10 Big Takeaways Foo Fighters: Medicine At Midnight - Album Review
7. Best Guitar Solo
Something that Foo Fighters don't get recognition for enough is their incredible guitar solos. For the most part, Dave Grohl's singing or Taylor Hawkin's drumming steal the show but the band has two highly underrated guitarists who don't get the credit they deserve. Pat Smear, for one, who is the back up rhythm guitarist has been with Grohl since the late Nirvana days but when it comes to solos, it's lead guitarist Chris Shiflett who deserves all the plaudits.
The album is filled with various guitar riffs that combine beautifully with the groove and tone of the different songs but there's one guitar solo in particular that deserves to be listened to again and again. On track 7, titled Holding Poison, there is an immensely enjoyable guitar solo which begins at 2:50 and ends at 3:30.
It starts off with a guitar/drum battle but as it reaches its climax, Shiflett unleashes a screeching guitar solo unlike any that's featured on a Foo Fighters album since Long Road To Ruin. So dust off the old air guitar. You know what to do.