Five Guitar Solos that everyone should hear

Please do. Every note, bend, pick scrape, and harmonic perfectly placed. Plus it sounds like one of those walk in, plug in and play, first take nailed it solos!

 

Well aside from all my favourites, which are everyone else’s....

The entire Rock and Roll Animal, Lou Reed.

Cuz that’s what the whole thing is!

 

Pretty much any Mick Taylor solo...especially live.

 

"The Note You Never Wrote" Wings (Jimmy McCulloch)
"Moonage Daydream" David Bowie (Mick Ronson)
"Swept Away" Diana Ross (Jeff Beck? GE Smith?)
"Timeless" Badfinger (Pete Ham)
"How Many Moons" Poco (great acoustic solo...Paul Cotton? Rusty Young?)

 

Zappa-Black Napkins
Jeff Beck-Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Wes Montgomery-No Blues
Larry Carlton-Rio Samba
Mark Knopfler-In The Gallery

 

Santana - song of the wind

 

No, it's a Hermit: The great Derek Lekenby.

 

Steve Howe - Concerto in D (vivaldi)
Used to play along to this on my acoustic in my early 20,s

 

Still Got The Blues - Gary Moore

Play it through til the end. You won't be sorry.

 

Cars (Elliot Easton) - "My Best Friend's Girl", "Bye Bye Love" & lots of others ... the guy has ridiculously good chops

 

1 - The last minute or so of "Please Mr. Postman" by The Carpenters

2 - "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer (long version)

3 - "Jealous Bone" by Patty Loveless

 

Zappa: Black Napkins, Watermelon in Easter Hay

 

Hard to pick only five....but these popped into my head almost immediately:

Light's Out - UFO/Michael Schenker - any live version
Flying High Again - Randy Rhoads
Gates Of Babylon - Ritchie Blackmore
Lazy - Ritchie Blackmore
Limelight - Alex Lifeson

 

Chris Difford?

I don't think so!

 

I’ll play off the top of my head... thinking would render this impossible.

1. Gilmour — Fat Old Sun (live). Gdańsk is as good as any and easily available.
2. Howe — Yours Is No Disgrace (YesSongs)
3. Garcia — Mind Left Body Jam (Dick’s Picks 12)
4. Thompson (Richard) — Hard On Me (Semi-Detached Mock Tudor)
5. Knopfler — what it is (Sailing to Philidelphia)

 

Finally! It took almost two pages for someone to mention what many professional guitar players consider the greatest solo ever: "Machine Gun."

That it was improvised on the fly? Wheeew!

I'm not playing this game.

 

Jimi Hendrix - Red House from Hendrix In The West. The planets were in alignment. All the solos are great. Perfect timing, bends, even feedback. Great rhythm playing too.

Jeff Beck - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.

Robin Trower - Daydream from Robin Trower Live

Allan Holdsworth - Beelzebub (Bruford tune)

Ollie Halsall - Give It All Away (Patto)

Ask a month from now & they might be different.
Lots of great lists so far.

 

Jeff Tweedy’s guitar work gets overshadowed by Nels Cline and Jay Bennett. I live his work on Ghost is Born, though, and that stereo phased solo in Hell is Chrome is definitely magical. I also love his Neil Young style work in the opening track At Least That’s What You Said.

While we are on Wilco, Nel’s Impossible Germany solo is a masterpiece and often even better live. My favourite solo of his, though, is the live version of Ashes of American Flags from the DVD of the same name. He took my least favourite track from Yankee Hotel and made it my favourite Wilco tune. Such mournful guitar work.

 

Have we defined, or narrowed the descriptor, 'solo' in this thread?

My first nomination is any version of Prove It All Night, 1978 Live version!
Solo starts at 1:33

 

Free - All Right Now
Eagles - Hotel California
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love

 

Lots of good ones here and I know I'm repeating some with this list.

1. Supergrass - Late in the Day
Perfectly placed and gives me chills.

2. Kåre & The Cavemen (aka "the Euroboys") - Filadelfia
Anything by these guys has a blistering solo.

3. Wilco - Impossible Germany
Had to include some Nels Cline and this is one of the most memorable.

4. Blind Faith - Presence of the Lord
Love this audacious fat wah-wah driven solo - I'm a big fan of late '60s Clapton per my avatar.

5. Frank Zappa - Son of Mr. Green Genes
So many Zappa solos to pick but this was one of the early ones for me and I still love it.

 

PHISH - Down With Disease

 

Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive
Tesla - Love Song
KISS -Let Me Go Rock N Roll (from Alive)
Guns N Roses - Estranged
Poison - Live Goes On

 

I can not go as far as "should" but they may be of interest to some of you music Nuts...

Elliott Randall- Take Out The Dog and Bark The Cat ( great interplay with Terry Adams)
Jennifer Warnes- First We Take Manhattan> Stevie Ray Vaughan (sweet and punchy)
Head Hands & Feet- Hot Property (hard to pick one from Albert's output)
Chief Ebenezer Obey- Ori Mi Ma Jeki Nmo Osi> Nigba Ewe> A Gbere Wa De America> I Am Black And Proud> Necessity (fiery bursts)
Rolling Stones- Can't You Hear Me Knocking

*as of 10:25 EST> 10:34

 

The solo on the Velvet’s I Heard Her Call My Name should be exposed to invading aliens. They will go back into their UFO’s and not bother.