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Greatest Rock guitar solos

Back to the '70's: The Carpenters. A little ditty called "Goodbye To Love." I always loved the guitar riff in the middle of the song.

Karen Carpenter. Her voice still makes me notice what I am listening to.
 
babblefu said:
Always need to stop what I'm doing when the guitar solo from Manfred Mann's version of "Blinded by the Light" kicks in. That and DiMeola's in "Duel Of The Jester And The Tyrant" from Return to Forever's "Romantic Warrior.
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Always loved RTF. DiMeol's guitar somewhat clinical at times, but what a player.
Clapton on Crossroads is probably the first solo I ever think about when the question about "best" is asked.
I didn't notice it on the list.
The sound of that 335 just really gets to me. He weaves those notes together so well and just never gets boring.
 
I'm a long-time fan of Eric Claptons guitar solos,and I think some of his best stuff came on other peoples records when he was just sitting in.Some of my favorites:
Jackie Lomax,Sour Milk Sea ,From "Is This what You Want"
Doris Troy, Give Me Back My Dynamite,From "Self- Titled"
Billy Preston,Thats The Way God Planned It, From "That The Way God Planned It"
Johnnie Johnson.Creek Mud,From " Johnnie B. Bad.Just a few of many....David
 
All of these so called 'solos' are not really the guitarists by themselves.....the band is always playing behing them...they're just stepping up and taking the lead.

As far as an actual solo...well, what I would consider the greatest solo 'riff' would have to be Claptons' finale on "Sitting on top of the World" from the Cream's Goodbye album. That 5 seconds of pure fire and passion, by EC ALONE, has never been topped by ANYONE, EVER. :guitar:

Go back and give it a listen to. Still puts chills up and down my spine eveytime I listen to it. Oh, I also find it VERY difficult to listen to it any lower than FULL VOLUME
"Eric Clapton please...."
"Yeah, thank you. Jack Bruce please..."

Natch :smoke:
 
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Off Deep Purples album: "Who Do We Think We Are?

A track called...."Place in Line"
Ritchie Blackmore at his best!!

This tune breaks into a very long instrumental that I can NEVER get tired of.

I am truly shocked it has not been mentioned.

Russ
 
Zappa: "Watermelons in Easter Hay" on the Joe's Garage set. No bombast, not flashy, just perfect.

Steve "Mothermania" A.
 
Steve Howe in the YES cover of Paul Simon's America,,,you guys wanna listen to a solo that has a million elements, finesse, flash, jazz, country and rock, all in one..thats the one....or in The Yessongs version of Yours Is No Disgrace...

Anything else is just noise,,
 
Hotel Calirfornia? That's so f<a>ucking weak.

Give me a break. The Allman Bros. "Statesboro Blues" puts it to shame, as do almost anything from Jimi Hendrix, especially Machine Gun, and Voodoo Chile, Slight Return. Get a set of ears and come back to reality dipweed. The Eagles were one of the lamest bands to set foot on American soil. Joe Walsh was ok on his own, but he slit his throat when he joined this bunch of pretenders.

Meat Puppet.
You know I'm right.
 
Meat Puppet said:
Give me a break. The Allman Bros. "Statesboro Blues" puts it to shame, as do almost anything from Jimi Hendrix, especially Machine Gun, and Voodoo Chile, Slight Return. Get a set of ears and come back to reality dipweed. The Eagles were one of the lamest bands to set foot on American soil. Joe Walsh was ok on his own, but he slit his throat when he joined this bunch of pretenders.

Meat Puppet.
You know I'm right.
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All I know is that you're BANNED, Meathead!!! :yes: :thmbsp:

to quote Red Foreman:

DUMBASS!!!
 
I like many Eagles tunes, but they are not tremendous players of their respective intruments...
 
Being from the 60's, I remember the "Who Do You Love Suite" by Quicksilver Messenger Service. Another one that I remember was Santana's "Soul Sacrifice" from Woodstock. I saw an interview with him discussing that song and he remarked that they pretty much put it together right there on stage in fromt of everyone. I know that I will get picked on for this one, but I had a neighbor back in the 70's that was a classical guitarist and he was one of the best acoustic guitarist I have ever heard. No amplifiers, no mixing boards, he was self taught and just a excellent artist with the guitar.
 
WhiteSE said:
I like many Eagles tunes, but they are not tremendous players of their respective intruments...
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I have always love Don Felder's tone and style. His solos on Hotel California and on the tune Heavy Metal(take a ride) are excellent (IMHO). :thmbsp:
 
WhiteSE said:
Steve Howe in the YES cover of Paul Simon's America,,,you guys wanna listen to a solo that has a million elements, finesse, flash, jazz, country and rock, all in one..thats the one....or in The Yessongs version of Yours Is No Disgrace...

Anything else is just noise,,
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I thought that was Peter Banks on that cover...first Yes Album?

Howe didn't join until they were making the third, "The Yes Album".
 
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I thought that was Peter Banks on that cover...first Yes Album?

Howe didn't join until they were making the third, "The Yes Album".
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The cover of Paul Simon's America was made after or around Close To The Edge....Remember the LP Yesterdays, an LP bewteen ner releases? It has some old songs with Banks..But America was actually arranged by Howe...Its his baby!
 
WhiteSE said:
The cover of Paul Simon's America was made after or around Close To The Edge....Remember the LP Yesterdays, an LP bewteen ner releases? It has some old songs with Banks..But America was actually arranged by Howe...Its his baby!
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I think I have everything they've ever released on vinyl or cd. Mostly cd.
That version of America has some frenetic guitar work.
The BBC studio recording I have sourced from a file a friend copied makes Howe's guitar tough to listen to, in fact the entire song doesn't do the album version justice.
Always thought it was Banks bc of similarity in styles and familiarity with "Time and a Word" as well as "Yes" eponymously titled.
I stand corrected on that one.
 
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The cover of Paul Simon's America was made after or around Close To The Edge
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No it was way before that, they performed it the first time I saw them when I was a senior in HS and they were on their The Yes album tour.
A Time And A Word IIRC, but I ain't looking it up. :tongue:


Carl
 
carl,, A Time and Word still had Banks....America has Steve and Rick Wakeman on it (who's first album was Fragile),,,(so maybe when they toured Fragile you saw it?), as well as Bill Bruford...so it has to be after The Yes Album, but before Bruford left to King Crimson right after they started touring the Close to The Edge LP...

If you ever saw the video clips of when they recorded America (in the YesYears video), they are definitely post or at Close To The Edge era..
 
No, they didn't do it on the Fragile tour show I saw, it was The Yes Album tour show for sure. Thought it was pretty cool too.

Carl
 
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