Greatest guitar solos ever.

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Good old Ted Nugent. He put on a free show for us at our Airfield.

[Heinz]

y0 d00ds been.

Geez my problem is defining a guitar solo.

For me economy of notes is the ultimate thing that really defines a great solo.


Top 3 from a shredders point of view if you like:

Steve Vai - For the love of god
his trademark ballad. Incredible usage of notes and emotions reallly show through.

Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
Not technically hard but oh so beautiful to listen to.

Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie
Real rock strut song, leather pants, big hair gets the fingers pumping.


For a jazz style
Wes Montgomary in West Coast Blues is classic improv. Follows the melody veery well without doubling it.

Blues style

Robert Cray - I cant think of the song from Crossroads but woah did it have some mega bluesy licks in there.

I could go on...........

But then I dont really focus on solos. A solo is only ever going to be as good as the melody is playing around.

[evangilder]

Agreed on the Vai tune, Heinz! Although Vai's Attitude Song from theh album Flexable was really wild. For me with Satch, I'd go with Flying in a Blue Dream or the Crush of Love. Mark Bonilla's Hurling Blues Skyward is awesome too.

Going back to my influences
Rik Emmet (Triumph) Rock and Roll Machine and Fight the Good Fight
Randy Rhodes (Ozzy)- Crazy Train
Neal Schon (Journey)- Wheel in the Sky and the solo in Who's Cryin' Now just sings
Van Halen- Eruption
Richie Blackmore (Rainbow)- Snowman
George Lynch (Dokken)- Paris is Burning

There are others, but those come to mind

[Thorlifter]

Ok, I'll chime in. Let's see.....

I'd go with Sammy in Van Halen any day. If memory serves, how many #1 albums did VH have with Dave? Answer - None. How many #1 albums did VH have with Sammy? Answer - All of them. Plus Sammy is just a good guy. Dave's a nut.

One guy who hasn't been mentioned yet is Paul Gilbert. He has toured with Racer-X, Mr. Big, and solo. IMO, he is one of the premiere guitar gods.

[Heinz]

Paul Gilbert is a master at pace even eclipsing yngwie at times. Haven;t got his solo release " get outta my yard " yet though I hear its really good.

He definitely made a name for his styly incoporating Bach and other classical artists like vivaldi.

Hes also one of the quickest solo plays with the song Addicted to that rush clocking in at 17.5 notes per second. No walk in the park at all.

[SoD Stitch]

If we're going for "ultimate guitarist", I'm down wid Heinz; Steve Vai is probably the most accomplished guitarist of his generation (yes, even better than Satch). I believe his best album is "Fire Garden", followed closely by "Passion And Warfare". I almost agree with Heinz: I think "Fire Garden Suite: Bull Whip/Pusa Road/Angel Food/Taurus Bulba" is his best overall track; it really showcases the many talents of Steve.

[Screaming Eagle]

My fave solos

Let there be rock - AC/DC (Angus Young)
Ride the Lightning - Metallica (Kirk Hammet)
NIB - Black Sabbath (Tony Iommi)
The number of the beast - Iron Maiden (Adrian Smith)
Back In Black - AC/DC (Angus Young)
Powerslave - Iron Maiden (Adrian Smith)
Iron Man - Black Sabbath (Tony Iommi)
Hit the Lights - Metallica (Kirk Hammet); this song live on the some kind of monster ep is awesome

like adler, it was hard for me to choose, because there are some many great songs and solos.

[Heinz]

Originally Posted by SoD Stitch

If we're going for "ultimate guitarist", I'm down wid Heinz; Steve Vai is probably the most accomplished guitarist of his generation (yes, even better than Satch). I believe his best album is "Fire Garden", followed closely by "Passion And Warfare". I almost agree with Heinz: I think "Fire Garden Suite: Bull Whip/Pusa Road/Angel Food/Taurus Bulba" is his best overall track; it really showcases the many talents of Steve.

Thats a great track SoD Stitch!

Its fantastic but with Vai his works are more like movements as in classical composer.

For the Love has a instantly recognisable solo esq traditional rock song layout. Whereas the Fire Garden suite although is incredible is like a proggressive over all track, see where I'm going.

The man is incredible though

Satch is different because hes more 'old school' going for the blues influenced licks. Vai's 10hour a day practise and loving of Zappa definitely shows through

[Matt308]

Adler, you are right with Floyd's Comfortably Numb. That has to be the smoothest guitar solo to qualify in the top 100. Beautiful.

Steve Vai... hehehe... anyone who has played with Frank Zappa must be crazy talented. I liked his stuff with my favorite rock queen, David Lee Roth.

Here's one that holds it's own... Ted Nugent Stranglehold. Now that's classic guitar work. Long live the Amboy Dukes!!!!

[Velius]

Hello! Well I've heard many great guitar solos by several bands. I'm sure I can come up with a whole list if I sat down and thought about it for a while. However, when I read this question one solo came to mind that I'm sure would definatley be on the list; the solos in the song "Free Bird" by Lynard Skynard! Hell Yeah!

[Screaming Eagle]

Originally Posted by Matt308

Here's one that holds it's own... Ted Nugent Stranglehold. Now that's classic guitar work. Long live the Amboy Dukes!!!!

I like that song, it was off the GTA vice city stories game.

[Udet]

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[Elvis]

Originally Posted by Udet

People, hello.

In your view what would be the best or some of the very best guitar solos in the history of rock?

If you could not tell for sure, then mention rock guitar solos that had a great impact in your musical taste.

Note that i am not exactly referring to the kind of guitar solo where extremely high technically skills would be required...it doesn´t have to technically complex...but of course, being a technically complex solo will not exclude it from the list.

So far i can think of 2 cases:

1. Led Zeppellin´s (Jimmy Page) solo on "Stairway to Heaven".
2. Pink Floyd´s "Another Brick on the Wall".

Those 2 could be more than classics.

You really need to expand this catagory.
Some of the greatest guitar work ever recorded was not performed in the Rock genre.
...and Gilmour had some better licks on earlier albums.
I'd take "Fat Ol' Sun" over anything from The Wall.
...also, "Stairway to Heaven"? Oh man...you've obviously never sat down and listened to the first two Zepplin albums, or Presence.


Elvis

[Marcel]

While I don't like their music, I tried to figure out "Hotel Californie" (The Eagles)today, especially the solo. It's defenitely one of the most melodic solo's I've played and belongs up there in the top. It's not technical, not many notes, but the timing is just right.

[lesofprimus]

Hey u lame ass fu*ks, what about Lynyrd Skynyrds Freebird??? Have we forgotton this piece of Roayalty????

WTF?

One of the few songs that I can Air Guitar to perfectly, all 3 guitar parts...