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favorite mike solos

spilled_my_tincturespilled_my_tincture Posts: 84
edited August 2005 in Words and Music...Communication
well I know he doesn't do too many anymore but what are your favorite mike mccready guitar solos?

my top five:
immortality
alive
animal
red mosquito
yellow ledbetter
everything has chains
absolutely nothing's changed
take my hand, not my picture
spilled my tincture...
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  • armanHammerarmanHammer Posts: 471
    Down, Daughter
    Riverside.. LA.. California. EV?
  • VEDHEAD27VEDHEAD27 Posts: 3,091
    Beeeeeeautiful thread. :)


    First things first....

    ~~~~~> ((( ALL OR NONE )))

    Seriously. It's nearly illegal what the man does with this solo. As I always says, emotional orgasms to the MAX. Totally takes me away. :o



    Man, there are SO damn many. To name a few....

    * Nothing As It Seems
    * SOLAT
    * Porch
    * Sleight Of Hand
    * Glorified G
    * Animal
    * YL
    * Even Flow
    * Red Mosquito
    * Leash
    * Immortality (and uh, whoa, BENAROYA?!?! :eek: )
    * Go
    * Down
    * I got shit
    * Black
    * Crazy Mary




    Hail Hail the badass mofo!

    :D
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    ...YOU invented it!" ~ E√

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  • VEDHEAD27VEDHEAD27 Posts: 3,091
    Damn, I know I'm gonna be constantly adding to this. :p


    But for now...

    *slaps self*

    Cannot forget to mention....


    * SONIC REDUUUUUUUUUUCER!!!!
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    ...YOU invented it!" ~ E√

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  • reditalianreditalian Posts: 329
    Well I came in here to post mine but VEDHEAD27 just about summed up my fav's so.......well said man!!!
    There's no I in team, but there's me.

    "0035 EVENFLOW PSYCHOS

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    Don't stop wen you're tired, stop when you're done
  • LedZepFanLedZepFan Posts: 1,009
    alive and yellow ledbetter are definately up there
    I've faced it, a life wasted, and I'm never going back again.

    Some die just to live.
  • spilled_my_tincturespilled_my_tincture Posts: 84
    well alive is definetely the longest of mike's solos, excpet maybe the improv live versions of corduroy and rockin' in the free world.

    I still think corduroy and not for you would have been even better if they had been given longer solos on their album cuts.
    everything has chains
    absolutely nothing's changed
    take my hand, not my picture
    spilled my tincture...
  • gregwheelergregwheeler Posts: 39
    Listen to that solo on 1/2 FULL on that promo. video it's a fucking blister!
    LUKIN
  • loveboat captainloveboat captain Posts: 125
    Even Flow live...no one, I said NO ONE can come close to that.
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  • BlackCorduroyBlackCorduroy Posts: 1,374
    Even Flow and Yellow Ledbetter are my 2 favs
  • poto101poto101 Posts: 406
    E-flow
    Y-led
    wishlist(sooooo smooth)
    alive
    black
    crazy mary
    immortality
    1/2 full of shit
    RVM
    Rockin'
    It's all happening....

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  • spilled_my_tincturespilled_my_tincture Posts: 84
    "black" hardly counts as a solo even though I like it a lot.

    especially since eddie is singing and moaning etc. during it.
    everything has chains
    absolutely nothing's changed
    take my hand, not my picture
    spilled my tincture...
  • poto101poto101 Posts: 406
    just watch live at the garden and you will undertsand hwat im talkin about.
    Damn mike was goin off that night.
    It's all happening....

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    Chicago x2, Summerfest x2, 2006
    Chicago THE VIC, Lollapalooza, 2007
    bonnaROOOOOOO 2008
    Chicago x2 2009

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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    I really think some of mike's best work has not been done with pearl jam. It seems they stifle him a little for instance I love the jam solo on reach down (temple of the dog) and November Hotel (mad season) then his cover of maggot brain.

    As for his pearl jam work....

    The live Even Flow's are good, the end solo on black is always good. Immortality always sounds awesome. I enjoy hearing him tear it up on Red Mosquito and 1/2 full. All or none has a lot of soul to it. lots of good ones i wish they would let him air it out a little more on the albums.
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  • elstongunnelstongunn Posts: 285
    I Am Mine may be his most fitting solo.. pertaining to the lyrics it is very "Triumphant!" of the recent stuff this is my fav solo by mike
    "There are teams that are fair-haired,and those that aren't so fair-haired.Some teams are named Smith,some Grabowski. We're Grabowskis."-Mike Ditka, January 1986

    everytime i have to take a crap i sing EVACUATION!!!
    EVACUATION!!
    "i'll let you be in my dream if i can be in your dream." -b.dylan
  • spilled_my_tincturespilled_my_tincture Posts: 84
    elstongunn wrote:
    I Am Mine may be his most fitting solo.. pertaining to the lyrics it is very "Triumphant!" of the recent stuff this is my fav solo by mike


    "i am mine" is another one I would hardly call a solo as well.

    but then again maybe live it has a great solo.

    I know "corduroy" and "not for you" live both have huge-ass solos that were included in shorter versions on the album versions.
    everything has chains
    absolutely nothing's changed
    take my hand, not my picture
    spilled my tincture...
  • darthvedder88darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    I always thought Not For You and Corduroy had great solos in them!! I also really like Red Mosquito, Present Tense, Nothing as it Seems, Even Flow, I Am Mine, Yellow Ledbetter, Immortality, Alive, Black, Given to Fly, Evolution, In Hiding, hell, Mike is just great!!
    "Darth Vader would say 'Impressive'."

    -Eddie Vedder

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  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    Alive and Daughter!!!
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
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