Five Guitar Solos that everyone should hear

5. Tony Peluso on Goodbye to Love by the Carpenters

 

You Don't Fool Me - Queen
Sails - Elton John
Stones Throw From Hurtin' - Elton John
Big City - Jefferson Starship
These Are The Days of Our Lives - Queen

 

Only one that really springs to mind at the moment to recommend is Andy Summer’s 4+ minute guitar solo on “Coloured Rain” by The Animals. Incredible

 

Year of the Cat: Al Stewart
Fool in the Rain: Led Zep
Ramblin Man Allman Brothers
Dogs: Pink Floyd
Hitch a Ride: Boston

 

The velvet underground - i heard her call my name

 

Motorpsycho - Wishing Well (Roadwork Vol. 4 version)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (Bursting Out version)
Deep Purple - Child In Time (Made In Japan version)
Rob Jungklas - Big Bouffant (Closer To The Flame)
...and a surprise favorite:
Foreigner - Juke Box Hero (Foreigner 4 version)

 

"Santeria" by Sublime. One of my favorite solos.

 

Yes that is correct...as under appreciated as Hendrix was acclaimed

Been listening to Agharta since its 1975 Japan release, my 2nd favorite Miles fusion record behind Jack Johnson

 

My favourite Miles live record (as of recently) is "In Concert". It used to be "Dark Magus" but now I'm finding "In Concert" to be absolutely out of this world!

 

Andy Latimer- Lunar see
Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells part 2
Steve Howe- Relayer & Going for the One ( especially on Awaken)
David Gilmour- Animals

 

I have been meaning to get around to that record & with you digging "Dark Magus"also I might get to "In Concert" a little sooner than expected...

Dark Magus is another great record indeed

 

David Gilmour - Marooned
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Jimmy Page - Since I've Been Loving You
Santana - Brightest Star
Tony Joe White - Closer to the Truth

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Bubbling under:
Neil Young - Cortez The Killer (Zuma version)

 

Roy Buchanan - Sweet Dreams
Jimi Hendrix - Johnny B. Goode (live at Berkeley 1970)
Robert Fripp - Sartori in Tangier (live at Le Spectrum 1984)
John McLaughlin - Lila's Dance
Jimmy Page - Stairway to Heaven

 

Scorpions - Sails of Charon
Metallica - Enter Sandman
KISS - Shock Me
Rush - Fly By Night
ACDC - Let There Be Rock

 

Frank Zappa - Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar
Frank Zappa - 555
Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti Tango
Frank Zappa - On The Bus
Frank Zappa - Inca Roads

 

Nels Cline-Impossible Germany. One of my favorite guitar solos ever!!

 

Deep Purple - Highway Star
Glen Campbell - McArthur Park
Orchestra Baobab - Bul ma miin
Cold Chisel - Bow river
Richard Thompson - Put it there pal

 

Crap song, great solo!

 

Great song, great solo!

 

Jimi Hendrix: "Axis Bold As Love"

 

1. The entire Nashville West CD, but for the sake of a song, “Mental Revenge.” Clarence’s playing on that disc expanded my understanding of the guitar from the circumscribed pentatonic blues-rock stuff to the beauty of diatonic scales and beyond.
2. Wilco- Impossible Germany, any live version. Nels Cline’s vocabulary on the guitar defies categorization. The best I’ve ever heard is probably his solo from the 2017 Newport Folk Festival.
3. Cream- Crossroads. Still remains the standard for blues-rock guitar playing for me. The fluidity is simply perfect. Interestingly, I’ve never heard another live version of this song on any bootleg that comes close to the famous one.
4. Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsies- Machine Gun. Is it even still considered guitar playing?
5. The Who- My Generation, Live at Hull. Townshend is criminally underrated as a guitarist, both in terms of his technicality and tone. A viscerally expressive player who somehow didn’t succumb to blues-rock tropes that were in vogue at the time, and understood how to be the only guitarist in a 4 piece band (unlike a certain guitarist whose last name is 4 letters long, and whose live playing has never impressed me one iota). Tone-wise, the sound of a P-90-laden SG plugged into a Hiwatt CP103 with a Superfuzz is my holy grail tone for rock guitar. Though Leeds is the better show for the band, his guitar playing during the Hull show might be better, and nowhere does it shine more than on this ultimate number.

 

Elliot Easton, The Cars: "Touch and Go"

 

Roger Hodgson, Supertramp: "Goodbye Stranger"

 

Jeff Skunk Baxter, Steely Dan: "Bodhisattva"

 

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