Best Solo Ever (No Nirvana allowed, Or Dave Grohl)

[Codmate]

Too many great guitar solos! Just to name a few...
GN'R - Slash's November Rain solo
Eagles - Hotel California
Queen - aaah, I can't pick just one... all is great!
Clapton - intro part of Layla
Metallica - Creeping death & Nothing else matter
Pink Floyd - High hope
Martis Jun - Need your love so bad
Peter Green - The Supernatural
Thousands more to list...


Jaymz

I've always loved that long sustained note in The Supernatural. That's the track that really turned me on to Peter Green.

Also - yeah, Brian May has written some of the most wonderfully melodic solos. He's just a hero!

 

[Light]

The first one being the answer to mode no 3 of the Hirojoshi.

A quick Google search showed me WTF you were talking about. Just because some idiot on the internet wanted to call something a scale doesn't actually make it one. That would generally be called an ARRPEGGIO, you troll. Arpeggios are not generally thought of as having modes, and even if they did, why would I even care? I make MUSIC, not hand exercises.

2nd, Minimise x^x.

Since when did algebra have anything to do with music?



And by the by, I pretty much never play barre chords, as the loose ligaments and tendenosis make them pretty fucking tough. My hand troubles have led me to a style which includes a lot of open strings played with chords up the neck for a lot of very close intervals and ringing notes. And I am a fingerpicker (usually), which is another thing dim wits like you can't even come close to figuring out. I mean, for fucks sake, why play only one line when you could be playing six?

(By the by, since when did "Rawk God" guitar players ever use anything BUT barre chords and power chords in their "writing.")


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[Light]

Probably the greatest "agree to disagree" point in rock/metal solo history. I agree with Guitar World's assessment in their countdown of 100 Worst Licks/Riffs/Solos Of All Time:

"Vernon Reid shows us what it would sound like if you tried to play a solo with a boat motor."

...

And yet, I can never get tired of this song. Something seems to just work here. And isn't that what it's all about? I certainly won't take Light's stance that he displayed "monster chops" on that tune, but the solo does exactly what it's supposed to...it's an appropriate extension of the song.

SEE! Even you can't deny that it is a PERFECT solo for the song!

It is one of those things where it sounds like some one who can just flat out play got so worked up in the emotion of the song that he just ran out of chops. He had more to say, but his hands just couldn't keep up. Absolutly fucking BRILIANT. And if you don't think it take chops to play like that, try and learn that fucker, and not just playing it, but with the attitude. It can't be done.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[GoldFalcon]

All you need to write a song like Smells Like Teen Spirit....is kindergarten.

Well, that's good news.

I've been to kindergarten so I should have no problem writing a massively popular and original hit that simultaneously catapults me to stardom, makes me rich, focuses national attention on the music scene where I live, kills off one style of music, launches a style of music, influences countless millions, revolutionizes the industry, and makes me a househould name.

Not to mention that my song will still sound fresh and original and have people bobbing their heads a decade and a half after I publish it. Cool.

Things are looking up for me.

If you don't think "Smells Like Teen Spirit" should be taken seriously as a song then listen to Tori Amos do it and you might change your mind. It's very powerful.

 

[Khompewtur]

"Orion" Metallica

 

[Khompewtur]

"Surfing with the Alien" by Satch.

Every song on this album is a winner and to me this guy is the best there is.

 

[mshilarious]

Probably the greatest "agree to disagree" point in rock/metal solo history. I agree with Guitar World's assessment in their countdown of 100 Worst Licks/Riffs/Solos Of All Time:

"Vernon Reid shows us what it would sound like if you tried to play a solo with a boat motor."

I know for a fact that Vernon Reid can play very well--seen and heard him do it several times. This solo always reminds me of non-musician buddies of mine coming over to my house, picking up my guitar, hitting every stomp box they can find, and just trying to blaze away aimlessly because my beer suddenly turned them into a shredder.

Funny, it reminds me of your first Rumble entry, "Suck My Rock" Which I voted for as the winner

 

[philpereira]

SEE! Even you can't deny that it is a PERFECT solo for the song!

It is one of those things where it sounds like some one who can just flat out play got so worked up in the emotion of the song that he just ran out of chops. He had more to say, but his hands just couldn't keep up. Absolutly fucking BRILIANT. And if you don't think it take chops to play like that, try and learn that fucker, and not just playing it, but with the attitude. It can't be done.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

I love that song, I was maybe 8 or 9 when it came out and I thought it was awesome and still do. It's a perfect combination of loud music and political lyrics. The thing that bugs me about some music people is how stuck up they can be. Like Jimmy Page is written off by some because he is less than technically perfect. I look at it this way, some people focus on the technicality of music while others connect with music on an emotional level. I could care less if a song had simple playing, most of the best songs ever are incredibly easy to play. Anyway, I'm sort of rambling, so the point is that as long as a solo or whatever fits the song, it's good for me. Sometimes less is more, other times more is more.

 

[Purge]

Funny, it reminds me of your first Rumble entry, "Suck My Rock" Which I voted for as the winner

LOL, very true!! I was subconsciously trying to duplicate that solo...!!!

I might've missed a note or two though...

 

[alex_n]

"big bikes" by Kuyss

Who said solos had to be pretty?

 

[alex_n]

"Brother" Alice in Chains

 

[cobradenim]

Mike McCready

Travisinflorida, Mike McCready is a great player. One of my favorites.

 

[honedawg]

Anything by Monte Montgomery

But especially his live cover of Romeo and Juliet

 

[doogle]

I hope you play the Hirojoshi scale using just intonation.

BTW - it's 'barre' and mr has a capital 'M'.

If people that play barre chords are somehat below you then I guess Jim Hall should be licking your boots right now and Lenny Breau should leap out of his grave and grovel at your feet.

Persoanlly I just feel sorry for you - you're making yourself look like a complete idiot.

I am a complete idiot,
so im on the right path then.
Thanks for noticing

 

[Phildo]

Well, my favourite solo is Lou reed's in "Sunday Morning". Out of tune, messy and yet still melodic and perfect for the song. About 95% of all solos ever played - IMHO - are worthless. Any music is worthless unless it says something - whether it's Satch or Cobain, if it's nothing more than an excercise in style then it has no reason to exist.

Just my opinion, of course, but then I wouldn't know what a mode was if it came round to my house and stole my dog.

 

[Santiagoacr]

Some of my favourites:

The fly, by U2 (solo by the Edge). An amazing sound for a great solo

What goes on (Live at la Cave, 1968), by the Velvet Underground. Lou Reed goes bonkers and plays his best ever solo.

May this be love, by Emmylou Harris (solo played by Daniel Lanois). An amazing cover of this Hendrix track from Emmylou's Wrecking ball record.Just vocals, drums, Lanois' guitar and bass pedals, which goes through a kind of reverse delay effect. In the middle it contains a beatiful psychedelic solo.

Santiago

 

[dwarf]

Nirvana's as Gallons of rubbing alcahol flow through the strip. That solo is the best

creedance- Proud Mary
Ted Nuget- Cat scratch Fever
Simon and Garfunkle- Punkys delema (best whistle solo ever)

And yes I'm being serious.

 

[Light]

What is algebra fool
Its mathematics
How were harmonics dicovered fuckwit, with mathematics => (which means therefore so a dumb fuck such as you can follow)
=> algebra=mathematics=dicovery and proof of harmonics.

No, mathmatics and physics were used to explain the music which was already being made by people who probably couldn't read, and certainly couldn't tell you the first thing about math.

No good music has ever come first from theory. It always comes first from people who just PLAY. Theory is always just trying to catch up with the guys who don't spend too much time thinking about it.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

 

[SHEPPARDB.]

Well, there was a really nice melodic solo on a Simply Red album that I just love, but I am sure what you are looking for is guitar wanking (certainly, that is what you have listed), and for that I would have to go with anything Pat Metheny has ever done.

And by the by, what the heck is wrong with playing a solo that just really makes the song better instead of showing off that you can play a bunch of notes? That is exactly what Kurt Cobain did, and it is what Pat Smear did on the Foo Fighters "The Color and the Shape." They may not have had much in the way of chops, but there are only a handfull of albums with more perfect guitars than "The Color and the Shape." Joan Osborne's "Relish" comes to mind.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi[/QUOTE
You have got to be fucking kidding!

 

[SHEPPARDB.]

Well, my favourite solo is Lou reed's in "Sunday Morning". Out of tune, messy and yet still melodic and perfect for the song. About 95% of all solos ever played - IMHO - are worthless. Any music is worthless unless it says something - whether it's Satch or Cobain, if it's nothing more than an excercise in style then it has no reason to exist.

Just my opinion, of course, but then I wouldn't know what a mode was if it came round to my house and stole my dog.

The bullshit ramblings of one who has yet to learn how to tune his guitar,
no doubt.