Whats your fav guitar solo?

[User169]

Quite a bit of self-indulgent ponciness in this thread. Branca manages to see through it all...

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[VamP]

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

Yo Mama features in the seminal Stone Monkey video in which Jonny Dawes redefined what rock climbing was all about back in the late eighties. Have absolutely adored that song ever since.

 

[MontyVeda]

Back in 93ish me and my mates sat around trying to decide which track to listen to first, after hearing of the death of Frank Zappa... after much deliberation, we settled on this:

 

[insouciant]

Are you an Opeth fan?

Absolutely.

Joint favourite band!

Meshuggah being the other one.

 

[swee'pea99]

Quite a bit of self-indulgent ponciness in this thread. Branca manages to see through it all...

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"It's music, Jim...but not as we know it...."

 

[MichaelM]

I think it's probably Nils Lofgren's solo on Youngstown (4"05')



Though this is pretty impressive at 3"25' (and I'm not a Princ fan):



So many great guitarists out there, then there's a hole back catalogue of the old blue's players - Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Blake etc, I really couldn't pick a definitive favourite.

 

[Huff & Puff]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan......
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or our own Gary Moore
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so many more great guitar solos out there


Dave

 

[CharlieB]

Comfortably Numb was at the top of this thread, but for me it has to be the version on the Pulse DVD.
Other than that, Tom Verlaine's solo in Television's Prove It has a lot going for it.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Back in 93ish me and my mates sat around trying to decide which track to listen to first, after hearing of the death of Frank Zappa...

Zappa's one of those artists I really want to like as he was such an interesting character but I can never seem to find enough stuff that I enjoy listening to - accessibly isn't a problem, I like all sorts of weird shite!

 

[TwoPosts]

Don't think this has been mentioned yet

The solo at the end of Sultans of Swing (Alchemy Live) by Dire Straits


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY


I never tire of hearing this, in fact it could double up as an answer to the other thread about funeral music, as the first time I heard the solo at the end of this performance I thought it might just bring me back from the dead it is that rousing

 

[dellzeqq]

some relief from the soaring emissions........

Ralph Towner, who I've not heard of since, on 'The Moors' by Weather Report

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQda3wvHDk

 

[MontyVeda]

Zappa's one of those artists I really want to like as he was such an interesting character but I can never seem to find enough stuff that I enjoy listening to - accessibly isn't a problem, I like all sorts of weird shite!

I mostly prefer Zalla's early/mid 70's output. Apostrophe, Overnote Sensation, Roxy & Elsewhere, Waka Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, One Size fits All .. but frank being frank, he always manages to annoy the sh!t out of me with at least one track on each album. His 80's stuff I don't really warm to, however the live, Make A Jazz Noise Here from 88ish is a cracker, but still has its annoying moments.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I think Neil Young is massively underrated as a guitarist. Partly, it's becuase he plays guitar like he sings, on the edge of his abilities, ragged, dirty, farked up, just one step from completely losing it. As a result there's always a sense of discomfort and tension, which I just love. It's the opposite of the clean, boring guitar work of people like Dave Gilmour (sorry...).
Just check out this live version of 'Cortez the Killer' (from Live Rust):

And of course there's 'Southern Man' - with its almost painful stabs before the vocals come back in the second time...

(And despite what some people still think, there was a great deal of mutual musical respect between Young and Lynnard Skynnard).

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I don't think anyone has ever had the natural abilities of Jimi Hendrix:

 

[jonny jeez]

almost anything by Matt Belamy

or
Tears by the roses... one that I wish i could play (it morphs from acoustic to semi and then full electric at 3.20 - 5.06)...smashing stuff and pretty sublime too.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCFn_LCmzTo


failing that perhaps Metallica - Nothing else matters (but only cos its one that i actually can play) especially this version accompanied by the San Fran Sympthony orchestra.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAsA00-5KoI


lastly Neil Zaza I'm aright..not really a solo though, more an instrumental.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRLpAdfSJ6E