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''Guitar Solos'' is the debut solo album of English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith. It was recorded while Frith was still a member of the English experimental rock group Henry Cow and was released in the United Kingdom on LP record by Caroline Records in October 1974. The album comprises eight tracks of unaccompanied and improvised experimental rock music played on prepared guitars by Frith without any overdubbing.
''Guitar Solos'' was voted one of the best albums of 1974 by ''NME'' critics. AllMusic called it a landmark album because of its innovative and experimental approach to guitar playing. It also attracted the attention of Brian Eno, resulting in Frith's playing guitar on two of Eno's albums, and spawned two follow-up albums, ''Guitar Solos 2'' (1976) and ''Guitar Solos 3'' (1979). ''Guitar Solos'' was remastered and released on CD on Frith's own record label, Fred Records in 2002.
==Background==
Fred Frith was a classically-trained violinist who turned to playing blues guitar while still at school.〔 In 1967 he went to Cambridge University where he and fellow student, Tim Hodgkinson formed Henry Cow. While at University, Frith read John Cage's ''Silence: Lectures and Writings'', which changed his attitude to music completely. He realised that "sound, in and of itself, can be as important as () melody and harmony and rhythm." This changed his approach to the guitar, "just to see what I could get out of it" and initiated a long period of experimentation that continued throughout Frith's musical career.〔
While the music of Henry Cow was highly orchestrated and structured, Frith also began to experiment with unstructured music, using prepared instruments and chance composition.〔 In June 1974, after the release of Henry Cow's second album, Virgin Records (Henry Cow's record label) commissioned a solo record from Frith.〔 They were impressed with his musical ability and gave him free rein to record whatever he wanted.〔 In a 2001 radio interview, Frith said he used the opportunity as a challenge: "I said to myself () in two weeks time I'm going to go into the studio and I have no idea what I'm going to do and I'm going to kind of reinvent the instrument for myself." Frith spent four days in July 1974 recording at the Kaleidophon Studios in London, and the resulting experimentation and the process of galvanisation and pressure led to the "radical approach to the guitar" on the album. In October 1974, Virgin released the album as ''Guitar Solos'' on their budget label, Caroline Records.
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