Guitar solos

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Hey guys

I am a big fan of guitar solos - I would love to know all you rock fans favourites.

Mine aren't strictly rock, but nevertheless are worthy of a mention.

My faves are:-

Let's get rocked - Def Leppard
Chesney Hawkes - The one and only
Guns N Roses - November Rain (number 1)
Bon Jovi - Dry County

Jim's favourite - Sweet Child O'Mine - needs no explanation.


Naturally, if anyone talks through them, they get silenced!

What do you think is worthy of a mention?

What are yours?

 

[sifty]

As much as I like a fast, energetic and technically difficult thrash/metal solo, it's pretty hard to go past George Harrison's work on Something...

 

[Bosch]

Cult of Personality by Living Colour.
Amazing solo

 

[Bosch]

Robbie Robertson is a very under rated guitarist, wonderful solo from King Harvest

 

[Bosch]

Jimmy Page at Knebworth 1979 is simply incredible, as is John Bonhams drums.

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

My top five

5. Suppers Ready, Genesis (Steve Hackett)
4. Still got the blues for you - Gary Moore
3. Lights Out - UFO
2. Rock Bottom - UFO
1. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Wil listen to them all.

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

Wil listen to them all.

Prepare yourself. Suppers Ready is 23 minutes long

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Prepare yourself. Suppers Ready is 23 minutes long

Not going anywhere

 

[LesTom]

The solo in Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd is immense.

 

[Bosch]

Jessica by the Allman Brothers.
Actually anything by the Allman Brothers

 

[Alastair70]

I’m not counting duets so Freebird, Hotel California and Alter Bridges Blackbird lose out, and in no particular order.

Alex Skolnic - Powerslave/Testament
Relatively faithful cover of of Dave Murray’s best guitar solo but with a whole load of Skolnic magic thrown in. Actually, this is my favourite solo of all time

Nuno Bettencourt - Get The Funk Out/Extreme
The first time I heard anybody do 2-handed tapping and it blew me away

Steve Vai - For The Love Of God
Easily my favourite guitarist, from his Zappa days through Dave Lee Roth and beyond. The ‘burl’ 3/4 of the way through is impossible to recreate, I’ve tried. You basically hit your tremolo arm like you did with rulers on the desktop at school and Vai magic come out of your guitar……if your Steve Vai

Jimmy Page - Since I’ve Been Loving You/Led Zeppelin
Blues in straight C-minor rather than the relative Dorian key (notes from Emaj scale rather than A-flat maj) one of the reasons it has such an original sound. The other is the awesome solo, easily Pages best in my book.

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Nuff said

Edited to correct glaring errors!!

 

[Rodcx500z]

Dave Gilmore, time, coming back to life, Joe Satriani, surfing with the alien, in a blue dream, Prince, purple rain, he is very underrated, Jim Greggen, come up and see me, and loads more

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Johnny B Goode by Marty Mcfly?

Seriously though, no one said Dire Straits 'Money for Nothing'? (starts about 1.35) or Jimi's Voodoo Chile!

 

[Rodcx500z]

Johnny B Goode by Marty Mcfly?

Seriously though, no one said Dire Straits 'Money for Nothing'? (starts about 1.35) or Jimi's Voodoo Chile!

I did say and loads more, dire straights, Telegraph road, Santana, Samba pa ti,

 

[Rodcx500z]

Santana, song of the wind, this guy is pretty cool,

 

[Bosch]

No solo but a lovely riff from Living Colour (coupled with a nice anti colonisation message)

 

[Bosch]

And finally, nae guitars but a lovely string sound of 'The Creggan White Hare.'

 

[Tickles58]

Still in love with you by thin Lizzy

 

[Cheyne_brewer]

Still in love with you by thin Lizzy

That is one awesome song, the best they ever recorded