Whats your favorite SOLO???

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Oh, and Elliott Easton!! I had to learn the solo for Just What I Needed a few years ago, and it's a hell of a lot harder than you might think. Same with You Might Think.
 
Sir_Matthew said:
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.
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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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Any 'dork points' you may have self-admittedly earned by mentioning Frampton is more than offset by the fact that you've actually heard the song "Dorina". Although I don't think of it as a seminal guitar solo song, it really is a great (& original) song with great guitar work.

You're right about Frampton...after he comes out of the 'talking guitar' part of his solo, he really lays it down.
 
Santana--"Evil Ways" & "Black Magic Woman"
Eric Clapton & Duane Allman--"Layla"
Eric Clapton--"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" [The Beatles' White Album]
Leo Kottke--"Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring" [the penultimate 12-string guitar music]
Roger McGuinn--"Eight Miles High" & "My Back Pages"
Peter Green/Danny Kirwan/Jeremy Spencer--"Albatross" [very early Fleetwood Mac]
Jorma Kaukonen--"Somebody To Love" [Jefferson Airplane]
Dickey Betts--"Ramblin' Man"
John Fogerty--"I Heard It Through The Grapevine" & "Fortunate Son"
 
I agree with so many that have already been posted.

I saw a few Allman Brothers songs but i don't think anyone mentioned Jessica yet. God, I love that one.
 
Leo Kottke - Vasaline Machine Gun
Al DiMeola - Mediterranian Sunrise
Pierre Bensusan - Bamboule, 4am
Michael Hedges - Because It's There

Acoustic guitar anyone?
 
What about Al Demoeola's "Valentino", I think that is probably the smoothest guitar I ever heard.

I also always liked Dream thaetre "Erotica" and Steve Vai "for the love of god"
 
the edzell said:
Sabo: 18 and Life
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Hell yeah!!!!
That one rocks!!!!
Absolutely one of the greatest solo's ever....

The one he does in "I Remember You" is great too...
 
A few that come to mind;

Tales of Mystery by Michael Schenker
Wait by White Lion
Beyond the Realms of Death - Judas Priest
 
1. At The Gates - Cold
2. Mars Volta (Omar) - Cisatriz
3. Alice In Chains (Cantrell) - Them Bones and Down In A Hole
4. The Eagles (Eric) - Hotel California
5. Jimmie Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
6. Stevie Ray Vaughn - cover of Little Wing
7. Symphony X (Romeo) - Sea Of Lies
8. Ozzy (Rhoads) - Mr Crowley

I agree with whoever mentioned Suffocation also, great guitarists in that band.

When it comes to non rock solos, I'm all about Scofield, Mclaughlin, and Scott Henderson
 
Nuno is amazing.

oh and I'm going to add Paul Gilbert - I Understand Completely
 
Be Loveless said:
"Jockey full of bourbon" on Tom Waits's Raindogs guitar by Marc Ribot one of my favorite albims ever.
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I reckon the solo on "gin soaked boy" on tom waits swordfish trombones would have to be some of the meanest blues filth guitar things ever recorded. I think a lot of people overlook Tom waits as a source of guitar Inspiration. Theres a always a couple of corker blues or rock things on his albums-and they are all really classy. Plus they use instruments like distorted electric banjoes to do weird sounds and stuff.waits himself is pretty handy on guitar himself.
Pretty much any solo by Robert Johnson,B.B.KING, Chuck Berry, BO Diddley, Muddy Waters or any of the old masters. Everything that comes after owes something to these guys (and heaps of others blues/rock legends).
 
hendrix rainbow bridge

it sounds out of tune and then he weaves a web and breaks it by asking if the microphone is on
 
Slash-Sweet Child of Mine-it builds up and climaxes into wild overbends and wah wah mayhem!

I seen earlier someone mentioning White Lion and I remembered the "Wait" solo which I think is played entirely on the neck which dosent sound cool by description, but it really is!

I also cant forget Van Halens solo on Michael Jacksons "Beat It"

Also that late 80s early 90s English band EMF that had that song "You`re Unbelievable OH!" That has an unexpectedly cool wah wah guitar solo.

I`m gonna be pissed because I know I`ll think of more after I leave work.
 
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