Favourite guitar solos...and why

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:38 am

that last guitar break on 'good times bad times' is one of my favorite things ever.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:43 am

aye, tis a goodie!

Silverlode · Post by **Silverlode** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:12 am

Andy Summers - Driven to Tears
There are few guitar solos on Police studio albums. Love the atonal approach to this one.

lyman · Post by **lyman** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:20 am

Silverlode wrote:Andy Summers - Driven to Tears
There are few guitar solos on Police studio albums. Love the atonal approach to this one.

that's a perfect example of "know the rules before you break them."

capnreverb · Post by **capnreverb** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:04 am

Palace - Horses you can hear it here. I think it's David Pajo of Slint/Totoise playing this amazing guitar solo.

http://www.dominorecordco.com/artists/p ... ediaheader

Dave Gilmours second solo on Pigs off of Pink Floyd's Animals.
Any Fripp guitar solo on Brian Eno's records. Also, his solo on the Roaches song "Losing True".
All of Sonny Sharrock on "Ask The Ages" and "Guitar".
Richard Thompson on the live 10 minute versions of "Night Comes In" and Calvery Cross".
The supposed acoustic Jimmy Page solo on Roy Harpers Stormcock lp.
ULI JOHN ROTH. The ONLY guitar player I will sit through dreadfull songs with even more dreadfull singing just to hear a guitar solo.
How about some love for Fred Friths guitar work with Henry Cow.
Marc Ribot on Tom Waits song "Diamonds and Gold".
Jim Hall on Bill Evan/Jim Hall Undercurrents.
If that first song on Shaktis lp with the white cover does not make you want to chuck your geetar ala Charlie Parker in the river, what will?
And all though I do not care for him (christ, he spent the whole 1970's in a JJ Cale cover band), Eric Clapton has some stellar solo's on Roger Water's "Pros and Con's of Hitchhiking".
All though he rarely gets the love in the English Guitar God Awards, Martin Barre of Jethro Tull is super uner rated.

Even though he blows turds, Yngvie Malmsteen put on one of the best guitar wanking shows I ever saw. it was in 1986 for his first record. After two songs the singer left the stage and Yngvie just masturbated the living shit out of that guitar for an hour straight. Fucking craptacular. Blew my mind at 16. Too bad he, Eric Jonson, Steve Vai, Joe Satraini have all that talent but cant muster having to say anything that seems like they FEEL something. Even though Lightnin Hopkins played the same solo over and over for his entire career, it is still better that anything these guys ever pull off. Ill put Kurt Cobain in the same camp as having something to say over chops. Someone brought up earlier the solo on The Rolling Stone's Sympathy For The Devil. Thats what I am talking about. There should be a whole issue of guitar player magazine dedicated to just that one solo!

minorkeylee · Post by **minorkeylee** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:53 am

I don't think I've seen Sonny Landreth mentioned yet....Outward Bound is breathtaking slide work.

My favorite player these days is Eric McFadden - Anything off of "The Joy of Suffering", Especially "Miranda". This guy is an unbelievable player. He also plays mandolin for P-Funk and guitar for Eric Burden and the New Animals.

roygbiv · Post by **roygbiv** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:32 am

Has anybody mentioned the following? (maybe they have, and I'm just a tool).

Another Girl, Another Planet (Only Ones)

Anything off the Marquee Moon album (Television)

Its Only Rock and Roll (Rolling Stones)

Like a Hurricane/Powderfinger era Neal Young

but of course the winner is.....

The end solo for "Do You Feel Like We Do?" on Frampton Comes Alive (Peter Frampton)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPkwm8a1kBU

I'm still amazed he has the energy for the intensity of his big ending "climax" (starting at ~ 5 min, then resurrecting like some solo that refuses to die at 6 min), AFTER playing a full drug-fuled '70s concert (maybe this is one of those studio overdub....)

A.David.MacKinnon · Post by **A.David.MacKinnon** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:49 am

How High The Moon by Les Paul and Mary Ford. Pretty much the whole song is a solo but there's a great middle section that ends with a crazy layered vocal by Mary. Mind boogling. Even more so when you realize it's all sound on sound (ie: if you fuck up an overdub you have to go back to the beginning and start again).

marqueemoon · Post by **marqueemoon** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:07 pm

See No Evil - Television
Richard Lloyd is a bundle of nervous energy in the most awesome way.

Shoplifters of the World Unite - The Smiths
Best out of context hair metal solo ever.

Standing Here - The Stone Roses
Just brilliant.

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
Great melody.

Crosseyed and Painless - Talking Heads
Is that a guitar? I think so.

mjau · Post by **mjau** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:10 pm

capnreverb wrote:Palace - Horses you can hear it here. I think it's David Pajo of Slint/Totoise playing this amazing guitar solo.

http://www.dominorecordco.com/artists/p ... ediaheader

I love that guitar solo.

sawtooth66 · Post by **sawtooth66** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:38 am

My top 3,
After a week of serious contemplation on this subject.

- I love all of the guitar lead's on Lou Reed's 1974 live record/lp "rock n' roll animal".
NO one I know has even heard this record?!?
Dick Wagner, and Steve Hunter simply tear it up!!!
It's not shred, ..it's on a "slow hand" tip.. but it's so nice N tasty!

- I think the solo on the 'Stones "sympathy for the devil" is on the money. Raw and spastic, like I imagine Satan himself would play it.

- my strangest one is, from Spade Cooley... an obscure western swing artist I was hipped to in the early 90's. His life story is hardcore to say the least.

I was amazed I could find this on youtube! Gotta love the internetz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5MEU8C9UpM

whomever played the solo at 44 secs was Rockin' IT! WAY before his time! If you think about what recording must have been like with a big band back in that day?
The song is from 1944. I've craved that "lead" guitar sound for a long time now!

The slide/steel guitar playing isn't too shabby either!

anywayz,

shedshrine · Post by **shedshrine** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:09 pm

Silverlode wrote:Andy Summers - Driven to Tears
There are few guitar solos on Police studio albums. Love the atonal approach to this one.

Wasn't there supposed to be some song that Sting wanted a really angry solo on, and so he bugged, pestered and so antagonized Andy that by the time came to play he just vented out a solo??

CraigS63 · Post by **CraigS63** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:29 pm

The Cars - "Touch and Go"
Cheap Trick - "World's Greatest Lover"
McCartney - "Maybe I'm Amazed"

rwc · Post by **rwc** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:39 pm

From 8:15 on Dream Theater - Scarred

It does what I think a guitar solo is supposed to do. It takes you on a ride.

lukievan · Post by **lukievan** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:32 pm

Of course almost anything by Django, Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery
is gonna be brilliant. I'll just throw out some others that come to mind...

"The Abandoned Hospital Ship"
Ronald Jones/The Flaming Lips

"10 Feet Tall"
Dave Gregory/XTC

"Yezrial"
Marc Ribot (doing Zorn, I think)

"Just Like Betty Page"
Max Eider/The Jazz Butcher

Any solo (don't think there are many) from The Specials first, self-titled album.

"But Who Was Fulcanelli"
Zappa, from Guitar
("Orrin Hatch on Skis" and "Winos Do Not March" are also amazing)

"Age of Everything"
Joe Morris Trio

I second "Fool in the Rain" - Jimmy Page/Led Zep

"In A Silent Way"
John McLaughlin/Miles Davis

Someone mentioned Hendrix from the Blues album.
The almost 8 minute long "Born Under a Bad Sign" is
unbelievably awesome in every way. So many ideas,
executed with power and feeling. But you can't leave
out "Machine Gun" from the Band of Gypsys album.
Or the beautiful "Villanova Junction" or whatever it's called,
from Woodstock. I think it segues out of Purple Haze; just
this gorgeous, melodic ode that feels so deep and bittersweet.

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