Whats your favorite SOLO???

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Marty Friedman (Megadeth) - Killing Roads
Mark Ribot (Tom Waits) - Way Down in a Hole
James Murphy (Obituary) - Infected
Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle) - None of them knew they were robots
Trey Spruance (Faith no More) - Evidence
? (Vaya Con Dios) - Neh Nah Nah
Edge (!) (U2) - Love is blindness
Bradley (Sublime) - Santeria
Fredrik Thordendal (Solo CD) - Missing Time
? (Cradle of Filth) - Amor E Morte
? (Muse) - New born
? (Suffocation) - Liege of inveracity

Anything by Soilwork, Children of Bodom, Darkane, Marty, Trey Spruance, Django Reinhart.. Probably forgot a few..
 
I will now demonstrate my painfully "middle-of-the-road" tastes...

"Something" - George Harrison (recorded live, at the same time as the orchestra overdub).

"Setting Me Up" - Mark Knopfler, from the "Dire Straits" album.

"Never Going Back Again" - Lindsey Buckingham/Fleetwood Mac.

"Candy-O" Elliot Easton/The Cars

"The End" - George/Paul/John trading off at the end of "Abbey Road".

Most anything by Albert Lee, Leo Kottke and Eric Clapton.

A friend recently turned me on to an amazing bluegrass player - Bryan Sutton. And speaking of bluegrass, I always loved Ricky Skaggs' playing on the song "Country Boy."

And i agree with all of you about so many other songs mentioned!
 
How Great?!

My choice changes depending what i'm listning to but a few off key ones spring to mind:

Dave Gilmore: all 4 solos from dogs on the animals album

Brain May: killer Queen

Gary Moore Parisienne Walkways

All of these are so tonally driven and you'll be hard pressed to find a more technically adept group of guys.
 
"Jockey full of bourbon" on Tom Waits's Raindogs guitar by Marc Ribot one of my favorite albims ever.
 
SRV: China Girl (both solos)
Slash: November Rain
Van Halen: Hear about it Later
Satriani: Always with you, Always with me
Easton: You’ve all I got tonight
Vai: Eugene’s Bag of Tricks
Rhodes: Over the Mountain
Gilmore: Wish You Were Here
Richards: Sympathy for the Devil
DeMartini & Crosby: Round and Round

Underrated out of left field picks:

Tom Keiffer: Bad Seamstress Blues
Bentoncourt: Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee
Sabo: 18 and Life
Wilton & DeGarmo: Eye’s of a Stranger
& not really a typical solo but Prince’s opening to When Dove’s Cry
 
1. Whichever solo I've just conjured that I think might be good enough to let someone else listen to.

2. Any solo that does more with less.
 
A few favs:

Mark Knopfler: "Lady Writer" - a lot of expression w/o using distrotion or effects

Hiram Bullock on Stings cover of Little Wing"

Santana - "She's Not There" His cover just kicks booty in general

Clapton - "Bell Bottom Blues" A lot of expression in the solo

Well, that's a few out of many!
 
I'll chime in with some obscure stuff:

Brian May - Brighton Rock (from the Sheer Heart Attack album) All us old timers went out and got our first Delay pedals after hearing that.....

Randy Rhoads - Tonight (both solos, but especially the one that fades out at the end of the song.)

Randy Rhoads - Goodbye to Romance (brings on tears of awe almost every time...)

Gary Moore - anything from Thin Lizzy's Black Rose album, but especially Waiting for an Alibi and S&M

Prince - Purple Rain, When Doves Cry, Computer Blue hell.....anything! The man is a master and he gets no respect for it. I was glad to see one other post mention him, but I have to elaborate. Prince has one of the most original styles and sounds there is. My disclaimer here is that I saw him live last night here in So Cal. I was ready to give my left nut to know what he was playing through. His tone was absolutely incredible. He played for two and a half hours, including a 20 minute acoustic set which was just him and his guitar and vocal......solo. He played his trademark Tele quite a bit and he had a Strat, too. However, when they closed the show with Purple Rain, he got out that big, crazy looking guitar shaped like his "symbol." I'm not sure I've ever heard an electric guitar sound so good in an arena (and with the stage set up "in the round" no less.....) He's got one hell of a sound crew. As you can imagine, he also had an incredible group of musicians with him.
 
Dream Theater, Lines in the Sand has to be one of the best ever.
Liquid Tension Experiment, Paradigm Shift
Vai, Answers
Eric Johnson, Cliffs of Dover
Satriani, Summer Song
 
"Foreplay/Longtime"- Boston (Tom Scholz)
"Tender Surrender"- Steve Vai
"In My Dreams"- Dokken (George Lynch)
"Thelonius Beck"- Gov't Mule (Warren Haynes)
"Cowgirl In The Sand"- Neil Young

To name a few...
 
Best? Maybe. My Favorite? Definitely.

Brian Setzer, Stray Cats, "Rumble in Brighton." It's everything I love in a solo: it lifts the song to a higher plateau (like Slash in "November Rain"), it features a well-placed Bigsby wobble, lightning fretboard speed that is NOT gratuitious, and finishes it off with a great bit of feedback. All in about 10 seconds.
 
i have a million....

or, probably, actually, about 1,237..........

;)

a few that come to mind:

  • the solo in "Child in time", Deep purple, off of Made In Japan
  • the middle solo in "Deadly Nightshade", john goodsall of Brand X, off the Masques album
  • "City Nights", allan holdsworth
  • all of the solos in "I'm the One", Van Halen One
  • the solo in "Whole Lotta Love"
  • "Juice", Steve Vai
  • "Centrifugal funk", Frank Gambale
  • the solo in "Rest In Peace", Nuno Bettencourt, Extreme
  • "Time", david gilmore, Pink floyd's DSOTM
  • the solo section in "In the Dead of Night", allan holdsworth, UK

so many moments in time......
 
Man, so many dittos, so little space.

I must first speak the word: Gilmour.

Anything he does is my favorite solo ever. However, I'll direct your attention to The Final Cut for some of his best and least-known gems.

And though it's only been heard by post-Gilmour Roger Waters fans such as myself, you HAVE to check out Jeff Beck's myriad solo breaks in What God Wants from Amused to Death. DAMN, but that boy can play.

I'm glad someone (Buck, I think) mentioned Michael Gurley's solo on Dada's Dorina. That whole album, Puzzle, has some really great guitar playing on it. Not sure what happened after that, though a friend of mine saw them at Stubbs in Austin a few years ago and said Gurley tore the roof off the joint. I can believe it.

Ditto on Crossroads. Damn.

And hey, nobody be dissing the solo on Stairway. That's some seriously good stuff.

I'll throw out one that I don't think has been mentioned, and will definitely earn me some dork points, but: Peter Frampton, Do You Feel Like I Do.

Look, I don't even like Frampton most of the time, but you gotta have your ears missing to not hear the ass-whipping being laid down there. Though it's become a cliche now, I can see why that album flew off the shelves.

Okay, must stop now before I get going...
 
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