Greatest Guitar Solo ever
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Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
isaac's 'do your thing' is pretty sweet... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Mn-_eLxWQ
Johnny Canuck3
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Johnny Canuck3
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I think Pat Metheny is one of the modern greats on the guitar.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qJPfBCSjCSc&feature=related
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qJPfBCSjCSc&feature=related
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Aye, Neil does it for me. About the only extended guitar workouts I love, and exactly because he isn't aiming for the same thing that some of the soloists on this thread are aiming for.
Johnny Canuck3
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Dr. Furface
One small step for me
It's Maggot Brain innit
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
"Cortez" is the king, but I also love the guitar solo on the version of "Powderfinger" on "Weld".
Geri
wasn't born to follow
Only got that on vinyl, so I haven't listened to it in years.
I'm not even sure if I still have it actually.
For the record, it would have to be the solo in 'Paranoid Android' by Radiohead.
But others have occasionally disagreed.
Just for a Laugh
And how would you rate it?
I would go for his solo on "Just" for sheer eviscerating power. It's like someone taking a chainsaw to your head.
I can never forgive that pointless cunt Mark Ronson for turning "Just" into a piece of rubbish light jazz.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Stevie Vai's solo on Frank Zappa's "Ya Hozna"
damnhippie
shark sandwich
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:
amazing!
seriously though, it's Another Girl Another Planet by the Only Ones. bonkers post punk guitar spanking from Pete Perrett.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Freebird - Lynard Skynard
Any time Pete Townsend decides to cut loose.
And is everyone deliberately avoiding Slash in Sweet Child 'O' Mine, or do you honestly think it's not good?
Just because it's overplayed, doesn't mean it isn't brilliant.
Any time Pete Townsend decides to cut loose.
And is everyone deliberately avoiding Slash in Sweet Child 'O' Mine, or do you honestly think it's not good?
Just because it's overplayed, doesn't mean it isn't brilliant.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
Television , 'marquee moon' , innit?
that said, i've always loved the tenouously described 'solos' on early Discharge singles and on the original of Black Flag 'police story'.
that said, i've always loved the tenouously described 'solos' on early Discharge singles and on the original of Black Flag 'police story'.
Good call (first 'proper' live band I ever saw).
I'm going with 22 Going On 23 by the Butthole's.
Followed by various versions of Alex Ferguson playing 'Unclean' for Psychic TV.
And anything by Steve Hillage
No, but the fact that's it's noodly wank does mean it isn't brilliant.
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Good point. I guess it's more of a 'guitar break' than a solo in the 20min wankfest sense, but all the better for it.
Other fine examples might be Michael Karoli on Can's 'Outside My Door' and assorted things by the DK's East Bay Ray.
northernhord
Active Member
I prefer simple short solos rather than all that lace curtain nonsense like Van Halens Eruption, for me I like stuff like Gary Moore on waiting for an Alibi, and little bits of Mick Jones on Give 'em enough rope.
where more longer winded stuff kicks in for me is some of Clintons work and bits and Bobs of Jimmy page.
where more longer winded stuff kicks in for me is some of Clintons work and bits and Bobs of Jimmy page.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
alex is an amazing guitarist. anyone any idea what he's up to now? last time i bumped into him he said he was doing some sort of acoustic thing with rose mcdowell of C93 etc which i must admit didn't exactly sound too promising.
I have to agree with the OP and for tody anyway Johnny Greenwoods on Paranoid Androis is simply stunning.
Anything Jack White does with the White Stripes too - fucking hell that dude is a genius!!!
I got that album off Oink (rip) a while ago, I remember quite liking it (I'm a fan of roses' vocals), but every things a mess here these days, and i'm buggered if i can find it...
Gmart
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elevendayempire
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Honestly, I actually prefer Robin Finck's updated version of it for the new GN'R:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c2pXLoZZdrs
Anyway, the best solo ever is Buckethead's Soothsayer. Fact:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=adV8-_hgL4g
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
James Williamson's playing on the whole of Raw Power; I listened to that LP so often at one time that it still can all run together in my head...song after song with Williamson sounding perfect from start to finish.
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