Nevermind . Even more over-rated than Barbed Wire with Pam Anderson

I think thats a conscious ethical decision. The minute you take something so artfull as the guitar solo in a song llike Novenber Rain or This I Love and you attribute it a writting credit you are commodotizing the Art. Its bad enough Songs are comodotized to the extent they are already but to do this would lead to even more comercialisation of the that aspect of the music.

Its ok to give a credit if the Solo is by a special guest not part of the band.
If guitar solo credits were given within a band you would find the following phenomenon.

Pop bands like Fall Out Boy 30 seconds to Mars etc would start writing artless solos that act as nothing more as song hooks so that the can get that extra song credit and more $$ as a result. Every god damn song on the radio would have a shitty  30 second solo put together by a pro tools engineer that is there for no other reason than to get more money for whoever in the band wrote it.

They would be artlessly engineered to be "catchy" and make teenage girls with pig tails and pussy cat dolls posters wana dance and buy the music

It would take the emotion and heart from the guitar solo as an art form. (I believe its an Art Form) In a few years the guitar solo would be "Outdated" in the mainstream and laughed at as an unfashionable Relic of times gone by.

-I wouldn't be surprised if bands like poison and Ratt and warrant ( you know the types) were giving guitar solo credits in the 80s cbeause the paragraph above seems to highlight many grunge folks reaction to the Guitar solo -

I think a lot of artists are aware of this effect it could have and so don't give solo credits out of good ethics.

If your truly proud of your work why would you need some kind of credit that serves only as a small monetary boost. If you find yourself in that position (historically speaking) you are probably already earning bucket loads of money (at least up until the internet music age anyway) so why desecrate the art "for a few dollars more"

He was bullshitting he said here

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Didn't forget I never knew. Who is it?