5 Solo"s

Everybody has some favorite solo's that stand out in their memory, I'm not talking about the 5 greatest solo's of all time, or guitar instrumentals, but solo's in the context of a song. Here's 5 that I like,
Alright Now- Free- Paul Kosoff, great vibrato&fat tone
Like a Rock- Bob Seger- Rick Vito, great slide and it just fits the song
Highway 40 Blues-Ricky Skaggs-Ray Flacke, inventive country licks from a good ole boy from England
Midnight at the Oasis-Maria Muldaur-Amos Garrett, never heard anything like it before or since
Sultans of Swing-Mark Knopfler, gee I thought rock was about 10,000 notes and cranked Marshalls,


Alright let's hear your 5!

"November Rain" Guns and Roses
"Hands" Bumblefoot
"Sweet child of mine" Guns and Roses
"Hotel California" Eagles
"Parisienne Walkways" Gary Moore (Live Blues version)

Flirtin with disaster/Molly Hatchet
Beyond the realms of death/Judas Priest
Hot for teacher/VanHalen
More than a feeling/Boston
Mr.Crowelly/Ozzy
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Originally posted by lalimacefolle
"November Rain" Guns and Roses
"Hands" Bumblefoot
"Sweet child of mine" Guns and Roses
"Hotel California" Eagles
"Parisienne Walkways" Gary Moore (Live Blues version)

On another day that could be my list except for the "Hands" song - never heard of Bumblefoot. What kinda music is it?

Rory Gallagher - "Philby"
Guns N' Roses - "Dead Horse"
Rolling Stones - "Dead Flowers"
Gilby Clarke - "Tijuana Jail"(Mr. Slash on lead guitar)
Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"

Bumblefoot is a group from NY, mainly one man, Ron THAL...
The solo on that song has so much power and anger it bring tears to my eyes everytime I hear it. The song is about a man who cannot play the guitar anymore because his former boss
has tied them with stylistic views (Ron used to be on the shrapnel label).
The climax of the solo involves 8 finger tapping, but it is totally melodic and appropriate, gosh, that guy is a genius, I hope everyone will sometime hear some of his music.

kewl, you like gilby clarke zep! me too.

Fave solos,

- Love in an elevator - Aerosmith
- Nightrain LIVE! - Slash
- Photograph - Def Leppard (LOL)
- Fear of the Dark - Maiden
- Lifes sweet drug - Slashs Snakepit

Wild Horses - Stones, (Mick Taylor?)

Hey Joe - Hendrix

Could have lied _RHCP, John Fruciante

Goin' Down Slow _Howlin Wolf - Hubert Sumlin

Crazy Little Thing Called Love_Queen, Brian May

Well, i'm old and hard of thinking, but, i think these solos expand the songs expertly - which is different to an "all time greatest" solo effort.

and i agree that the solo in Nighttrain is excellente.

pstring , i remember "midnight at the Oasis" (vaguely) that was quite a tasty jazzy thing.

I'll stop with one extra,for tonal "shiftyness" the mini solos from "Reelin in the Years" _ Steely Dan - forgot the guitarist.

I like every Slash solo, specially when he jams during doble talkin jive and knockin on heavens door. ACDC's Moneytalks is awesome. Now I'm getting into buckethead stuff, the solo in binge and grab is great, he plays with so much feelling, I even liked the shred part (I hate shreding).

buckethead is one crazy son of a gun. I kept hearing about him, and the only album that was available at this time was 'colma' if anyone knows it, you know it's new age stuff, with dolphin like wails and stuff like 10 seconds delay phrases... I thought, "hum... THIS is shredding like hell?" and then I heard monsters and robots, and I shut myself up...

The only Bukethead Ive heard is the "Ballad Of Buckethead", 6 new GnR songs and a new version of Knockin' On Haevens Door. His new solos on KOHD are nice.

Jeff Baxter & Elliot Randall played on "Reelin in the Years", I'd have to say that is one of my favorites too, but I'm a Steely Dan fan in general, how about Jeff Baxter's solo in "Do it Again", here's one I bet you'll like "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain, Big man, giant tone, one little P-90

pstring, I admire Steely Dan's gtr work "Do It Again" - excellent, those cats really WORK their pickups..

I should splash out some money on some SD cds - i get into classier guitar stuff more as i get older.

And Leslie West is a top guy, when we were teenagers my mate was a huge (not as big as Leslie!) fan of Mountain - almost every time i went there i heard "Nantucket Sleighride" and almost got sick of it :) , if he'd got more taste i may have got to hear more of their songs - but then he was "mainly" a Ritchie Blackmore fan.

I was into Zeppelin, so i let a lot of OTHER great stuff kind of slide by my ears in my ignorance.

they used "Nantucket Sleighride" as a theme song for a 60 minutes/news type programme in the uk, it was on every sunday morning.

Yeaah P90s rock, I almost bought an LP Junior and played it back to back with my "The Paul" for over an hour before i decided, the JP influence won out overall - possibly the P100s aint as tasty sounding as the 90s (when i get some more money!).

Thanks for the tips and memories. :) Cheers.

Ps , I'm "kinda" in the middle of winding a p90 type - but the money is goin on amp type stuff so that project is suffed at the mo'

Okay if i can only name five solos out of the hundreds i sing in my head when bored at work i guess i gotta be selective, so here's the 5 i cant stop thinking of recently:

Still Loving You - Scorpions
Night Train - GnR
Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
Since i been loving you - Zeppelin
Ride the Lightening - Metallica

November Rain - Guns n Roses
Nightrain - Guns n Roses
Tijuana Jail - Gilby Clarke /w. Slash
Since I've been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

The ones that touched me the most are:

Sweet Child Of Mine:Guns and Roses
Nix Hex(Live Version):311
Deep Inside:Incubus
All Along the Watchtower:Jimi Hendrix
Settle for Freedom: Rage Against The Machine
Immortality:Pearl Jam

And thats all I can think of.

All Along the Watchtower-Hendrix
Little Wing-SRV
Use of Time-311
One-Metallica
Californication-RHCP

Peace of mind - Boston
Mother - Pink Floyd
All We Are - Kim Mitchell
All I Want is You - U2
Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam

All of these solos, in my opinion, take the feeling of the songs and bring them to a new level.

There was another thread called "New Rock", where some people wondered why we need solos at all - I think that the above list shows why I think that solos are essential - you can convey a certain amount of emotion with singing and music, but a guitar solo can take it over the top. I don't think any of these songs would be better off with more complex chords and no solos.


I also want to add my vote with those who mentioned "Still Loving You", "Since I've been Loving you", and the GNR tunes.

Avril Lavigne: He wasnt ,listen to this one just kills Eddie Van Halen. Avril Lavigne :Skater Boy the opening on this one is a must hear treat for all Hendrix fans. Rush : the solo on working man still knocks me out . Max Webster: Drive and Desire For those of you who never heard of this song its on the Universal Juvenials Album. Leslie west mountain : Theme from an Imaginary Western. Most guitar solos seem to be bad or poorly written , but here are a few gems .Cheers.

Jimi Hendrix : Little Ivey
Mayhem - Freezing Moon
SOAD - Lonely Day
Burzum - Det Som Gang Envar
SOAD - Roulette

jimmy paige- Stairway to heaven!!

and THE most amazing solos ive ever heard, are the last 2.5 minutes of solos in hotel california. The guy played it with one of those double necked sg style gibsons. its so amazing