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ISU (10-2, 1-0) held Wichita State to just 27 points after intermission and improved to 3-0 in Valley openers under head coach Tim Jankovich.
Senior guard Osiris Eldridge led the way on both ends of the court for the Redbirds, scoring 26 points and limiting Toure Murry, the Shockers' leading scorer, to just three points on 1-of-8 shooting.
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"The second half we just took the initiative to kind of be more physical with them and kind of push them out," he added. "Tony (Lewis) and the bigs did a good job slowing them down."
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Two hours of death-related metaphor vignettes; disappointing.
Don Draper seems more tormented than ever and the suicide-themed ad campaign for Hawaii crystalizes his state of mind. Seems like he is exactly the kind of person who should not smoke dope. He has enough problems with personal clarity. The surprise that Don Draper is cheating on his wife and his new friend the doctor with the doctor's wife is surprising for a moment and then basically tedious in its predictability. Really seems like Betty made a lucky break after all. The lighter. The light. Shining the light. Get it?
Why does Betty like Sandy so much and what was with that horrible rape joke she made to her husband about Sandy?
For the first time in six seasons, I thought the opening hour dragged and the scenes were too long. The second half was more like it. Not enough Pete and Joan for my tastes. What was the purpose of Bob Benson?
From the reviews I read before the two-hour episode actually aired. I was expecting a more revealing chain of events. That much was actually happening beneath the dialogue is what I expected, but as the two hours passed it seemed to me that the characters were left in the same states as they were after the opening credits rolled. The storyline wasn't advanced and the characters, to these eyes and ears, were flat and mumbled a lot. What did I miss that the pundits claimed was awaiting the humble viewer? Someone inform me, please.
Any chance it's Don on the floor realizing his life is in the hands of the betrayed doctor/neighbor?
Well, I believe we saw the 9 circles of hell tonight. Thanks for nothing Weiner.
Teens smoking cigarettes, free use of weed in office, booze flowing and Roger cries over death of shoe shine man. Good times.
I agree with Joe, I'm wondering if Don is in a dream sequence or unconscious? Even the start when he's quoting Inferno, midway through my life I lost my way... I think it's him on the floor, not the bellman, he just seems so disconnected.
I wondered how many viewers even recognized the source of "Lend me your ears..."
And why was Peggy calling a pastor?
Peggy was trying to reach Ted who was at a retreat. It's why the pastor wouldn't pass the message each time she called.
Lend me your ears is a line from the Beatles 1967 song "A Little Help From My Friends"
I initially thought the doorman's heart attack was just Don's vision, because the scene immediately cut to the seemingly healthy doorman welcoming back Don and Megan, and handing Megan the manila envelope containing her new script... but then it did happen because the doorman answers the drunken Don's questions about the experience, and Dr. Rosen mentions the doorman's gratitude at the Drapers' party... Was anybody else confused by the scene in the condo lobby?
And to Gwen Orel (whoever that is): Betty goes to St. Marks Place, not "Square" -- she's in New York City, not Venice!
And to Mr. Dellinger: Megan's famous song from the Season 5 premiere is written "Zou Bisou Bisou."
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After reading the comments of others, I am comforted to know I wasn't the only one wondering what merited such fawning exuberance by the journalists and critics who were able to view the opening episodes before Sunday night at nine (EDT). Matthew Weiner has the media singing his praises as though he was The Second Coming. It seems the paying customers, aka "the public", feel that the plots have gotten soggy and the dialogue uninspiring.
The bellman didn't have a heart attack right when they returned from vacation- there was a quick flashback to when the heart attack originally took place (warmer clothes on Don & Megan) as it showed them returning from vacation. Megan asks why he's back to work so soon. Doors- Roger talking about doors, doors to the balcony in Hawaii, Megan knocking on a door to buy marijuana, the doorman, the sliding glass doors left open, Roger slamming his mother's door, Betty tearing her coat on the doorframe, Sally closing the door, Don opening the door to the outside of the apartment in the snow, then the door to Sylvia's, then his own..
Well, I'm a longtime Mad Men fan, but I was bored by this overly-long episode. I am especially sick of watching Don vomit year after year. From a big picture standpoint, the episode seemed off on the timing, in that there were too many physical changes to the characters and to the office in the short period since Season 5 concluded. Finally, as happened last season, the show is dragged down by Megan's terrible acting. She is too weak of an actress to handle such a big part.
I'm just plain confused and found it a but blah
I'm just confused.
Is there a blog or Twitter feed on how to follow these writers ?
The element that confused me most was Don being drunk at the funeral. Why?
Thanks to AJM for correcting my rendering of "Zou Bisou Bisou" and to Ceeks for his/her cogent explanation of the timeline of the doorman's heart attack. And for the excellent point about all the "doors" happening. - WD
The most interesting part of the episode was Don's failed pitch. That Don could be so seemingly glib about death -- "We only go to heaven after something horrible happens" -- but not see the obvious implications of the art and tagline rings false. I've never seen "A Star Is Born," but the image of clothes cast aside and an empty expanse of ocean immediately brought to mind "The Awakening," whose main character ends her life by walking into the sea. Don's initial inability to put his Hawaiian experience into words -- the fact that he seemed genuinely awed by his time there -- made me anticipate a reprise of the beautiful "Carousel" pitch from season one. But like the pitch itself, the scene fell flat. We see Don as empty, unsuccessful at the firm, unseemly in public, unhappy either in the arms of his wife or his mistress. But this is well-trodden ground for this show and seemed like an issue that had been dealt with. I realize this show will never wrap everything up in a pretty Christmas bow, and would seem particularly laughable if it tried at this point, but I would like to see as much sustained growth and change from Don as from the history that passes in the background.
Yes, whose POV is that at the very beginning? Interesting idea that it could be Don on the floor. Did you notice someone screams during that scene, but nobody screams when the doorman collapses?
I agree with the pessimists, this episode was an hour too long and boring overall. I watched it with my girl and we agreed that the extra hour was used to ironically sell more ads during the show and that like the Super Bowl these ads are starting to eclipse the show itself. Reading the analysis on here is more interesting than the show presently. I started watching Jane Campions Top of the Lake on demand today before the premier and turned it back on after it was over. Mad Men is okay, not bad but definitely not great. Top of the Lake is great in every way and its the show I can't stop thinking about as I lay in bed tonight.
I don't disagree with those of you who found the episode -- especially the first part -- slow. The long opening seemed like a product placement for the Royal Hawaiian Resort, and it may well have been. As for confusing, I believe that Matthew Weiner has a point when he says (as I recall) that reviewing one episode as we do doesn't make much sense. No one would review one chapter of a novel. We can hope that some of these strands will be revealed as laying the foundation for something interesting down the road. Hope. -- WD
I found the episode boring and even found myself picking up a book and only half-listening/watching.
Most inauthentic moment: Don's secretary decides to rearrange his office while he's on vacation. Never happened.
What was more depressing than this MM episode was an ad for a new season of The Killing with the same depressing characters.
Now that Justified is on hiatus II can't wait for Breaking Bad to return.
In the meanwhile AMC may want to hire a therapist or two for its writers.
Great conversation. As Alan noted, Don doesn't like change, and he's becoming less effective at his work. Of course, these factors are related. We see how thoroughly advertising reflects its environment...the look, the language, and the ambiance of the "outside world" are reflectedin the office and in the ads themselves. Only Don doesn't change his look, doesn't want his office rearranged, and tries to hold onto "old" language ( as in his riff on the meaning of love)...The man with the most fluid identity needs the comfort of stasis.This inability to change ( except his embra ce of pot) leaves him out of touch with e world around him and there's nothing worse for an ad guy.
a most moving sequence was the expression on Don's face at the funeral for Roger's mother - as her friend read that Roger was his mother's true love, how she doted on him. Don could not contain his pain as he realized once again what he has missed. So he threw up.
I felt as if something fairly pedestrian was thrown at us..... with the implication that if you don't "get it" - it was clearly over your head.
So often we, the viewing public assign meaning to events in the show (that may or may not have occurred to the writers) and voila! ....Sheer genius!
Interesting, and very different, episode about identity and its absence. Betty's visit to the flophouse, and the reaction of its inhabitants to her [and her to them] appears to be setting up a very traumatic future for that side of the Draper family identity. Dealth and identity [or its absence] loom heavy .....
Not to be petty - but Draper was the stand-in giving away the bride, not 'best man,' who recovered enough to be present for the beach wedding - and the PFC's comment [excellent dialogue and acting, btw] was that someday HE would be the 'veteran in paradise' buying strangers drinks in the middle of the night ......
WD, last year the show did evolve into a compelling story with a funny and sometimes shocking narrative.I don't speak for everyone, but the problem seems clear cut and the motive is explotative. AMC has become better at promoting its shows, integrating the advertising and milking the viewer than its predicesors ever were. The backlash is well deserved when the hype (and the commercials) eclipse the actual experience. As for Matthew Weiner, I remember him doing an interview years ago where he talked about being a dominating voice in the writers room in the Soprano's. I don't remember 100% of the story, but David Chase asked him to leave the room, or told him to back off and Weiner ended up feeling akward. When he was one member of choir his solos were amazing because they glowed with his enthusiasm and smarts. But now that he is the conductor, the song isn't as good. His passion and vision still have width and depth, but the competition has gotten smarter, edgier, and more competitive. While this may be attributed to mimicry in part, it doesn't excuse the devolution that's occurred on Mad Men.
It seemed to me that AMC used the premier to hawk their other shows, figuring there would be a lot of eyeballs watching. Can't blame them, though. This episode got people caught up from last season, but it seemed to be setting the stage for a lot of other stuff. I also didn't quite understand Betty's child rape discussion with her husband. I found that to be a bit unsettling. Is Bets trying to be more daring in some way? I loved how PFC Dinkins was woven in to the story by his Zippo lighter. Don is really bothered by the statement on the lighter.
What was that all about and really who cares? Agree with JamesG can't wait for Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy to return but nobody can beat JUSTIFIED!!
I think it's significant that Betty's ticket was not for speeding but for "reckless driving." Her actions on this episode show an evolving Betty, perhaps not reckless but certainly more confident and adventurous. I love that those characteristics are intertwined with her maternal instincts (consistent with her shooting the pigeons).
Also, Don's Hawaii pitch reminds me of a past episode in California where Don went into the waves and stretched out his arms. That image was of resurrection. What others interpreted in the Hawaii pitch as suicide, Don saw as heaven. His obsession about death was tinged with thoughts of the afterlife and of the doctor's ability to prevent death (or have life and death under his control). I predict that the tension of this season will not be about death, but about "rebirth." Let's hope so!
Surprised no one is making more of the "A Star is Born" analogy, a professional on the downward spiral and a woman in the ascendance. Is the woman meant to be Megan or Peggy or both?
I am in agreement with Virginia - the first half really dragged. I was so disappointed - but 2nd half was much better. But, then I wondered if the "dragging" was in keeping with the increasing angst of the actual characters. However, it just felt not authentic. I lived through the 60's - this period was much more alive, vibrant, and filled with turmoil (which I don't think the episode captured) and it was full of contradictions, rebellion, and it was colorful (which I think the the episode did capture). I am waiting to see more...
"Lend me your ears" is one of the most famous Shakespeare quotes of all. It originated in his play Antony and Cleopatra, where Marc Antony is giving the eulogy at Julius Caesar's funeral. "Friends, Romans, countryman, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him," etc. That's where the Beatles got it.
I'm saddened that educated people today don't know this. Saddened, but, sadly, not surprised.
I disagree that only Don couldn't see his ad was evocative of death. Pete Campbell, no sycophant of Don's, protested in genuine bewilderment that all of them at SCDP had looked the ad over and not seen that at all. What I saw wasn't a contrast of Don and Peggy but a further parallel. Both of them had to deal with clients reading more controversy into a proposed ad than any reasonable observer would see. Did Peggy deal with her dilemma more succesfully? - Yes. But the contrast begins and ends there. It may be significant that the client who drew the James Mason parallel was himself English, with as plummy an Oxbridge manner of speech as even Mason ever had. It may be simplistic to say "everyone" would agree it's an ad about James Mason killing himself when only the Masonesque client saw that and no one at SCDP did.
This episode heavily correlated to the first episode of the series, at least for Don. I remember when Don scoffed at the psychologist/marketer when she stated "Freud believed people had a death wish" or something along the lines of that. Well it seems apparent that this thought has come full circle for Don. Karma?
"Is he worried that Megan may become more successful than she will?"
I suspect a typo - is "she" supposed to be "he"?
Otherwise a good read.
Betty is just off. She has never known how to deal with jealousy, and she is always jealous of other women and girls in her daddy figures' lives. She is always threatened by Sally, for instance. She ended up going grossly too far in her aggressive calling out of Henry for being absorbed in Sandy and her playing. But Betty always will do that.
Ceeks - Great post about the doors. Thank you for pointing that out.
BG - Good point re the Star is Born parallel. Weiner led us right there, but no one but you is asking. IMO you're right, the reference is to both Megan and Peggy.
Interesting references to religion and spirirtuity: the quote from The Inferno, Peggy's conversation with the Pastor which ends "And also with you", in response to the Pastor's unheard "peace be with you". That Peggy's boss.Ted, is on a religious retreat. Don's comment about wishing Arnold "Merry Christmas" The crucifix on the wall of Sylvia' apartment. The water from the river Jordan. Don wanting to know what the doorman's near death experience was like. With the theme of death there are allusions and direct references to search for meaning.
The show is usually spot on to the time portrayed. However, regarding the reference to the Superbowl, if this was December 1967 with the game taking place in January 1968, then Superbowl is wrong. The game was not referred to as the Superbowl until after 1969.
Can't see how anyone can see Peggy's evolution in a positive light. She has always had a gift at finding the right light for a client, but she was generally much more patient with her subordinates.
Her boss' absence (not hardly unusual considering all of Don's escapes) leads her to take charge where she would rather play second fiddle (and get a pat on the back from a boss/father figure perhaps), but also makes her colder, and almost a mirror to Don keeping her late unnecessarily, which happened to help ruin a good relationship on one occasion (if i remember).
seems like she may follow in Don's footsteps, ascending the ladder without realizing all the hurt and pain caused by such a narrow focus on success (in life=work), possibly subconsciously relating to a jealousy for those who seem glibly happy with their lot (peggy's subordinates, and prior, Don's). It could be argued that she suffered the most from Don's ascension (and lack of due credit and honor), and now she may be on a trajectory to pay that (bill) forward. Unfortunately, this may also hit on the unfair prejudice of the cutthroat woman in the workplace, when it appears that this is a collateral effect of a lost man's ego.
Although it doesn't become clear until later, the most jarring part, worse even than Betty's child rape flirtation, was Don pressing a new camera on Dr. Rosen. Don goes through life as if he is cheerfully amoral. But he isn't amoral, not quite. So he feels guilt for his actions that he won't admit even to himself, and tries to assuage it with acts like being friendly and generous toward a nice guy he is cuckolding. This is the same old Don, the Don / Dick Whitman who didn't want his real brother Adam in his new life, so he tried to compensate with a stack of cash. You'd think Don would have learned from that that you can't buy or bribe your own conscience away.
Mad Men Season 6 - Continuation of no awards Season 5 -- What a Mess! Weiner ! Even the commercial breaks were better (and longer).
good point re camera for conscience, patrick. wonder if he will catch don with it...
Best quote of the night:
Does this make you think of death?
Yeah, that's what makes it soo great!
Runner up:
Your ugly. I hate you.
The show is ruined. If this was season #1 there would have been no season #2. How could anything so good become so bad. Fire the writers, and make the characters compelling again...PLEASE!!!
BruceD: I agree the Super Bowl ad plotline was an anachronism, but I gave them a pass on the name per se. It's true that the NFL (and AFL) didn't officially rename the NFL-AFL Championship Game the Super Bowl until SB III. But the name had been used informally as early as SB I (by journalists skeptical of the whole endeavor; The Super Bowl, like the Big Bang Theory, is saddled with a somewhat stupid name which originated with naysayers). Anyway, I agree that the whole fuss over Peggy's ad campaign for the game was anachronistic. SB Sunday was not the biggest day in advertising until many years after 1968. SB II had none of the hoopla surrounding it that SB XLVIII will have. No one was rolling out new ads for SB II. It took time to make the game huge, and Joe Namath and an AFL upset in SB III to make it even noticeable. Super Bowl I was so little regarded that although it aired on both CBS and NBC, neither network bothered to keep a film or tape of it! It wasn't until a couple of years ago that a lagely intact home movie of SB I was discovered.
Peggy is still able to keep tabs on SCDP by maintaining a friendship with Stan. I did not guess the two of them would keep in touch. I'm surprised that two commentators got confused about Don being a father-of-the-bride stand-in, not the best man. The flashback was odd in that I couldn't tell which character was "seeing" the flashback. It just sort of popped up with no point-of-view.
What I immediately noticed about Don's Hawaii pitch is he's lazy. He sits in the chair, reclining way back, the art board lies on the table--couldn't they find an easel. There's no effort to impress a client who'd just sent him to Hawaii in December. From the moment he greets the team back in the office, you could tell he didn't care. He couldn't be bothered to toss a cocktail napkin in his suitcase.
He just seems not to care. He shows up drunk at the funeral and is lazy with his clients. I loved the moment when Don demands Stan's opinion of whether the beach scene evokes thoughts of suicide and Stan chimes in with a heck-yeah. Clearly, Don didn't seek Stan's input prior to the meeting. He may not know it, but he misses Peggy. Her tirade about lazy creative who stall and piddle and wait for someone else (her specifically) to come up with an ad-saving idea seemed to describe her feelings about working at SCDP and is probably how the Hawaii account would have played out had she still been there. My question: Will Don let Ginsberg save this one?
Lastly, Don's office is downstairs, not upstairs. Ben Benson introduces himself as a guy "from upstairs."
I am so happy that Mad Men is back! No other program has me reflecting so much on it afterwards or become unaware of the time until it's over. This episode did have a darker feeling and I'm just hoping all that Don is going through has him come out successful and maybe, finally, happy at the end. I felt the awkwardness and disappointment at his failed ad campaign thinking, it can't be!
I am fascinated by the characters and what their presence contributes. I'm interested to see how this Bob Benson plays out. More Joan please!
I wonder if the season will end at the time of the Apollo 8 voyage to the Moon and its famous Christmas Eve reading from Genesis? The show always parallels real events, and we know we are in for a rough time with MLK, RFK, Chicago, Tet, Olympic protests, and Nixon's election. Much of that will be mentioned and paralleled on the show (1968's famous deaths might have been why so much of last night was about death, and we have already had one Vietnam encounter). The Apollo 8 astronauts were told, "You saved 1968." I think we are being led to expect a season of darkness, conflict, and tragedy, but perhaps one with a moment of saving grace at year end. Stick with the show.
I like the redesigned Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce offices. The airy atrium and the open stairway imply new freedoms and mobility, e.g. women and blacks now able to move up the corporate ladder to the executive floor. And the colors are softer and I see more fabrics. The office sets from earlier seasons -- even though drenched in 60's design -- were claustrophobic and all metal and glass. Everyone was in hard-edged cubby-holed in offices and had to traverse narrow hallways. Roger's office -- with the Saranen table, and the Time-Life stools -- is starting to look a tad dated (classics now, but in '68 maybe getting a little cliche). Don's office looks as if it were stuck in the late 50s, and he can barely deal with the change in layout.
Maybe this is foreshadowing a fall of the "old guard" who refuse to adapt.
I thought the scene where Don is discussing the Dow Oven Cleaner campaign -- the one where Dow Chemical is demanding that "love" appear in the headline -- speaks volumes about the corporate disconnect between reality and the business leaders of the time: love being used to evoke a desire to use a caustic chemical to clean an oven, by a company that is about to become one of the era's most hated corporate entities thanks to its production of napalm for the Vietnam War (boycotts, protests).
What about Pete's comment to Don about going to his office to take a nap. Sums it up as far as Don's character development. Betty's teenage rape comments were disturbing - possible flash back or just her kinky side.
Did anyone else get the idea that Dr. Rosen may already suspect Don and Sylvia are having an affair? He seemed surprised, and perhaps disappointed, that Don is more than just a pretty face when he went to his office to pick up the camera. Megan - on the other hand - appears totally oblivious to the affair or Don's increased inner turmoil. And could a quickie really have been so quick that he wasn't suspicious when he returned from "getting cigarettes?"
Did anyone else notice how much traffic noise could be heard from the streets below in last night's episode? In Peggy's apartment, when Don was in his office, the traffic noise became the sound of waves.
Dante's Inferno
The nine circles of hell
1. Limbo, 2. Lust, 3.Gluttony, 4. Greed 5. Anger, 6. Heresy 7. Violence, 8. Fraud, 9 Treachery
Episode the "Doorway"
I found it interesting that Dr. Rosen is Jewish and his wife Italian Catholic. Not as common in the 60's. They also seemed to make a point of the last scene of showing the Cross in the Doctor's house and the Dr.'s wife asking if Don read her inferno.
Did anyone catch the music? What did they play? I cannot remember.
Lets remember that Matt Weiner always has the final scene of each season in mind as he begins each in turn, so I would caution against too much despair over Don's state of mind - just yet. Recall the image of Don at the bar last year as Nancy Sinatra's song played in the background--what a blockbuster. He is admittedly now in a troubled state of mind, giving a Leica camera of all things to a Jewish surgeon and sleeping with his wife, how could he. Conversely, he reaches out to help the soldier in Hawaii and stands up for him at his wedding. I was moved by those scenes with Pfc. Dinkins and his discussion of the war. I profoundly disagree with Pam Harris - I think the wedding photo is important and all Hollywood history is based on the premise that 'the camera doesn't lie...' , an assertion I agree with from my own experience. That said, Don has some distance to travel in season 6. Matt Weiner's theme according to some is the difficulty Don (and all of us) have in moving from where we started, and Jon Hamm beautifully plays this. Betty has come a long way, who would have thought she could have confronted the young men in the West Village to help out Sally's friend, to my mind she put herself in harm's way, and by the way this painfully reminds us of the painful waste of young lives in the late 60s. Peggy demonstrates how much she learned from Don, in the advertising business and how she deals with staff - precisely how Don acts, and Ted notices this. I am also glad after five seasons to learn why Peggy is a Catholic, i.e. her Norwegian father married an Irish mother - now we know.
Last night's season opener was a big contrast to Season5 in another way no one's mentioned yet. To me, Season 5 looked done on the cheap. There were a minimal number of characters and minimal number of sets. Even Don's two sons weren't shown in family scenes, just Sally. In contrast, last nights Season 6 opener was full of returning characters that haven't been seen in a long time (eg Burt Peterson, Roger's daughter and first wife, etc). Seemed like only Trudy and her parents were missing. But alot of those characters shown last night just seemed inserted off a checklist without much point (Cooper, Joan, etc). Weiner must have a bigger budget this year. I hope we'll see more of these old characters and less of Megan. Season 5 was most forgettable and highly overrated, and primarily because of too much Megan. That actress is dreadful!! But seeing her in her bikini last night, at least we know the two reasons why Weiner is so in love with her.
seems like Cooper should have known that the word "victuals" is pronounced "vittles"
btw I think the closing song was Elvis singing the Hawaiian Wedding Song.
The closing music was the Hawaiian Wedding Song.
btw I think the closing song was Elvis singing the Hawaiian Wedding Song which reflected Megan getting served a Blue Hawaii drink on the beach. Also, why weren't there any shots of the exterior of the classic hotel they were staying in?
The "lend me your ears" is Shakespeare, but it's not "Antony and Cleopatra" - it's from "Julius Caesar."
je, possibly to save money or the hotel has changed and couldn't be captured as it was. I stayed there twice in 2011, once on business and another business/pleasure trip with wife. after one night we moved to another hotel. The grounds remain high level for Wakiki hotels but their rooms are pathetic. We moved to the Outrigger next door which had one of their front corner suites available and for less money it was MUCH better. Still, staying at Wakiki Beach always means the Halekulani as the first choice
Don's ad campaign for the hotel chain is astonishingly visionary... we've seen many similar campaigns in the last 20 years promoting 'getaway' destinations with a huge photo of lush surroundings and no trace of the product being sold except the logo of the hotel/airline/brand/etc. down in a corner. In addition to the idea that Don's subliminal death wish may be informing his creative thoughts, it struck me that Don is subconsciously being influenced by the zeitgeist of the emerging hippie culture. He first experienced that culture in a previous season -recall his 'artistic' lover hitting him up for cash, her beat-ish-turning-hippie friends berating him for being a 'suit' - it seems possible to me that this mindset has started to seep in and cause Don to fantasize about 'losing the suit' (the conceit that 'corporate suits' are conforming and uncreative was born in this era). Don's tightly-wrapped artificial persona is so stifling and taking so much energy to sustain that we are seeing him being crushed under the weight of it. He fantasizes about 'spiritual liberation' - very late-decade sixties, but his version is a character flaw: he would rather 'shed his skin' and morph into a new being rather than face the reality of himself. He did it once before by becoming Don Draper, and he is clearly tempted by this notion again.
So Don is tormented. So what else is new? So Don threw up. We've seen that plenty of times before. Lots of death hints and imagery. We've put up with that for past several seasons. Don was compelling in earlier seasons because of his tremendous talent at work. So now we're presented with a loser at work with the same bad behavior and minus any admirable traits. I'm tired of watching a tortured loser. Feels like Weiner is just hitting us over the head with tiresome themes....and bad actresses. Please get rid of Megan. It's getting painful to watch her dreadful acting and Don's misery.
I think Megan is great and pretty. Some people are critical but I don't see it. Remember she plays what amounts to a not even B actor - commercials and now soup opera. The darkness is warranted as this is the next to last season so Don has to bottom out personally very soon so they can wrap up the overall story next season. I as always was mesmerized last night. And how interesting was Roger!
To those insistent on the Shakespeare inspiration, keep in mind that this is a 1967 ad for headphones in the Superbowl. They would be borrowing the line from the Beatles tune, which was popular then. They wouldn't be stretching for Shakepeare. You'd like to think you're geniuses for knowing the origin of the line, however, a genius would realize the context of the times and draw on that. Also, many people understand that Shakespeare is often quoted in songs, they just don't feel the need to prove their knowledge of it. Most are content to examine beyond and dig a little deeper. You're not impressing anyone.
Remember folks, 1968 is coming. I think Don's feelings about death, his sense of doom, are prophetic. He's predicting the future, as he has since we met him.
Interesting reference to Julius Caesar and A Star Is Born. James Mason appeared in both films. He committed suicide by drowning in A Star Is Born (no longer a spoiler) and was forced to commit suicide as Brutus in Julius Caesar, with a little help from his friends. (Back to Sgt. Pepper again.) Marlon Brando mumbled the "Lend Me Your Ears" speech as Antony. Also, in Jon Hamm's first appearance on SNL he impersonated James Mason at a Vincent Price Halloween party.
Sorry, CAD-- your p inference is incorrect. There's a toga, referred to several times by Peggy as a problem if they drop the reference.. The toga plus "lend me your ears" = Julius Caesar. Had they wanted to make a Sgt. Pepper reference, they would have. There are no togas in "With A Little Help From My Friends."
Nobody was stretching for the Shakespeare reference, nor showing off. It just was a Shakespeare reference.
To CAD -- (apt name, by the way). Far be it from me to think I'm a genius!! What I am is an educated person, and that's because I went to school in the 50s and 60s, when American schools and colleges actually educated kids! At that time EVERYONE knew that "friends, Romans, countryman, lend me your ears" was Shakespeare! Which is another reason the ad would have reverberated in the Mad Men period. In fact, I'll wager more people at that time recognized the quote as Shakespearean than recognized it from the Beatles.
A propos of my not being a genius, let me thank the person who correctly noted that the quote was from Julius Caesar rather than Antony and Cleopatra.
The name of Megan's soap is 'To Have and to Hold'
These are all such wonderful takes on the premiere of Mad Men. I can't wait to go into my office at DISH tomorrow and share some of the underlying themes presented here that some of us missed while talking yesterday. I'm glad that my husband and I decided to upgrade our DVR to a DISH Hopper because I don't want to miss any new episodes of this show. It can record up to six different things at the same time during primetime, so I can keep following Mad Men, my husband can continue to watch Game of Thrones, and the rest of the family can still watch their favorite Sunday night shows too.
Some good stuff in the episode, but for me it had been too long since last season to dive right into all the subtleties. Might have helped to have the first hour played more straight and let us get reacquainted with the characters and then use the 2nd hour as more of a challenge. Also, the physical differences in appearances made it seem like it had been a year or two since we last saw those characters. It was a bit much to see all the creative characters so heavily stylized so quickly.
Or, maybe that's what this episode was - a reintroduction to the same characters doing essentially the same things. I don't see any of these characters doing anything new or unusual, which means Mad Men risks becoming a soap opera.
Elvis has left the building, Ladies and Gentleman. Mad Men has jumped the shark. It was fun while it lasted. Weiner is out of ideas. R.I.P.
P.S. Where do I go to get back the two hours of my life that I devoted to the season opener?
P.P.S. If I really wanted to be a pretentious commentator, I would say something arty and weirdly existential, like "Isn't it ironic that the title of the episode is 'Doorways,' since this show basically fell through a "trapdoor" into nothingness?"
This is my favorite "Mad Men" blog! Does anyone remember the name of the other one that was mentioned here last year? You guys talked about it I think in the season finale article. Dividable something or other? It compared the show to the phaethon greek myth? I've been trying to find it. Can anyone here help me out?
Forget it I just found it. Dividable Watts it's called. I don't see anything new there though. Is this a wall street journal writer too?
This is so sad. Is this what you guys do now? Make believe you're fans of a certain show just to sell your Hopper? It's just flat out insulting not to mention obnoxious. Take your sales pitch over to a "Big Bang Theory" blog where the people may just be stupid enough to fall for it.
Alexis -- I know the blog you're talking about and no, I do not believe it is associated with WSJ. I was looking at the article you were talking about and the blog isn't actually mentioned in the article, but in the comments. I remember reading it last year myself and thinking people can see whatever they want to in anything, but for some reason I read it again, and then I read it again. Now I'm not so sure. The writer obviously has an eye for detail and I'm starting to think he/she may be on to something.
But you're right, it doesn't look like there's anything new there. I hope we're not going to have to wait until the end of the season.
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I have one, but generally only use it nowdays for meter testing and comparisons. In situations where I might use a grey card for shooting I use an incident light meter reading, which more or less amounts to the same thing as a reflective reading off a grey card.
Way back when, I would include one in a test shot on color film so that the printer had a known target for determining the filter pack for the "real" shots.
As for it's use in a hybrid process, that's OT here, but I've never seen the need, especially for b&w.
They can be handy, but aren't essential for most purposes.


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Fans caught a break on Friday with tolerable weather, but temperatures reached into the 90s Saturday and Sunday in Chicago's Union Park, challenging bands to get fans moving when even paying attention is an effort. Luckily, the assemblage of talent was Pitchfork's most ostentatious yet, a who's who of a rapidly-ascending indie music scene that is increasingly threatening to render the term "underground" obsolete. Yet throughout the weekend, it was as if the artists strove to tear down the pop sensibilities that made them Pitchfork darlings, cranking out old-fashioned, make-your-parents-cover-their-ears noise, determined that if they're going to become the next popular music overthrow, they would have to be dragged kicking and screaming. Even with the heat, it made for a pretty exhilarating weekend.
Coolest Discovery: Zola Jesus/Cold Cave (tie) (Saturday)
Earlier in the day, Cold Cave roasted onstage under plenty of black leather and a performance surely far too ferocious for their own health in the sweltering mid-afternoon humidity. As far as the 80s revival goes, industrial is perhaps the most under-mined genre, so this industrial-tinged new wave came off as very refreshing. Wesley Eisold's vocals range from tense-melodic à la Dave Gahan to hardcore growl, and the band whooped up more visceral noise than anyone else all weekend except possibly Deerhunter. Even though Pitchfork (the website as well as the fest) is inevitably transitioning from bands-you-never-heard-of to indie's-biggest-stars and will become the mainstream before you know it, you can still make discoveries here.
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As mentioned, these guys were usurped somewhat by the DJ Shadow dance party that preceded them, but they still held up their end of the bargain admirably. Despite the nagging appropriateness of the smoke machines, Fleet Foxes managed to at least suggest intimacy to a sizable festival crowd. Robin Pecknold's peculiar, Jim-James-esque voice is a dicey matter of taste, but his vocal arrangements and songs in general are a force to be reckoned with, and these are not just studio creations; the band breathed newness into them with a lively performance.
TV On The Radio (Sunday)
One of the best things a band can do is take a song you're either sick to death of or never liked in the first place and make you rethink your position when you hear it live; this was what TV On The Radio did Sunday night with "Will Do." The band's performance was so much warmer and more enthusiastic than its studio albums, particularly lead vocalist Tunde Adebimpe. His energy carried the band, even when singer/guitarist Kyp Malone seemed like he was barely conscious. With just over an hour at their disposal, these guys wasted little time on ballads, running through a frantic set of abrasive, cerebral pop that nevertheless had the crowd more unified in body-movin' than any other act of the weekend.
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Hometown: Mayetta, N.J.
Truex's father, Martin Sr., was a race winner in what was then known as NASCAR's Busch Grand National Division North Series. It was a short step from there to go karts, which he began racing around New Jersey and the northeast when he was 11 years old. When he was 14, he won both the Junior class championship as well as the New Jersey championship series at the New Eqypt Speedway. By the late 1990s, he'd graduated to the Modified Series.
Truex won his first Modified Series race when he was 18; two years later, his father agreed to let him take over the family's ride in the Busch North Series. In 2000, he finished 12th in the points and was runner-up for the rookie of the year award. He won twice in 2001 and finished eighth in points.
Nationwide Career
Truex's Nationwide series career began inauspiciously with a 38th-place finish in his family-owned car at Dover in 2001. He followed that up with four more starts in 2002 and another 10 in 2003. While Truex began 2003 still driving for his father, he was soon approached by Dale Earnhardt Jr., who very much liked what he saw of the hard-working Truex. He signed the New Jerseyan.
That was all it took. Driving for Earnhardt in 2004, Truex won six races (and finished in the top five in 11 others) and the Nationwide title. He matched the achievement the next year – another six wins and another title, joining his boss as one of the five drivers to win back-to-back Nationwide titles. So much for his full-time Nationwide career.
Cup Career
Truex's Cup career has been somewhat checkered. Signed by Dale Earnhardt Inc. in 2004 when the namesake's son was still there and the team was one of the most powerful in the sport, Truex was expected to complement Junior and help the organization reassert itself. And though Truex performed respectably enough in his first two full seasons, 2006 and 2007, winning once and finishing a career-best of 11th in points in 2007, he has yet to deliver on his great promise.
Truex's 2008 was a year he'd probably like to forget, on track and off. Since Junior left the organization before the 2008 season, DEI has been mired in and bogged down by endless speculation concerning its viability. Indeed, before merging with the equally-strapped Chip Ganassi team after the 2008 season, it seemed quite possible that DEI, a team begun by one of the sport's all-time greats and designed to be a showcase for Junior, might disappear altogether.
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One who errs in this regard must start over from the beginning (Shulchan Aruch, OC 582:1). The Beit Yosef implies that this applies to a sh'liach tzibbur, as well (OC 582:2). The Sha'arei T'shuvah, quoting the Z'kan Aharon (§ 6), rules explicitly that the sh'liach tzibbur must return to the beginning, and must repeat k'dushah, as well (OC 582:1).
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50 Greatest Guitar Solos
50 Greatest Guitar Solos
40) "Reelin' in the Years" (Elliot Randall) - Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill, 1972
While recording Steely Dan's 1972 debut, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen knew they had a great track for "Reelin' in the Years"—if they could only come up with the appropriate guitar solo to jumpstart the tune. So they put in a call to Elliott Randall, with whom they had worked in the backing band for Jay and the Americans, and who'd had played on many of the duo's early, pre-Steely Dan demos.
"They were having trouble finding the right 'flavor' solo for 'Reelin,' and asked me to give it a go," recalls Randall. "Most of the song was already complete, so I had the good fortune of having a very clear picture of what the solo was laying on top of. They played it for me without much dialogue about what I should play. It just wasn't necessary because we did it in one take and nothing was written. Jeff Baxter played the harmony parts, but my entire lead—intro/answers/solo/end solo—was one continuous take played through a very simple setup: my old Strat, the same one I've been using since 1965, plugged directly into an Ampeg SVT amp, and miked with a single AKG 414. The whole solo just came to me, and I feel very fortunate to have been given the opportunity to play it."
39) "Cortez the Killer" (Neil Young) - Neil Young and Crazy Horse Zuma, 1975
"Cortez the Killer" hails from Zuma, one of Neil Young's most overlooked albums, often lost in the shuffle of its predecessor, the much-praised Tonight's the Night, which came out just five months prior. But there's really a very simple explanation for the song's high rating. Just take it from Young himself, who once proclaimed that, " 'Cortez' is some of my best guitar playing ever!"
Remarkably, the song's structure was largely shaped by an accident—a power failure which occurred in the midst of recording a perfect, transcendent take of the song. Rather than recut the tune, Young just plowed forward and later he and producer David Briggs went back and did some creative editing, which required the lopping off of several verses. "They missed a whole verse, a whole section!" Young says. "You can hear the splice on the recording where we stop and start again. It's a messy edit…incredible! It was a total accident. But that's how I see my best art, as one magical accident after another. That's what is so incredible."
"Cortez the Killer," about the Spanish explorer who conquered Mexico with bloody success, is also a prime example of Young's physical style of lead playing.
"I am a naturally very destructive person," he says. "And that really comes out in my guitar playing. Man, if you think of guitar playing in terms of boxing…well let's just say I'm not the kind of guitarist you'd want to play against. I'm just scarred by life. Nothing in particular. No more scarred than anyone else. Only other people often don't let themselves know how damaged they are, like I do and deal with it."
38) "Whole Lotta Love" (Jimmy Page) - Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II, 1967
"I used distant miking to get that rhythm guitar tone," says Jimmy Page. "Miking used to be a science, and I'd heard that distance makes depth, which in turn gives you a fatter guitar sound. The amp was turned up very high. It was distorting, just controlled to the point where it had some balls to it. I also used a depressed wah-wah pedal on the solo, as I did on 'Communication Breakdown.' It gets you a really raucous sound. The descending riff that answers the line 'whole lotta love' was created using slide and backwards echo. Backwards echo has been used a lot now, but I think I was the first to use it."
37) "Sweet Child O' Mine" (Slash) - Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction, 1987
"When 'Sweet Child O' Mine' was written, it was a joke as far as I was concerned," says Slash. "I was just fuckin' around when I came up with that riff. To me it was a nightmare because, for some strange reason, everyone picked up on it and, the next thing you knew, it had turned into a song. I hated it forever! The guitar solo itself is a one-take, spontaneous kind of thing. Having played the song at rehearsals enough times, when it came to recording it I knew exactly where the melody was and it came real easy."
36) "Black Star" (Yngwie Malmsteen) - Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force, 1984
"I've been playing that song, or variations of it, since I was a teenager in Sweden," Yngwie Malmsteen recently told his fan club. "I used to play really long, uninterrupted improvisations when I played local shows in Stockholm back then, and it developed from that. I didn't sit down and actually write out the notes for it; when I'm feeling inspired, the music just flows out of me. It's in my head and my ears and flows out of my fingers."
"Black Star" flew through Malmsteen's fingers on his solo debut album, recorded in 1984 at Rocshire Studios in Anaheim, California, with the guitarist producing as well as playing bass and, of course, all guitar parts. "We recorded all the basic tracks and then Yngwie had to go on the road with Alcatrazz," recalls keyboardist Jens Johansson. "He flew in here and there to do overdubs. There are probably three guitar tracks on 'Black Star,' and I remember watching Yngwie doing them and being blown away at how he could effortlessly synchronize the vibrato if he was overdubbing a harmony. It all happened pretty fast and on 'Black Star,' especially, he knew what he wanted it to sound like it. And he got it."
35) "Cemetery Gates" (Dimebag Darrell) - Pantera Cowboys from Hell, 1990
"I got home with a pretty good buzz on, picked up my axe, turned on the 4-track, cranked it loud as hell with the loose buzz theory that anything and everything goes, and just played it," Dimebag recalls. "I played three solos back-to-back, didn't bother listening to 'em and crashed out not so happy. The next morning I woke up thinking I had a lot of work to do…I almost started from scratch but then decided to slow down and listen. So I fired up my 4-track, put my ears on and bam! Lo and behold, there it was! The first lead I played the night before was it for sure. Hey man, the second and third weren't bad, but the first had that first-take magic! I didn't touch it."
34) "Paranoid Android" (Johnny Greenwood) - Radiohead OK Computer, 1997
Radiohead consciously patterned their sprawling, epic song, "Paranoid Android," after the Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun." "It really started out as three separate songs and we didn't know what to do with them," explains singer/rhythm guitarist Thom Yorke.
"Then we thought of 'Happiness'—which was obviously three different bits that John Lennon put together—and said, 'Why don't we try that?' " Still, the song wasn't really complete until lead player Jonny Greenwood added a fourth section as a fade out—a lengthy, intense solo, which alternates between being backwards and forwards. "It was something I had floating around for a while and the song needed a certain burn," recalls Greenwood. "I don't usually have stockpiles of riffs lying around, but this happened to be the right key and the right speed and it fit right in."
33) "The Thrill is Gone" (B.B. King) - B.B. King Completely Well, 1969
"I carried this song around in my head for seven or eight years," B.B. King recalls about "The Thrill Is Gone," which had been an r&b hit for its author, pianist Roy Hawkins, in 1950. "It was a different kind of blues ballad. I'd been arranging it in my head and had even tried a couple of different versions that didn't work. But when I walked in to record on this night at the Hit Factory in New York, all the ideas came together. I changed the tune around to fit my style, and [producer] Bill Szymczyk set up the sound nice and mellow. We got through around 3 a.m. I was thrilled, but Bill wasn't, so I just went home. Two hours later, Bill called and woke me up and said, 'I think "The Thrill Is Gone" is a smash hit, and it would be even more of a hit if I added on strings. What do you think?' I said, 'Let's do it.' "
Strings in place, the song rose to Number 15 on the Billboard chart, becoming King's first and only pop hit and earning him his first Grammy Award. "I felt especially proud because the song was true to me, and because Lucille is as much a part of it as me," King says. "She starts off singing and stays with me all the way until she takes the final bow. People ask why I don't sing and play at the same time, I've answered that I can't, but the deeper answer is that Lucille is one voice and I'm another. I hear those voices as distinct. One voice is coming through my throat, while the other is coming through my fingers. When one is singing, the other wants to listen."
32) "Machine Gun" (Jimi Hendrix) - Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys, 1970
Contrary to popular belief, Hendrix was not in any kind of artistic decline during the last year of his life. In fact, it was quite the opposite. This apocalyptic performance of "Machine Gun," featuring Billy Cox on bass and Buddy Miles on drums, demonstrates that Jimi was still growing in leaps and bounds near the end. But while Band of Gypsys captures some of the guitarist's greatest improvisations to date, he was still dissatisfied with its outcome.
"I distinctly remember that Jimi wasn't particularly thrilled with Band of Gypsys," says engineer Eddie Kramer who recorded the album and co-mixed and edited it with Hendrix. "He felt that Buddy Miles was trying to steal his thunder throughout the performance with his excessive scat singing. I can still see Jimi with his head buried in his arms, laying on the mixing console during playback saying, 'Buddy, would you please just shut up!' So, I would chop out huge passages of Buddy singing. And then I'd chop some more."
31) "Stranglehold" (Ted Nugent) - Ted Nugent Ted Nugent, 1975
" 'Stranglehold' is a masterpice of jammology," proclaims Ted Nugent. "We were in the Sound Pit in Atlanta, Georgia, and I was showing my rhythm section of Cliff Davies [drums] and Rob DeLaGrange [bass] the right groove for the song. I was playing my all-stock 1964 blonde Byrdland through four Fender Twin Reverbs and four Dual Showman bottoms on my rhythm settings—we were going to leave a hole there so that I could overdub a solo later. Then I started playing lead work, just kind of filling in and though I had never played those licks before in my life, they all just came to me.
And because I got so inspired and because they followed me so perfectly, that demo is exactly what you hear on the record today. Take one, rhythm track is the song—it made such organic sense with the flow of music that I said, 'I'm not gonna fuck with that! That's it, baby.' And that is the essence of why people love it—because it is so spontaneous and uninhibited. The only thing we went back and overdubbed was Derek St. Holmes' vocals and my two tracks of harmonized feedback, which come in and out of the entire song. All the engineers and everyone kept saying, 'You can't do that, Ted.' And I said, 'Shut the fuck up!' Because I had the vision; I saw what the song could be, and I realized it."
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November 07, 2015 at 8:12am
Compiling a list is not an easy job,you can't do 100% right.
But leaving out Tery Kath solo in 25 or 6 to 4 no!!!
October 20, 2015 at 8:55pm
So no Angus Young Let There Be Rock
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June 18, 2015 at 10:47am
Are you kidding me? No Green Grass and High Tides? The guitar solo buy Hughie Thomasson and Henry Paul. It has a better solo than free bird by a lot. Also why is there nothing here by Robin Trower? He has some amazing solos such as in Day of the Eagle or Too Rolling Stoned. I had to make an account and day this I was so surprised at your negligence to add these. Also Stairway to heaven may have a great solo. One of the best, but there are better and longer solos out there.(I hate to bring down Jimmy Page as #1 but in my opinion there are way better solos.
June 17, 2015 at 7:21am
Great article. As always, top lists tend to get a lot of criticism due to their exclusive nature, but I believe you've captured most of the great solos.
If I could add to this list, I would add Nuno Bettencourt's solo in "Play with me". Or any of John Petrucci's solos.
March 19, 2015 at 5:34pm
David Gilmour's solo at the end of Comfortably Numb took on a second life in his live performances. In fact, it may be David's extended version of this solo in concert that is the reason we are still talking about it today. I can never get enough of it.
February 07, 2015 at 8:57am
What about the solo from Concrete Jungle by Bob Marley? I'm not a huge reggae fan, but the solo on that song is incredible. Pure raw passion and emotion.
October 30, 2014 at 2:38pm
So well said I will just copy/paste...
March 05, 2011 at 8:44pm
La Villa Strangiato is not on the horizons of anyone contributing to this list. Check out IV: "A Lerxst in Wonderland" and you might think you've missed something BIG in the World of Guitar playing.
July 05, 2014 at 3:07pm
Not sure if I'm seeing guitar differently than most people posting here and those who made up this list. Not better or worse, though some might say worse, just different, and not trying come off as a 'unique snowflake' either, just saying.
IMHO, there are several key omissions for great solos:
Sunday Bloody Sunday (measured, upright, and yet passionate)
Beat It (best Eddie Van Halen solo)
A Hard Day's Night (short, but veeeryyy sweet!)
Men's Needs (by The Cribs. this one is too good to not include)
This is stuff that makes you shudder it's so good.
Andrew Swift
June 21, 2014 at 10:46am
Two OBVIOUS omissions both of which belong in the top ten:
Dave Davies on the Kinks' "You Really Got Me."
James Burton on Ricky Nelson's "Hello Mary Lou."
If you don't believe me ask ANY of guitar players on your list.
They ALL memorized these solos.
By the way have you guys EVER heard of Jeff Beck?
Just curious.
May 30, 2014 at 2:17pm
The list is pretty pathetic due to the fact that you don't have Ram Jam's "Black Betty" in the top 10 much less even mention them at all in the top 50. Just because they were a one hit wonder doesn't mean they should be forgotten.
Bingo the Clown
February 07, 2014 at 9:36am
Why do we feel the need to give artificial acknowledgement to players who are really not very good? Let's face it, since the dawn of the '90s, the majority of the rock guitarists are people we would have laughed at in the '70s and '80s, with their hirky-jerky playing and complete lack of any technique whatsoever. And by the way, as much as I love the Stones, Keith Richards is a really mediocre player.
I thought this was Guitar World? Years ago, this publication gave 'air-time' only to players who were worthy, regardless of commercial success. In fact, it was publications like this that put people like Eric Johnson on the map, and thankfully so, otherwise many of us would probably never had heard of him.
Kurt Cobain? Really? I played better than that - and so did many of the rest of you - in junior high school.
This list lacks any credibility.
james prichard
January 22, 2014 at 9:53pm
danny kirwan is the guitarist for bob welch's song ''future games'' released by fleetwood mac. the final 3 minutes of this 8 minute song feature the best guitarist of the modern era. all of danny's songs with or without fleetwood mac are worth finding . he is also the best singer i've heard. his songwriting talents rival anyone. . eric johnson's solo on ''all about you'' would be my second choice.
December 31, 2013 at 5:45am
This list is #1 on my top 10 shittiest Guitar World lists. They actually put the Crossroads solo on this list but NO Judas Priest?!! I could name 40 Priest solos that are better than more than half of this list. Here's a fuckin news flash..."Eric Clapton wrote other solos besides Crossroads and Wonderful Tonight"!
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December 06, 2013 at 5:18am
Terry Kath - 25 or 6 to 4 should be here somewhere
November 14, 2013 at 6:42pm
And theres no RHCP either.
November 14, 2013 at 9:53am
This list SUCKS!!! It is totally biased to 80's classic rock. There is not one song by Rush on here. Lifeson's solo from Freewill is easily a better solo that 80% of these.
September 21, 2013 at 7:20pm
A big shout out to bmurphy821, I couldn't agree more. I can think of 20 solos from either artist that should have been considered for this list. It was fun, but too darn focused on on a select few. I'd bet anything this would reflect a collective grouping of the staffs' record collections. I guess top 40 would represent the largest portion of said collections. No disrespect, it's great music, but not diversified enough imho. If you haven't listened to Dominance and Submission and Astronomy (especially live) for Buck, or Supernaut and Into the Void for Tony (just scratching the surface for both btw) then you've really jipped yourself out of some extra good stuff. Can you tell BOC and BS were my main influences? But still, where was Billy Thorpe, BTO, Steve Miller, I could go on for an hour. Hell, with a just few exceptions, 1971 to 1979 apparently didn't exist for this list. The 70's weren't just disco you know. If it was, I'm sure I would have been one of those Teenage Nervous Breakdown's sung about by Nazareth (another legendary band that didn't make the list...).
July 28, 2013 at 3:17pm
Created a Spotify playlist for this list here - http://open.spotify.com/user/chaoaj/playlist/79MpU9K55jvvyrEpwexju2 Enjoy!
January 22, 2013 at 3:53pm
# 1 and # 2 on the money anyways. One notable mention for Donald Brian "Buck Dharma" Roeser for the live version of Astronomy.
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September 01, 2012 at 6:37am
Are you kidding us with "All along the watchtower " at 5# if there is any "Jimmy Hendrix" song which need to be in top 5 is "Purple Haze" which didn't even crack the top 50 in their list
2nd why the hell is "You really got me" by "Kinks" at 59# it is one of the most influence guitar riffs ever played. Placing song like "November rain" in top 10 doesn't make any sense . As much as i have listened "Queen" "Keep yourself Alive" is their best guitar riff. Where the hell is "Back in Black" by "AC/DC" one of the most important guitar solos ever in rock history. This is such a weird list. At the end "Rolling stone magazine 100 guitar solos" is pretty accurate and meaningful list. However they have some misleading choice but it is far better than this piece of shit
July 20, 2012 at 12:37pm
I suppose you've never heard Power of Soul on the Band of Gypsies album. Try listening to the solo starting 20 seconds in, then fix your dismal list.
April 05, 2012 at 3:17pm
No John Fruscante in the list!? Some of his solo albums (Not with the RHCP) have some truly unbelievable solos!
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January 27, 2012 at 3:26pm
We can agree to disagree between Skynard and Floyd & I'll have to be ok with that, but Eruption is just shredding and showing off, which is ok if that's what you're into, but what I think makes a great solo is how it affects you. When Comfortably Numb kicks into that solo or any of Gilmore's solos for that matter, everything else kind of takes a back seat for a few minutes. He makes it speak to you, whether it's plaintive in one of the Animals solos or dreamy like numb. It's played perfectly and it makes you feel.
January 21, 2012 at 3:49pm
Strange list by any standard ... no Glen Buxton, George Kooymans, Manny Charlton, Tommy Shaw, Robin Trower, etc, etc ... they didn't even make the top 100 ... I suppose I just don't get it
November 03, 2011 at 5:49pm
alot more floyd needs to be in that list.
September 15, 2011 at 3:57am
How could anyone playing guitar with the Eagles have even a top 100 (or 500?) ranking, much less top 10!?! I'll give credit for getting #1 correct, but leaving out influential work by talented guitarists such as Richard Thompson, George Harrison, Zal Yanovsky, Steve Howe, Syd Barrett, John Cippolina, Peter Green, Steve Jones (maybe?) and John Fogerty, while putting something by Ace F. at #50??
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June 18, 2015 at 10:56am
The Eagles shouldn't of even been considered for a top 50 guitar list I've heard Hotel California multiple times ( Not one of my favorites. None of the Eagles songs are.) but I didn't even realize there was a solo in it
August 14, 2011 at 12:15am
This list is pretty much all classic rock. I understand that most good solos are in the classic rock genre, but it would be nice to see more modern guitar players.
It lacks shred solos like petrucci and michael romeo, and it would be awesome to have seen a BOC buck dharma solo on there.
And why is kurt cobain on here???
Overall, a decent list, but could use some improvement.
July 15, 2011 at 10:31am
Carlos Santana Amigos, 1976,how can i dont remember it,one of the best all time for me and for many.---forex signals
June 28, 2011 at 10:44am
Wow, no Buckethead in the top 50? Soothsayer or even Nottingham Lace are better than quite of few of the songs listed....
May 13, 2011 at 6:11am
Santana on songs like these can make you feel there's something to silence and beauty. This song must be the UN's national anthem.
May 12, 2011 at 8:00am
Statesboro Blues from the Allman Bros Fillmore album is missing in the list. The best slide guitar solo ever recorded. And for Stevie Ray, the all time great performance is Testify.
March 05, 2011 at 7:44pm
La Villa Strangiato is not on the horizons of anyone contributing to this list. Check out IV: "A Lerxst in Wonderland" and you might think you've missed something BIG in the World of Guitar playing.
March 04, 2011 at 8:19pm
Uli - Sails of Charon
when Fast Eddie Clark fell off his stool on Motorhead's "We are the Road Crew"
October 06, 2010 at 2:18pm
September 19, 2010 at 11:14am
ok Kirk hammett does belong on this list, but where the heck is megadeth's tornado of souls solo?! That is the greatest effing solo of all time! I don't care if you don't like metal, listen to that solo and tell me it isn't way better than almost all of these solo's.
January 07, 2010 at 11:32am
November 21, 2009 at 11:22am
can be heard in 'Victim of Changes' by Judas Priest from about '76. Why anyone would even *want* to see Nirvana on this list blows my mind. Nirvana is one of my favorite bands of all time, but even Cobain knew his guitar playing was sub-par. The solo in the song that's listed basically just follows the rhythm guitar of the entire song. I know a 9 year old that could replicate that solo on his first try.
October 24, 2009 at 6:28am
Of course not everybody will agree, and I am no different.
No Steve Morse?
No Chris Rea?
Mark Knopfler - Brothers in Arms (Mandela Concert)
October 09, 2009 at 12:02pm
i think the list is rated pretty good cuz if you look at the top ten alot of the songs start out slw and get really haeavy and have long complicated guitar solos
June 20, 2009 at 9:15pm
I know alot of younger players don't like "pretty" but for me the most articulate, well composed, tone rich, best use of theme and variation, best use of vibrato, note selection, plain good taste is in the first solo (the second one ain't too shabby either) in "Theme For an Imaginary Western" off Mountain Climbing and only the version on that album.
And he ends it with a whistling sustained harmonic like the cherry on top of a hot fudge sundae. For me, that solo is religion. I've listened to it thousands of times and somehow still haven't tired of it. Try it, you'll be glad you did. Alot of players; Van Halen, Satch have expressed their fondness for West's style. He just has that ...somethin!!!
October 03, 2009 at 5:55pm
I'll second that about Leslie West. I'd be more than a little ashamed to call myself a rock enthusiast and leave Mountain out of my collection. What are they teaching these kids in school today? ;-) Check out tracks 4, 5 and 6 on this playlist here:
June 08, 2009 at 9:09pm
M.Schenker, Rock Bottom. Huh?
February 20, 2009 at 6:26pm
I would say you missed one of Jimi's best, the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock. And another Woodstock piece, Alvin Lee and Ten Year's After "I'm Going Home." Take if from a guy who was there, nothing like 'em. Ever!
February 15, 2009 at 3:44am
How about Donald (Buck Dharma) Roeser's "Dominance and Submission" with Blue Oyster Cult and Ronnie Montrose's "Black Train"?
August 14, 2011 at 12:07am
Dominance and submission has to be one of my favorite songs (and solo) of all time. Just my opinion, I think Buck is best on "Buck's Boogie"
February 10, 2009 at 2:54pm
I think jimmy page IS the best... not only because of one solo, but because all his music history
February 09, 2009 at 11:07am
Nirvana? wow and its not just that its on the list but its above songs that have OBVIOUSLY superior solos. i dont even count the solo from smells like teen spirit as a solo, its more like a small very simple riff.
February 08, 2009 at 10:04am
come on at least put him in the top 15
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Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth
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