boomba212 Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) Who wrote the main guitar solo (that starts at 2:39) in There Was a Time? I've always assumed it was Robin Finck-- is that right? I love it. Simple yet perfectly fits the song, and has so much emotion...For that matter, also, who wrote the 2nd solo (starting at 4:25)? I like that one too. Edited March 18, 2015 by boomba212
Amir Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Finck is 1st solo, Buckethead is 2nd solo. In one or two of the later demos Bucket's solo is a bit shorter, so I'm guessing the final extended solo was comped from different takes.
Amir Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Wasn't Robin's solo written by Axl though?Q: -What part of guitar work for TWAT is yours?A: I wrote Robin’s bit in the second verse. There’s microscopic bits throughout usually woven down in the other guitars. There bits throughout the end, the basic power chord bit was originally mine, there’s a ghost like bit that formed the basis for the end vocal melody right before Robin’s riff’s in one side in the outro before Bucket’s solo and as it gets to the very end there’s lot’s of little over dubbed bits woven in and out very small but structured bits.Says he wrote Robin's bit in the verse, but I don't think that means Robin's solo. Talks about writing bits and overdubs throughout, there's a three-chord overdub at the end of Robin's solo at 3:17-3:20 that's absent from the demo versions that I really dig, guessing that was Axl. 1
boomba212 Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 Wasn't Robin's solo written by Axl though?Q: -What part of guitar work for TWAT is yours?A: I wrote Robin’s bit in the second verse. There’s microscopic bits throughout usually woven down in the other guitars. There bits throughout the end, the basic power chord bit was originally mine, there’s a ghost like bit that formed the basis for the end vocal melody right before Robin’s riff’s in one side in the outro before Bucket’s solo and as it gets to the very end there’s lot’s of little over dubbed bits woven in and out very small but structured bits.Says he wrote Robin's bit in the verse, but I don't think that means Robin's solo. Talks about writing bits and overdubs throughout, there's a three-chord overdub at the end of Robin's solo at 3:17-3:20 that's absent from the demo versions that I really dig, guessing that was Axl. Haha nice, I never noticed that little bit till just now when I listened for it! I'm guessing you might be a guitarist? (I am too.)
Amir Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Wasn't Robin's solo written by Axl though?Q: -What part of guitar work for TWAT is yours?A: I wrote Robin’s bit in the second verse. There’s microscopic bits throughout usually woven down in the other guitars. There bits throughout the end, the basic power chord bit was originally mine, there’s a ghost like bit that formed the basis for the end vocal melody right before Robin’s riff’s in one side in the outro before Bucket’s solo and as it gets to the very end there’s lot’s of little over dubbed bits woven in and out very small but structured bits.Says he wrote Robin's bit in the verse, but I don't think that means Robin's solo. Talks about writing bits and overdubs throughout, there's a three-chord overdub at the end of Robin's solo at 3:17-3:20 that's absent from the demo versions that I really dig, guessing that was Axl. Haha nice, I never noticed that little bit till just now when I listened for it! I'm guessing you might be a guitarist? (I am too.)No, only play a bit of piano, but I listened to ChiDem about a million times from 2008-10 Didn't know until a few years later that the cool piano bit in TWAT before the first solo isn't Axl or Dizzy, it's Paul Tobias. Because of all the layers on each track ChiDem made me start listening more to individual parts on songs.
MYWIFEMYLIFE Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 GNR's best guitar work is in this song imo. i would kill to listen what would slash/izzy do for this song.
Ragnar Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 (edited) Robin did the first solo and Bucket did the second as for Axl, he plays acoustic guitar to compliment Robin`s first solo. Edited March 19, 2015 by Dark Knight
SoNobodyToldYaBaby Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 Was amazing hearing it live and bumble definitely did the solo justice but i can't help but think how great these CD tracks would sound with Finck and Bucket with Axl's 2010 voice!
dando Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 Was amazing hearing it live and bumble definitely did the solo justice but i can't help but think how great these CD tracks would sound with Finck and Bucket with Axl's 2010 voice!I've seen it live twice , bumble was great in both but finck would make him look awful, and I'm not robins biggest fan
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