The Pixies – Where Is My Mind

This late eighties indie anthem starts off with an iconic guitar melody that might not be a solo per se, but uses techniques from the solo bag and it is just so fun to play that you wouldn’t want to miss out on a technicality!

Guitarist Joey Santiago plays the lick on his Les Paul with a medium overdrive and takes advantage of the dissonance brought by playing the open string of high E alongside the Eb on the fourth fret of the B string. This song actually uses the E major scale rather than the usual minor pentatonic.