Oh, Jimmy wrote:I think there are some good points.
Corduroy solo is nothing special and the way he just tears into it live is much better than the studio take, which can barely be classified as a solo.
The delay on Comeback sounds like something a person plugging into a delay pedal for the first time would come up with
Life Wasted is one of the better solos he's applied to an uptempo track, but he was probably running out of steam. I bet there's some tasteless wanking on the tape shortly after the fadeout.
Alive is a classic solo. It's easily his trademark, but I could see a gripe against it that's it's pretty unoriginal.
This is pretty much my critique - out of all the versions of Corduroy I've heard the solo on the album is non-existent - it doesn't stop that track being phenomenal on the album but it does make you wonder how out of it he was. If you haven't listened to the track in a while listen to it again - where you expect the solo to start ripping absolutely nothing happens, and then you wait and then there's a riff and then it fades out.
The first few seconds of the Life Wasted solo are pretty good but then he just starts playing those terrible double and triple stops that he has a habit of doing while he thinks what to play next - sort of like someone singing um um um um.
I listened to Alive again just in case I was being ridiculous but I have always felt that the solo he plays before the outro solo is enough for the song. The outro solo is just superfluous and just sounds like he is playing every lick he learnt with a few open E string drones. It doesn't help that the studio version rhythm section is one of the banal, un-rocking and un-grooving sections of music Pearl Jam have created.
not that there's anything wrong with that.
