Favourite guitar solo?

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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free bird
    Pearl Jam - Alive
    Free - Fire And Water
    Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
    Guns And Roses - Sweet child
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Cosmo wrote:
    John Lennon/George Harrison - 'The End' - The Beatles - 'Abbey Road'
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    You forgot Paul. I think he starts the festivities.
  • Yuksel
    Yuksel Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 32
    welcome to the board!

    great way to start posting by mentioning your savior's solo!

    i'll have to give this some thought before i can reply

    Thanks for the welcoming :)
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    Yuksel wrote:
    There's loads !
    My no. 1 is definitly Your Savior by Temple of The Dog.
    And of course, Alive is briliant.
    Mike is definitly good at what he does.

    Driving Nowhere by Helmet is very good as well, it's different because of the distorted guitar, but it's without a doubt a great solo.
    wellcome :D
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,254
    tybird wrote:
    g under p wrote:


    Alex Lifeson.............La Villa Strangiato

    Peace
    Very nice, very nice indeed....one of my favorite Rush songs....great bass lines too.

    "Reelin' in the Years"-Steely Dan
    "Ten Years Gone"-Led Zeppelin
    "Skateaway"-Dire Straits
    "Sheep"-Pink Floyd
    "Lark's Tongues in Aspic Part II"-King Crimson
    "Starship Trooper"-Yes
    "Over the Mountain"-Ozzy Osbourne (the late, great Randy Rhoads)

    I for whatever reason left that song off my original list then took a look after posting and realized no RUSH. This is the one song as far as solos goes for Rush always gets my attention especially the LIVE version from *Exit Stage Left*.

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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    Mike McCready's solo in "wake up" by Mad season has always been a favorite of mine.
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,254
    More from Alex Lifeson Some of His Best Solos all in one.

    Peace
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  • Eraserhead
    Eraserhead Stoke-on-Trent Posts: 2,983
    Ball and Biscuit by The White Stripes

    There's also an amazing solo on the 4th track of Godspeed You Black Emperor's album Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven. I can never remember the time into the track, but it's either 4:30 or 5:30. Superb stuff.
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  • MysteryTrain
    MysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    Eraserhead wrote:
    Ball and Biscuit by The White Stripes

    Hell yeah!!

    Here's my favorites:
    Cortez The Killer
    While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    Little Wing - Derek & The Dominoes
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Lots of great choices here, I agree with a lot. I wanna add Jeff Healy's entire "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", stunning.
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  • rhcpjam1029
    rhcpjam1029 Posts: 1,982
    alive-pearl jam
    reach down-totd
    hearts alive-mastodon
    patience-gnr
    man in the box-aic
    no quarter-led zeppelin
    day of the baphomets-mars volta
    ruiner-nin
    master of puppets-metallica
    lay low-mmj
    run thru-mmj
    black hole sun-soundgarden
    turn it again-rhcp
    voodoo chile-hendrix
    lateralus-tool
    rosetta stoned-tool
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    rhcpjam1029 wrote:
    patience-gnr
    no quarter-led zeppelin
    day of the baphomets-mars volta
    lay low-mmj
    turn it again-rhcp
    voodoo chile-hendrix
    lateralus-tool
    rosetta stoned-tool

    Some great stuff here.

    My band is gonna work on Lay Low and the guitar interplay during the jam is so simple and cool.

    No Quarter from TSRTS is one of my all time faves.

    The Tool stuff is just executed perfectly and the tone is perfect. I like the 2nd, single note solo in Lateralus. Sounds a bit like the apocalypse.
  • Got a hard hard head
    Got a hard hard head Posts: 638
    Has anyone heard the Isaac Hayes version of 'The Look of Love'? It's got the most ridiculous guitar solo in it - check it out if you haven't heard it, it's quality!

    Sometimes for me it's not the technical proficiency of the solo, more how in-keeping with the feel of the song. Bearing that in mind, I'd have to say the solo in 'Sweet Child O' Mine' deserves a mention.
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  • rhcpjam1029
    rhcpjam1029 Posts: 1,982
    DewieCox wrote:
    rhcpjam1029 wrote:
    patience-gnr
    no quarter-led zeppelin
    day of the baphomets-mars volta
    lay low-mmj
    turn it again-rhcp
    voodoo chile-hendrix
    lateralus-tool
    rosetta stoned-tool

    Some great stuff here.

    My band is gonna work on Lay Low and the guitar interplay during the jam is so simple and cool.

    No Quarter from TSRTS is one of my all time faves.

    The Tool stuff is just executed perfectly and the tone is perfect. I like the 2nd, single note solo in Lateralus. Sounds a bit like the apocalypse.

    dude. you're awesome. the guitar parts in lay low are amazing. i had never heard mmj before having seen them open for pj. but hearing law low performed got me hooked.
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    Beavis: Heh heh. Oh yeah. Yeah! Get those spoons out of my face before I shove them up your butt!
    Butthead: Huh huh.
  • UKDave
    UKDave Posts: 5,557
    rhcpjam1029 wrote:
    reach down-totd
    man in the box-aic
    no quarter-led zeppelin
    run thru-mmj

    I'd have picked these from your list... great stuff 8-)
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  • cfbd68
    cfbd68 Posts: 228
    jimed14 wrote:
    Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (slight return)
    Ritchie Blackmore - Stargazer (song by Rainbow)
    Ritchie Blackmore - Highway Star (song by Deep Purple)
    Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
    Jimmy Paige - Achilles Last Stand (song by Led Zeppelin)
    Jimmy Paige - Since I've Been Loving You (song by Led Zeppelin)


    There are probably a lot more, these come to mind immediately.
    Hendrix; Live at Winterland Album: "Red House". Greatest start to a song guitar solo ( IMHO ) ;)
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  • markin ball
    markin ball Posts: 1,076
    Sweet Child O' MIne
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  • VINNY GOOMBA
    VINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,828
    facepollution wrote:
    I keep coming back to Kim Thayil's solo in Like Suicide, absolutely sublime.

    Comfortably Numb's is amazing too, and I'm sure some Smashing Pumpkins would feature somewhere in my top ten.

    Wow, when I read the title of this thread, those 2 solos (in that order, Like Suicide and Comfortably Numb) definitely came to mind! Two of my absolute favorites!
  • VINNY GOOMBA
    VINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,828
    Oh, and of course MACHINE GUN from the Band of Gypsies album.
  • Joel Westvelt
    Joel Westvelt Posts: 39
    ace frehleys build up guitar solo in love gun blew my mind the first time i heard it and it still does now.. but i'd have to say that dire straits - sultans of swing is my fav.. oh and the solo in beyond the wheel by soundgarden is awesome as well.

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