unison...
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 05:36 PM
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29. Strange Kind of Woman by Deep Purple
...from Made in Japan, Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Gillan exchange notes tit for tat ,,,

Also I believe the Frampton Comes Alive people are thinking of is "Do you Feel Like We Do", and he used a talkbox...Joe Walsh did the same on "Rocky Mountain Way", as did Stevie Wonder on "In the City"...

Ah yes, the high school days...funny how selectively trivial memory can be sometimes...can't remember anything I learned, but I remember this!
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 06:07 PM
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30. I'm talking guitar as voice here
NO ELECTRONIC ENHANCEMENT other than that native to the guitar. (Hold on a sec, I'm hearing over my shoulder that I missed your point. Nope, I score on that). Jeff Beck, "Once We've Ended as Lovers." We're talking lyrical duets here, courtesy Mr-All-time-slick-fingered-brilliant- interpreter. IMHO it is CLASSICAL.
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