your top three guitar solos ever in the world?!!?
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A couple of these are cheats because they're full length instrumentals. Had to flip a coin twice, but the rundown was pretty easy.
Number one was chosen because it's the finest piece of guitar work ever achieved, far and away. Really, I don't see why they make guitars anymore, since nobody's ever going to top this: Liquid Tension Experiment - Acid Rain
Number two was actually a little bit tough, but this one won out:
Blind Guardian - A Dark Passage (because good luck keeping the Bards off of any music list I make).
I can't think of a better victory march -- this particular perfect victory march is thrown into the middle of a song about the heroes losing. Hard.
Number three was chosen because it's good to step away from metal. Frequently.
Tak Matsumoto and Larry Carlton - Jazzy Bullets
Honorable mention to Sacred Field by Tak Matsumoto, because it might actually be more triumphant than solo pick number two. It's not posted because it didn't win. Google it; it's worth your time.
Number one was chosen because it's the finest piece of guitar work ever achieved, far and away. Really, I don't see why they make guitars anymore, since nobody's ever going to top this: Liquid Tension Experiment - Acid Rain
Mostly pay attention to the part between 0:00 and 6:35.
Number two was actually a little bit tough, but this one won out:
Blind Guardian - A Dark Passage (because good luck keeping the Bards off of any music list I make).
I can't think of a better victory march -- this particular perfect victory march is thrown into the middle of a song about the heroes losing. Hard.
Roughly at 2:30
Number three was chosen because it's good to step away from metal. Frequently.
Tak Matsumoto and Larry Carlton - Jazzy Bullets
Tell me the bit at 1:00 doesn't make you want to go back and play one of the old Genesis Sonic games. You can't do it.
Honorable mention to Sacred Field by Tak Matsumoto, because it might actually be more triumphant than solo pick number two. It's not posted because it didn't win. Google it; it's worth your time.
Just three? Well, let me give it a shot:
3. "Third Uncle" by Brian Eno. Eno may have wrote the song, but it was Phil Manzanera who made it. Love the scraping effects he does at the end.
2. "Child In Time" by Deep Purple. Either that or "Dazed And Confused" by Led Zeppelin.
1. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" by Jimi Hendrix. There was a critic by the name of Wayne McGuire who claimed that Hendrix had "degraded to the level of a second-rate jazz musician" by mid-1968. The solo in this song is the reason why said critic didn't have a long career. I heard the version he did at Woodstock was even more insane that the studio version.
Honorable mentions:
"Beating Around The Bush" - AC/DC
"Brighton Rock" - Queen
"21st Century Schizoid Man" - King Crimson
"Apostrophe" - Frank Zappa
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" - Donovan
"I Heard Her Call My Name" - Velvet Underground
"Mr. Evasion" - The Pretty Things
"Mississippi Queen" - Mountain
"Maggot Brain" - Funkadelic
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" - Pink Floyd
3. "Third Uncle" by Brian Eno. Eno may have wrote the song, but it was Phil Manzanera who made it. Love the scraping effects he does at the end.
2. "Child In Time" by Deep Purple. Either that or "Dazed And Confused" by Led Zeppelin.
1. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" by Jimi Hendrix. There was a critic by the name of Wayne McGuire who claimed that Hendrix had "degraded to the level of a second-rate jazz musician" by mid-1968. The solo in this song is the reason why said critic didn't have a long career. I heard the version he did at Woodstock was even more insane that the studio version.
Honorable mentions:
"Beating Around The Bush" - AC/DC
"Brighton Rock" - Queen
"21st Century Schizoid Man" - King Crimson
"Apostrophe" - Frank Zappa
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" - Donovan
"I Heard Her Call My Name" - Velvet Underground
"Mr. Evasion" - The Pretty Things
"Mississippi Queen" - Mountain
"Maggot Brain" - Funkadelic
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" - Pink Floyd
Only three... gah!
Wonderful Slipery thing - Guthrie Govan
Acid Rain (live in L.A) - Liquid Tension Experiment
Song of Solomon - Animals as leaders.
Not sure If their my favorites though...
I have to give honorable mentions to "Jaws of life" - John Petrucci, "Treat your mama" - John Butler, "Beat it" - Michael Jackson, "Bleak" - Opeth, "X" - Tim Mcmillan and "Jet Packs Was yes!" - Periphery.
In all honesty I could write an entire book of my favorite solos but that will do for now.
Wonderful Slipery thing - Guthrie Govan
Acid Rain (live in L.A) - Liquid Tension Experiment
Song of Solomon - Animals as leaders.
Not sure If their my favorites though...
I have to give honorable mentions to "Jaws of life" - John Petrucci, "Treat your mama" - John Butler, "Beat it" - Michael Jackson, "Bleak" - Opeth, "X" - Tim Mcmillan and "Jet Packs Was yes!" - Periphery.
In all honesty I could write an entire book of my favorite solos but that will do for now.
