Best Guitar Solos

Posted by: Blueknowz on 18 September 2013

We all love a bit of music sometimes.
Post you favourite guitar riffs and share.
I still wasnt sure if he was gonna be ace or terrible, right up to the point where he hit the first note


I offer you the gift of music:

Posted on: 03 October 2013 by davidf

carlos santana: Toussaint L`Overture

Mick Taylor on live version of Midnight Rambler

Alvin Lee- I`m Goin Home from Woodstock

Duane Allman- so many cuts from Live Fillmore East

many more...

Posted on: 05 October 2013 by DrMark

How about a vote for Tommy Bolin on "Post Toastee"...

Posted on: 05 October 2013 by Andrew

A few of my all-time favourites:

Guthrie Govan - Waves or Sevens (Erotic Cakes)

Guthrie Govan - Bad Asteroid, The Aristocrats (Boing!), Ohhhh Noooo, The Aristocrats (Culture Clash)

Steve Vai - Juice and Tender Surrender (Alien Love Secrets), The Crying Machine (Fire Garden)

Jan Akkerman - Answers? Questions! - Questions? Answers! (Focus Live at the Rainbow)

Dean Parks' closing solo after 05:00 on Steely Dan's Haitian Divorce (The Royal Scam) or Larry Carlton on the same album, Don't Take Me Alive

Larry Carlton -, his tasteful licks throughout The Goodbye Look, Donald Fagan (The Nightfly)

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter - his blistering solo in Night By Night, Steely Dan (Pretzel Logic)

Danny Gatton - Dolly's Ditty, New York Stories

Pat Metheny - Half Life of Absolution, PMG, The Road To You

Pat Metheny - The Way Up, Part 1 Opening, PMG, The Way Up

Steve Howe, Gates of Delirium, Yes (Relayer)

Alan Holdsworth - City Nights (Secrets)

Mark Knopfler - Time Out of Mind, Steely Dan (Gaucho)

Wes Montgomery - 'Round Midnight (The Artistry of Wes Montgomery

Ritchie Blackmore - Lazy, Deep Purple (Machine Head), Lay Down, Stay Down, Deep Purple (Burn)

 

Posted on: 05 October 2013 by Tabby cat
Agree with you Micheal.His guitar work on dogs is incredible.The way he really stretches out.
 
Find it hard to contribute to this thread as there is so much great stuff.Jimmy Page's solo on No Quater from The Song Remains the same is up there.Roger Mc Guinns solo on Have You seen her face from Younger than Yesterday is very understated.I really like Eric Claptons solo on The Road to Escalado with the late JJ cale on Hard to Thrill.Just really understated and fluid as you would expect from old slowhand !
 
Originally Posted by Klout10:

Suprised that nobody mentioned Dave Gilmour... Love his work on the Pink Floyd album 'Animals'...

 

Regards,

Michel

 

 

Posted on: 05 October 2013 by ewemon

Jimi Hendrix Little Wing- Royal Albert Hall.

 

Posted on: 13 October 2013 by Bjornvs

There's no best, but this is one of my favorites and specifically from this live performance.

Love the building up/Sound/Style and mostly the emotion he puts in it.

Link jumps to the solo part, but it's better to play the whole song so you've the right feeling before it starts. Great song also.

 

Lindsey Buckingham

Fleetwood Mac - I m So Afraid - The Dance - 1997

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...;v=iiZ8Brmh6iU#t=221

Posted on: 24 October 2013 by mushmush

In no particular order:

 

Clapton 'Bad Love'...well anything by Old Slow Hand really.

Buddy Guy - a genius and the man Clapton believes to be the best guitarist - full stop.

Freddie King's 'Going Down'

Johnny Winter - particularly his performance on John Lee Hooker's 'Mr Lucky' - 'Susan' is the track.

 

 

I echo the comments about Knopfler and Dave Gilmore - incredible talents. 

Posted on: 25 October 2013 by Arfur Oddsocks

Here's a  belter although there seems to be some debate over the actual guitarist, I always assumed it was Miller Anderson but apparently not (anyone know for sure?) still it's stunning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6SQ1A0kvc0

 

 

 

 

Posted on: 28 October 2013 by The Author

David Gilmour playing on the track 'Comfortably Numb' on the live version from the album Delicate Sound Of Thunder.

 

I always said about Gilmour that if he were to be paid by the note he would be the poorest man alive, but the notes he does play are way better than anybody else's. All the man has to do is play a note and hold it, the subtle vibrato is simply sublime. The greatest guitarist of out time. No, shut up, he just is – end of. 

 

If you don't own the vinyl or at the very least the double CD of The Delicate Sound Of Thunder and if you haven't listened the the live version of Comfortably Numb on said album, you simply have not lived. Buy it today and crank it up nice and loud.

Posted on: 28 October 2013 by m0omo0
Originally Posted by The Author:

[...] crank it up nice and loud.

Good idea. Welcome to the forum, BTW.