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I love all my guitar solos.
In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.
I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.
I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.
It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.
The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.
Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.
I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
We're losing the whole point: music is not to impress people, music has to stand up on its own and guitar solos are nothing to do with it.
Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.
Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.
And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.
It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'
I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.
On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version.