Best solos of all time

A few favorites (all guitar):

Robert Cray - Where Do I Go From Here? from Bad Influence

Ian Moore - Leary's Gate from And All The Colors

Jeff Baxter - My Old School from Countdown To Ecstasy (at least I think it was Baxter; Denny Dias also has guitar credit on the cut, but I think Skunk took the solos)

Bruce Cockburn - Blueberry Hill from Breakfast In New Orleans

Richard Thompson - Why Must I Plead from Rumor And Sigh

Prince - I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man from Sign O' The Times

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Tin Pan Alley from Couldn't Stand The Weather

I omitted pure instrumentals, but can't help mentioning Santana's Samba Pa Ti anyway.

A couple more:

Elliot Easton - Bye Bye Love from The Cars

Doug Fieger - Lucinda (the wah-wah bit) or My Sharona (the long bit) from Get The Knack

Nobody's mentioned the "Würm" solo at the end of "Starship Trooper" on "The Yes Album". Plus a lot of other Howe stuff.

Partial to "Watermelon on Easter Hay" by Uncle FRank, and also "Pink Napkins". Lots of Frank's stuff is worthy of mention, but I'll leave that for someone else.

Good call on the Richard Thompson. I'd go for the middle section of "'52 Vincent Black Lightning" - especially when heard live as I did on Wednesday...

John

Tom's response reminded me of another criminally underated album: 801 Live! This was a Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music)/Brian Eno side project which was recorded in 1975 IIRC. Mazanera's work on this is brilliant - ranging from heavy riffing "You really Got me" to slow string squeezing solos "Diamond Head" and of course his take on the aforementioned "Baby's on Fire". Easily one of my favourite albums, well worth chasing up if you like, Eno or early Roxy Music.

Giles

Martin Barre's short but sweet solo in 'Aqualung' (Jethro Tull) has a bit of everything.

And Neil Young's one note solo at the end of 'Southern Man' always does it for me.

It expresses his anger, magnificently, with great simplicity.

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Originally posted by Giles Felgate:
Tom's response reminded me of another criminally underated album: 801 Live! This was a Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music)/Brian Eno side project which was recorded in 1975 IIRC. Mazanera's work on this is brilliant - ranging from heavy riffing "You really Got me" to slow string squeezing solos "Diamond Head" and of course his take on the aforementioned "Baby's on Fire". Easily one of my favourite albums, well worth chasing up if you like, Eno or early Roxy Music.

Giles

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Not to mention their trippy version of an already quite trippy "Tomorrow Never Knows" - the reason I bought it way back when!

Cheers

Keith.

Jayd said;

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Doug Fieger - Lucinda (the
wah-wah bit) or My Sharona (the long
bit) from Get The Knack

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It is actually Berton Averre who did all those Knack solos. Feiger only played
rhythm guitar. I saw them last summer
and they finished the show with a medley of Break On Through by The Doors and
Tequila. What's cool is that both songs
are the same song (same rhythm)! Berton
did the most amazing guitar solo during the medley which lasted a good ten minutes!!

Kevin asked:

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[about Maggot brain] IMO the best guitar solo there is: I've only got the ep version free with One Nation Under a Groove. Is the one on Maggot Brain any different?

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Not even close!!! When Funkadelic play live, there is someone in the band who plays the solo. However, all the feeling is gone as the original is completely improvised. The last time I saw Funkadelic was about two weeks before Eddie Hazel died. For many years I wanted to see Eddie perform Maggot Brain live and was excited to learn he was back in the group. Unfortunately his cancer was hurting him so bad, he could only play rhythm that night. Diaper Man came to the front of the stage and did the solo note-for-note but the lightman had the spot on Eddie during the whole song. Very touching. When he died a few weeks later and I heard how much pain he was in, it made me ashamed that I was upset Diaper Man did the solo. Now every time I play Maggot Brain I visuallize the spotlight on Eddie and am grateful to have seen it.

Neil Young has got a lot of mentions but one of my favorites is his harmonica solos in Heart of Gold.

Zappa's best is the electric guitar solo
in My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama from You Can't Do That On Stage Volume 4.

Ron The Mon,
Maggot Brain Freak

Talking of Zappa:-

'Sexual Harassment In The Workplace'

and if any 'instrument' is allowed; the lady having the orgasm in the middle of the wonderful 'The Torture Never Stops' (FZ - 'Zoot Allures') ain't bad!

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It is actually Berton Averre who did all those Knack solos. Feiger only played
rhythm guitar.

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See, now, that just messes with my world. Here I've spent the last 24 years (off and on, not the entire time) looking at the cover of the album and thinking "How can anyone so goofy looking play guitar so well?"

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I saw them last summer and they finished the show with a medley of Break On Through by The Doors and Tequila. What's cool is that both songs are the same song (same rhythm)! Berton did the most amazing guitar solo during the medley which lasted a good ten minutes!!

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I'd heard they were back together. Good to know they're making music, and not just getting money for being the guys who used to be The Knack.

Nothing Goofy but Best Solos of all time?

Far too many to list but I've just had a major Dan listening fest so Guitar Solo wise -

Larry Carlton - Kid Charlemagne

Jeff Baxter - My Old School

Denny Dias - Bodhisatva (tried to play this for years but even after slowing the tempo to 1/4 on my phrase trainer it's still impossible)

Favourite Sax solo? Piano? Harmonica?

Later.

P

Didn't have time to read all the posts, just put in my favourite here:

Hendrix - Machine Gun / Band of Gypsies.

david

"Virtual spotter's badge if you can name the famous blues guitarist featured here as an 18 year-old, sitting in with some Irish friends (a session omitted even from his own web-site!)."

Sounds like Eric Bell

Mr Tibbs

Just seen the thread, bit late on and done no research on it, but here goes..no order, so many to try and extract from the memory banks! (sticking to 'normal' guitar solo's)

1) Ed Wynne, (ozrics) track 'Og HA Be' from Live underslunky. Delciously spacey.

2) Daryl Stermeur.. Suprisingly from Genesis Live The Way We Walk'The Longs' Live album. First track around 9mins in, just lets fly with his own sound, give me goose bumps. Solo is about 4 mins long!s

3) Marc Ford, ex Black Crowes, Riffing and soloing on 'No Speak No Slave' from the Southern Harmony album.. The way I'd like to play guitar!

4) Peter Frampton From 'Frampton Comes Alive' , Do you feel like we do - a classic solo after a rock build up

5) The usuals like Gilmour Comfortably Numb live

6) Clapton, live at the NEC 86, the opener Crossroads shown on Channel 4, is so simple and the blues it blows me away, I can sing the solo note for note (shame I cant play it :-) )

"Very close, but no."

Damn!

Surely not Rory G?

Keep me guessing if I'm wrong

Mr Tibbs

"Straddling shots, Mr Tibbs. Straddling shots."

Damn and blast!

OK then, this is probably too obvious but a certain Gary Moore would have been about eighteen when he formed Skid Row??

Mr Tibbs

"The clue to this band (if you're interested in the anorak) is in "The Orphanage". And it's not the obvious group that also had links with that place..."

I think I'll quit while I'm ahead

I'll be watching out for the anorak winning reply though...

Mr Tibbs

PS For a truly great solo, hear Rubina by Joe Satriani.

"The track was Sign On My Mind from Dr. Strangely Strange's second album "Heavy Petting"..."

I think the anorak was safe Nick

Nice track BTW, but bears little resemblance to the incisive playing style of today's Gary Moore.

Mr Tibbs

Bill Nelson - 'crying to the sky' from Sunburst Finish.

Reminded of another this morning - Terry Kath's solo on Chicago's "25 Or 6 To 4".