you know what sucks...all of the extra **** they play during their shows. Does anyone even do that any more? Do you really need a Dizzy Reed Solo?
Yeah, I hear ya. Dizzy Reed is such a schlub. Haven't liked him since Day 1. And you know he's like the Rick McCallum to Axl's George Lucas--ever the yes man. He has to be, though, or else he would have had his ass kicked out of the band years ago.
Even has the same cornrow hair, for God's sake.
But Axl's trying to keep it as old school as possible, though, I guess. Probably a good idea--people aren't there to see Axl and a bunch of guys they don't know play a bunch of songs they've never heard (and probably never will again, on any kind of an official release, anyway). They did the solos back in the old days, so they'll do them now, too, because that's what Axl knows.
And he also knows that the solos aren't everybody's cup of tea, from what he said before the drum solo last night--something like "we're gonna do this because we're into it, and because it'll irritate the **** out of everybody else."
I think the only purpose the solos really serve is to give Axl a rest. You know, time to do one of his Cher-like costume changes, and get some much-needed oxygen, and some even-more-needed Botox injections. . .
I will say, though, that Gilby and Slash soloing on "Wild Horses" before going into "Patience" in OKC is what got me interested in the Stones.
But that may be a little different from some dickhead doing a ten-minute keyboard or drum solo. . .
