I was just curious to know what are some of your favorite guitar solos. There is nothing like a bad asss guitar solo to get you pumped up. I myself can never get tired of hearing stevie ray vaughans solo in love struck.
anything by eddie vanhalen, such as eruption or his two new ones that he made (cant think of the names right off the top of my head, will post a link if i can find it)
Mine would probably be something by John Petrucci, although I don’t know which one in particular.
Heres a new one by eddie vanhalen, although there are some other instraments - YouTube also “rise” is another good one by him
Anything by Paco de Lucia. I don’t know how his guitar doesn’t turns into flames in the middle of a solo or during those aggressive bravados.
[quote]smallnomore wrote:
Mine would probably be something by John Petrucci, although I don’t know which one in particular.[/quote]
Petrucci is a guitar god.
I like Omar Rodriguez of The Mars Volta though, his solos are very creative. There’s the breakdown in Cicatriz, the robot talk in Take the Veil, the Concertina solo…great stuff.
And there’s always Steve Howe. I really love the solos on Relayer.
Tom Morello is probably my favorite guitarist ever, just because he has such a range of stuff that he does with his solos.
It’s hard for me to pick a favorite, but I’d have to say either “Take the Power Back” when he was with Rage or “Doesn’t Remind Me” from Audioslave.
The guy from Avenged Sevenfold is pretty nasty too- I’ve seen them live and he’s thrown down some sick solos.
The guitar solo is near the end of the song, but the guitar screams and the tone is perfect. You will not get this kind of tone in the fingers of those weak speed guitar soloists… I know, I play speed solos also… they suck!
[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
Tom Morello is probably my favorite guitarist ever, just because he has such a range of stuff that he does with his solos.
It’s hard for me to pick a favorite, but I’d have to say either “Take the Power Back” when he was with Rage or “Doesn’t Remind Me” from Audioslave.
The guy from Avenged Sevenfold is pretty nasty too- I’ve seen them live and he’s thrown down some sick solos.[/quote]
“BORN OF A BROKEN MAN” is a fun one to play… use drop d tuning and a phaser.
All Along The Watchtower by Hendrix has a good one.
Also- Free Will by Rush.
And a good bit of Carlos Santanas work would qualify.
There realy are just too damned many though. Makes it hard to pick The One.
The “Skunk” Baxter of Steely Dan fame I always thought had some perfect, concise solos. The solo on “Ricky Don’t lose that number”…is pretty much the hallmark of what a guitar player can do in 15 seconds without sounding out of place or overriding the whole song. One of the best guitar solos ever.
I love Stevie Ray Vaughan also for raw ability…he literally channeled rock and roll through his guitar. He could not read music…I heard a quote by him once where he stated that when he thought too much about where he should be on the neck, or what should come next…he got into trouble. When he just let it go and played is when was he was great. Thast’s pure talent. RIP.
Here’s a good song by Joe Satriani. I like to actually play the solo overtop of Joe in this song. Joe has a nice tempo that can accompany’s a fast lead real nice nut he plays the song perfectly. You can tear up a solo on this song… for all you guitar players out there.
Anything by SRV or Eddie Van Halen.
Joe Satriani, Hendrix, Duane Allman, Jimmy Page; There are so many great ones.
The one song that stands out in my mind is “the Cult of Personality” I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the band. They were an all black hard rock band from the early 90’s and the lead singer had dreads and wore a “body glove” wet suit on stage.
The guitar solo in that song is bad to the bone.
[quote]matt88 wrote:
Anything by SRV or Eddie Van Halen.
Joe Satriani, Hendrix, Duane Allman, Jimmy Page; There are so many great ones.
The one song that stands out in my mind is “the Cult of Personality” I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the band. They were an all black hard rock band from the early 90’s and the lead singer had dreads and wore a “body glove” wet suit on stage.
The guitar solo in that song is bad to the bone.[/quote]
Living Color
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[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
matt88 wrote:
Anything by SRV or Eddie Van Halen.
Joe Satriani, Hendrix, Duane Allman, Jimmy Page; There are so many great ones.
The one song that stands out in my mind is “the Cult of Personality” I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the band. They were an all black hard rock band from the early 90’s and the lead singer had dreads and wore a “body glove” wet suit on stage.
The guitar solo in that song is bad to the bone.
Living Color
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Nice call guys. Vernon Reid tears this song a new ass!
[quote]Jimfound wrote:
The “Skunk” Baxter of Steely Dan fame I always thought had some perfect, concise solos. The solo on “Ricky Don’t lose that number”…is pretty much the hallmark of what a guitar player can do in 15 seconds without sounding out of place or overriding the whole song. One of the best guitar solos ever.
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Skunk is the man. “My Old School” is pretty awesome too.
My favorite guitar gods:
Jerry Douglas-Dobro player-amazing musical genius.
John Jorgenson-swing jazz a la Django Reinhardt