Since we are all guitarists and nothing is more fun to a guitarist than a self-indulgent guitar solo, I was wondering what's your favorite of them all? My top three are:
1. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
2. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
3. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
So what are yours?
Last edited by ShawnRT; 09-14-2002 at 10:47 AM.
1. Cream - Crossroads ( both solos )
2. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven ( winged by Page !?)
3. Peter Green - Driftin'
Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth, .... I wan't to be ready.
ABB - Blue Sky
aka: lespaul506
Jimi:
Voodoo Child - the whole song is a solo
3rd Stone From the Sun
Manic Depression
Machine Gun (BoG)
Power to Love (BoG)
SRV:
Couldn't Stand the Weather
Say What!
Life Without You
Jeff Beck:
Led Boots
Robben Ford:
Rugged Road
Elliott Randall:
Reelin' in the Years
Ernie Isley:
That Lady
Live it Up
Martin Barre:
Aqualung
Jimi Page:
Stairway to Heaven
Frank Zappa
Apostrophe/Nanook/Yellow Snow, etc.
Black Napkins
Danny Gatton:
(Pick a song, any song)
Machine Gun, Drivin' South.....jimi
The Victor......dick dale
Spoonful, Have you Heard about my Baby.....clapton
Last edited by Jimi's Bolero; 09-08-2002 at 12:45 PM.
FIND THE HALFLINGS!! UNGH!! FIND THE HALFLINGS!!
Gary Moore: "Shapes Of Things"
Leslie West: "Theme For An Imaginary Western"
Vivian Campbell: "Rainbow In The Dark"
Albert Lee: "Country Boy"
James Burton: "Fools Rush In"
Rick Vito: "Like A Rock" (Bob Seger song...slide solo is awesome!)
TBD
Last edited by TBoneDeluxe; 09-08-2002 at 02:17 PM.
Agree with all the above.
but for me.
Mick ronson - Moonage daydream (of ziggy and the spiders from mars.)
the first note he plays is so right
Beck.- 'cos we've ended as lovers.
Unbeleivably good.
Agree with all the above.
but for me.
Mick ronson - Moonage daydream (of ziggy and the spiders from mars.)
the first note he plays is so right
Beck.- 'cos we've ended as lovers.
Unbeleivably good.
alex lifeson - limelight
"Wait, it's a trap. Get an axe."
Another vote for Crossroads...!
Regards, Dave Orban
Lots of good one but three comes to my mind immediately.
1-Child in time (Ritchie Blackmore)
2-Comfortably numb(David Gilmour:The Pulse version
3-Stairway to heaven (Jimmy Page).
Anything George Harrison did.
Wow, there's so many, but 2 that I have always been rather fond of is Nugent in Journey To The Center Of The Mind (not that it's a journey he's going to be taking) and the solo in Thin Lizzy's song Warriors, from the Jailbreak album, either Gorham or Robertson (on an LP Deluxe?).
Don't be funken with my Tele ;~)
Achilles Last Stand-Led Zeppelin(Jimmy Page)
Last edited by Gazza; 09-08-2002 at 09:08 PM.
The solo Jimi did on Axis Bold as Love kills me everytime!
Oh yeah! That solo on Something is just beautiful. That is one of the few solos I have ever memorized. And then there's the solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps played by Clapton... Wow! All that emotion... Wish I could do that.Originally posted by Snags
Anything George Harrison did.
Kind of Blue
Shine On You Crazy Diamond ~ Gilmour
The Messiah Will Come Again ~ Roy Buchanan
Black Napkins ~ Zappa
Jimi is my original hero, the cat that inspired me to play in the first place. Consequently, I love most of his catalog. Electric Ladyland is probably my all time favorite record, if i had to pick just one.
Since it is so hard to pick just one and you folks have laid out so many of the best ones, I'd have to say the solo from:
The Wind Cries Mary
That's one of the solos that when I cover that tune, I feel like that is the right one to play, note for note, as the phrasing is perfect IMO. Having studied jazz, I love to improvise, quote original solos and take off from there, but Wind Cries Mary is one that just has to be that way for me cause its so balanced and beautiful. I just feel that way about the tune every time I play it (even though I like to interpret the rhythm part somewhat freely, love that Curtis Mayfield inspired stuff!) and that I cannot improve upon it. I guess its my way of paying homage to the master!
- " Lady Starlight " : Scorpions.
- " November Rain " : G'n'R
- " Stairway to Heaven " : Led Zep :tw59
Power is Nothing without CONTROL !!!
Alex Lifeson's solo (actualy the whole song) on Xanadu.
The twin guitar solo's on Helloween's "Falling Higher" song.
And all of Vince Gill's solo's. He's the master:-)
Flying High Again - Randy Rhoads ( Ozzy )
Return to Serenity - Alex Skolnick ( Testament )
Rock N Roll Machine ( stages live version ) - Rik Emmit ( Triumph )
Texas Flood ( live El Mocambo ) - SRV
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson
damn !! forgot Eruption !
Last edited by nicholas; 09-12-2002 at 01:54 PM.
I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied
Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb".
April Wine's "Sign Of The Gypsy Queen" especially the old MTV live video version.
Triumph's "Lay It On The Line".
Def Lepard's "Bringin' On The heartbreak / Switch 625".
Night Ranger's "Eddie's Comin' out" and "Sister Christian".
Aaron
Alias: Fat Dog Lee
Play it like ya mean it.
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The Pits-off Relentless, Gatton and DeFrancesco
Filthy Teddy-off Second Album, Roy Buchanan
Caravan- off Adventures in Utopia, Utopia
Statesboro Blues-off The Fillmore Concerts,ABB
The Claw-off Return of the Hellecasters...
For Now,
GFM
Pat Metheny - "Are You Going With Me?" [Offramp]
Pat Martino - "Just Friends" [El Hombre]
Mike Stern - "Tipatina's" [Play]
Jimi - "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
SRV - Tightrope...the two solos in the song smoke!
how come everyone talks about guitar solos all the time?? i know it's cool and all...but the "verse-chorus(2x)-solo-back to verse" theme is getting quite old for me..esp with rock music...someone please break the old ways!
SRV Little Wing at the 3:36 mark. That run is increadible. The whole song is almost a solo.
brianf
Oh Man!!! I never knew Fender made amps too!!!
Toneshun,
Solos may not be for everybody, but a lot of guitar players look at a solo as a moment where they get to express themselves within the layout of the song. Working within the song structure to improvise something expressive is what it's all about for me. I see that a lot of the picks here have very unconventional solos. One of my picks, "All Along the Watchtower" for example starts off with a solo that is a take off of the original harmonica part. Cool stuff
It's tough to pinpoint one particular solo as the favorite of all time, but I'm guessing that there's a good chance that either B.B. King or Carlos Santana performed it. Both of them could just send me with one sustained note. Just Sublime.
What ShawnRT said!
Randy Rhoads "Mr. Crowley" (both solos)
David Gilmour "Comfortably Numb"
Randy Rhoads "Goodbye to Romance"
Alex Lifeson "Limelight"
Tony Iomi "War Pigs"
Honestly, I find most guitar solos to be tedious and unnecessary (as in the song would be better w/out it), but there are some gems. I wouldn't include most of the solos mentioned here in my above statement.
SRV Little Wing, definitely my #1.
No one mentioned Eddie Van Halen ???????
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Achim
Crossroads...by Clapton
Trilogy...by Malmsteen
Star Spangled Banner...by Hendrix
"Blue horse-shoe loves Andicott Steel"
who is eddie van halen?
Beck - "Cause We've Ended as Lovers"
I hear everything in that song - anger, denial, sadness, bargaining and finally acceptance. An emotional journey.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with
the human problem all one's life and find at the end
that one has no more to offer by way of
advice than "try to be a little kinder."
-Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
Originally posted by Bolero
who is eddie van halen?
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Achim
Deep Purple/Blackmore "Highway Star". It launched the whole genre of shred.
Dire straits- Brothers in arms live ,and studio versions, Sultans of swing both live and MANDELA versions (kickass, most amazing soloing ive heard). The "NEWS" song solo kicks ass, but most especially a song that has been making me fall on the ground YOU AND YOUR FRIEND, that tone and lead/solo playing is by far fantastic.
eric clapton - Unplugged solos in LAYLA, including the outro. White room (played live 24nights).
gary moore- Parisienne walkways
Then its Jimi hendrix on Hey joe, jeff beck too on cause we ended as lovers, and NADIA, gilmour in HIGH HOPES (that slide guitar solo is by far nothing less than genius and intense emotion).
AND to end my list ill have to say PETER FRAMPTON
THe solos he does on the LIVE Version of DO U FEEL LIKE I DO, are amazing, the end part finishes me off.
Take Care
T
Eddie Hazel's solo in "Maggot Brain" (Funkadelic) is at this moment!
Good call Ken. Haven't heard it in a long time.Originally posted by Ken
Eddie Hazel's solo in "Maggot Brain" (Funkadelic) is at this moment!
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