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In 1979 one of the best guitar solos recorded was cut for radio time
Lead guitarist Burton Averre’s full-length "My Sharona" solo doesn’t just cut through the mix. It burns a hole in the track.
The Knack’s 1979 breakout hit is remembered for spending 6 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 due to a pounding snare, funky bass, and sleazy power-pop strut. But wrapped up in that stuttering surf-stomp ear-worm and buried under the pop-chart history is one of rock’s most criminally underrated guitar solos. What follows is a solo in movements, mutating from taut, staccato bursts to full-on molten runs, bending and clawing its way to a place somewhere entirely different than where it began.
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