Top 5 Guitar solo of all time

[Thunder Dan]

I say top 5 because it's subjective and it's technically not a solo and it's not their song, but this belongs in the top 5 of all time in terms of live solos. Prince killing it starting around the 3:30 mark.

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[CavsSuperFan]

1-Mason Williams- Classical Gas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeHgNqbdBKs

2-Slash - Obsession confession
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rghLPjxAfv8

[JMarkJohns]

Always loved the feel of Comfortably Numb...

[Thunder Dan]

Always loved the feel of Comfortably Numb...

yeah that is on my list somewhere

I don't even know what my #1 would be, but I saw that Prince one last night and it was one of the only ones I've seen where I had to rewind and watch it over and over.

[CavsSuperFan]

This thread was supposed to be about guitar solos…Rock n Roll is crap…

[Frenzy]

always loved

GNR - november rain (halfway mark) I dare you not to air guitar to that piece.

[Strike]

Don't know that it's top 5, but Jimmy Page's solo from "Stairway" on "The Song Remains The Same" is one of my all time favorites.

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A great guitar solo is its own verse within a song. The notes are their own lyrics. Something missing from a lot of rock music these days.

[leemajors]

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[z0sa]

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Maggot Brain is my all-time favorite solo. 11 minutes of every emotion (mostly sadness) that you can think of, translated through the guitar and speaking to you.

[CavsSuperFan]

Andrés Segovia…Fandango…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG7y_CD9rMg

[Thunder Dan]

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thats a good one

[Greg Oden]

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[balli]

Don't know if it's top five, but it's insanely good
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[Ignignokt]

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[Strike]

Don't know if it's top five, but it's insanely good
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Sick.

[Greg Oden]

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the shred begins into a minute into the piece.

Adam Morrison has always been one of my favorites.

[Ignignokt]

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[xtremesteven33]

Comfortably Numb

[z0sa]

Always loved the feel of Comfortably Numb...


Comfortably Numb

Definitely top 5 IMO.

The version on Is There Anybody Out There? will blow you away.

[MB20]

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[mouse]

The truth is you can't have the best top 5 of anything. you might be able to come up with the top 10 but five? is sorta pushing it in my view.

Just look at the top 50 songs of all time they don't even mention 90% of the best bands out there. As for Guitar solos...I have a few I seem to find fascinating.
Here are just a few...

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Almost anything from Randy Rhodes

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to many to name from Iron maiden

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Go to 2:20 into the clip.

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[leemajors]

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Maggot Brain is my all-time favorite solo. 11 minutes of every emotion (mostly sadness) that you can think of, translated through the guitar and speaking to you.

It's sad Eddie Hazel lived up to his nickname, he was something special.

[leemajors]

Along with Maggot Brain, this is one of my personal favorites. Excellent live recording:

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[Thunder Dan]

I only like Live solos. I like the improvisation of them and how they just play to what they feel. I think solos on recordings are bullshit. The is no emotion in that, you can't just throw in a solo when you are laying down individual tracks. That shit is for Buckcherry and Nickelback

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[Leetonidas]

Obviously it's either Time/Comfortably Numb by Floyd or Stairway's solo by Zep. But I think Echoes by Floyd is a very underrated song that has an insanely killer solo.

[Leetonidas]

Hell, Money is badass too. Personally, Gilmour is the GOAT.

[mrsmaalox]

I like old Skunk Baxter solos with Steely Dan and the Doobie Bros.

[mojorizen7]

My 10 favorite:
#1 Bar none, Jimi Hendrix "Machine Gun" w/Band of Gypsies live at the Filmore. Like Lenny Kravitz once said in an interview when asked about that performance..."After listening to Machine Gun i have to take a nap."
Played with a blend of soul,fire,soaring beauty, pure rawness and aggression. The first note of the lead is sick.....and it hangs there....forever.....until he's about to let you off the hook and no,same note again. Sick. The middle section where Jimi is obviously playing in his own world(probably in another solar system)is like listening to a chorus of dying souls poured out thru a piece of wood & 6 strings....played by a man. Unbelievable. The use of feedback in tiny spots here & there is flawless(live performance). Even Jimi's mastery of having to re-tune his guitar towards the end after sucking the life out of it is a treat to behold.
It's also worth mentioning that this song(and performance)was performed with Jimi & Billie tuned a whole step down to D....and because this tune is played in the low end E configuration , tuning a whole step down gives it that dark,meaty, eerie quality.
Here's a youtube cut of this performance but the experience of this song & performance should only be heard & not seen IMO. Plus the audio quality here is crap. You can't even hear the groove of the bass & drum work going on behind Jimi's guitar.
Goto the 4 min mark if you wanna get right to it.
Get the CD if you don't already own it.
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The rest not in any particular order....
Eric Johnson "Desert Rose" The king of tone finds melody over a fairly unmelodic chord progression and at the same time get's meaty.

Toto ""Hold the Line" Pop shredding at it's best....Steve Lukather.

Pink Floyd "Hey You" Gimour still my favorite living guitar player. The sweet build thru octaves is mesmerizing along with his signature bends.

U2 "Even Better than the Real Thing" I love the erotic sound of the slide here. I almost listed "The Fly" but my nod goes to "Real Thing."

ZZ Top "I need You Tonight" Blues drenched in echo/delay and soul baby.

Rush "Digital Man" On an album where Lifeson's guitar work took a backseat, he tears it up as if unleashed here.

Supertramp "Goodbye Stranger" I always hated that when this tune was played on radio that 9 times outta 10 they'd do a fade out right as the guitar lead was just getting started for time constraints. An unorthodox solo but very moving.

Dire Straits "Sultans of Swing" Duh? So tasty.

I could name a dozen or so more from Hendrix,Gilmour,EJ,Lifeson...and i left out several from Satriani,SRV etc...but there's always next time.

[mojorizen7]

BTW, great thread, there are some excellent choices in here.
Vivian Cambell shredding for Dio and Buckethead.....props.

[CubanSucks]

Obviously it's either Time/Comfortably Numb by Floyd or Stairway's solo by Zep. But I think Echoes by Floyd is a very underrated song that has an insanely killer solo.

Wow you pretty much posted for me. Time is my favorite cause it's a lot longer than the 2 solos in Comfortable Numb. Also, the Live at Pompeii version of Echoes is just flat out sick. Bottom line, David Gilmour is fucking ill!

http://midiblog.net/pics/d/a/v/david-gilmour-3-high.jpg

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4 minute mark is guitar solo

[CuckingFunt]

This thread is nowhere near diverse enough:

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[exstatic]

Some good choices so far. A couple that I really like:

1) Hotel California. Dueling solos by Felder/Walsh that merge into a duet.
2) Peg - Jay Graydon does one of the best pop shreds in history on this Steely Dan classic
3) Peace on Earth - Paul Hardcastle lays down one of the finest acid jazz shreds ever.

[Bender]

CF may be older than me

[CuckingFunt]

CF may be older than me

Nope. 31. And a half.

[Bender]

lol, I just turned 50. kudos for the old stuff though, CF....

I'm a fan of Lightnin' Hopkins myself... his acoustic stuff and his electric stuff. I've got some electric stuff from 1954 that is way ahead of it's time... distortion and all that. I found this from 1954:

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[4chan]

This thread is nowhere near diverse enough:

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>implying any of that shit is good

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[Leetonidas]

>implying any of that shit is good

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4chan troll, you have potential. Nice use of green font.

[mojorizen7]

We could do a whole thread on Gilmour.
His work on "Animals" was some of his(and Floyd's) best IMO.
The outtro at around 3:35 is still one of those guitar licks that never grow tired for me.
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The live one from '77
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[iggypop123]

i think guitar mag had a comprehensive list of the 100 greatest of all time, in fact i have all the songs. power of torrents, but anyways their top 5 according to hundreds of arists polled:

1Stairway to Heaven
2 Eruption
3Freebird
4Comfortably Numb
5All Along the Watchtower

[ORION]

Dime - Floods

[4chan]

Why are you all faggots listening to the shit in this thread?

You only need one album to listen to for the rest of your life.


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[Greg Oden]

Dime - Floods

That's a good one, I like the cemetery gates solo a little better.

[Fermixalot]

Great choices so far, but I thought I'd inject a bit more metal.

Between the Buried and Me:
Selkies: The Endless Obsession
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Death:
Trapped in a Corner (about the 2:00 mark)
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Necrophagist:
Fermented Offal Discharge
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The Crown:
Death is the Hunter
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and others:

The Mars Volta:
Vicarious Atonement
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Led Zeppelin:
Achilles' Last Stand
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