“Surely ‘the average man,’ as everyone knows him, is not very wise, not very learned, not very good. It seems to me that the average man is very much a fool, and something of a rogue as well. He has only a smattering of education, knows virtually nothing of political history, nor history of any kind, is incapable of logical, that is to say clear, thinking, is subject to the suasion of base and silly prejudices, and selfish beyond expression.” – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Mine is not common sense. It's uncommon sensibility.
Anti-intellectualism will get you nowhere, good buddy.
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.” - François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
Many of Kiss' albums feature guitar and drum tracks credited to Ace and Paul while played by others. The guitar leads on The Rolling Stones' "One Hit (to the Body)" were performed by Jimmy Page and their albums feature tons of guests on vocals, piano, clavinet, etc.: Ian Stewart, Merry Clayton, Marianne Faithfull, Billy Preston, etc. All of the guitars on Warrant's first album were played by Mike Slamer.
There are countless other examples of rock songs that feature session or guest musicians.
What I should have said was, "In general, you won't hear any guitar solos in rap". I'm sure there are some rap artist/groups who do or did use guitar solos, but its not a typical characteristic of the genre, while guitar solos are a prominent feature in rock music.
That in itself is debatable. You'd be hard-pressed to find guitar solos in any rock music before 1964 or so, not to mention within the realms of punk, hardcore, alternative, shoegazer, black metal and many others.
I could also add that I don't consider guitar solos to be a necessary ingredient of ANY form of music, but that's taking the discussion off to a whole other tangent, which serves this one no good.
True not all forms of rock music uses guitar solos, but when most people hear the words "guitar solo" they instantly think rock music. That is because the guitar solo played a big part in the popularity of rock music, especially in the 70's and 80's, with bands such as Aerosmith, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Black Sabbath, KISS, AC/DC etc. using them heavily.
Indeed, and believe me, I love all of those bands, but I'm just as happy with Neurosis or Faith No More or Discharge playing disparate forms of rock music and shunning the solo entirely!
I prefer rock n roll to rap. I do however like hip hop, soul, funk, blues, jazz, fusion, r and b etc.
It doesnt matter to me if rock n roll originated with Elvis, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry,
or Bill Hailey they were all gifted and I prefer rock to rap. I have a huge collection of rock and blues
cds. I dont have any of my rap cds anymore.The best rapper I know of was Gil Herron (I think)
who rapped the "Revolution will not be televised". I need to go to a slam poetry fest I might like
rap if I thought it was better poetry.
Mine is not common sense. It's uncommon sensibility.
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.” - François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
You won't hear anything like that in a rap song.
You were saying?
There are countless other examples of rock songs that feature session or guest musicians.
I could also add that I don't consider guitar solos to be a necessary ingredient of ANY form of music, but that's taking the discussion off to a whole other tangent, which serves this one no good.
but i love rock too but mostly rap
It doesnt matter to me if rock n roll originated with Elvis, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry,
or Bill Hailey they were all gifted and I prefer rock to rap. I have a huge collection of rock and blues
cds. I dont have any of my rap cds anymore.The best rapper I know of was Gil Herron (I think)
who rapped the "Revolution will not be televised". I need to go to a slam poetry fest I might like
rap if I thought it was better poetry.