Songs where the singer cues the solo with, "Guitar...!"

Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

 

Elvis "Guitar Man". Sort of...cues the guitar solo with a "show 'em son"

 

Not exactly the same thing, but kind of a parody of it, is Wire's 'Map Ref 41N 93W', in which Colin Newman finishes the first verse, then goes into the bridge, then into another bridge, and another bridge, and yet another in a seemingly endless succession of bridges (it's a conceptual joke as well, as the song is describing a landscape viewed from the air) forestalling the arrival of the chorus until he finally yells out "Chorus!" and launches into the actual chorus. Of course, to pull off this trick you need to have a really killer chorus, and fortunately he does.

 

Buddy Miller cues the guitar with "solo" on "When It Comes To You," my fav cut on his fine 2002 album Midnight And Lonesome. It don't count, but it's close.

 

Genesis, Counting Out Time: Peter says "Take it away, Mr Guitar!" after the unzip, zip, zip, zip, zip, whoopie! bit.

 

How about when the singer screams the guitar player's name before goes into a solo? On Venom's album Black Metal bass player and vocalist, Cronos, yells MANTAS! before the guitarist rips into a solo on "Blood Lust". Additionally, on LID's In the Mushroom singer Eric Wagner says to guitar player, "ah, yeah, play some guitar for me" on "Mary Agnes" to Danny Cavanagh.

 

Excellent examples.

And on that note, The Stooges - No Fun.

There's really no way to properly type it out, so....

 

Jonathan Richman does it all the time. Oddly, he's the guitar player, and he's usually just cueing himself!

 

Rod Stewart - Twistin' the Night Away

 

Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood.

 

"make me fries" (at 1:48)

 

Little By Little The Stones Mick says alright keith cmon then after the solo he says my turn then plays a harmonica solo

 

Johnny's upstairs in his bedroom sitting in the dark,
Annoying the neighbours with his punk rock electric guitar...

 

Pick It!! Wilson!!!!!

 

Painter-"West Coast Woman"

 

I don't know if this counts, but I love when John Lennon scrams "ZAPPA!" on "Well" from "Playground Psychotics" I do a roundhouse kick. Also a chilled out version of a similar thing is on "Speaking Out" off "Tonight's The Night" when Neil Young says "alright Nils..." It helps that both solos fit the mood perfectly. In a way it's very real, and proto-Hip-Hop.

 

Weird Al- Generic Blues

 

Which was actually quite helpful, since in reality the guitar solo is so "treated" that I never would have believed it was a guitar if Gabriel hadn't announced that it was.

It was further proven to me that it was in fact a guitar several years later when I saw the Genesis tribute band 'The Musical Box' play the entire Lamb album live.

 

Gram Parsons "Cash on the Barrelhead"


announces James Burton

 

Move over rover,
Let Jimi take over

 

Guns N Roses - "So Fine"

"The sweat I make for you
Yeah, I think you know where that comes from Guitar, come on"

 

And possibly the worst, most conceited EVER...... "Ok Edge, play the blues!"

 

On "Steel Claw" from Private Dancer, Tina Turner yells "Jeff Beck!" just before his solo.

 

I may have been mishearing it all these years, but before the 'acapella' guitar break in 'Heartbreaker', doesn't Robert Plant shout 'Jimmy!'?

 

I must have seen this TV clip so many times it was the first that sprang to mind. He doesn't say it on the record though.



Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile

It's at 1:41.