Favorite Guitar work or Solo on a Carpenters' song

[JohnnyAngel]

Rick kindly suggested this new poll and I found it great.
Obviously, I chose "Goodbye To Love" which I think is the best guitar solo in a ballad ever., and probably many of you agree with me. Anyway I specially mention "Two Sides" I love this "cascade of strings" and "I kept on loving you"

Regards

Jorge

[Rick Henry]

Some excellent selections here JohnnyAngel, one of my favorites as for guitar work has to be "Please Mr. Postman" - but it's not listed here - Tony Peluso really gives his all in this song.

Of what you have listed I chose "Two Sides" - there is an array of guitars in this song - all nicely pieced together for a wonderful effect.

"Happy" also has some outstanding guitar work - and of course was written by Carpenters guitarist extraordinaire Tony Peluso.

[YesterdayOnceMore]

It's Goodbye To Love all the way for me. I have always enjoyed Tony Peluso's groundbreaking fuzz guitar solo (groundbreaking insofar as Carpenter music is concerned) in this song. He does an outstanding job of it, and it never ages....it's always fresh.

Bravo, Tony! Great job.
Tim

[Ming]

I choose Jambalaya.

Ming

[smoothie2]

Goodbye to Love all the way also. Such a
timeless song and that guitar just really couldn't be better on that one.

[Rick Henry]

yesterdayoncemore said:

It's Goodbye To Love all the way for me. I have always enjoyed Tony Peluso's groundbreaking fuzz guitar solo (groundbreaking insofar as Carpenter music is concerned) in this song. He does an outstanding job of it, and it never ages....it's always fresh.

Bravo, Tony! Great job.
Tim

Very well stated Tim. You are so right Tony's guitar work on this song never ages. It is just as thrilling today as it was 34 years ago.

btw... Tim, I really like your creative use of the graphics in your post.

[enigma]

I too had to go with Goodbye To Love Its such a famous solo and a Tony Peluso signature solo all his future solos are almost based on this one which is probably the case with alot of guitarists they have their own sound and signature they put on their solos and Tony is no exception. Plus its a classic solo and really broke new ground making it all the more clear why I chose it.

[YesterdayOnceMore]

Thanks, Rick. I figure - if we're going to have such great graphics I should use them, eh?

There are some really fine topics of discussion at the moment. Great stuff everyone.

Enigma, I agree with you that with this solo being Tony's first in the Carpenter's recordings, perhaps he based future solos on this one - at least, used it sort of as a benchmark...however, Tony showed his creativity in my estimation, especially with some of those great songs he wrote like Happy and Sailin' On The Tide.

Be sure to stop by Tim's Corner everyone and say hello there, too. Feel free to start threads of discussion you want to talk with me about.
Best to all,
Tim

[Rick Henry]

Tim and Enigma you are both right in that Tony Peluso probably used his guitar solo in "Goodbye To Love" as a benchmark for further guitar solos. Definitely his outstanding fuzz guitar solo in GTL has become well known and respected by guitarists around the world. Though, I voted for "Two Sides" in this poll, I consider "Goodbye To Love" to be one of Peluso's most important and finest works.

I agree with you Tim, certainly many great topics of discussion right now. Thank you to our friend JohnnyAngel for posting these great polls.

[makapipi]

When I first heard "Happy" I thought wow this guitar sounds different from the normal Carpenters sound. But at the same time the light airy sound of the guitar is characteristic of
the Carpenter sound, light and airy.

[beaner]

"Goodbye to Love" is my choice hands down.

[ps11932]

I agree that the guitar work in "Goodbye To Love" stands out- I recognized it as a standard even before I was an active Carpenters fan. I also am very impressed with the guitar playing (brief solo) in "Where Do We Go From Here."

[ThomB]

Goodbye To Love