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Top 5 Favorite Chinese Democracy solos


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For me:

 -TWAT

- Shacklers Revenge ( I LOVE Bumblefoots solo even though I'm mad that they dubbed Bumble on the most Buckethead x GNR sounding song on the album) 

- Sorry 

- IRS -(all of them) 

- If The World (tied with pretty much every other solo. This album doesn't have a bad solo on it. They're all pretty fuckin top tier

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Good thread! Despite no Slash, I think CD is a great guitar record with a lot of amazing solos

So far for a top 5-

TWAT (Bucket), Better (Robin), Sorry, Catcher (first solo), TiL

Honorable mentions- ITW, ChiDem, Shacklers, Madagascar, TWAT (Robin)

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Anyways:

Better - Robin solo (but I love Bucket's leads with the sweep picking from hell just before it)
Street of Dreams - Robin solo
If the World - Bucket's acoustic and electric solos
This I Love - Robin solo (pretty much the only thing I like in this song)
IRS - Bucket solo
 

The whole album is full of amazing guitar work, even if it's buried in the mix. Like those "jazz chords" in Riad's chorus, or the various IRS slow part full of tasteful guitar licks. I do like Bumble's solo in Shacklers and Scraped, but I can't say it's among the best ones of the album.

Robin is the GOAT to me. And I think Bucket's solo in TWAT is very good, but overrated. Don't @ me.

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This I Love

If The World

TWAT (Bucket)

Scraped (Bucket)

Shackler's Revenge (Bumblefoot, though Bucket's was probably even better)

 

If we include Village leaks, I'd throw Robin's Hardschool solo and Perhaps solo in there too. Zodiac 13 solo is pretty sick as well. 

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21 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:

Me too. The TiL solos I got at the first Vegas , Detroit, and 2nd Chicago shows in 2016 were awesome


Also love Robin’s take, of course.

It’s funny, I was waiting for Slash to butcher it in East Rutherford in 2016, but it wound up being pretty incredible. 

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15 minutes ago, Sosso said:

I love Robin's solo in TWAT. So overlooked in this topic.

it's a perfect solo imo. I just kinda cheated and counted both TWAT solos as one. In the leaked '06 version the last note Robin plays in the solo is sustained for much longer. Too bad they cut it short.

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28 minutes ago, lost un the jungle said:

1- TWAT

The melody of the solos and the complexity makes it the best by far. I would love to see Robin & Bucket together play it live. I think Robin only managed to play it live once, on NY 2006.

 

 

He also played it in Madrid 2006.

 

On 11/4/2022 at 12:40 PM, Sweersa said:

If we include Village leaks, I'd throw Robin's Hardschool solo and Perhaps solo in there too. Zodiac 13 solo is pretty sick as well. 

 

Perhaps is great, it's definitely one of the best solos from the Village leaks.

 

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