rock al***s with the most memorable guitar solos

Bruce's guitar solo on Prove it all night from darkness


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Diccus

For me they are by the same guitarist - Mark Knopfler.
Sultans Of Swing and Tunnel Of Love both from the live album - Alchemy
Telegraph Road from the studio recorded album - Love Over Gold.
All on vinyl.
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Chris N

You can't go wrong with any Rory Gallagher.

But I would particularly pick out three contrasting - and successive - tracks from the seminal 'Irish Tour '74':

'As the Crow Flies' (superb resonator guitar with bottleneck)
'A Million Miles Away' (Quieter, expressive Irish blues)
'Walk on Hot Coals' (Rockier blues, with a blistering extended guitar solo)

In all of these, Rory makes the guitar 'sing'. (In a similar way to Hendrix on, say, 'Band of Gypsies' - but quite unlike Hendrix who heavily used pedals and effects to get his sound, Rory just relies on his instrument, and sometimes a just a 'tiny weeny bit' of treble booster to boost those highs, but not to shape the notes as such.)

Get 'Irish Tour '74' on excellent remastered CD, or watch him doing it on the DVD of the original Tony Palmer documentary.

James

You could listen to most Guns'n'Roses albums and recall the guitar solos note for note, but the one in Sweet Child O Mine and even more so, November Rain are the real classics. In the video for November Rain when Slash storms out of the church and gives it the berries standing in the dustbowl of a churchyard....wow. Magnificent. Whatever you think of the band, Slash was one hell of a guitarist for straight rock and he had all the qualifications, including the attitude.
In fact I might just play them today.
Put Slash fairly near the top of the list for me.

The best guitar work I've heard IMO

Also try Pentangle's Cruel Sister for some more stunning work from Bert Jansch and John Renbourn.



If your thinking electric then my favourite guitar moments are from John Fogerty (try Green River or Willy & the Poor Boys), Steve Hillage (try L) and Jerry Garcia on Anthem of the Sun

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Tanz der Lemminge - John Weinzierl was a stunning guitarist.

Another memorable solo is of course Comfortably Numb. DG manages to craft and arrange his solos into written pieces that never vary from one playing to the next - they are completely composed. Probably for that reason they remain memorable as we've heard it so many times - and I don't even have The Wall!

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Also try Pentangle's Cruel Sister for some more stunning work from Bert Jansch and John Renbourn.

I don't suppose Danny Thompson's bass distracts either.

Mark Knopfler and Slash guitar works are awesome.

cheers

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Also try Pentangle's Cruel Sister for some more stunning work from Bert Jansch and John Renbourn.

I don't suppose Danny Thompson's bass distracts either.

Danny Thompson - superb bass.

i'd probably have to go with tony iommi on war pigs. the dual guitar on the recording was well translated live!!!

Robert Fripp's solo From 'St. Elmo's Fire' on Brian Eno's 'Another Green world'.

Read somewhere that Frank Zappa's guitar solo from "Yo Mamma" on 'Sheik Yerbouti', is heavily influenced by the avant guard composer Stockhausen. .,BB

Mike Bloomfield's work on Got a Mind to Give up Living, on Paul butterfield's East-West, is incomparable, clean & soulful blues playing. PB harp playing isn't bad either.
How come the jewish players always seemed to be able to get the best tone out of those Les Paul Specials ?

The guitar solo I wish i'd played was Lindsey Buckingham's on Go you Own Way, not just because it fits the song so well, but there is also the question of royalties, and of course getting to sleep with a then in her prime, Stevie Nicks.

And of course the most memorable rock guitar solo of all (IMHO)is EC's tour de force on the 16.39 minute live version of Spoonful, recorded at the Filmore and included on Wheels of Fire.

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How come the jewish players always seemed to be able to get the best tone out of those Les Paul Specials ?

How true - never thought of that. Even Kossoff was Jewish.

ok showing my age but how about 'Cowboy song' from Thin Lizzy, or 'Freebird' from Lynyrd Skynyrd, or 'Smoke on the Water' from that definitive live album 'Made in Japan' by Deep Purple.

Salisbury - Uriah Heep.(Mick Box)
Still got the blues - Gary Moore.
13 Bars - Status Quo.

There are so many, but here are a few of my favourites:

Jimmy Page - Stairway to Heaven
Eric Clapton - Crossroads
Jimi Hendrix - Red House/Little Wing
Eagles - Hotel California
Billy Gibbons - Blue Jean Blues/Just Got Back From Baby's
Jeff Healey - Blue Jean Blues
Peter Green - Love that Burns/Black Magic Woman
Slash - Sweet Child o' Mine/November Rain
Mark Knopfler - Sultans of Swing/Brothers in Arms
Dave Gilmour - Most of them
Richie Blackmore - Speed King
Steve Vai - For the Love of God
Paul Kossoff - Alright Now
Gary Moore - Midnight Blues
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Dirty Pool

Not all of these are technically the most proficient but they have the right feel, or they fit the song or just feel 'right'. Some of them you can hum along to because they are so much a part of the song that they belong to. I'm sure there are many others as well that I have forgotten, some by Albert King, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, but there is one more........THe Final Countdown by Europe!

Mark

Duane Allman's solo after the drum and bass soloes on 'side two' of 'Mountain Jam' from 'Eat a Peach' (also on 'The Fillmore Concerts' (1993) version of those gigs), is a complete masterpiece which has stayed in my head longer than anything by Hendrix or Clapton.

Next one would be Glenn Ross Campbell's playing on the Misunderstood's 1966 recording 'Children of the Sun'.

How 'bout Albert Lee on 'Sweet l'il Lisa' From Dave Edmunds 'Repeat When Necessary'.

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Next one would be Glenn Ross Campbell's playing on the Misunderstood's 1966 recording 'Children of the Sun'.

Good call - his work with Jucy Lucy is great too.

Albums with memorable guitar solos?

In addition to some good suggestions above:

I admit to a certain bias but in my opinion Jimmy Page pretty much stamped his signature on the copyright of that term on each of Led Zep's albums with the possible excetion of the slightly wayward In Through The Out Door.

An album I haven't seen in the shops for ages with superb guitar is Eric Clapton's Just One Night (- a double album recorded in Budokan if memory serves correctly).

Other than a greatest hits album I don't have any Jimi Hendrix albums, but that man could make a guitar sing like no other (pity the same couldn't be said of his voice[in a good way!!]).

Paul Kossoff also excelled samples of his talent are well demonstrated on The Free Story album.

Stevie Ray Vaughin was put up on stage for much too brief a time slot but boy did he shine - check out Live at Carnegie Hall for some terrific guitar solos.

For some bombastic guitar, worthy of a spin are AC/DC Back in Black and George Thorogood & The Destroyers compilation - 30 Years of Rock.


Peter

Did anybody mention this - Cricklewood Green by Ten Years After. Alvin Lee at his best.

I votes Robin Trower on 'I Can't Wait Much Longer'...