Thoughts on the new album, "The Great Escape Artist"...  Sun,
Nov 20, 2011 at 3:28 PM  I've listened to the new album about 10
tens through now and I thought this might be a good place to
share some thoughts. I'll preface what I'm about to say with the
fact that I am a long time, die hard fan and JA is still my
favorite band of all time. Having said that, I still have mixed
emotions about their newest offering.  One of the first things I
noticed was the surprising lack of guitar solos. In full
disclosure, I'm a guitar player and Dave Navarro had a huge
influence on me. Now before someone says, "they only people that
care about guitar solos are guitar players" (which is mostly
true) I feel that Dave's leads played a major part in their
first three albums. I think 90% of those tunes had a solo or
obvious lead break. On the new album, and to a lesser extent on
Strays as well, its practically the opposite. So I wondering why
that is? I know Dave can still rip leads like no one's business
because I've seen him do