Editing Fred Frith (section)

===''Guitar Solos''===
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After Henry Cow's first album, Frith released ''[[Guitar Solos]]'' in 1974, his first solo album and a glimpse at what he had been doing with his guitar. The album comprised eight tracks of unaccompanied and [[Musical improvisation|improvised]] music played on [[prepared guitar]]s. It was recorded in four days, at the Kaleidophon Studios in London's [[Camden Town]], without any [[overdubbing]].

When it was released, ''Guitar Solos'' was considered a landmark album<ref name="amg">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=guitar-solos-mw0000611989|pure_url=yes}} |title=''Guitar Solos'' |work=AllMusic.com |first=Sean |last=Westergaard |access-date=20 November 2006}}</ref> because of its innovative and experimental approach to guitar playing. The January 1983 edition of ''[[DownBeat]]'' magazine remarked that ''Guitar Solos'' "...&nbsp;must have stunned listeners of the day. Even today that album stands up as uniquely innovative and undeniably daring."<ref name="downbeat">"The Frith Factor: Exploration in Sound", ''[[DownBeat]]'' magazine, January 1983.</ref> It also attracted the attention of some musicians, including [[Brian Eno]], resulting in Frith playing guitar on two of Eno's albums, ''[[Before and After Science]]'' (1977) and ''[[Music for Films]]'' (1978).

Between October and December 1974, Frith contributed a series of ten articles to the British weekly music newspaper ''[[NME|New Musical Express]]'' entitled "Great Rock Solos of Our Time". In them he analysed prominent rock guitarists of the day and their contribution to the development of the rock guitar, including [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[Eric Clapton]] and [[Frank Zappa]].{{sfn|Piekut|2019|pp=142–143}}