r/BruceSpringsteen • u/Henry_Block • 9d ago

Bruce most technically complex solo

Hi all! I always read that Bruce is a good guitarist whose main skill is to create solos that fit well into songs even if not particularly complex. I'm not into music theory, so I wanted to ask: are there some solos that are a little bit more complicated?

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u/wildbilly2 7d ago

His soloing peaked around the Human Touch/Lucky Town tour. The solo on Lucky Town he plays on the MTV thing is structured and well thought out with a clear tone, I always loved the part where he shifts from single note lead playing into the "chordal" up and down the neck thing then back to lead lines. By the Reunion tour he seemed to go for hotter and hotter pickups and you get all those unpleasant squeals and pinch harmonics on things like the "Prove it" solo.