Best Guitar Solo Ever Recorded? (not live)

[DS1]

I nominate Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb, it has the ability to stir even the most wooden people into an air-guitar frenzy. I've seen this first hand.

Your thoughts?

[NashVegas]

1. Television - Marquee Moon

An old boss of mine once said to me: "If you've got 10 minutes, I'll show you the best guitar solo in the world."

Damn if he wasn't right.

edit - AMG review for those unfamiliar

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=MISS703080...

[DS1]

2. never heard of it

is Television the name of the band, or the song?

[NashVegas]

5. Band

Television were the band responsible for getting CBGB's to book rock bands. They put out what's regarded as the first DIY indie single (Little Johnny Jewel). Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd are just godhead.

[DS1]

19. Well, there goes their chance at stardom

A new guitar player running through scales would make a better solo than that crap.

OK, it tried to redeem itself near the end, but shit, are they going up the fretboard? I would have never guessed! Played like techno.

Sorry, this solo is hereby booted from consideration in this thread.

[NashVegas]

70. LOL

well, you're certainly right about the stardom part, anyway. It's just lucky for me I don't measure stardom as necessity for greatness, nor a consensus for reinforcing my opinions, else I'd have no opinions at all.

[dolo amber]

54. Richard Lloyd....aaaaaahhhhhh

Responsible for not only turning me on to Television (who are *ONLY* marvelous, btw ), but the star of many a fantasy when I was a hormone-fueled 13 yr old...*sigh*

[mitchum]

14. Another vote for the diamond guitars of Tom and Richard

runner up: Robert Fripp (Brian Eno's "Baby's On Fire")

[Rooktoven]

31. Better yet

Fripp on Eno's "King's Lead Hat"...

By the way, all-- any combination of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno is usually superb.

[ornotna]

20. Good choice

Good old scool punk.
But I would have to say John Mclaughlin & Carlos Santana - A Love Supreme. (Actually a duo) What a pair!

[DS1]

21. Good choice? My god, this thread is turning into a crap-fest

faster than a freeper rally sans porta-potties!

Is there no Clapton or Hendrix than can beat "Television"? How about some Joe Satriani? Anyone? Somebody?

[ornotna]

33. Your welcome to post your vote

but why must you bash others for their choice.
and, I said nice choice, but I picked a different song.
You have heard of John Mclaughlin and Carlos Santana....right?

[DS1]

35. Sorry, you're right, it's a matter of taste

I did listen to that song fully, but didn't hear anything that appealed to me.

Music is a very subjective art, I'll try to be less objective in the future.

[ornotna]

47. Cool

btw...I really like your pic of * ,he-he

[Jalixm]

22. Marquee Moon

Tom Verlaine is a fucking master. I prefer Torn Curtain to the title track myself, but the whole album and his guitar playing especially leaves most everything else in the dust. Adventure's good too, but he'll never hit that peak again. It's sad.

[oustemnow]

140. I saw them on a reunion show last Spring

they did "Marquee Moon," and it was pretty majestic. I think you're right though, overall, aside from playing the classics they'll never have that synergy again. They spent 5-10 minutes tuning up on stage at the beginning of the set, which was really frustrating, as they only had a limited time to play, but I wouldn't give up seeing that for anything.

/laments being too young to see them in their prime

[LostInAmerica]

66. Excellent choice, Crisco

Amazing stuff from one of the greatest albums of all time.

BTW, did you know that both Television albums are getting the supreme Rhino reissue treatment next month? That's right, new remastering, bonus tracks, the works. I can't wait.

[NashVegas]

71. YAY Rhino

I already own both on CD, though, so can't see the point in it. But if it brings them more attention...

Also, there was a 3rd album, released around '92 or so. That was actually when/how I discovered them. The above mentioned boss was playing it in his office. I was just outside and poked my head in to ask who it was. A few days later, same thing. "Who IS that?"

Rhino is also slated to release a box set of '70s punk this fall. It's called, "Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated?" Their attempt to separate punk, the movement, from punk, the genre. All the bands that wouldn't fit in with today's idea of punk music all get their due.

[oustemnow]

81. I'd vote for "See No Evil"

"Marquee Moon" is an excellent guitar song, lots of great guitar passages, but I don't know if I'd qualify anything in it as a solo.

Oh, and DS1, you're fooking insane if you can't hear the guitar greatness in Television.

A couple of other favorite solos: "Rattled by the Rush" and "Fin" by Pavement, "U Mass" by the Pixies and "Slip It In" by Black Flag.

ON EDIT: Oh, yeah, and, fookin' duh; "Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic. Sheesh; I can't believe I forgot that one.

[mac56]

111. I agree with you on "See No Evil".

My favorite song on that album.

[theemu]

82. I'm going to agree.

Television is my favorite band of the 1970s and "Marquee Moon" is my own personal theme song of sorts.

And they're not an obscure band by any means - they're often cited for the 1970s in the way that the Velvet Underground is for the 1960s - a band that never became huge but was critical for the development of rock music.

[mmm]

3. Little Timmy Timar and the Hound Doggies

O boi, Joe could sure jazz up the banjotar!!!

[Dhalgren]

4. Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here";

Causes folks to stop what they are doing, their eyes close, their heads start to sway - then they in another place.

[DS1]

6. 2 votes for Floyd

nice!

[Rooktoven]

7. Non-live makes it hard...

Frank Zappa's "What's New in Baltimore?". It'll bring tears to your eyes.

[DS1]

8. Well, that's the point

I'm not known for asking easy questions, where's the fun in that?

I'll check it out.

[trogdor]

9. Rush - Working Man (live)

Alex Lifeson rulez!

[DS1]

10. (live) doesn't count

start a new thread for best live solos if you like, because live leads to jamming, and jamming doesn't count in this thread.

/solo dick

[kixot]

11. Time - Pink Floyd

It always gives me chills. The other solos are just as unforgettable but "Time" is special to me because it fits the lyrics and the mood so perfectly. You couldn't add or remove a single note.

[Laughing Mirror]

12. magnificent dance

the clash

[kixot]

13. 2nd nomination

I know it's only the last few moments of the song, but the solo to Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing has a soaring quality to it that has always made emotional notes to me.

[Must_B_Free]

15. Ten Years Gone - Jimmy Page

Either Jerrys solo on the first Eyes of the World from 02-09-73

Or Jerry's solo from Help on the Way / Slipknot from Great American Music Hall in 1975.

Or - Bill Nelson (BeBob Deluxe) - Adventures on a Yorkshire Landscape from the album 'Live in the Air Age'
maybe one of the most unbelievable solos ever played.

oops all of those are live.

Ok - then Jimmy Page - Ten Years Gone, Led Zeppelin Physical Grafitti. Best studio solo ever.

[Redleg]

123. Jimmy Page: "The Rover"

Sublime

Hendrix: "Voodoo Chile Slight Return", "All along the Watchtower"
Pete Townshend: acoustic solo on "Who are You"
Magic Slim: intro and solo in "Crazy Woman"
Buddy Guy: intro and solos in "I Smell a Rat"

So many good one- so little time to list them (or even think about them).

[chomskyite2]

16. voodoo child - hendrix...

all of it...perfect.

[Catshrink]

17. Hendrix indeed --

[Catshrink]

25. Maybe we're the only old farts here...

Hendrix Hendrix Hendrix!!!

Oh yeah, and Clapton, too.

[DBoon]

84. Toad

From Eric's Cream days

[opiate69]

18. Black Sabbath

The outro solo Tony Iommi laid down on "Dirty Women"....stellar.

[Tom Kitten]

23. Love It or Hate It...

The Velvet Underground "I Heard Her Call My Name"....from the lp White Light, White Heat...It begins right after Lou reed says "and then my mind split open" with a shriek of pure feedback that'll have you clawing your face off in no time...

[DrFunkenstein]

89. See, I Always Loved The Solo On "I'm Set Free"

It gets me every time.

[thebigidea]

92. seconded

along with SISTER RAY, of course. Any given minute of it... especially when the drums finally change and pick up the tempo...

[bloom]

24. I'll vote for Neil Young's guitar solo on Cortez the Killer (Zuma)

.

[Jalixm]

28. Cortez

Have you heard Slints cover of it? It, along with most of their oeuvre, just kills me, it's so good.

[bloom]

30. no, I'll have to look for it

.

[WilliamPitt]

29. Or his famous solo from Cinnamon Girl.

Nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee nee.

The greatest one-note solo in all of music history.

[DS1]

38. If Type O Negative can still make it rock

it has to be good!

[WilliamPitt]

26. 'Little Wing' by Stevie Ray Vaughn

with 'The Inlaw Josey Wales' by Phish (along with maybe 20 other songs) as a dark horse in the running.

[phishhead]

40. Inlaw Josey Wales? Strange 2nd choice. But good

I'm thinking "Down with Disease", or "Chalkdust Torture"

[WilliamPitt]

42. Or You Enjoy Myself or Maze or Stash or Chalkdust Torture or

etc.

[phishhead]

51. Yeah. Good point.

[stickdog]

62. Run Like An Antelope

David Bowie

[DS1]

52. Excellent choice

SRV will always be the greatest in my books, however, nothing stirs my emotions like Comfortably Numb does. I can hear just three notes of it and I know what solo it is. Like I said before, I've seen the most wooden people suddenly turn into air-guitar heros when Comfortably Numb is played, it's just that powerful.

[BlackRhino]

97. That's a great one. SRV... what can you say?

I wish I could still say he was a living legend. I really, really do.

[opiate69]

27. I cannot believe....

Nobody has mentioned "Hotel California" yet! Not only is the solo incredible, but the entire song is just perfectly written, arranged and produced..

[DS1]

37. I'll never forget banging out a few chords of that

to a future girlfriend, she was convinced that 5 guitars were required to play it, I heard it, played it, got some. Guitars rock.

[Ein]

32. Propagandhi or Malmstein

Purina Hall of Fame. <---Purely b/c the extremely fast stuff impresses me, though I'm sure if I dug Van Halen I would've heard faster. (Doesn't Eddie do a tap solo in hot for teacher?)

Yngwie Malmstein is just sick. SICK SICK SICK <--- Not best solo, best guitarist...ever

Based on pure sound, 311 - Use of time, 2 different solos in that song.

[Kat45]

34. Van Halen's "Eruption" is a guitar solo so good that it's a whole song

Clapton has so many good guitar solos, especially in Cream (and in Derek & the Dominoes), that I can't even focus on one right now. (I'm also past what should be my bedtime and half brain-dead right now.)

For a simpler one, I like Clapton's solo in the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

When my brain wakes up tomorrow, I'll try to think of some more. With so many great guitarists--Hendrix, Clapton, Jeff Beck, Page, Slash, Satriani, Vai--I should be able to think of some.

[imax2268]

39. Anything by...

Randie Rhodes...hands down the best guitarist ever...

next to Hendrix...

[AntiCoup2K4]

44. Indeed... Randy's solos even made the first two Quiet Riot albums good....

....as long as you ignore DuBrow's dumbassed lyrics.

[Peachhead22]

36. David Gilmour/Pink Floyd

Comfortably Numb

[DS1]

41. That's 2 votes for Comfortably Numb

like I said, it can make even the most solitary person turn into an air-guitar hero!

[SOteric]

43. The last cut on

"Supernatural" is a piece call The Calling in which Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton alternate some amazing and kickass guitar solos. That would be my pick.

Though there's some excellent Hendrix, some Mark Knofler that get a nod, and BB King's The Thrill is Gone off of "Why I Sing the Blues" is the stuff of legend.

[Elidor]

45. Now you've gotten me started

I'd almost add another vote for Gilmour's solo on Time. There's not much rock that's truly classic, but that one is immortal.

Even better, IMO, is Alex Lifeson's fucking ungodly awesome solo on Limelight, with - IIRC - a guitar synthesizer, I forget which brand - and those otherworldly echoes he sets up. What a fucking SOUND!!! It's not wall to wall, it's mountain to mountain!

And of course, the solo on Freewill. I've blown a few speakers on that one. But Lifeson's masterpiece is probably La Villa Strangiato. I never quite mastered that solo in my own guitar playing, but it's damn fun trying. Greg Howe remade the song and his version is even better. Must hear.

Jeff Beck's solo on Roger Waters' What God Wants, Part 3 is probably better than anything Gilmour has done since the 1970's, and coming from a huge Gilmour fan, that's saying a lot.

Speaking of which, the two solos on Comfortably Numb are even more fun to play than to listen to. And easy to play. The solo on Mother is another favorite, and so simple a child can play it.

Adrian Belew has had some great ones, but it's hard for me to pick just one.

Honorable Mentions:
Rocky Mountain Way
Hotel California
Up the Beach - Jane's Addiction
Hell, I could go on all night...in fact, I just might....

[HEyHEY]

46. What about chuck berry?

JOhnny b. goode

[caribmon]

48. Anyone heard Joe Bonamassa yet?

http://www.jbonamassa.com

<SNIP>

Joe’s astounding ability to play the guitar was evident when he first picked up the instrument at the age of four. By the time he was 12 years old, Joe was gigging around upstate New York with a band of adult sidemen and had opened for B.B. King at a show in Rochester, NY.

King was so impressed that he invited young Bonamassa onstage with him. “Joe’s potential is so great that he hasn’t begun to scratch the surface,” King later told an interviewer. “He’s young, with great ideas. He’s one of a kind, a legend before his time.”

Bonamassa made his national recording debut as the lead guitarist for Bloodline, a band made up — aside from Joe — of the offspring of famous musicians. Waylon Krieger was the son of Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger; drummer Erin Davis was the son of jazz giant Miles Davis; and bassist Berry Oakley Jr.’s father, Berry Sr., had been a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band. Joe co-wrote much of the original material on Bloodline’s self-titled album, released in 1995.

<SNIP


http://www.jbonamassa.com/IfHeartachesWereNickles-Livef...

[phishhead]

49. Pink Floyd - Money

n/t

[MiltonLeBerle]

50. Tommy Bolin had some fantastic guitar solos...

I'd give it to him, but I'd be hard pressed to pick his "best" one...'Wild Dogs'? 'Bustin' out for Rosie'?

[stickdog]

64. Post Toastie (NT)

[TheZoo]

53. George Harrison

Sorry, I can't put my finger on any single solo. My top 3 is:

"Something"
"Roll Over Beethoven"
"Got to Get You into my life"

As far as a specific solo, I really dig Jimmy Page during "Fool in the Rain." It might not be technically perfect, but it fits in so perfectly into that song - very depressing, but with a bit of hope.

[unblock]

55. mark knoffler (dire straits) tunnel of love

the piano work is nice too

[incontrovertible]

56. "Coming Down The Mountain"

Dave Navarro, Jane's Addiction, Nothing's Shocking.

The song that single-handedly ended Hair Metal.

[the_real_38]

57. "Rikki don't lose that Number" ...

.. by Steely Dan - short, sweet, and to the point - with punctuated and fluid themes. And to the original poster - if you were going with Floyd, you should have picked the solos from "Breathe" or "Echoes".

[Euphen]

58. Robert Fripp's solo in Fraktured

If that doesn't bring a tear to your eye then you're not human.

[tarkus]

59. Ageement

I won't argue with that one; that's an arguement I can't win. Though Comfortably Numb is great...

[stlsaxman]

63. I was gonna say Fripp on Eazy Money...

or Kings Lead Hat or Ste. Elmos Fire or hell even Firepower with David Sylvian
but damn you're right if you mean Fracture on Starless And Bible Black.
And yeah, even the new one- Fraktured....

jesus he's done so many great solos....

Gilmore is also a contender with Wuthering Hieghts with Kate Bush...

But the QUINTESSENTIAL rock solo is- get ready-
Aqualung .... Martin Barre... (showing my age again)

[ProfessorGAC]

108. Ding, Ding, Ding

You are correct, sir!

Aqualung is the quintessential rock guitar solo on a vocal based song. It's a song within a song. It's travels across the spectrum of musical ideas and it fits perfectly within the context of the song.

Greatest solo within a tune EVER!
The Professor

[BlackRhino]

98. OH YEAH!!! Frakture is incredible. Repeat listens required!

Definitely! I remember listening to it the first time and thinking: "enh!" But then, when I listened to it the SECOND time, I was like: "Holy Shit! He's hitting all those notes on PURPOSE! There's an incredible structure there! HOLY SHIT!!!"

And you know what? Their latest album just came out (The Power to Believe), and King Crimson STILL put the boots to 99.999% of the people making music these days. Level Five picks you up and throws you through a goddam wall.

[sasquatch]

60. Jimi Hendrix "Are You Experienced"

When I first heard it I went nuts.

[stickdog]

61. Jimi Hendrix - 'Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)'

Eric Clapton on Stephen Stills' "Old Times, Good Times"

Clapton & Allman on "Keep On Growing"

Tommy Bolin "Post Toastee"

Ten Years After "I'd Love To Change The World"

Larry Coryell "Elementary Guitar Solo #5"

[captain wardrobe]

65. zappa

frank zappas
'F**ck yourself'
has an amazing steve vai solo on it
but the solo on this song is re-contextualised by the
zappa rant,
it just becomes one hell of a rock-out....
never been a huge fan of over perfect
guitar playing...as a failed metal guitarist
myself...!!!!
i love jimmy page!!!

'i can't quit you babe'
any one heard the newly released 'live 'stuff?..

gimme my motorhead...ace of spades...

comfortably numb is sooo beautiful though...
recently saw Dave Gilmour on an hour long live TV thing
doing solo show with Robert Wyatt as a guest...
really moving...

Iron maidens
'number of the beast' is a ripper solo...

hee hee....

as for faaaast guys...how about buckethead?
wears a KFC bucket on his head!
and plays far out superfast sh*it...
Did the John carpenter movie the ghosts of mars theme

music with Anthrax....

How about Funkadelicas 'maggot brain'???

[LostInAmerica]

67. Frank Zappa

"Watermelon in Easter Hay"

[jus_the_facts]

68. Bass solo....the late great Cliff Burton of Metallica......

.....(Anethesia)~Pulling Teeth intro to WHIPLASH
off KILL 'EM ALL!!

RIP CLIFF!

BUD!!!

[rppper]

104. DAMMITT...i wanted to say that one.....

...that is the hard rock bassists quintesential masterpiece......

while we are on the album "kill 'em all" for that matter, dave mustaines solo on "jump in the fire" would make a dead man want to play air guitar.

[jus_the_facts]

119. So come on.....

.....jump in the fire...yeeeeah....awesome indeed...gettin' to see them perform 'Seek & Destroy' live was ultimate awesome!

totally agree with ya man!

[rppper]

142. they haven't made a truely great album since.....

..."ride the lightning" though...man they REALLY suck now...i'm sorry, but thats the way i feel. "and justice..." and the black album were solid works, no doubt, but they lost their musical souls after that. i dislike the 1st realease from st.anger so much i haven't even considered buying it, really i would never BUY another metallica album after the way they showed the world how greedy they could really be.

i will however, continue to buy anything mustaine puts out just despite lars f'n ulrich and hetfield. Megadeth is still putting out old-school thrash.

in rememberence of the metallica of yesteryear.......

TRAPPED UNDER ICE

I don't know how to live through this hell
Woken up, I'm still locked in his shell
Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
Break the ice I can't take it anymore

Freezing
Can't move at all
Screaming
Can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out
I'm trapped under ice

Crystalized as I lay here and rest
Eyes of glass stare directly at death
From deep sleep I have broken away
No one knows, no one hears what I say

Freezing
Can't move at all
Screaming
Can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out
I'm trapped under ice

Scream from my soul
Fate, mystified
Hell, forever more

No release from my cryonic state
What is this? I've been stricken by fate
Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free
Hand of doom has a tight grip on me

Freezing
Can't move at all
Screaming
Can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out
I'm trapped under ice

best thrash song ever, IMHO........

[jonnyblitz]

69. Comfortably Numb is just a damn good song period!! n/t

[newyawker99]

72. Clapton.................Layla!

Jimmie Page...............Heartbreaker and Dazed & Confused.

[Bridget Burke]

106. I think of Layla as a duet.

Don't forget Duane Allman...

[dfong63]

73. does anyone else like

"embryonic journey" by jefferson airplane?

[Character Assassin]

77. Yes, but that's Jorma with an acoustic guitar, not a 'solo', per se

Fine piece, though.

[orangecoloredapple]

74. Not the BEST, but Jethro Tull - that little bit in Aqualung

damn good.

[Bossy Monkey]

75. I am so going to get flamed for this

but when I saw the topic (twice) the only thing that came to mind was "More Than a Feeling" by Boston and Mr. Scholz' magic geetar noise machine

[DrFunkenstein]

91. Same Chords As Louie Louie

Sing along!

[activationproducts]

76. Allan Holdsworth-City Nights

Allan Holdsworth's City Nights is by far the best guitar solo ever recorded.

[Character Assassin]

78. Robert Smith's into to 'The Kiss' from Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me.

Damn thing goes on and on and never once loses its righteous fury.

[-..__...]

79. Can't name just one...

AC/DC (Angus Young) - Whole Lotta Rosie
Eddie Van Halen- Eruption
Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues
Guns and Roses (Slash) - November Rain
Metallica (Kirk Hammet) - One
Joe Satrinai - Motorcycle Driver

[OneTwentyoNine]

80. #1 Van Halen You Really got me....

Air geetar heaven....


David

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

83. George Harrison

Something

[mac56]

112. How about "And Your Bird Can Sing"?

And "If I Needed Someone"
And "Nowhere Man"
And "Got To Get You Into My Life" - hell, most of "Revolver".

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

139. I love everything he's done

It's hard to pick.

[DBoon]

85. Link Wray

- Rumble
- Jack The Ripper
- Switchblade

He invented punk rock in 1956!

[Redleg]

124. Link Wray was a true rock visionary!

He was one of Pete Townshend's influences.

[tuck]

135. heartily agreed eom

nt

[oustemnow]

86. "Police & Thieves" by the Clash

not one, but two great solos in that one. Plus, the way the rhythm guitars play against each other with the stab chords is most grooving.

[oustemnow]

87. "Kid" by the Pretenders

it just comes out of nowhere with this waterfall of melody. RIP, James Honeyman-Scott.

[RetroLounge]

88. Ten Years After "I'd Love To Change The World"

Just went out and re-bought the LP.

In Vinyl, you heretic heathen sterile CD owners...

Perfect solo!

[peterh]

96. I concur….Alvin Lee had few peers (n/t)

.

[DrFunkenstein]

90. Mike Bloomfield on East-West

It is a bad ass Coltrane-inspired job that gets into serious Velvet Underground terrain but with spot-on choice of notes. Butterfield's harp trumps Elvin Bishop's shining solo, but Bloomfield's takes them all down.

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http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS803053...

[salmonhorse]

93. Excellent Choice!!

Clapton's two blues breaks in: Crossroads ~ Live, are also very hot ~

[DrFunkenstein]

100. Layla - Best Two-Guitar Interplay?

That's a whole other can of worms!

[salmonhorse]

115. Never seen anyone change a string on stage so fast...

...as Duane Allman at The Whiskey in the midst a kick blues break. Didn't seem but 35-40secs he was back in tune and on the money. But then, my preference is for live performance wherever possible ~

[Rabrrrrrr]

94. Another for Watermelon in Easter Hay

By Zappa

But I'd be very happy to form consensus around Comfortably Numb.

Or better yet, to form consensus around Pigs (Three Different ones) or Dogs. And I know that live wasn't part of the condition of the question, but the live bootlegs I have of Pigs and Dogs are far better than the album, and the album is abso-f-ing-brilliant.

[4_Legs_Good]

95. Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth (Genesis - Selling England by the Pound)

1974

Actually it has no competition. Clearly the best use of a guitar ever.

david

Kucinich 2004

[JackSwift]

99. Hendrix, Allman & Clapton

All Along the Watchtower -- Hendrix

Layla, guitar feature just before piano seque. Either Allman or Clapton did it

Clapton -- from Just One Night, Cocaine

[DrFunkenstein]

101. Outside Choice - Grant Green's Matador

<>

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS803053...

(I know I picked two! So sue me!)

[chenGOD]

102. Hendrix-Drivin' South

His cover of this Curtis Knight classic on the BBC sessions is stunning. Simply mindblowingly good.

Comfortably Numb is a very emotional solo, but it's not a difficult bit to play. Gilmour's best trait is ability to use wonderfully sustained notes, he holds notes for eternities, and does it well.

[leftofthedial]

103. Reelin in the Years

[regularguy]

118. My fav. too.

[leftofthedial]

137. Elliott Randall

Becker and Fagan's first hired guitar slinger.

[VOX]

105. Clapton in "Have You Heard," with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers...

From c. 1966-67, on the first US bluesbreakers album. A slow 12-bar blues, and EC is utterly inspired.

[Loonman]

107. I second "Comfortably Numb"

But for sheer muscular power, I'd go for the solo in "Am I Evil", by Metallica, "Do you want To Play" by Extreme, and "Tower of Strength" by the Mission UK.

[MissMillie]

109. Steve Howe (Yes)

On "Fragile" there's an acoustic solo. I think it's called "Mood for a Day". I love it.

[CBGLuthier]

110. AquaLung

Martin Barre. Second Best? Locomotive Breath.

[sujan]

113. Echoes

Pink Floyd. Especially the funky part.

And yes, Live and recorded. They are both awesome especially the 'Live at Pompeii' one.

[mac56]

114. "Sultans Of Swing".

nm

[ProfessorGAC]

116. Oooh! Another Winner!

That is Knopfler's best thought out solo. (At least on the first 3 albums. After he got a distortion unit, i lost interest.) I always liked that one a great deal, too!

[ProfessorGAC]

117. A Short List

Two of these were mentioned by others, but a few were not, and one is probably not on anyone else's radar.

Reeling in The Years - Elliott Randall on Can't Buy on Thrill (Steely Dan)
Aqualung - Martin Barre on Aqualung (Jethro Tull)
Theme from an Imaginary Western - Leslie West on Mountain (Mountain)
Elephant Talk - Adrian Belew on Discipline (King Crimson)
LaGrange - Billy Gibbons on Tres Hombres (ZZ Topp)
You Are The Girl - Elliot Easton (forgot the album name) (The Cars)
The Professor

[Eat_The_Rich]

120. Elliot Easton

The solo in "Just What I Needed" on the Cars debut album

[ProfessorGAC]

121. I Picked A Different Easton Solo

I think he's probably the most underrated guitarist in rock history.
The Professor

[Eat_The_Rich]

129. I Agree

The solo In "My Best Friends Girlfriend" is pretty hot also. I have played guitar in classic rock cover bands for many years, and at one time or another have played both of these songs. The solo in "My Best Friends Girlfriend" was one of the more technically difficult solos I have learned. Most rock guitar is just "wanking", but his solos are very well thought out (apoligies to the Pink Floyd fans. The solo in Comfortably Numb is also very well orchestrated).

[XNASA]

122. Robert Fripp on Eno's "Baby's On Fire"

Singe.

[Colin Ex]

125. Rage Against the Machine -- Ashes in the Fall

Yay for TOm Morello.

-C

[utopian]

126. Robert Fripp

On Eno's "Baby's on Fire"

It's the most mind bending guitar solo I've ever heard.

[XNASA]

128. Look up!!! I beat you by 17 minutes.

Great minds think alike, I'm told.

[ProfessorGAC]

132. Don't Fight Guys!

We'll all just agree that Fripp is one the all-time greats and we can all be happy.

BTW: The solo on Neil, Jack & Me is terrific too! But, i think my favorite is on the song Indiscipline.
The Professor

[utopian]

136. I guess so

[southpaw]

127. Sorrow... David Gilmour

Also from "Momentary Lapse of Reason", Gilmour's solo in "On the Turning Away." A Gaelic melody played with Gilmour's unmatched lyrical style and more feeling than Clapton ever squeezed out of a Stratocaster.

I love Gilmour!

[mkregel]

130. King Crimson's "Thela Hun Jinjeet"

Belew and Fripp trading licks....

man that blew me away!

[ProfessorGAC]

134. Oh, mkregel!

Now you and i are fast friends. Anyone who is blown away by that period Crimson is a friend of mine!

I saw that band live on the Beat tour. Oh Your God, were they phenomenal!
The Professor

[Jonte_1979]

131. Jonny Greenwood

"Paranoid Android".

[XNASA]

133. Nice choice.

I kinda like the solo in "The Tourist" too.

[geniph]

138. Stevie Ray Vaughn

pick the song. Any song. Stevie Ray wins.

I loves me some SRV!!!

[markbark]

141. Get The Knack

Berton Averre tearing up the fretboard during the solo on "My Sharona"


--MAB