Best Guitar Solos

Any genre, post what you think are some of the best (and/or your favorite) guitar solos youve heard.



Jimi Hendrix - Country Blues


Peter Green - Ive got a mind to give up living


Peter Green - Black Magic Woman


Everything Les Paul


Wes Montgomery - Impressions


Charlie Christian - Swing to the bop


Django Reinhart - Ill see you in my dreams


Chet Atkins - Dark Eyes


Eric Clapton (and some other guy who shows him up) - Badge (solo starts around 2:09 and then goes off and on throughout)


Allman Brothers - Blue Sky ( solo starts 1:52)


Grateful Dead - Hard to Handle (solo starts a little bit after 4:00)


Marty Friedman + Paul Gilbert - Jam


Steve Vai w/ Frank Zappa

Between the Buried and Me: Selkies, the endless obsession


Edit:

Lye by mistake: Invincible Badass

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Dead, Zappa, Green

Some of the others are unknown to me so I'm listening now

ETA: Take a ride on Neils guitar.


Cortez the Killer!!!

He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world

Steve Vai -Tender Surrender(distortion solo)

Joe satriani - crushing day(solo)

If you like wah pedal,whammy bar, and rockNRoll
I highly suggest
Joe satriani-surfing with the alien live 2006(whole song)

There are plenty more, but all I know is mostly instrumentals and I'm not sure if non-musicians will be able to distinguish the solo from anything else. But those three are off the top of my head

Danny Gatton's 'The Pits.' I heard this was the last thing he recorded before committing suicide. He just empties his cannons.
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a reply to: ImaFungi

a reply to: ImaFungi

This one by Prince is pretty good. ( 3:27 for solo )

Cemetary gates - Pantera

By far those solo's are my favorite of all time

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Necrophagist!

a reply to: ImaFungi

One of my favourite songs by Guns n'roses......guitar solo at 07:40.

Frank playing this instrumental
Watermelon in Easter Hay

One of his more sedate and melodic pieces.
It just sounds so nice, and he gets a little wild in a few parts.

You should make this about favorite solos, not "best". "Best" is a subjective term.

having said that, anything from The Wall / David Gilmour. Tasty and awesome tone. I've been playing for 35 years, too, and playing is more about what kind of connection you make with the listener, not speed or which runs you play, etc. I like listening to Malmsteen for the same reason I like watching a nascar race, but after a couple songs I'm good, and move on to some SRV or whatever.

a reply to: Agartha

Heh, just found out a friend of mine is good friends/neighbors with Slash. Their kids went to school together. My buddy moved back to Atlanta, though.

a reply to: Agartha

Mmmmmm..... I do love me some Slash (and GnR, of course!).

The guitar solo from November Rain. In the video, he is standing in front of a church. I had really cool parents who took me to see the Use Your Illusion tour. When performing live, he stood atop a grand piano for the solo.

Absolutely breath-taking...

originally posted by: ScientiaFortisDefendit
a reply to: Agartha

Heh, just found out a friend of mine is good friends/neighbors with Slash. Their kids went to school together. My buddy moved back to Atlanta, though.

Oh boy........isn't he lucky!!!!

Steve Howe solo:

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Steve Hackett solo:

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a reply to: DustbowlDebutante

I went to see them twice, last time was in Buenos Aires, 1992......what a night!
And I took my younger brother with me (he was 13)......if they would reunite I would definitely take my kids......your parents are amazing!!

I love Guns n'roses.....the originals, pity they split up.

Pure

I'm not going to say he's the best but I don't think a lot of us know just how good he is.