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, Money is badass too. Personally, Gilmour is the GOAT.
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.
, Money is badass too. Personally, Gilmour is the GOAT.
I like old Skunk Baxter solos with Steely Dan and the Doobie Bros.
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.
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.
Last edited by mojorizen7; 12-02-2009 at 07:20 PM.
BTW, great thread, there are some excellent choices in here.
Vivian Cambell shredding for Dio and Buckethead.....props.
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 ing ill!
4 minute mark is guitar solo
This thread is nowhere near diverse enough:
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.
CF may be older than me
Nope. 31. And a half.
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:
Last edited by Bender; 12-02-2009 at 09:37 PM.
>implying any of that is good
>implying any of that is good
4chan troll, you have potential. Nice use of green font.
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.
The live one from '77
RAMS...sheep....RAMS....get it? haha no.
Last edited by mojorizen7; 12-03-2009 at 02:03 AM.
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
Dime - Floods
Why are you all gots listening to the in this thread?
You only need one album to listen to for the rest of your life.
That's a good one, I like the cemetery gates solo a little better.
Great choices so far, but I thought I'd inject a bit more metal.
Between the Buried and Me:
Selkies: The Endless Obsession
Death:
Trapped in a Corner (about the 2:00 mark)
Necro ist:
Fermented Offal Discharge
The Crown:
Death is the Hunter
and others:
The Mars Volta:
Vicarious Atonement
Led Zeppelin:
Achilles' Last Stand
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