Squalls of feedback, clattering drums and a broken alarm almost overwhelm a squirming guitar solo, making the murk even more present before Doiron shouts "Look out, look out!"
John Mayer joined Paisley for a guitar summit on "Beat This Summer" and Taylor Swift and Keith Urban joined Tim McGraw on stage for "Highway Don't Care, " which Urban finished off with a scorching guitar solo.
Frankly, "Case" sounds on the verge of imploding as it is, with an acoustic-guitar solo that might be called flamenco if it weren't so scattershot and an otherwise-simple quarter-note pulse, which creates the illusion that the song's center is constantly shifting.
Of course, while handset sound design is the team's most famous effort, it's also tasked with producing the audible signals from everything from Microwaves to Washing Machines -- so perhaps your next load of clean laundry will be heralded with a three-minute guitar solo.
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He also treated us to his solo guitar treatments of two jazz standards ("But Beautiful" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"), as well as one of his own solo guitar compositions, "Venezuelan Nights, " from his recent CD The Spice of Life.
Reilly also played guitar for Morrissey on his debut solo album, Viva Hate.
Watson, who died on Tuesday at age 89, is most closely associated with the melodic style of flatpicking that cemented the guitar's role as a solo voice in bluegrass and acoustic country music.
On the latter, Verlaine returns to the fractured, guitar-centric pop of his earlier solo work, with astounding results.
"The solo guy with an acoustic guitar, in my mind, seems to me to be the hardest path to take, " Hanson says.
The uninspired, generic Hollywood score often makes the premise feel preposterous rather than moving, but there are some high points, including a gorgeous Michael Hedges tune that gets passed off as an original by August (which he plays the first time he picks up a guitar) and a gospel number featuring a solo by the preternaturally gifted young singer Jamia Simone Nash.
In the solo setting, you can really hear his guitar technique: both brash and subtle, cool yet a bit out of control, deliberate and funky.
On an appearance last year on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, for example, Shimabukuro played an amplified rock solo that sounded very much like an electric guitar.
He is also almost single-handedly responsible for transforming the guitar, formerly the junior partner of the flamenco trinity, into an instrument of solo expression far beyond traditional limits.
There's even a harpsichord solo which has all the thrills, theatrics and drama of a massive electric-guitar shred-fest.
He has a solo -- or a harmony part, or a lead vocal, or a single perfect guitar lick -- in all the important chapters of the past 50 years.
His guitar sat untouched while Okereke tinkered with synthesizers and drum machines a process which eventually led to a full solo album, produced by XXXchange of Spankrock.
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