Problem was, by the time the group finished writing and recording new pieces to add to the song, that solo was almost an afterthought, just one piece of tape surrounded by dozens of others hanging from the ceiling - the group had decided to record each bit separately and then splice them together. But guitar legend Edgar Winter, like the Allman Brothers, was fortunate enough to have two drum kits, and so he envisioned a tune called "The Double Drum Solo," built as usual around a ferocious intro riff. Rock drum spotlights, like rock itself, had expanded to ridiculous lengths by the early '70s - the longest of them, like Led Zeppelin's "Moby Dick" and Cream's "Toad," could run up to a half an hour long on stage. The Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein" 45.
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