You know, that’s what I thought. There’s a lot in that solo that sounds spontaneously on the spot and or grafted in, or spliced from multiple takes, and it sounds like he’s just kind of going for it trying to line it up the best he can. You know one thing to keep in mind is that they also used to time correct things even back then too, except of making precise cut and time stretch correction edits digitally they were cutting tape, so it was harder then in your typical daw, but it was still practiced even back then. so it’s kind of like, “well, no shit, a difficult transition seems smooth from phrase to phrase, and he’s playing something that’s mechanically difficult multiple times in a row with out loosing steam and dropping tempo, if all your hearing is all the best parts of it”.
So I think a lot of people could be easier on themselves if they can’t quite nail their favorite solo exactly like the original, or find the transitions from phrase to phrase difficult, because you often see the original performers live not quite do it exactly like they recorded it more often than not, they have the same hurdles as all of us, especially if the player is more on the organic idiosyncratic side, instead of always calculating.
