Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
Originally Posted By: Danny C.
Originally Posted By: MarioD
That's ok. Most of the country leads that I have heard lately were distorted guitar rock leads anyway!

Ducking and running for cover grin gringrin


BINGO! No need to run brother. lol

Later,



It's called TONE....


But back to the thread topic.... solo's in country music or any other genre for that matter.... Back when there were actual records and albums, there was often an LP version (the long version) and the 45 radio version. Nothing new actually. They've been cutting song lengths for as long as there's been radio stations needing to squeeze more commercials into the limited time available.


It's been a while now, but with a song I was working on... called Come & Go.... (on my music site) I had been working with the staff at NSAI in trimming it and refining it. In a one on one session with the then president RC Bannon, he made a comment that the song was really good but....... I needed to "lose the guitar solo" and use a simple very short, turnaround and get back to the chorus. He said..."No one wants to hear your guitar playing here in Nashville".... give them the song as quickly as you can. The solo used to live at 2:56 in the song... it's now a 4 second turnaround.

Now days, I don't even plan for a guitar solo if I plan to plug the song to a publisher. Just leave it out.... if it's a song that I don't care about trying to plug, it will likely have a solo of some length or another.

Dang, I sure do miss those album cuts.


Guess I just don't like the TONE....

Later,

Danny C.
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