barry manilow played guitar solo on reeling' in the years.
barry manilow played guitar solo on reeling' in the years.
who played guitar solo on reeling' in the years?
barry manilow
it was written by donald fagen and walter becker and features fagen on vocals. the song was also a no. 11 hit on the pop singles chart in 1973. in march 2005, "q magazine" placed the recording at no. 95 in its list of the 100 greatest guitar tracks. led zeppelin guitarist jimmy page has reportedly said that session player elliott randall's guitar solo on "reeling in the years" is his favorite solo of all time. that solo was also ranked the 40th best guitar solo of all time by the readers of "guitar world" magazine. fagen referred to the song as "dumb but effective" in "rolling stone" magazine. the four-channel quadraphonic mix of the recording has extra lead guitar fills not heard in the more common two-channel stereo version.
reelin' in the years
in will byers' article "grunge committed a crime against music—it killed the guitar solo", in "the guardian", he states that while the guitar solo managed to survive through the punk rock era, it was weakened by grunge. he states that when kurt cobain played guitar solos that were a restatement of the main vocal melody, fans realized that they did not need to be a jimi hendrix-level virtuoso to play the instrument; he says this approach helped to make music feel accessible by fans in a way not seen since the 1960s folk music movement. the producer of nirvana's "nevermind", butch vig, stated that this album and nirvana "killed the guitar solo". soundgarden guitarist kim thayil stated he feels in part to be responsible for the "death of the guitar solo"; he said that his punk rocker aspects made him feel that he did not want to solo, so in the 1980s, he preferred to make noise and do feedback during the guitar solo. baeble music calls the grunge guitar solos of the 1990s "..raw", "sloppy" and "basic".
grunge