ion records wrote:i hate all the guitars in Layla. in fact, i don't like most of clapton's stuff, unless George Harrison was telling him what to do.
While I'll admit that the wailing by Clapton and Duane Allman on the coda to "Layla" is a bit unstructured, it still seems to capture the pain one might feel if one was pining enough over his best friend's girl to write a classic hit rock song about it. Regardless, the piano work on the coda blows my mind, and every time I find a piano I've got to sit there and try to figure it out, and I just end up embarrassing myself. I think it's beautiful.
other comments:
Navarro has made himself irrelevent, but the first two Jane's records in particular helped convince me (at the time) that rock music wan't just a huge waste of time.
Joe Walsh rocks.
and, even though this is a thread about Overrated solos, I gotta give props to Mark Knopfler's solo on "Sultans of Swing". First 45 I ever bought.
Maybe an overrated solo would be the intro to "Sweet Jane" on "Rock and Roll Animal", but I like it anyway.
And I like the intro to "Sweet Child o' Mine". It always sticks in my head. I'm not even a big GNR guy, but I've always respected Slash for refraining from the joyless shredding that many of his peers indulged in. He's pretty melodic in comparison.