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Best Rock Guitar Solos

Eddie Hazel...MaggotBrain

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[QUOTE='JimJ[VT]So is Cortez the Killer...[/QUOTE]

I'm hoppin' mad it took 'til page three of this thread to mention Neil Young. Cortez The Killer - Zuma, Powderfinger - Live Rust, Down By The River - Live At The Fillmore East... three that should make any top 5 list. Y'all are slipping.
 
winters860 said:
I'm hoppin' mad it took 'til page three of this thread to mention Neil Young. Cortez The Killer - Zuma, Powderfinger - Live Rust, Down By The River - Live At The Fillmore East... three that should make any top 5 list. Y'all are slipping.
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True Dat, Yo!
 
I'll second the "So Lonely" solo that Bordeno mentioned. Pure Tele.
Plus, whoever played on "My Old School". Skunk?
But what really brought me to the table is the interplay of Keith Richards and Mick Taylor on the Stones' "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" live LP, in particular "Sympathy for the Devil", "Street Fighting Man", "Love In Vain" and "Stray Cat Blues". That's what I'm f%$#in' talking about right there.
Kudos also to Marc Ford of the Black Crowes for "Sometimes Salvation".
Oh, and "The Rover"...
Oh, and....
 
"Framton Comes Alive; Do You Feel Like We do"... This solo, has everything. Starts off slow, Frampton mixes in all of what makes rock great; blues, heavy metal, wawa, effects. All with a three piece band in 1975, LIVE.

BTW. I'm excluding Hendrix. He's in a class by himself....R.I.P.
 
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ponderbear said:
Rodolphe Kreutzer, Caprice Study #2 for Violin.

Do I win the award for Best Google Solo?
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Well done!
I have worked through more than one exercise written by Kreutzer. His exercises are so melodic they hardly seem like work. I wish my chops were where they were when I had more time to devote to Kreutzer exercises.

Doug
 
While looking around for the answer I found an article that may be of interest here, but it's a pdf. Here's the citation (my form is a little rusty but you get the idea):

Walser, Robert. "Eruptions: heavy metal appropriations of classical virtuosity." Popular Music, Volume 11/3, Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Is there a place this can live on AK? It's about a meg and a half.
 
SRV's first appearance on Austin City Limits in '83. If you have the cajones to take on Hendrix's Voodoo Chile, you'd better do something with it. And he did.

This one's technically not rock, but I've always admired the Nile Rodgers solo on Madonna's "Dress You Up" for sheer efficiency. Dances into the break, pushes the song elsewhere without overwhelming it, and jumps back out in a hurry. It's the sonic equivalent of Monet trying to paint in an unlit crawlspace.
 
Damn, I forgot my other guitar anti-hero, D. Boon, late great guitarist for the punk-art-jazz group the Minutemen. he usually played on a telecaster with no special effects except perhaps some gain boost (or just cranking the amp). Taut little solos, melodically inventive. Nothing like the guitar gods discussed here, but what for what his band was playing his work was perfect. Check this out if you can stand it- no SRV, more like DIY- just a quick little solo thrown in because the lyric at that point was about... guitar solos. Brilliant.
 
ampegdan said:
But what really brought me to the table is the interplay of Keith Richards and Mick Taylor on the Stones' "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" live LP, in particular "Sympathy for the Devil", "Street Fighting Man", "Love In Vain" and "Stray Cat Blues". That's what I'm f%$#in' talking about right there.
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Damn straight. That is the real deal. I love that album and the Fingers-era Stones in general.

A few other things that came to mind: Clapton's solo on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" perhaps that is too iconic to mention? I mean who didn't THAT influence?

Also- just about every damn song Frank Zappa did. "Watermelon in Easter Hay" is a good place to start. "Transylvania Boogie"'s got the dirtiest riffs ever. The clean solo on "Peaches en Regalia" is pure gold.

And what about that **** in the middle of "Willie the Pimp??" Dude was a genius.
 
This thread is really sparking some memories. How about Townshend's playing on "Underture" at Woodstock? Does that count as a solo? People say Hendrix's Star Spangled banner was the most riveting moment at Woodstock, and maybe that's so, but "Underture" would have had to be #2.

#3 would have to be Santana's "Soul Sacrifice."
 
ponderbear said:
Damn straight. That is the real deal. I love that album and the Fingers-era Stones in general.

Keith playing just behind the beat and bending the bejesus out of those two or three notes on the "Only Rock & Roll" solo. If that's not enough to get you to tap your foot or whip out the air guitar, it's because, to quote Monty Python, your metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians.
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Wow - amazing selections here!

I'll add an obscure, yet deserving candidate: Frank Marino for Ditch Queen off the album "Juggernaut". Amazing!

I always thought that Comfortably Numb was just about the best rock guitar solo ever. Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower deserves recognition too. Then again, Alex Lifeson's solo during Limelight is right up there at the top...
 
TeeDeeJr said:
I know of one more that really blows me away, I think its "Comfortably Numb", Gilmour Rocks.
Tyson
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I was wrong, "Comfortably Numb is good, BUT the one I was thinking of was "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2" :banana:

Also Gilmour's work on "Echoes" is great.

He's got a new live DVD coming out on the 18th.:yes:

Tyson
 
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