The best guitar solo in the World. Ever.

[User16390]

I guess Comfortably Numb has to be my favourite guitar solo. The other one that springs to mind is this. The style may be a bit dated now but when I watched this band for the first time supporting Black Sabbath they blew me and the headlining act away.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULEBSxP725w

 

[SteCenturion]

Adrian also played with Robert Fripp and famously sang 'City Of Tiny Lights' for Frank.
BTW no-one has mentioned Peter Green, one of the greatest ever and a big influence on Gary Moore with whom he 'swapped' guitars leading to Gary owning THAT Les Paul (its a long and complicated story)

Peter Green....


The Green Manalishi.


Hows that.

 

[raleighnut]

Peter Green....


The Green Manalishi.


Hows that.

The live version is stunning especially when he plugs in a six string bass and then plays lead guitar on that (I originally thought he'd used an 'octave' pedal but its a bass............'Live in Boston' or the Boston box ( Track 8 on CD1) but Peter didn't really go in for the big 'Guitar Solo' thing that much..........unless you count his over 3 hour 'epic' jam on Black Magic Woman when Fleetwood Mac hadn't got a guitar player and rang him to 'bail them out'. I'd love to hear that.

 

[machew]

I know its a Bass guitar, but is just insane the tones he gets out of it

 

[Stephen Piper]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCaixOPkgaQ

 

[sackville d]

Representing Yorkshire,Mr. Bill Nelson

View: http://youtu.be/q3ki5ePvAZ8

 

[raleighnut]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sjRaLI7m0fk
Give this a listen..................First attempt at posting a link

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Dream Theater - The Best of Times - Guitar Solo - by Dr.Viossy
The solo

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dztb6wqUVNg&index=25&list=FLwI0IscYTBedvktVpH2KhJg


The original

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BKHCIVzV38&index=29&list=FLwI0IscYTBedvktVpH2KhJg

 

[Tin Pot]

This little topic almost had grown men come to blows when it surfaced at work today, so I thought I'd ask the views of my fellow CC'ers.

Every sane person knows that the best guitar solo in the World ever is Martin Barre's painfully soulful solo at the end of Jethro Tull's We Used To Know, where Leslie cabinet, wah-wah pedal and long haired genius came together to produce a perfection so clear, so sweet, such a distillation of rock beauty, that grown men in the mid to late 40's weep tears of joy whenever they hear it.

However, it seems some people not in possession of all their marbles, some really crazy people, I mean some real wacko's, seem to think that there may be some other solo worthy of this plaudit.

So, if you're one of these poor, unfortunate, misguided souls then why don't you share with us your thoughts about which is the best guitar solo in the World ever?

Crossroads - Guitar Duel, Steve Vai

No one else knows what they're talking about.

"Every sane person" precludes guitarists.

The Crossroads duel kicks the living turds out of anything that ever happened, or will happen, on a fretboard, ever.

And it sounds good, unlike many a wankfest out there.

And it really is a *solo*, not a lead guitar.
:P

 

[Tin Pot]

yes your right, I selected the wrong one...I was looking for the duel one he did yrs ago ?

See above.

You are obviously a whacked out nut job, and therefore one of the few eligible to cast a vote on this subject.

 

[raleighnut]

Steve Vai played both parts though.

 

[Maverick Goose]

Weaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww.....good old Johnny Marr!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpILIIo9ek

 

[CopperBrompton]

Picking just one is impossible, but this has to be right up there.

 

[Tin Pot]

Duelling guitars, Crossroads - short version:


View: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7k4n_steve-vai-crossroads-guitar-duel_news


Partly my love is from watching this after learning guitar on a road trip of my own, age 13

 

[Tin Pot]

Steve Vai played both parts though.

I heard Ry Cooder took part in the session, but only rumours admittedly.