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Greatest Guitar Solos Ever?

Posted by chrisskoyles • 9/04/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blog, guitars, music, poll, Rock, vote

A couple of days ago, I mentioned in my blog how the inclusion of guitar solos would probably be the best thing about Metallica's new album, 'Death Magnetic'.

This got me thinking about the greatest solos ever commited to record, and what other people would consider to be their favourites.

I've just made a new blog explaining my favourite guitar solo ever, and I'm hoping any of you rock fans here on Blogcatalog might join in and comment on your favourites.

I'd love it if I could get enough people to comment on my blog with their favourites so that I could create a sort of 'Top Ten Guitar Solos' list as voted for by readers of my blog.

Anyway, have a look at: blog.chrisskoyles.com and let me know what you think.

Cheers,

Chris.

User Comments

9/04/08

calais50

I'm not much of a guitar solo fan, but the one that springs to mind is the one in "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen.

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9/04/08

RTBjr73

I still play "Eruption" by Eddie Van Halen as loud as I can whenevr I hear it.

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1. 9/04/08
  
  calais50
  
  You're still alive. I was beginning to wonder.
9/04/08

acousticguitarist

The greatest intro is Larry Carlton playing on Steely Dan "Don't take me Alive"

I'm partial to Jimi Hendrix "All along the Watchtower"

Greatest guitar duel solo Larry Coryell and Al Di Meola on Lenny White "Venusian Summer", first track side 2 vinyl

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9/04/08

TimMc

Dueling Banjos....err, wait, wrong music genre, hehe...

Now I have this need to go watch 'Deliverance.'

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1. 9/06/08
  
  kdawg68
  
  Mwahahahahahaha!!!!! Banjo Boy references are always welcomed!
2. 9/10/08
  
  blogonsmog
  
  Tiny Tim?
9/04/08

satijournal

Duane Allman's solo on Stormy Monday gives me goosebumps.

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9/04/08

fstasu

Ritchie Blackmore's "Child in Time" live version.

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1. 9/05/08
  
  fstasu
  
  Upon further thought, and listening, I'd have to add the guitar solo at the end of "Fall of the Peacemakers" by Molly Hatchet.
9/04/08

Sylvia

Lynard Skynard "Free Bird" the 6 minute guitar solo at the end of this song is amazing, I love it.

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9/04/08

drjay1966

Keith Richards/Mick Taylor on the live "Get Yer Ya-Yas" out version of "Sympathy for the Devil"

Neil Young on "Down By the River"

Frank Zappa on "Apostrophe"

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1. 9/05/08
  
  sdk1988
  
  Very Awesome Yes
9/04/08

JamesJay

I have to say Randy Rhodes on Crazy Train, just good old-fashioned, kick ass!

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9/04/08

acousticguitarist

I would like to see you band from this discussion board, here's why

You've asked a qusestion that has now somehow got my brain on overload because I'm starting to recall 40 years of guitar parts. Over the yesrs I've owned at least a few thousand albums, mainly guitar players. You have no idea what ou have done to me. Then there are the thousands of albums and songs that i have never owned but am familiar with.

I need a psycholgist at this point... buffer overflow (Kobra will know what I mean) to restore my sanity

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1. 9/04/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  It should say BANNED :-)
2. 9/05/08
  
  sdk1988
  
  That is an awesome response.. I can hear the mind a buzzin'
3. 9/05/08
  
  chrisskoyles
  
  lol, acousticguitarist,
  
  Sorry about that, hope your head doesn't explode!
  
  Some great songs in here, some I hadn't even thought about in ages.
9/04/08

acousticguitarist

The best, most perfect guitar solo that is way beyond the standard that any guitar play will ever reach on acoustic guitar is by Tony Rice on the David Grisman Hot Dawg album, on a song called 16 - 16, it is the apex of improvisation in the western world and I question whether any guitar player will ever match it. He was playing with stephan Grapelli.

if you are a guitar player and have not heard this solo, your life is absolutely wasted. It was recorded in 1979

and then there is the mandolin solo to make all mando players put there mandolins on Ebay.
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9/04/08

jackpayne

Les Paul, Mary Ford, How Hight the Moon. (1951)

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9/05/08

alanweinkrantz

"Stairway to Heaven" by Jimmy Page

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9/05/08

chrisso

"Sultans of swings" Mark Knopfler

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9/05/08

kab625

Stevie Ray - "Little Wing"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAG-kX_IlUw

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9/05/08

positivb

Marquee Moon by Television
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic(after seeing it live last weekend)

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9/05/08

ranist22

Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix by far

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9/05/08

sdk1988

Stevie Ray - Riveria Paradise

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1. 9/05/08
  
  RTBjr73
  
  "Rock You Like A Hurricane" by Scorpions, on their Live Album from 1985.
9/06/08

chrisskoyles

*Ahem* Just been informed via a very helpful e-mail that I had my blog set so that only other folk with Blogger profiles could comment. Sorry if anyone else has tried to post a comment on my blog and been unable, but I've just changed the settings so that it's open to comments from anyone.

Cheers.

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9/06/08

KaiteeThePirate

Herman Li in just about everything.

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1. 9/06/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  maybe i should check this out
9/06/08

kdawg68

Would I be disqualified on a technicality if I mentioned Cliff Burton, Metallica's original bass player, in his solo "Anasthesia/Pulling Teeth" from their "Kill 'Em All" album?

This is a good thread. I need to break out some albums and re-discover some good ones.

Getting back to Metallica - I know playing the solos that proliferate the song "One" always left my fingers bleeding on Guitar Hero.

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1. 9/06/08
  
  chrisskoyles
  
  We'll let that one count, Kdawg just because it's so awesome.
  
  As for 'One', that's a genuine solo machine that song!
9/06/08

steafan

my favourite solo of all time has to be "Dry County" Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi). He's an awesome guitar player and I think alot of people tend to overlook him because it's Bon Jovi.

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1. 9/07/08
  
  chrisskoyles
  
  They played this one at City of Manchester stadium earlier this year and it was incredible. I wasn't much of a big Bon Jovi fan until I went to see them live, then that gig had me buying up their entire back-catalogue!
9/06/08

gregdavies888

guitar solos in GNR's sweet child of mine and dragonforce's dawn over a new world are some of my personal favorites.

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9/06/08

RichManofAction

The solo in Fade to Black is awesome.

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1. 9/06/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  who did that?
2. 9/06/08
  
  fstasu
  
  Metallica
3. 9/07/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  thanks
9/06/08

okokokok

As a kid, I enjoyed Alvin Lee's "I'm Going Home" at Woodstock. The first solo I learned was Neil Young on "Cinnamon Girl." (he he) And my son just humiliated me on Guitar Hero playing "through the fire and flames."

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1. 9/07/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  alvin lee. pretty funny
  
  that was rather fast for those days
9/06/08

DrowseyMonkey

Santana & Clapton - The Calling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltq7lIi2SVI&feature=related

Anything by Stevie Ray Vaughn, how about Scuttle Buttin'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDT7a8oUK0c

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9/07/08

mrbastard

slash on 'sweet child o' mine' is pretty special + you cannot rule out 'free bird' Mr B

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9/07/08

acousticguitarist

Maybe you need to hear this

electricguitarist.net/2008/08/26/jeff-beck-youtube-nadia/

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1. 9/07/08
  
  DrowseyMonkey
  
  wow...I've never heard of him before. Thanks for that link.
2. 9/07/08
  
  chrisskoyles
  
  Very cool. I almost said that my wife's a big fan of Jeff Beck, but I'm thinking of Jeff Buckley..I think.
  
  I'll shut up now!
3. 9/07/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  Jeff Beck was in the Yardbirds
  
  He is held in pretty high regard by guitar players. The difference between Beck and a lot of the others is he kept going and continued to develop as a musician.
  
  I think he is the best guitar player to come out of Britain, by far. The only other players in other styles that I think is better (bad choice of words) is Julian Bream the classical player and the Scottish Jazz guitar player, Martin Taylor
  
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Beck
  
  My blogs have a lot of acoustic guitar geniuses that people will probably never hear of but if you like guitarists and are not stuck in one style you'll find a smorgasbord of goodies
  
  the-guitarplayer.com
  
  acousticguitarist.wordpress.com
  
  My electric blog is only a week or so old and over a peroid of time will have lots of great players that people don't know of but are of a very high standard
  
  electricguitarist.net
9/07/08

gosmelltheflowers

Even better than Clapton?

Our fave in the world - DJango Rheinhardt

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIJ4W7kXiQ&feature=related

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1. 9/07/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  Django was great, his technique was interesting because he lost the use of some of his fretting hands.
  
  He managed to sell a million copies of the song nuages in the second world war even under nazi occupation of paris. They never arrested him even though he was a gypsy. There have been some incredible articles about that issue.
  
  django was also very good with a rifle
  
  My former teacher and friend Ike also played in Grapellsis quartet i the place of Django.
2. 9/07/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  as for better than clapton, interesting question
  
  Clapton matured differently, more refined at what he he does.
  
  I think Beck is interesting because he pushed into Jazz Rock and has been much more exploratory than the other players
  
  the other great who never gets mentioned is Leslie West
3. 9/07/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  Flowers: What also may be of great interest to you is that Stephane Grapelli once introduced Birelli Lagrene at Montreux jazz festival when he was 14 as HIS OLD FRIEND DJANGO.
  
  You might like this
  
  the-guitarplayer.com/2008/09/04/rosenberg-trio-youtube-acoustic-jazz-guitar...
9/07/08

weemundo

Purple Haze by Jimmi Hendrix !

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9/10/08

bigdaddyrichard

guitar solos? how about some hilarious but good guitar solos?
Visit my blog post:
bigdaddyrichard-swirlingthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/08/world-has-talenthilar...
It also features the performance of Steve Vai with an orchestra...

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9/10/08

bradhart

There are so many great ones, it is hard to pick just one. I am surprised no one has mentioned Layla though

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9/10/08

Bingkee

Eruption by Eddie Van Halen. And the solos of Yngwie Malmsteen.

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9/10/08

blogonsmog

Chuck Berry's Johnie B. Goode

Simply because of the influence this song had on future rock stars.

stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/chuck-berry.html

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2/04/09

ophase

Still Got the Blues - Garry Moore

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3/27/09

vonshred

The unforgiven 1 solo was the best guitar solo for me.

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4/03/09

Bingkee

Watch this awesome guitar player shredding. Vote for him too;
www.riffcontest.com/videos/searchresults1.asp?id=59&searchbutton=Search

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