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What killed the guitar solos

This video charts the history of the guitar solo, from rock’s greatest stages to the digital world, exploring how technology and changing culture reshaped its place in music.
One goal of the alternative rock guitarist is to avoid rock clichés. And one of rock’s biggest clichés is the guitar solo.
Released as a lead single from the third studio album of the same name, it became one of Kravitz's biggest hits in the U.K., ...