NOWHERE MAN

Lennon/McCartney | Rubber Soul (1965)

ROBBEN FORD: “The solo is just wonderful. [It’s] one of the great chord/melody solos in rock music history for sure.”

JON HERINGTON: “It’s clearly an orchestrated solo, and you can hear two guitars with similar sounds. I love how the solo essentially borrows the rhythm of the song’s vocal melody but alters the notes. The guitars (Strats, according to the reports) are processed to create super-bright, quirky sounds, too, and the solo does just enough to provide a break from the vocal while keeping the character and the groove of the song intact. All the juicy notes of the chord changes are targeted, and the way the solo works its way to the very bottom note of the guitar’s range as it finishes is pure pop magic. And I loved the four-octave leap up to that harmonic on the last note of the solo so much that I stole it for the ending of my solo on ‘Thirteen Feet of Rain.’ I couldn’t resist!”