Best Guitar Solos

[symatech]

No need to explain, subject says it all.

I think 1 of my all-time favorite solos is Ride the Lightning - Metallica

Also, i like the 2nd solo in Sultans of Swing - Dire straits

there are many many others but i wanna hear from you guitar lovin bros out there (mainly because Im bored...)

peace

[not12say]

Top Jimmy .... Van Halen 1984

[RageControl]

ride the lightning = best metallica cd ever.
My fav it is led zeppelin - bron-y-aur
not to be confused with bron-y-aur stomp.

[jammergsxr]

Joe satriani......always you,always me Sooooooo Relaxing

[David B.]

Here's one no one else will agree with -- my favorite guitar solo this week is George Harrison's break in "Dig A Pony" off The Beatles "Let It Be" LP. I've even taken the trouble to learn to play it.

Didn't say I think it's the "best" guitar solo, or even Harrison's best, just my favorite right now.

--dnb

[maguilagorilla]

there are just too many to pick one!

[peaker]

purple rain - prince

prince is one of the most under rated guitarist

peaker

[MIKE_XXL]

Anything by Randy Roads (old Ozzy guitar player) great technically and a lot of heart in it.

As for pure technical aspect Joe Satriani, Steve V, Marty Freedman, there are so many great guitar solos and so many great guitar players with such different styles, it would be very hard to pick just one...

[shonuff]

i like santana i really have no favorite solo.

[Pete235]

Kirk Hammet of Metallica - Unforgiven
Todd Rundgren - Bat out of Hell

[Cousin Eddie]

The Last in Line - Ronnie James Dio
Another Brick in the Wall Part II - Pink Floyd
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughn

[David B.]

Originally posted by Diesel
OK older guys....What about Peter Frampton?

Live album rocked!

I guess I'm too old. That's kiddie music to me. :

--dnb

[Shredz]

Shine on you crazy diamond - pink floyd
One - Metallica

[David B.]

Nigel Tufnel's solo in "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight," Spinal Tap!

--dnb

[jeffylyte]

how about sleeping on the sidewalk, Queen. That or Cliffs of Dover, Eric Johnson. Of course both songs are pretty much one long solo

[tatty]

Slash's solo in November rain - GnR

[FaTbAcK]

no doubt, Ywinvie Malbsteen (spelling) that boy could solo!!! Also, Eddie's solo Eruption was untouchable....

[Buddha_Red]

some of my all-time favorite solos are

fade to black - Metallica (a bunch more but ill leave it at this one)

also anything by randy rhodes,
alot by Stevie ray vaun,
surfing with the alien-joe satriani

[Big Rush]

Originally posted by Diesel
OK older guys....What about Peter Frampton?

Live album rocked!

Frampton comes Alive!...hell ya!

[Big Rush]

Zeppelin = Stairway solo

Hendrix = All Along the Watchtower

WSP = Pilgrims

Phish = Slave to the Trafic Light


many, many more that i can't think of!

[steele175]

PINK FLOYD --- HIGH HOPES!

[fLgAtOr]

Favorite solos? How could you narrow it down?

Hendrix, Page, Satriani, Vaughn, Clapton, Vai (maybe not, but he's damn fast), Van Halen, Kirk Hammet, Slash, Jonhson, Beck, Rhodes... They are all gods. Did I get leave anyone out? Yeah I know, but other than me though...

[The French Curler]

Hendrix and Page, any solo they did, was simply the best.

[Cycleon]

satriani is golden but gotta also put in riverside blues by zeplin - then there is the intro to Hells bells by ACDC

[kreper69]

Ride the Lightning is bad @ss bro, Hit The Lights, and Mechanix.
Mechanix- has to be the best Dave Mustaine is F@cking awesome

[Jack87]

Originally posted by FaTbAcK
no doubt, Ywinvie Malbsteen (spelling) that boy could solo!!! Also, Eddie's solo Eruption was untouchable....

Damn you beat me to it bro.... Saw Yngwie Malmsteen in concert many times.... Without a doubt the most incrediable technical guitarist ever....

[symatech]

How do you pronounce the first name???

Great replies-->keep em commin!

some more:

Sweet Child of mine - Guns n Roses

Musical Death (a dirge) - Testament

thought id throw in some from 80s and early 90s ---^

[Big Rush]

kick ass post symatech!

here are some more:

any old black sabbath

Pink Floyd = Comfortably Numb (live)

Pearl Jam = Alive or anything off "10"

Allman Bro's = Ramblin' Man

Janes Addiction = 3 Days (live)

Zebra = Tell me what you want....anyone ever heard of ZEBRA??

[Jack87]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by symatech
[B]How do you pronounce the first name???

Ywgwie (ING-VAY) Malmsteen

His solo work is incrediable....

[EXCESS]

Neil Young - Cortez The Killer
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood
The Eagles - Hotel California
U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing
Jimi Hendrix- Little Wing
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
The Smashing Pumpkins - Geek USA
Santana - Samba Pa Ti

[symatech]

figured Id give this baby a bump

[latman49]

Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force=ABSOLUTE CRAP!!!!!!!! Yeah, old Yngwie can strum a guitar, and was actually good in his early days.....but have you heard anything that he has done in the last couple of years. It's like listening to an 8 year old kid play a guitar with an electric mixer. He just plays random notes at warp speed for about 3 hours. "The Wizard" is the worst song that has ever been written. If you've never heard it, download it and listen....it is well worth the hours of laughter.

[RON]

#1 fade to black - Kirk Hammet
#2 Call of Kutulu - Kirk Hammet
In case you couldn't guess I like Metallica especially the old stuff.

Jimmy Page- any zep solo but on some of the old boot leg live stuff he was unbelievable.

Too many others to mention like Maiden.

I know this will get flamed but Poisin had some bitchen solos

[CrazyDriver]

Stevie ray is the shit. His 12 string acoustic solo is the balls.

[JP1570]

Originally posted by Shredz
Shine on you crazy diamond - pink floyd
One - Metallica

Hell yea on the pink Floyd. wish you were here is top 5 albums of all time for me. To think that whole cd was written for one guy is amazing (sid). Anyway, shine on you crazy diamond has some unreal solos, in parts 1-5 and 6-10.

[EXCESS]

Originally posted by RON
I know this will get flamed but Poisin had some bitchen solos

CC Deville is awesome! Total wackos make great musicians.

[righton]

Doesn't anyone remember Alvin Lee from Ten Years After doing " I'm Going Home" from Woodstock in '69?

[samoth]

I always thought the opener to 'Trapped Under Ice' was one of Metallicas best...
Slayer have great solos as well... too many to mention...
Karl Logan from Manowar is excellent, thought not as tight as many others, he is fast as hell...

[David B.]

Originally posted by EXCESS
Neil Young - Cortez The Killer

yes Yes YES!!! One of my all-time favorites.

--dnb

[Jack87]

Originally posted by righton
Doesn't anyone remember Alvin Lee from Ten Years After doing " I'm Going Home" from Woodstock in '69?

Alvin Lee was on bad muther....