Allen plays some guitar solos on the album as well, and his billions have enabled them to spend two years working on the record in professional studios.

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Indeed, without the studio, the cat suits and hair-metal guitar solos of The Darkness may never have made it into the public eye, with the band's rock sound perfected at the complex.

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When Anastasio winds up for one of his trademark, reach-for-the-skies guitar solos as McConnell shouts the wonderfully cryptic refrain, "All my friends, go backwards down the number line" the hairs on the arms of Phish's naysayers will finally be standing on end.

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In addition, the name and its industrial aesthetic seemed like a subtle affront to the earthy English hippies who were popular at the time, bands such as Cream, the Yardbirds, and Led Zeppelin, who performed versions of American blues, complete with long guitar solos.

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