Favourite guitar Solo?

[CC_Eagle]

Going Home, from Woodstock, Alvin Lee (Ten Years After)

Alvin Lee

 

[Twizzle]

glad you like him

I got Woodstock on a DVD, and never get sick of watching him

 

[Simo]

I believe he is on the money about the comfortably numb solo. There was a 100 worst guitar solos review i had emailed to me a while ago which claims he pieced it together from a heap of solos he recorded i.e. it isnt one continous solo as when he plays it live, it was a 'cut and paste' of a lot of atempts.

I like the solo but think he is right about it being cut and pasted. I dont know how many he does it for though.

On to the topic:

The first solo in Estranged by Slash after the big piano interlude after the 'you dont walk so proud and you dont talk so loud.....anymore.......and what for... (insert one of the most beautiful solos you ever heard here)

And a mention to the little wing intro by Hendrix, not quite a solo by normal means but it is a guitar playing solo!

Oh I almost forgot:

Dream is over solo by Van Halen, brilliant.

 

[millersnose]

livin inside - george benson

dead on time - brian may

shine on you crazy diamond - dave gilmour

highway star - ritchie blackmore

thrill of it all - tony iommi

true - chet atkins

many many others

 

[millersnose]

oh and simo

most recorded guityar pieces are edited and enhanced

i like gilmour as he wasnt stuck in the fast triplet in a minor scale mode most guitarists these days are

he actually works a melody

 

[Simo]

Millers,

I like Gilmore aswell and I know there are many pieces put together, I believe the program that is all the hype today is called pro tools or something.

I was saying that in relation to those who seemed not to believe the comfortably numb solo was 'cut and pasted'

Ron Jeremy 'How did he cut & paste the comfortably numb solo??'
Balmain Boy 'For someone who can't spell his name you know a lot about him. Stop talking sh*t.'

 

[Anonymous]

I thought the insinuation was it was pieced together from other people's work :?


It's pretty stupid argument though - the live version blows the original away.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

I believe he is on the money about the comfortably numb solo. There was a 100 worst guitar solos review i had emailed to me a while ago which claims he pieced it together from a heap of solos he recorded i.e. it isnt one continous solo as when he plays it live, it was a 'cut and paste' of a lot of atempts.

I like the solo but think he is right about it being cut and pasted. I dont know how many he does it for though.

On to the topic:

The first solo in Estranged by Slash after the big piano interlude after the 'you dont walk so proud and you dont talk so loud.....anymore.......and what for... (insert one of the most beautiful solos you ever heard here)

And a mention to the little wing intro by Hendrix, not quite a solo by normal means but it is a guitar playing solo!

Oh I almost forgot:

Dream is over solo by Van Halen, brilliant.

believe he is on the money about the comfortably numb solo. There was a 100 worst guitar solos review i had emailed to me a while ago which claims he pieced it together from a heap of solos he recorded i.e. it isnt one continous solo as when he plays it live, it was a 'cut and paste' of a lot of atempts.

I like the solo but think he is right about it being cut and pasted. I dont know how many he does it for though.

I still doubt it, it's not a solo i can see as a cut & paste job, even if he did...he did a bloody good job about it :lol: .

The live version is all off the wall, and it fitted the song brillantly aswell??...makes me think that the theory is a myth now?

I agree with Estranged, great song allround, Coma is another similar song imo.

Dreams, brillant, it's VH and thats what you'd expect, the best!

 

[Simo]

Balmain Boy,

No he didnt mean cut and pasted other peoples work, he meant he just jammed for ages and then cut and pasted the best bits to create the solo.

Ron,

Yeah he did do a good job as it is a great solo, but i am pretty sure it is not a myth. I will have to hear the live version as it sounds very promising.

Coma is a top song, I really love the end (you got a one way ticket on your last chance ride.......) but guitar wise Estranged has a lot more to offer as it is softer and allows more sweet solos. Comas hard edge doesnt have the same mood.

Dreams is brilliant but I was refering to 'Dream is over' of F.U.C.K. Do you have that album? The solo just kicks of at 100 miles an hour and sounds really nice.

 

[Simo]

A couple of others that are instrumentals:

Lost without you by John Petrucci, it is a live song and I wish I could find the Tab for it...awsome.

Over The Rainbow - Chris Impelliteri. Great version and again I wish I could find the Tabs!

 

[LESStar58]

Any solo by Chris Cheney, Mike Ness, Brian Setzer or Dan Auerbach!

 

[zack del la rocha]

jimmy page

 

[Kurt Angle]

Ahh Colonel Eel, Gene Krupa.... my sorta of guys.

Here I was thinking I'd see a list of late 80's hair farms playing 4000 notes per bar.

Good to see quality over quantity.

Eric Clapton has the top two IMO.

Eq. 1st - While my Guitar gently weeps. (Beatles feat. Eric Clapton)
Eq. 1st - Layla (Derek and the Dominos, Eric Claption, the outro sequence)

3rd - Axis: Bold as love (Jimi Hendrix, outro sequence)

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Jimi Hendrix is quality :?....take the ear plugs out, he was horrible, hardly quality.

Eddie Van Halen makes him look like a choir boy on the guitar.

And playing 4000 notes per bar isn't quality??, i know which one is harder to play considering i've been playing guitar for 13 years.

BTW

Simo, i actually have a old Chris Impelliteri video at home teaching his art, put it one it took me a while.......but i eventually had his tricks down pat, everything from sweep picking too adagios. ;-)

 

[Kurt Angle]

Hendrix was easily quality, people who have played for longer than 13 years will attest to that. I remember the guitarist from Winger once dismissing Hendrix. He got laughed off every musical publication.

Despite your yearnings for mullets and spandex, a show down over number of notes played per bar isn't 'quality'. The emotive response is the criteria of quality.

Van Halen may lay on a gazillion hammer-ons, flack pick staccato's and tell me to 'jump', but will never move people like the solo in "While my guitar gently weeps'.

 

[Anonymous]

Ron, you seriously need to realise how subjective the question is.


Eddie Van Halen is an absolute freak on the guitar. He's amazing. Eruption is amazing. I have a live piece of his that goes for 15 minutes. But honestly, I prefer a lot of Jimi's stuff. EVH just isn't my thing. To dismiss Hendrix's contribution to the guitar as you do is quite ludicorus to be honest.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Hendrix was easily quality, people who have played for longer than 13 years will attest to that. I remember the guitarist from Winger once dismissing Hendrix. He got laughed off every musical publication.

Despite your yearnings for mullets and spandex, a show down over number of notes played per bar isn't 'quality'. The emotive response is the criteria of quality.

Van Halen may lay on a gazillion hammer-ons, flack pick staccato's and tell me to 'jump', but will never move people like the solo in "While my guitar gently weeps'.

Hendrix was easily quality, people who have played for longer than 13 years will attest to that.

Umm no!, people who just start playing guitar ( 12 & 13 year olds) are thrown onto Hendrix as the simplicity of it is good for youngsters, when they get older they test the water with more complex playing such as Eddie, Satriani, Vai etc.........all astonishing guitarists and really kids forget all about Hendrix after this, I was one of them.

He got laughed off every musical publication.

Jimi had & still gets great press from US & UK magazines, I wonder why?

espite your yearnings for mullets and spandex, a show down over number of notes played per bar isn't 'quality'. The emotive response is the criteria of quality.

So Voodoo chile isn't quality then?? and then what is??, don't you think Eddie played slower songs??

Van Halen may lay on a gazillion hammer-ons, flack pick staccato's and tell me to 'jump', but will never move people like the solo in "While my guitar gently weeps'.

Umm yes it did, Eddie and Van Halen have sold twice as many albums as Jimi Hendrix did, many of those buyers where guitarists..... Considering he changed the rock guitar from a Hendrix style to an Eddie style with remarkable success

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Ron, you seriously need to realise how subjective the question is.


Eddie Van Halen is an absolute freak on the guitar. He's amazing. Eruption is amazing. I have a live piece of his that goes for 15 minutes. But honestly, I prefer a lot of Jimi's stuff. EVH just isn't my thing. To dismiss Hendrix's contribution to the guitar as you do is quite ludicorus to be honest.

Fair enough dude, Hendrix was Unique in his own way.....all though he really wasn't as unique as what some made him out to be, Chuck Berry was the inventor of his style..yet recieves no credit for this, Eddie came in.....completely unique and turned the guitar on its head and still does.

I use too be a massive Hendrix fan when i was 14, and i thought myself wow....what an amazing guitarist.....but when i discovered Eddie and others...i thought to myself " well, is Hendrix as good as he's made out too be, his guitar playing note by note is nothing on Eddie, his timeing is nothing on Eddie, his inventions are nothing on Eddie etc...

Eddie is a more complex player, that cannot be disregarded that comment, you don't start a kid on Eddie at 12 or 13..mayeb at 16 or 17, and even though you may be able to play some of his songs...too play his songs at his speed is something most guitarists with 20 years experience still and will not accomplish.

 

[Anonymous]

Ahh Colonel Eel, Gene Krupa.... my sorta of guys.

Here I was thinking I'd see a list of late 80's hair farms playing 4000 notes per bar.

Good to see quality over quantity.

Eric Clapton has the top two IMO.

Eq. 1st - While my Guitar gently weeps. (Beatles feat. Eric Clapton)
Eq. 1st - Layla (Derek and the Dominos, Eric Claption, the outro sequence)

3rd - Axis: Bold as love (Jimi Hendrix, outro sequence)

Thanks Kurt.

Man! I forgot Layla! #-o

Quality guitar craftsmanship from start to finish.

I forgot to add: For a guitar tone, not necessarily playing, I love the sound of the guitar on Sgt Peppers Lonrly Hearts Club Band (the song).

So "live".

 

[Anonymous]

Fair enough Ron, I take your point.

I'll say it this way, imo Eddie Van Halen is a superior guitarist technically. However I rate Jimi higher as a musician. Although Van Halen has an awesome piano solo

Chuck Berry didn't invent Hendrix's style. T-Bone Walker did. Chuck Berry made it more mainstream. Hendrix drew from Chuck Berry's work and then stole T-Bone's stage act. That's the one thing that annoys me about all the press Jimi gets.