Best rock guitar solo of all time?

jim453
jim453 Posts: 1,360
edited December 2010 in The bottom bracket
Adding to the very irritating glut of similar threads.

I'll cliche us off with....

Page solo on stairway (solo not intro. obv)

Slash going mental on Paradise city.



Feel free to put some actual thought into it, unlike me.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    The solo in Cherub Rock by The Smashing Pumpkins.

    Or the Jack White in "Dead leaves and the dirty ground"
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    Hotel Calfornia.



    (Have we done best riff yet?)
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  • Mastineo
    Mastineo Posts: 182
    Scorpions - "Fly To The Rainbow"
  • Tom BB
    Tom BB Posts: 1,001
    Knopfler.....Sultans of Swing (either-they're both ace!)
    Dimebag Darrell....Walk

    SRV......all of Scuttle Buttin
  • blackpoolkev
    blackpoolkev Posts: 474
    Alex Lifeson(Rush) - La Villa Strangiato from the album Exit Stage Left. The bit between 4m 20s and 5m 35s.Spotify it you know it makes sense.
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Is it this bit (from '79 pink pop festival, Netherlands)...he had a bust finger at the time too!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SL0vFSYicU
  • blackpoolkev
    blackpoolkev Posts: 474
    not exactly (canada 1980) but near enough.

    Note to self: post links,they are helpful !
  • andy162
    andy162 Posts: 634
    We Are The Pigs...Suede.

    Call Mr Lee....Television.

    Colour Me...The Blue Aeroplanes.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Tom BB wrote:
    Knopfler.....Sultans of Swing (either-they're both ace!)

    Or the Tunnel of Love. Or the Telegraph Road.
    FCN 2-4.

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    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    I dislike guitar solos where the rest of the band stops and the lead guitarist gets it out and flops it around for a bit. I prefer a solo that builds the momentum and adds to the song rather than interrupts it.

    So my two faves are on:

    Bury Me - Smashing Pumpkins (Billy Corgan)
    Tilted - Sugar (Bob Mould)
  • hennez
    hennez Posts: 255
    pages solo in heartbreaker
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  • JohnCleland
    JohnCleland Posts: 172
    You Suffer, by Napalm Death,

    probably one of the most underated solos.
  • jim453
    jim453 Posts: 1,360
    JohnCleland wrote:
    You Suffer, by Napalm Death,

    probably one of the most underated solos.

    It's ok.

    Get's boring though, and tails off towards the end.
  • kev77
    kev77 Posts: 433
    Noel Gallagher, Live forever

    Nick Mccabe, Lucky man fill piece

    Both live absolutley quality.

    :D
  • campagone
    campagone Posts: 270
    Tom Morello when he played Ghost of Tom Joad with Bruce Springsteen
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLFLrTnue9s
    Bruce is quite good on this aswel, but he does pull some weird faces though
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Julian Cope - Safesurfer.
  • SteveR_100Milers
    SteveR_100Milers Posts: 5,987
    Schenker Live version of Shoot Shoot
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    The only ones - another girl another planet

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvO7HNQPFRI

    still brings back memories of dave fannings show.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • SteveR_100Milers
    SteveR_100Milers Posts: 5,987
    Actually, change that; Brian Robertson "Whiskey in the Jar"
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  • Bloodaxe
    Bloodaxe Posts: 15
    Kirk Hammett's solo in Master of Puppets, Metallica
  • MichaelW
    MichaelW Posts: 2,164
    Personally I prefer drum solos.
  • ceeque
    ceeque Posts: 52
    Jimi Hendrix : Machine Gun (Band of Gypsys album) the whole things a solo really but I can really hear bullets flying, napalm burning and helicopters flying in Vietnam ... an unbelievable piece .... even Slash agrees!
  • random man
    random man Posts: 1,518
    ceeque wrote:
    Jimi Hendrix : Machine Gun (Band of Gypsys album) the whole things a solo really but I can really hear bullets flying, napalm burning and helicopters flying in Vietnam ... an unbelievable piece .... even Slash agrees!

    +1
    I love that track. In a similar vein, Jose Feliciano 'La Entrada de Bilbao', played on acoustic guitar sounds just like a real battle, with cannons firing, soldiers marching and other sounds you wouldn't expect to hear on a guitar.
    I saw him play this at the London Palladium in 1969 and was blown away.
  • mike ives
    mike ives Posts: 319
    Blue Sky by Duane or Greg Allman, (not sure which as they always played as brothers).
  • Rezillo
    Rezillo Posts: 95
    Bill Nelson on Crying To The Sky from Sunburst Finish (Be Bop Deluxe).

    He's gone on to produce some far more sophisticated work since then but this track is of its time and just spot on.

    John
  • Karl2010
    Karl2010 Posts: 511
    gonna say David Gilmore - Shine on you crazy diamond pt1

    dunno how solo it is though.
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Dinosaur Jr - Get Me. Just amazingly melodic. About 50% of that album (Where You Been?) is guitar solos - awesome stuff!
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/41991871@N ... otostream/
  • JesseD
    JesseD Posts: 1,961
    Not really a solo but Lynard Skynard - Freebird

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm7bkVxBXdA

    8)
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  • treusi57
    treusi57 Posts: 11
    Blackmores' first solo on 'Concerto for group & orchestra'. Straight off the cuff.
    Over the hill & pickin' up speed.
  • kettrinboy
    kettrinboy Posts: 613
    blackpoolkev wrote:
    Alex Lifeson(Rush) - La Villa Strangiato from the album Exit Stage Left. The bit between 4m 20s and 5m 35s.Spotify it you know it makes sense.
    Yeah this is a brilliant solo, ive got it on the album "Hemispheres" from 1978 on which there is a lot more brilliant guitar playing from Alex Lifeson.

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