guitar solos

Here's one for you!
what do you think is the greatest/memrobale guitar solo
ever written?
my choice is as follows
sweet child 'o' mine
knockin on heavens door (part 1 and 2)
most of metalica's work
live forever
boys are back in town
cumftorbaly numb
gets me through
and lost that i've heard but been to pissed to remermber.

All of Jimi's can be hummed

Just thinking the same thing earlier and came up with the solo in Rock around the Clock. Very progressive for its time.

I like Humans Being by Van Halen. The use of the whammy bar in that solo is cool, but you have to listen close to hear what I mean.

Brighton Rock from the "Queen - Live Killers" album.

A :-)

Favorite solo: "Crazy little thing called love" - Brian May/Queen. Its perfect.
Favorite shred style solo(s): "In my dreams" - George Lynch/Dokken and all solos by Vinnie Moore.

Stairway To Heaven is famous. One (the first clean solo) is famous as well, November Rain by Slash, Final Countdown by Europe.

It´s funny that there´s no famous shred solo but than they all sound pretty same. But, I think Yngwies Rising Force solo is pretty famous thanx to those 2-string octave arpeggios. Under A Glass Moon by Petrucci is startin´ to get real high standard.

Would definately have to put Peter Frampton's Do you feel like I do solo as well as The infamous Freebird solo. Besides no one mention old slowhand himself, the Crossroads solo is one of my favorite.

I recommend that any guitar player hears the soloing on the song "LA Villa Strangiato" by Rush (ideally the live version from EXIT.. STage Left). Dont' be put off by Geddy Lee's high voice, there's brilliant playing by every player in the band throughout the album.

Having been a guitar freak for years I still feel that the "Ghost of the ARagon" solo is the definitive guitar solo. It has everything a solo needs, it starts with volume swelled ghost bends, has several really classy lyrical bars of beautiful and sophisticated phrasing, gets angsty with tons of bends and pinch harmonics and then Lifeson lets rip with a shower of notes that equals Malmsteem for shred factor and is still really beautiful.

You know that warm headed feeling you get when your brains had a good musical work out? That's what it does for me, makes my eyes water.

Get it out of a Library. You'll love it, trust me. I know!

Sympathy For the Devil : Rolling Stones is one of their best.

two words:
freebird :P

Originally posted by Dejan Sajinovic
Under A Glass Moon by Petrucci is startin´ to get real high standard.

If Petrucci's solos are only startin' to get a real high standard then I quit. Fat chance of that! Ever heard Ytse Jam (which spells majesty in reverse), that was on Dream theater's first album. If you like Dream theater try also Liquid Tension experiment; same lineup but for replaceing one brilliantly talented bassist (John Myung) with another (Tony Lavine I think).

red hot chilli pepets - funky monks
great intro ! and all the sond basic on thes part.

also this song... ammm...
ho yEA.

carlos santana n' pOd - america !

I put
1. Layla
2. Hotel California
3. Freebird
4. CrazyTrain
5. Jump (VH) I dont know why?

You guys know who wrote these songs :)

> Get it out of a Library. You'll love it, trust me. I know

Get 2112 too. :)

Actually the best solo I ever heard was a synth solo by the original keyboard player for Saga. I think the song was Give Em the Money on the first album... it starts off with synth and then the guitar joins in. Great solo to learn cause the patterns are really hard to duplicate on the guitar.

For u10ajf:

I´ve ment that it gettin´ pretty famous ´cause there are lot of pople talkin´ about it. Petruccis solos are truly amazing, very very high standard but you can´t compare ´em with Npvember Rain and Stairway To Heaven. Petruccis stuff is much more cooler (for me) but they are not as famous as Slash stuff for ex. But Under A Glass Moon is gettin´ pretty famous and I think that it´s Johns most famous solo but not the best.

About Liquid stuff, some of it is really cool like P. Shift, Acid Rain, Univ. Mind, Another Dimension but there are also some crazy stuff like the last song on the first Tension album where I wonder do they self know what they are doin´.

2112! What a BRILLIANT album. Rush, Dream theater! you guys talk my language! If you haven't heard King Crimson's album Indiscipline do so, its fabulous and weird at the same time.

Most memorable solo(s) for me: Erotomania by dream theater (not the most melodic solo but just amazing)

and

Innocence faded by dream theater (the solo at the end)

I'd have to say a lot of the solos by Chuck Shuldiner of Death rule and are quite individual, especially Trapped In A Corner and In Human Form off the album Individual Thought Patterns. Marty Friedman has done some bad ass soloing not only with Cacophony in Speed Metal Symphony and Concerto but wtih Megadeth, almost everything off of Rust In Peace is perfect for the songs. Countdown to Extinction is also packed wtih good musical solos that add to the songs. Jason Becker indeed rules and i'd have to say Perpetual Burn is by far the best solo, that or Serrena. Good songs with good soloing. Very melodic and clear as well. Also the excessively long solo at the end of Secured Limitations by Morbid Angel rules. Trey Azagethoth has done some interesting and repetative stuff but still he is up there. And last in my list of Metal solos that rule, the solo by Jeff Loomis in the Nevermore song Deconstruction rules. There are many Nevermore songs that have bad ass and memorable gutiar solos. Can't argue with the fact that Hendrix and Clapton rule as well at what they do. Malmsteen is good also but repeats his memorized licks too much, seriuosly maybe 10% of every Malmsteen solo is original and creative. Just my take on these great guitar players.

[Edited by Seiko_Hejiro on 12-17-2002 at 07:32 PM]

My fav solo is the one in "Time" by "Pink Floyd", i don't know why but this solo just did it for me.