Whats your favorite SOLO???

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Toker41 said:
I don't know his name, but the guy from Primus is an amazing bass player, and there are some great bass solos in thier stuff. I'm not a REAL big fan, but I do like them when I hear them, and have a few songs in my mp3 files, and respect the fact that the man knows his sh*t.
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Ah, Les Claypool :)
 
I'm trying to remember the lead guitar parts that I always just haven't been able to contain myself from playing air guitar to and here they are in no particular order:

Hendrix - Little Wing
Gilmour - Another Brick (it has always moved me)
EVH - Jump
Brian May - Intro to "I want it all"
Gary Moore - Still got the blues
They guy that played the lead in the Commodores' - Easy like Sunday Morning
The Police - So lonely (I love the police :D )

Carlos
 
dafduc said:
Another vote for Guitar Johnny on Birds of Fire.

AlChuck, much as I like Beck, I thought His Goodbye Pork Pie Hat solo was way cheesy - basically just proved that not only couldn't he solo over changes, but he wasn't even gonna try.

Other faves:

Kath - 25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago)
Trower - Day of the Eagle
SRV - Let's Dance (Bowie)
Beck - New Ways / Train Train
Carlton - Spiral (Crusaders)
Becker - My Old School (Steely Dan)
Baxter - Little Darlin' (Doobies)
Allman - One Way Out

and...

...the endless solo in Boz Scaggs' "Loan Me A Dime", Boz and Duane trading licks (was there a 3rd guy?), though I think I was digging the arrangement more than the solos.

There's also an Eric Gale solo from some CTI session that just knocks me out, and one of Jimi's solos from Band of Gypsys, but I forget which tune.
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thats a chunk of my LP collection.... Spiral by the Crusaders off the Free as the Wind album....mercy!!! even the bass line merits an award and would pass as a brilliant solo.


oh.. I wanted to chunk in "Freeway Jam"
 
mmmmmmm

* John Sykes in Whitesnake's "Looking for Love" and "Children of the Night"
* Mick Mars in Motley Crue's "To young to fall in Love"
* Rocky George in Suicidal Tendencie's "Nobody Hears"
* Big Jim Martin in Faith No More's "Smaller and Smaller"
* Joe Perry in Aerosmith's "The other side"
* Anuj Arora in Sodium Channel's "Novocaine" and "Stare"
* Whoever played in Michael Sambello's "She's a Maniac"
* David Gilmour in Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" and "Echoes" and "Mother" and "Pigs (three different ones)"

Peace

PC
 
Bass?

* Billy Gould in Faith No More's "Kindergarden"
* Keith Hubbard in Sodium Channel's "Lush"
* Any Jaco Pastorius
* Any Tony Levin
* Trevor Dunn in Mr Bungle's "Dead Goon"

ANOTHER GUITAR SOLO:

Tommy Bolin in Billy Cobham's "Quadrant 4"

Peace

PC
 
Tom Scholz-- "CANCHTA SAY" ---From third stage

Tom Scholz---"HITCH A RIDE"---From debut boston

Mark Knopler--"SULTANS OF SWING"

Skynrd---------"FREE BIRD"

E.V.H.----------"ERUPTION"

NEAL SCHON-----"LIGHTS"
 
I've been trying and trying to think of something here, but I think I finally got it. On Passion & Warfare, the song after The Audience is listening, the last 8-16 bars of the solo after it get's weird, where all that panning happens, that always blows me away, especially with headphones.

Not home right now, can't remember the song's name. Damn.
 
ERUPTION without a doubt! Thats why I started to play guitar!

anything Gilmour does Com Numb and High Hopes come to mind

Eric Johnson - version of Ave Maria (sp?) Don't know what album its on or where its from but the solo is pretty cool even though I don't like opera! Look for it on Kazaa

Also EJ's Cliffs of Dover (the live version is just sick)

Vai's Rescue Me or Burry me (gay song but kick ass solo at the end)
 
I though about mentioning Eruption, but decided against it just because to me, a good solo is part of a larger song, and takes it somewhere new, or adds something that wasn't there before.

Eruption has something about it though, that makes it different than all the other guitar-wanker 2 minute cadenzas that were popular in the '80's (remember "Hammerhead" or "BattleAxe"?). It has a sense of composition to it that makes it sound complete. And the intensity of even the easier parts of it is undeniable.

OK, you've won me over........


Aaron
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A lot of my fav's have already been covered, so I'll toss out a couple that haven't been mentioned:

Kid Charlemange - Steeley Dan (Larry Carlton)
Sun Medley - Danny Gatton
Shoot Out the Lights - Richard Thompson
Highway Patrol - Junior Brown
 
That little intro thing Eddie does to Women In Love on VH II alway kinda grabs me by the BooBoo and makes me want to play guitar.

That intro solo to Reelin In The Years will usually send a chill up my spine. In fact all the Steeley Dan solos are pretty tasty.

Other than my Mom and my Uncle Gerry, just about anything from Ace Frehley or Edward VanHalen drove me to play guitar.
 
Mic Ronson - Moonage Daydream
(off of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars)

Younge - Cortez the Killer

Younge - Cinnamin Girl
(I'm not kidding :) some times less is better )

Alex Lifson (sp?) - La Villa Stangiata
(lp version)

Martin Barre - We Used to Know
(off of Jethro Tull's Stand Up)

Belew - Three of a Perfect Pair

Frank Zappa - The Muffin Man
(off of Bongo Fury, an album he did with Beefheart)
 
King Elvis said:
What is your favorite solo or lead break within a song. One that made you want to pick up your axe and play??
My 2 favs are both by Kiss
1. Detroit Rock City
2. I Stole Your Love

The trade off between Ace and Paul on these two songs still gets me after all these years
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Both these solos were not played by any member of KISS. I will leave you to look around the internet to find out who did them.
 
Bill Nelson!

I had forgotten about this one until I stumbled on a Be Bop Deluxe concert on the BBCi last night...


Bill Nelson on "Adventures In a Yorkshire Landscape" or "Shine" from Live! In the Air Age by Be Bop Deluxe...
 
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