Whats your fav guitar solo?

[Herbie]

Moving on from my best band live thread...whats your fav guitar solo?...I'll kick off with Comfortably numb by Pink Floyd and Yo Mama by Frank Zappa which is worth a check out if you've not heard it

 

[ianrauk]

It's from a song called Don't Go Stealing My heart Away by German Metallers Accept.
Gives me goose bumps everytime I hear it.

 

[vernon]

Peter Green's intro and outro in Need Your Love So Bad. It's not so much the notes that he played but the gaps between them that elevates them to greatness.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Does Joe Satriani - Surfing with the alien count?

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Still in Love with You - Brain Robertson on Lizzy's 'Live and Dangerous'.

It's by no means the best solo, but the tone and melody in perfectly with feel of the song

 

[pally83]

Currently it's Alive by Pearl Jam. Fist-pumping awesomeness.

 

[Firestorm]

Parisiene Walkway Gary Moore
I believe Phil Lynott is on there too

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

'Sabre Dance' by Dave Edmunds



'Drink That Bottle Down' Stray Cats
(then again, any Gretsch playing by Setzer agrees with my ears, still think he's one of the most under-rated guitarists)

 

[ComedyPilot]

Got to be Wheels of Steel by Saxon for me - Starts about 2:45 in - prepare to have your face melted

 

[palinurus]

Tricky one.

I'm going with the end bit in the second solo in Pere Ubu's early version of The Modern Dance, titled "untitled".


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3PjF0Oo2N8&t=2m7s

 

[Lee_M]

Anything I can manage to mange my fingers around!

 

[Deleted member 23692]

No great music thread would be complete without these two words...



Neil Young..... Words (Between the Lines of Age)

 

[threebikesmcginty]

'Sabre Dance' by Dave Edmunds

I love Dave Edmunds but I find that song really irritating!

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Same album as yours - the guitar solo at the end of "Is there anybody out There" by Pink Floyd.

Tears.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I love Dave Edmunds but I find that song really irritating!

Okay it's not really mine either,I just added it for the sheer length & frenzy of it

One of my big musical regrets is never seeing him in concert, although I've seen The Stray Cats (who he produced) a few times

Almost anything by Edmunds has cracking guitar work in;
Eg;
'Born To Be With You' (in a Phil Spector 'wall of sound' style, on 'Subtle As a Flying Mallet')
'I Hear You Knockin'
'Crawlin From The Wreckage'
'I Knew The Bride When She Used To Rock n Roll'
'From Small Things (Mama one Day Big Things Come)' wrote for him by Bruce Springsteen!! (who later covered it)
'King Of Love' (from Closer To The Flame - but that also has the double drummers)

I do like 'Baby Ride Easy' a lot, with Carlene Carter-Cash (who was once married to Nick Lowe..... who was in Rockpile with Edmunds)



To add a couple of others??
And... both together here
Chet Atkins (I believe he was the first artist to be 'given' a signature range by Grestch; circa 1956??)
Jerry Reed may be better known to people as a actor??? ('Snowman' in the 'Smokey & The Bandit' films), but he was a great picker/songwriter (he wrote 'Guitar Man' & 'US Male' as covered by Elvis Presley)


Out of interest, Brian Setzer was the first artist since Atkins to gain a signature range commencing from 1990 (show how much the 'Cats', his solo work, & the 'Brian Setzer Orchestra' increased the interest in the brand)
http://www.gretschguitars.com/artists/artist.php?id=11


'Jump-Jive' is brilliant for the athleticism of the dancers (is that Kid Creole in the zoot-suit????, plus Mrs Setzer is the blonde backing singer)