Whats your fav guitar solo?

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Cletus Van Damme

Previously known as Cheesney Hawks
Ozzy Osbourne - Over The Mountain (Randy Rhoads). @ 2mins 25 secs



Pink Floyd - Money (David Gilmore) is awesome too.

Riff Raff - AC/DC (Angus Young) pretty much all the song is Angus playing lead.

Van Halen - Hot For Teacher intro.

 

ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
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Brian Setzer's finest solo song imo Hell Bent

Oh yes, we shared the same Tattooist...

 

Cletus Van Damme

Previously known as Cheesney Hawks


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


I love that song I thought that I was the only one that still listened to them. That is my favourite track by them but I prefer the studio version off the Wheels Of Steel album. I also like 747 Strangers In The Night and And The Bands Played On. And The Bands played on is great as the main riff/chorus for the song is a guitar solo.

 

threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
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...on the slake
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)


Great taste, Carlene Carter's put out some great solo LPs, Jerry Reed is superb and The Stray Cats are top notch!!
 

Accy cyclist

Legendary Member
How about this?!
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0solnL1XY
(4 mins 56 secs):thumbsup:
 

Drago

Legendary Member
Martin Barres oh so mournful solo at the end of Jethro Tulls We Used to Know. Late 60's, Leslie cabinet and wah wah on the fadeout of one of the best blues-rock tunes of the era. After all these years it stil makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand erect. Martin Lancelot Barre isn't Joe Satriani's favourite axe man for nothing.
 
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