POX: Favorite Guitar Solos... can be within a song or a full instrumental

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In any order:

Iron Maiden: Hallowed Be Thy Name
Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast
Eric Johnson: Cliffs of Dover
Neil Young: Cortez the Killer
Neil Young: Down by the River
Metallica: Master of Puppets
Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil
Joe Satriani: Surfing with the Alien
KISS: Cold Gin (Its plain, its simple, its repetative on the pentatonics, but goddamn what a cool lick)
Queen: I Want it All (Another personal favorite)

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

marquee moon

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i like the one in zep's whole lotta love. comes out of the weird concrete bit.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Cortez the Killer
Down By The River
The Diamond Sea
Run Run Run
Freebird

― roger adultery, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I think "Cowgirl in the Sand" beats "Down By the River" any day.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

generally i prefer the short ones meself

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Metallica - MoP
Metallica - Orion
Metallica - One
Metallica - Fade to Black
Pink Floyd - WYWH
Soundgarden - Fell on Black Day
Zep - Rain Song

All I can think of.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll have to add one more Led Zeppelin track to this list: "The Ocean". That was one amazing guitar song.

I also like Leee's Metallica picks. :)

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The one at the end of 'Copper' by Shellac.
It's very short but it's all you need.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 06:33 (twenty-two years ago)

short:
the Stone Roses - Elisabeth My Dear (the one note near the end)

long:
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Highway Star!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 07:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Queen - Good old fashioned loverboy.

― neil, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Boredom" - Buzzcocks. "Up the hill & down the slope" - The Loft

― bham, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

any willie nelson solo

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought George's solo on Can't Buy Me Love was just so perfectly formed.

Especially surprising when you hear his fumbling about on bootlegs trying to improvise solos.

― mms (mms), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I Am The Resurrection - Stone Roses

― daarkbee, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Django--"La Mer"
King Ben Nawahi--"Mauna Kea"
any Howard Roberts solo on Axelrod's Songs of Innocence

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty much anything Joey Santiago came up with, particularly "Hey" from Doolittle.

― person#0 (person#0), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Solo from album version of Let it Be by The Beatles. Don't know who played it or even if it was a guitar for sure.

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Young "Danger Bird"
Kiss "Dirty Livin'"
Kiss "Deuce"
Kiss "Ladies Room" (just a sequence of dom7th arps!)
AC/DC "Down Payment Blues"
Scorpions "All Night Long"
Scorpions "We'll Burn the Sky"
Scorpions "Catch Your Train"
Scorpions "Speedy's Coming"
Can "Mother Sky"
Deep Purple "Black Night"
Butthole Surfers "Graveyard"
Rush "Best I Can"
Rush "Passage to Bangkok"
Rush "Xanadu"
Rush "Freewill"
Roxy Music "Whirlwind"
Metallica "Trapped Under Ice"
Metallica "Disposable Heroes"

Good Iron Maiden choices by the way Bryan esp. "Hallowed"

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Only guitar solo I really like:
Cramps - Voodoo Idol

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Greatest Guitar Solos Ever Vol 1.

(This isn't meant as a 'we've done this', more like just adding to the fun! With added Calum making a cunt of himself as usual)

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

andmoreagain!

Greatest Guitar Solos Ever Vol. 2

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, that's another Callum I just noticed. This one's even more misguided!

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

cake-i will survive

― Michael B, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Led Zep - Good Times, Bad Times

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The Smashing Pumpkins - "Soma"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

instrumental:

Van Halen - "Eruption"
Joe Satriani - "Always With Me, Always With You"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Smashing Pumpkins "Cherub Rock"
2. Fishbone "Sunless Saturday" (Kendal Jones on geetar)
3. Ween "Voodoo Lady"
4. Mr. Bungle "None of Them Knew They Were Robots"
5. Talking Heads "Born Under Punches" (that's Adrian Belew)
6. Jimi Hendrix "Machine Gun"
7. Praxis "Crash Victim/Black Science Navigator" (that's Buckethead)
8. Natalie Merchant "Carnival" (that's Jennifer Turner)
9. Fishbone "Are U With It?" (this time it's Spacey T on geetar)
10.Funkadelic "War Machines of Armaggeddon" (EDDIE HAZEL I LOVE YOU)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

the solo bits (all the same) Fripp plays in King Crimson's "starless". I particularly like that they are all played identically.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Highway Star" Great choice, Dan I. Never woulda thought of it myself, but agree...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Thinking about this, and seeing a couple more KISS entries, I also wanna make note of the solo in "Rock and Roll All Nite" Unplugged. While I'm NOT a big fan of this 'anthem' I really think that this version of the song has an energy to it that no other version has captured. Having Bruce Kulick and Ace Frehley play dual lead on the track, combined with the pounding accoustic aspect really make that solo "rawk." Ya know, for that matter, most solos on that album are far more raw sounding and a lot more enjoyable than their original versions. i.e. Beth...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think it's been mentioned, so:

Pink Floyd, "Comfortably Numb"

And the Rolling Stones, "Dead Flowers".

― Adam Harrison-Friday, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Bryan - what solo do you think is better, Kiss "She" or Doors' "Five to One"?

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ultimate guitar-solo-in-a-Floyd-song = "One of These Days".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd have to give Comfortably Numb the ultimate-guitar-solo-in-a-Floyd-song... Immense popularity for a reason...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a plate of smelly cheese with a hair on it.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not a big Doors fan at all... in fact, I pretty much hate them... I'll give credit on Five to One for being a decent solo, but the She solo by KISS wins out. I like it, despite being another case of Frehley saying "I know, the fans will love it if I repeat the same penatonic scale progression REALLY FAST half a dozen times." I will say, though, seeing it both in person a couple years back, and hearing it on Alive! the She solo is far more memorable, as despite being repetative, he uses it to great effect. She in general, I enjoy, for the simple, raunchy guitar riff...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

radiohead-paranoid android, just, iron long
SP-soma, zero, most of gish
Nirvana-too many to list
the one-note solo at the very end of "i love rock and roll"
velvet underground-heroin

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

David Mitchell's solo in 3ds' "Meluzina Man" is tyte. And D. Kilgour on "Point That Thing Somewhere Else" (all versions).

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I really do like though the "Comfortably Numb" solo, in much the same way I love Jennifer Turner's solo in "Carnival", for being just so buttery and smooth and gorgeous and supple. It's the same part of me that loves guitar solos like this that loves Buckethead's Colma and Electric Tears albums so very much.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to agree with Nickalicious' pick of Adrian Belew on Born Under Punches by Talking Heads, and I raise you Adrian Belew on Paw-Paw Negro Blowtorch by Brian Eno. Another fave: "Miracle Mile" by Silkworm (more for the presentation than the actual solo).

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Young. "Cinnamon Girl."

― *burp* (*burp*), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I love that "Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch" solo! I've drank espresso double-shots that had less impact on my physical twitchiness.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

sonny sharrock on herbie mann's "hold on i'm coming"

― jacob long (jacobL), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Richard Thompson's "Calvary Cross" (any of the versions I've got) deserves some love in this thread.

Too, Verlaine's "Breakin' In My Heart."

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Husker Du -- "First of the Last Calls"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch" = Fripp, not Belew

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

brian eno-"baby's on fire" (i think this is manzanera)

the velvet underground-"i heard her call my name"

― williamtell (williamtell), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"baby's on fire" = Fripp, not Manzanera

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The "She" solo sucks ass. What?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 17 August 2003 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything by Euroboy in any TRBNGR stuff
The one in "Punk Rock Girl" by Dead Milkmen
anything by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top
Me in "A Fungus Among Us (AKA Mushroom Funk)" by Josta Baby.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 17 August 2003 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Sham 69 "George Davis is Innocent"
Angelic Upstarts "Police Oppression"

― dave q, Sunday, 17 August 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Schenker, "On and On". (This solo sounds very much like the one in Pink Floyd's "Hey You" which gives a clue as to why 'Use Your Illusion' sucked so bad)

― dave q, Monday, 18 August 2003 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Hendrix, "Are You Experienced?"
Brinsley Schwarz, "Don't Get Excited" (Graham Parker and the Rumour)
Sharrock on anything
McLaughlin on "Shhh/Peaceful"
Carl Perkins, "Put Your Cat Clothes On"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 18 August 2003 07:07 (twenty-two years ago)

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