Your Favorite Guitar Solo

[zen5887]

Ohh good question!

There was this one in a funk song I heard yesterday at uni, and there are some amazingly tasty Jazz stuff.

I'm a little sad that all the solos mentioned are from rock songs =\

C'mon people..

 

[General Ken8]

Pretty much anything in the album Americana
There are a lot of little random solos, and they are pretty awesome

 

[Spacelord]

Eluveitie - Inis Mona
Ok, this is flute solo but it's still amazing

Technically you're disqualified, but I must agree: it's one of the most elegant solo's I've ever heard (in metal). Though I must say that the bagpipe follow-up is worth an honorable mention. Brilliant in its simplicity.

For me, it has to be the little facemelters in the middle of all the Trigun episodes, if only because I showed an episode today and was blown away by the rock fury.


No, no wait... scratch that. I'm with the guy on the first page, the guy that picked Telegraph Road. I'm listening to it right now, and the goosebumps on my arms are about to become sentient with awesome.

EDIT:

Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. After that, anything Clapton does live, and I'm pretty fond of any Iron maiden solo, and the huge one at the end of Telegraph Road by Dire Straits

Yes, you. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. And for kicking oh so much ass.

 

[BBLIZZARD]

Right now it's either 'Made Up Dreams' by Built to Spill, 'Zero' by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or 'When you Sleep' by My Bloody Valentine.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Well, for me it's this

 

[VincentMm]

This week? I'll go with Silversun Pickups' "Lazy Eye."

Dude. Excellent choice.

Also, any of Cliff Burton's live solos.

 

[saintchristopher]

This week? I'll go with Silversun Pickups' "Lazy Eye."

Dude. Excellent choice.

Also, any of Cliff Burton's live solos.

Thanks for backing me up, but how can you reconcile those two sentences? Cliff Burton? I'm sorry, but he didn't suddenly "get good" after he died.

 

[timmytom1]

I can think of a very very long list but the main contenders would be

Hollow-Pantera
Fade to black-Metallica
Ignorance-Sacred reich
Evil knows no bounds-Slayer
My last words-Megadeth
The great satan-Ministry
Idealistic types-Prong
Bad horsie-Steve vai
Seek and destroy-Metallica
The thing that should not be-Metallica
Sanitarium(Welcome home)-Metallica
Orion-Metallica
Pride-Damageplan
What a horrible night to have a curse-The black dhalia murder
Whole lotta rosie-AC/DC
Painkiller-Judas priest
Screaming for vengance-Judas priest
Spirit in black-Slayer
Superterrorizer-Zakk wylde&the black label society
A new level-Pantera
White death-Viking
Layed to rest-Sacred reich

 

[zen5887]

Also, any of Cliff Burton's live solos.

Cliff was a rad player but his solos where just mehh

Distortion + Wah + Minor Pentatonic + Speed.

Thats somthing 16 year old guitarists do...

 

[BLS]

Hendrix- Star Spangled Banner
Aerosmith- Kings and Queens
If we're including bass solos- Cliff Burton in for whom the bell tolls live
Queen- Now I'm here
Nirvana- Heart shaped box (short but awesome)

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

Every solo on the album Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious by Carcass

Bill Steer FTW

 

[Skeleon]

Must...Resist...Freebird....

Don't resist.
It is the best bit I've ever heard.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

I have been listening to the guitar solo from The Shattered Fortress by Dream Theater as of late. My current favorite.

Though my all time might be Black Light Machine by Frost*

Also the Best of Times solo oozes epicness.

But for my absolute favourite at the moment it would have to be the last solo in The Count of Tuscany. Eargasm.

 

[Squarez]

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

Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin

Partly, because it's AWESOME,but partly because it's a guitar SOLO, there are no other instruments playing when Page performs the solo.

 

[CIA]

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles

You know that was Clapton?

Anyway I really really like Painkiller by Judas Priest.

 

[JRCB]

I have been listening to the guitar solo from The Shattered Fortress by Dream Theater as of late. My current favorite.

Though my all time might be Black Light Machine by Frost*

What about the guitar part at the beginning of the Glass Prison, or In The Presence of Enemies part 1?

And I would say the songs above, Stairway to Heaven, Freebird, Prayer of the Refugee.

How could I forget?

 

[QuirkyTambourine]

Building The Church by Steve Vai. It's awesome, both technically and when you listen to it.

That one's really good, as is Tender Surrender, I love Vai.

For me it's a live cut of Stevie Ray Vaughan doing Life Without You on his In Step...special edition I guess it's called. He plays that solo with ridiculous amounts of soul and feeling, and stops in the middle to talk about how he got over drugs and alcohol. It's frankly beautiful.

Anybody know what I'm talking about

 

[Rooster893]

Basically anything from the Jet Moto games.
Songwise, it would have to be:

Whiplash-Metallica
Fade to Black- Metallica
Californiacation-RHCP
2 Minutes to Midnight- Iron Maiden
Hatredcopter-Dethklok