best guitar solo?

[nigelwright7557]

This bloke is incredible on guitar.
In this clip around half way through he is playing two guitars at once !!!!

YouTube - Stanley Jordan plays "Stairway to Heaven"

 

[nigelwright7557]

Heres me having a go at Fleetwood Mac The chain.

YouTube - fleetwood mac the chain nigel playing along

 

[MJL21193]

One of my favourites, though not strictly a solo, is La Villa Strangiato by Rush. Lifeson's command of the instrument and unique style virtually replace vocals in this long instrumental.
Highly underrated master.

 

[XL5]

Dave Guilmour; Time (The dark side of the moon)

 

[planet10]

"Stairway to Heaven"

Another pretty good rendition... youtube doesn't do it justice

YouTube - Stairway to Heaven live (Rodrigo y Gabriela)

dave

 

[rojertwose]

Hello,
The solo in "December Flower" by In Flames. It is kind of difficult, but it is an incredibly beautiful solo. It is worth listening to even if you don't end up learning it. Hope that helps

 

[cbdb]

Any solo by Frank Zappa, the musicians musician. And with 80 albums theres lots to choose from.

OK my present favorite, Nine Types of Industrial Pollution. The solo is the song is the solo. Does 6 minutes count as a solo?

 

[Charles Darwin]

Maggot Brain by Eddie Hazel (Funkadelic)… all 10 minutes of it.

 

[maurycy]

Dire straits - Sultan of swing

I second that. Though the version I know is Sultans of swing 🙂

 

[leboeuf]

I think every song of Karate's "unsolved" has a ridiculous guitar solo on it. My favorites are on "the-lived-but-yet-named" and "halo of the strange"

 

[wahab]

one can t say he loves guitar if he don t know this guy...
everything he plays is artistically a great achievement..
another planet...

YouTube - Bireli Lagrene - Jazz guitar solo

i let all judge by themselves...

 

[vdi_nenna]

I like hard rock, so here goes...

Van Halen- Ice Cream Man, Eruption, solo on "Only One Way to Rock" live w/ Sammy
Vivian Campell- Dio- Rainbow in the Dark
George Lynch- Dokken- In my Dreams, Mr Scary, For a Million Years
Steve Vai- For the Love of God, Blue Powder
Joe Satriani- Just about anything he does on the first album Surf w/ the Alien
Brad Gillis and Jeff Watson- Don't tell Me you Love Me
David Gilmore- Comfortably Numb

 

[predo]

I second that. Though the version I know is Sultans of swing 🙂

Mark Knopfler is in full flight on(Sultans of swing) guitar solo, here's one that might
test the players like Bireli Lagrene. Still no.1 for me DJANGO's (Minor Swing). Enjoy

 

[katana2112]

Take a look at John Entwhistle (of the Who) doing "The Real Me"......puts most guitar solos to shame......

 

[katana2112]

YouTube - John Entwistle Band- The Real Me

YouTube - John Entwistle bass solo

 

[Sufi]

If im not missing any post...how come nobody likes Steve Vai that much?!
Steve vai
For the love of God,
Tender surrender,
Crying machine,

Joe Satriani
Always with me...
Flying in a blue dream,

almost anything and everything from SRV and Jimmy Hendrix.
and not to forget Alan Holdsworth

 

[flaevor]

My vote is for John Frusciante's solo on I Could Have Lied. Both lyrically and structurally it is just perfection in how it conveys and supports the emotion of the song, and then gets out of the way. A perfect fit and achingly beautiful.

Perfect analysis, I'm glad it was mentioned. It doesn't however contend for #1 on my list but definitely top 10.

I think it is impossible for anything to trump Hendrix. He died in in 1970. Who was doing anything even remotely close from 1967 to 1970? The answer is nobody. He took guitar playing to whole new levels and lit a fire under the hindquarters of his contemporaries. My favs: The wind cries mary, 1983..., Voodoo Chile slight return, All along the watchtower.

Some others I thought deserved mentioning "Life without you" by SRV, it takes you through the grieving process with his solo sounding like various forms of crying.

Neil Young "Cinammon Girl". If you can pull of a single note solo you should get some mention. I can't remember the names of the songs but Stephen Stills has some awesome solos on the Manasas album.

I should mention I don't grade the solo based on technicality but rather on its ability to contribute to the emotional message of the song with out stealing the show. It should be intergral without being the focus.

 

[PhaseLockLoopy]

David Gilmore- Comfortably Numb

My only choice - I love hearing it - I love playing it (its not that difficult) - it has so much anguish in a work full of expression and phrasing - it rips out your heart at one point, and slaps you around the face with it.

 

[Rick J. B.]

Does no one enjoy Powder Finger by Neil Young? One of my personal favs.

 

[poynton]

Alvin Lee - Ten Years After - at Woodstock !

The video is great too.


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