In Bad Taste?

JSmith

JSmith

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Have a question for all of you about soloing. We have a show coming up this weekend. My band plays only originals and in one of our tunes I have a 3 part solo. I got a wild idea to take part of the intro to Death's "Lack of Comprehension" and play a few lines of it in my solo as sort of paying homage to Steve DiGiorgio. What do you guys think? Lame or cool?

Here's the song if you're not familiar with it. I'll be playing the section from 0:17 to 0:23 and split it in half.

[video=youtube;7j8vUbMmOwM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j8vUbMmOwM[/video]
 
I think it's cool! I used to play catchy lines in my solo as well :)
 
There is nothing wrong with homage solos!

unless of course you play that riff from 'turning japanese', in which case you shuold have your bass liscence revoked and told to sit quitely in the corner.
 
I think it'z a kewl idea ... 8:

If it fitz and it soundz good it'z just as creative (or how U call it) as writing ur own solo imho ...
 
I used to throw in the imperial march and sometimes the theme from airwolf, speaking of tongue in cheek.
 
IMO there is nothing wrong about it! Beside the "homage" to Steve DiGiorgio (well deserved) it is always nice to have one of this lines to catch people attention ;)
 
It's cool man! Also, Victor Wooten said he does it all the time. He said he even plays the same rhythm as certain songs in his solos and just changes the notes randomly to see if anyone notices.
 
Thanks for all the input guys! I tried it at practice the other day and our guitarist noticed it right away. Should be fun to do live. :)
 
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It's tradition and it's cool.


And anywho, there are only 12 notes and only a
finite number of things you can do with them ;-)

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I think it's a great thing to do, especially in a live setting. Whenever I know I'm gonna have a line check in front of the crowd(Nice thing about opening is you usually get a pretty good soundcheck before doors!) I'll pick something fun and recognizable to play. I think it helps get people attention, especially when they have no idea who you are, lol.

When we played in Mass. on the Blind Guardian tour there was a group of people chanting for a bass solo at the end of our set. I'm certainly not the best at improv so I just started playing the intro to Metallica's My Friend Of Misery and people loved it!
 
A guy I knew in '94 used to play the theme songs to cartoons as solos. A 6'7" bass player in a leather top hat funking out the theme to The Flintstones makes for much laughter and spilled beer.
 
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