Best guitar solo
 

What is the best guitar solo out there? I mean, there are some really fast typical ones that would take a good guitar player to play but what about the really good ones, the ones that fit the song and are totaly original.

I guess I would have to vote for the solo in the song "Reptilia" by The Strokes. The solo isn't the most complicated but it is difficult with all the hammer ons. It is original and man does it fit the song.

Whats your vote for the best guitar solo... please try not to give the typical answer.

"Come On Feel The Noize" - Quiet Riot

"Still Loving You" - The Scorpions


Quiet Riot is pretty kick ass and fast but The Scorpions is really original.

Most definitely.

"Beat It" - Michael Jackson
"Momma I'm Comin' Home" - Ozzy Osbourne
"Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd
"Tender Surrender" - Steve Vai
"Paradise City" - Guns 'N Roses
"Under a Glass Moon" - Dream Theater

Well, Iron Maiden's - Number of the Beast has a fast solo but it kinda fits the fastness of the song. Listen to it.

Pretty much anything by Joe Satriani - most of his song are just 5 minute long solos and he is a master at his art.

I don't really have a best as there are too many that I like.

But here's one that will throw you off track: My Sharona by The Knack. I know I know, a one hit wonder and all, but you have to admit it's a pretty well done rock song. And the guitar solo really gets the song going and kicks it up a notch or three.

It's definitely not the best but it's a good one.

The solo in "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" by Tears For Fears is one of the coolest solos ever.

Best lead solo eh? There are so many that I'm gonna have to chime in more than once. Off the top of my head, the first one that comes to mind- and anyone who knows me from the trivia thread will know that it has to be Styx. And the greatest solo song I know by them is "Queen of spades"

I know your looking for one; but anything off of Jason Becker's "Perpetual Burn" album is great.


If you've never heard of him; you may be a little shocked to see his condition now. He was striken with a disease that rendered him totally paralized; and supported with a trach for breathing. He cant play guitar anymore; but he still composes music with software that uses the movement of his eyes. The music he was able to play speaks for itself.



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That, or (spits out the cliche) Stairway to Heaven. I love that solo.

The TOP GUN instrumental theme by Steve Stephens, that just freackin rocks.

The end solo Ralph Machio airs in the movie Crossroads.

Ofcourse this background music is kickin too wherever its coming from. Who is it?

Metallica - One

A bit cliched perhaps but all of Van Halen's Eruption

I think just about anything Les Claypool plays on the bass could be played on the guitar and be considered amazing. That guy is superhuman.

Hands down the best ever by the best guitarist ever, Terry Kath:

"25 or 6 to 4" by Chicago

Unfortunately not the best at holding a gun in his hand, though!
Doh!

Steve Vai does the Ralph Machio final solo of that movie, and the whole 'concert' type thing at the end is Steve Vai and Ry Cooder (the slide playing).

Comfortably Numb by 43 lengths

i dunno about an all-time favorite solo.... but as far as new solos i've heard fairly recently, i'd definitely have to choose:

"what you are," by audioslave.

tom morello just fuckin' rules when it comes to unconventional guitar playing.

Steve VAI . . . . pick a song, any song


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The duel from Crossroads was sweet. So Ive gotta agree with snoop.... ANYTHING by Steve Vai. The guy can play anything, at any speed and still have feel. Thats the one thing that I think a lot of fast players have lost. There are no cojones behind any of it.

Along with that, I've got to add the solo to the David Lee Roth song "Goin' Crazy," not coincidently played by Steve Vai. It's one of my all time favorite solos.

there are so many out there but i like the solo in Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits

Thats why I am such a fan of SRV. Plenty of guys could play faster, but I havent ever heard someone put so much feeling into a guitar piece.

And yeah, the Crossroads deal was incredible.

Spooky its just come on the radio while reading this thread.
Ever checked Kid by the Pretenders, real cool little catchy solo, nothing flash like EVH..just nice notes.

Truth. I love Joe Satriani, also check out Victor Wooten. He's bad ass.

I'll put out Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood solo from the Live at the El Macambo video.

Holy crap! I was going to say this but thought I would read the thread first. I can't believe with all the choices out there and only 35 posts, 2 people would say "Sultans of Swing".

have you guys ever heard the early vh stuff? fair warning vh I and vh II. i think eddie is the most inovative player ever i could cite all of the notable solos and riffs but just get those 3 cds and listen all the way through. they are filled with great solos and weird controlled and repeatable(by eddie) noises.

I always loved the big varied solo Page does in White Summer that makes up the majority of the song. It's all variations off that same theme, like jazz and rock met at a bar and got drunk and went home together that night.

I know there are better ones out there, but that's always been my favorite, and I've heard lots of live versions, and he never played it exactly the same twice.

Most underrated guitarist/all around artist....=Prince! I mean, just listen to the man play the guitar in ANY of his songs (Purple Rain, for example, only because almost everyone's heard of it)...its positively amazing...:D

...plus I just FINALLY saw him in concert for the first time, and I must say that the mans' a genius live!

Dream Theater: Once In A Livetime

John Petrucci's 'Flight of the Bumblebee' on Disc 2.

Flight of the Bumblebee on electric guitar. Can't top it.

practically anything from thin lizzy rocks. what a great guitar band. cowboy song maybe?

led zeppelin - since i've been loving you

Stevie Ray Vaughan - "The Sky Is Crying"

A close second is "All Along The Watchtower" by Jimi Hendrix

any songs by pantera, plus shadows fall, nightrage, in flames, soilwork, and opeth. and let's not forget zakk wylde's black label society

Nightwish - Wanderlust,

This is serious gothic metal.

Any one of the three in All Along The Watchtower. No, in fact ALL THREE of them in AATW. They fit the song great, Hendrix really made that song his own.