best guitar solo

[TKD=FUN]

what is your favourite rock/metal guitar solo ever?

[Omicron]

Arrrg! What's with all the "best of" music threads lately?
THERE IS NO "BEST" IN MUSIC!

[Sever]

The best solo ever was the one I did on "How the Angels Wept" by Edenfall. Well, it was the best one I ever did, anyways :rolleyes:
Seriously though there are too many great ones to say there is a "best solo." My favourites are Randy Rhoads on "Crazy Train" by Ozzy, Dimebag Darrell on Pantera's mellower moments, particularly "10's," Slash on "Sweet Child o' Mine" by Lines n' Noses, Kirk Hammet's widdlefest on "Master of Puppets" by Metallica and Throes of Dawn's "Spring Blooms with Flowers Dead"

[reikislapper]

Brian May of Queen.

Here's another one which has braught out some good music.
Mark Knopfier of Dire Straits.

lisa xx

[Andy Gibney]

To make the point. My two favourite solo's are in 'Freebird' - Lynyrd Skynyrd and 'Crossroads' - Cream.

Andy

[metallicafanrik]

the solo for "the unforgiven" by metallica and "nothing else matters" solo also are the ones that made me pick up the guitar
any slash,dimebag,satch,vai, satana one has to rock

but all time fave is an instrumental song - "zugg island convict" by John 5, download it, its awesome
x

[Kwajman]

Any solo by Eric Clapton or Carlos Santana.

[jonmonk]

From a technical point of view I think that some of the best guitar soloing has to be on Steve Vai's Fire Garden album.

Overall though, for me, it would have to be Dave Gilmour playing the solos on Comfortably Numb.

[Prophet]

Jimis all along the watchtower, davids comfortably numb (solo #2)

[Stan O'Kella]

davids comfortably numb (solo #2)


Gotta agree on that one, its an awsome passage of music. Also Joe Satriani can pluck a guitar a bit :D

[TKD=FUN]

i like a lot of solos played by children of bodom just for the sheer speed and difficulty. try children of decedence for a listen.

[murphy81]

Doubt its the best, but Champagne Supernova by Oasis, "Live" - still send shivers down my spine after 9 years of playing it!

[jonmonk]

Doubt its the best, but Champagne Supernova by Oasis, "Live" - still send shivers down my spine after 9 years of playing it!
Music is always best served up live if you ask me. If I'm in my car I love sticking Pink Floyd's Pulse album on and playing High Hopes or Comfortably Numb at full blast. I'm almost as irritating as those guys with the 10 Mega Watt sub bass woofer things pounding out dance music outside my house at night :D

[murphy81]

True - theres nothing better than a live album; sthe sound of the crowd going crazy and singing along. Have got Oasis Wembley gigs on DVD live, and they are superb. Even the smaller gigs are great, so intimate. Also love Nickelback, Nirvana and Manics all live. Live is GREAT!!

[moononthewater]

Bugger have you got an hour and a half. Here s the obvious ones,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Freebird..........Lynard Skynard
Metallica.....................One
Led Zep....................Stairway to Heavan
Rainbow...................Man on the silver mountain
Eagles......................Hotel California

i could go on

[ThaiBxr]

One that I think is great yet I'm sure you'll never hear another person list it is the guitar solo near the end of "Tribute" by tenacious D. Also I'm a big fan of the solo for "Like a Stone" by audioslave... simple yet awesome

[metallicafanrik]

found another cracker - whiskey in the morning by buckcherry
its not reet technical or anything, but it sure as hell rocks in a balls out screw you kinda way
awesome
x

[Twimyo Jirugi]

The solo battle in Kissing the Shadows from Children of Bodom is purdy awesome.

[Bloke]

My Sharona by the Knack - excellent guitar solo.

[FATSAN]

I think when it comes to great solos I go for simplicity over a widdle fest.

Thinking of good solos I think Dave Gilmour's stuff is pretty much up there for me. Most of the ones already mentioned but there's a great one on the Animals album. I think its on Dogs where he does this really layered solo using loads of harmonies.

Some of the more note intensives solos other guitarists do just leave me cold - While you got to appreciate their skill and mastery of technique they just don't move you in the way that some of the other guitarits can, even with just a couple of notes.

On a side note for those of you into Pink Floyd - Roger Waters is supposed to be playing witht the rest of the band for the Live8 gig!

[ballistic]

wouldnt want to miss out jimi hendrix!

[Peng Mao Rong]

Any solo by Eric Clapton or Carlos Santana.

And Steve Vai and Jimi Hendrix.

[chopperfan666]

dr octavia by black label society is basically a minute long zakk wylde solo, thats my fav. pretty much anything by him i guess

[GojuKJoe]

Some of my favourite solos are from

Pantera - The Sleep
Van Halen - Jump
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Metallica - Disposable Heroes
Pearl Jam - Alive

To name but a few....

[butcher wing]

There are SO many. And you have to face it that their are so many good as well as pants guitar players out there.

Me being one of the latter :D

2 that frequently get me going are:

Van Halen "Eruption"


and "Dokken's "Dream Warriors".

Not THE BEST or THE Worst

[19thlohan]

Wow! I haven't played this game since high school. Anyway my choices would be .

Dazed and confused by Led Zeppelin
Vodoo Child Slight Return by Jimi Hendrix
Vodoo Child Slight Return by Stevie Ray Vaughn prefereble the box set version.
Aqualung by Jethro Tull

[bobbysmilesok]

James Dean Bradfield of the manics on generation terrorists :cool: :cool: :cool:

[leeless]

Mithras - As the Wind Blows
Nile - Unas the slayer of the gods
Hendrix - Little Wing (its effectively one loooong guitar solo anyway)
Devin Townsend - Deep peace

[Martial Alex]

Tribe by the mad capsule markets about 2/3 rds of the way through, it rox HARD