Greatest Guitar Solo ever

[Weller]

Hard to pick from the all time greats but a current fav of mine in small club bands currently touring with good guitarist blues soloists would have to be Slim from The Hamsters great and cheap band - love his guitar style...

Not much on the tube but this is ok... but he reminds me very much of some of the great stuff Rory Gallagher played when they leave out thier Hendrix covers.

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=GiiEv4_bTCo

 

[skyscraper101]

This thread has come up before some years ago, and my answer is the same - Eddie Van Halen on Michael Jackson's "Beat It".

Sure, there'll be lots of scornful opinions, but EVH was on top of his octave twisting game on that record.

Not least because the amplifier actually caught fire while he was recording that solo.

And that's not just an urban myth either!

 

[Weller]

As far as Im concerned a great allrounder as well as a superb solo player...

Just Rory and his same old battered strat but what a tone from his fingers

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr2bILCURj0



http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=7ECMzXBQ3t4

 

[skyscraper101]

Actually my all time favourite guitar solo has to be Eugene's Trick Bag, played by Karate Kid Ralph Macchio in Crossroads to defeat the evil (?) Steve Vai!

Proper lulz.. witness:

 

[kained&able]

I love guns n roses but november rain is pompus dross and the solo loses any merit beacuse of the laws of physics breaking church in the video.

I don't agree with anything anyones ome up with so far and am far to lazy to think of the answer myself.


dave

 

[Gmart]

'Number 13' by The Pixies

Great solo and prob one of their greatest songs

 

[Kaka Tim]

Kurt's on Teen Spirit.

And lots of pixies ones.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Got to be Hendrix

All Along the Watchtower.

 

[dodgepot]

does dick dale's guitaring on his version of "miserlou" count as a solo?

 

[internetstalker]

hendrix

freedom

 

[Bernie Gunther]

One rose that I mean

 

[learydeary]

Jimi Hendrix Hey Babe

Doesn't even start singing till 2 mins into the song

 

[cozmikbrew]

what about drum solos?bloody hippys!

 

[lights.out.london]

Glenn Tipton, Judas Priest, solo on Beyond the Realms of Death, Stained Class album, 1978

 

[isvicthere?]

Boredom!

Two notes of pure class!

 

[yardbird]

Worth listening to Clapton's solo on "Have You Heard" from the Bluesbreakers 'Beano' album.... Eric makes time stand still.

And Peter Green "
The Supernatural"
It aint the notes you play.....................it's the ones you don't

 

[Magic Sam]

Another vote for Greeny but this is probably my fav
Solo starts at 2.22

 

[skunkboy69]

Comfortably Numb.

 

[Rosco]

Mr Crowley - by Randy Rhoads.


Last one in the set on that vid 2:02 in.

I came onto this thread to say exactly the same thing. In fact not entirely true cos I wasn't sure which solo to pick by the great Randy. Actually I think sadly he's long gone now is he not?

And Lynard Skynards Freebird solo has to be right up there amongst the best along with a good few Iron Maiden ones too.

But what wins handsdown for me everytime is the great Billy Gibbons guitar skills from ZZTop, he was even Hendrix's favourite. Check out this La Grange solo from 2min29secs.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_MKPby9D8MQ

 

[Y_I_Otter]

Assuming rock guitarists are what we're talking about here, Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Rude Mood" on the Texas Flood album is pretty hot.

But there are guitarists in jazz, classical and other musical forms that kill too and a side by side comparison would be stupid-- the "winner" being indicative of nothing more than a person's preferred genre.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

The Commodores - Easy. FACT.

 

[Meltingpot]

My vote goes to Tony Iommi's closing solo on "Thrill of it All" ( from Sabbath's 1975 album "Sabotage"). He makes his guitar fairly sing with joy.

I also agree with whoever mentioned Dave Gilmour's solo on "Comfortably Numb", that one would be in my top five.

 

[yardbird]

Assuming rock guitarists are what we're talking about here, Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Rude Mood" on the Texas Flood album is pretty hot.

But there are guitarists in jazz, classical and other musical forms that kill too and a side by side comparison would be stupid-- the "winner" being indicative of nothing more than a person's preferred genre.

How about just about anything by Davy Graham then?
Angie??
Sweet Dreams - Roy Bucannan (sp?)

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Jimmy Page - Dazed & Confused2 - BBC Sessions '71

 

[El Jefe]

it varies, but often I think it's the really long one in One Big Holiday by My Morning Jacket - just stunning

 

[DexterTCN]

Sultans of Swing live on the Alchemy album by Dire Straits.

Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd on the Pulse Video/DVD.

Angus Young, anything.


/showing age

 

[joustmaster]

that solo peaches plays on that chicks on speed song.

 

[yardbird]

Hard to pick from the all time greats but a current fav of mine in small club bands currently touring with good guitarist blues soloists would have to be Slim from The Hamsters great and cheap band - love his guitar style...

Not much on the tube but this is ok... but he reminds me very much of some of the great stuff Rory Gallagher played when they leave out thier Hendrix covers.

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=GiiEv4_bTCo

Yeah!
The Hamsters- Probably the best 'journeyman ' band on the circuit!
'

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Hendrix on one of his (all too few by 1970) good days.

 

[Idaho]

Camper Van Beethoven - Seven Languages