your top three guitar solos ever in the world?!!?

[Dom Scarff]

Jeff Beck: Savoy, A Day In The Life
Led Zeppelin: Stairway To Heaven

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnston, the song is one big rocking guitar solo.

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Cantcha Say you Believe in Me by Boston, their guitars also sound so... regal.

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And In Your Park by the Scorpions, I have no idea what the lyrics of the song are about, but the squealing guitar riffs and solo more than make up for it.

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EDITED: added youtube links

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

Spoiler: David Gilmour's Comfortably Numb solo

Spoiler: John Petrucci's Under a Glass Moon solo

Spoiler: Michael Romeo's Dawn of a Million Souls solo

Couldn't find a good video for the last one, so a Rock Band video had to suffice.

 

[DirtyMagic]

Well, let's think about that one for a minute...
The 3 solos that stand out to me as the 3 best are...

Spoiler: 1) The Who - The Seeker (by Pete Townshend, starts at 1.40)

Spoiler: 2) The Outlaws - Green Grass & High Tides (by Hughie Thomasson & Billy Jones, starts at 5.25)

Spoiler: 3) Megadeth - Tornado Of Souls (by Marty Friedman, starts at 3.05)

Number 1 and 2 are obviously really technical, while number 3 isn't all that hard (or long for that matter).
But my GOD, does it sound good!
Green Grass and Tornado Of Souls trump it though in complete blow-my-face-away-ness.
The fast part in the solo of Tornado Of Souls gives me goosebumps EVERY TIME.

 

[Artina89]

My favourite 3 are as follows:

1.Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen

2. Stairway to heaven- Led Zeppelin

3. Another brick in the wall - Pink floyd

I am into a lot of music, but I don't really like guitar solos unless they feel like they fit into the song. I don't like solo's for the sake of solo's.

 

[Nicolairigel]

Spiders- System of a Down (Dark and Rhythmic like the rest of the song)

Torn- Disturbed (The entire song is almost a solo, but its still unbelievably awesome)

Welcome Home- Coheed and Cambria (awesome build up)

 

[F'Angus]

Alter Bridge - Blackbird

Van Halen - Eruption


Zeppelin - Stairway

Though that's a tough list to make

 

[Randomspike]

Spoiler: Eric Clapton's I Shot the Sheriff (starts at 5:05)

Spoiler: Comfortably Numb

Spoiler: Sultans of Swing (starts at 4:55)

 

[joemegson94]

My favourite 3 guitar solos would have to be:
Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (Both of them, counted as one as they're from one song)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird

 

[fingerbang143]

off the top of my head I can only come up with one "solo" the frontman solo in reptilia by the strokes

 

[Who Dares Wins]

Spoiler: First place

Spoiler: Second place

Spoiler: Third place

I am dead serious. It's incredibly awesome.

 

[staika]

Spoiler: #1 Sylosis- Empyreal

I also find it cool that the lead singer is also the lead guitarist

Spoiler: #2 Scar Symmetry- Illuminoid Dream Sequence

Spoiler: #3 Solution .45- Lethean Tears

A powerful song with a powerful solo to make a very good song

 

[TobiasFunke]

My favourite 3 guitar solos would have to be:
Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (Both of them, counted as one as they're from one song)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird

Freebird is brilliant!

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

Am I the only one who is a little concerned that the OP only put down two solos?

Anyway, onto the list.

3. The Hollow Years solo from Dream Theater's Live at Budokan cd, so ridiculously freaking awesome.

2. The clean solo at the start of Wonderful Slippery Thing by Guthrie Govan is immense, so smooth.

1. The whole of Waves by Guthrie Govan is quite possibly the greatest display of guitar playing ever. How did he come up with that melody? Perhaps we'll never know.

 

[TobiasFunke]

Cortez the killer - Neil Young
Cemetary Gates - Pantera
Fade to black - Metallica
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Highway star - Deep Purple
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Master of puppets - Metallica
And so many more...

 

[ElTigreSantiago]

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Fermented Offal Discharge by Necrophagist. I don't even really like the band, or even the song all that much, but this solo is pretty damn impressive.

 

[bluepotatosack]

One of the would be Django Reinhardt's in Minor Swing. I'd have to think about the other ones.

 

[Zenron]

Spoiler: seize the day, Avenged Sevenfold

Spoiler: November Rain, Guns N' Roses

Spoiler: Stairway To Heaven, Led Zeppelin

I'm not really a guitar fanatic but I've always loved the guitar solos in these songs. These are some of the only songs where the guitar can really provoke any emotion from me.

 

[Davey Woo]

I Don't Know - Lostprophets

Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (I know it's technically all a solo but who cares)

Let There Be Rock - AC/DC

 

[The Apothecarry]

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Parabola - Tool
Halo Theme Mjolnir Mix - Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salavatori, and Steve Vai