What are your favorite guitar solos ever?

by **Serbia** on Mon May 02, 2016 6:31 am

Discuss your favorite guitar solos here.

Mine is "One" by Metallica.

by **Dukasaur** on Mon May 02, 2016 9:08 am

How solo is solo?

I can think of a lot of great guitar riffs I like, but none of them are pure solos, more like "lead-guitar-dominated passages with some accompaniment."

If you'll allow those, these are some greats I love:
Lazy -- Deep Purple
War Pigs -- Black Sabbath
Renegade -- Styx
La Villa Strangiato -- Rush
Cortez the Killer -- Neil Young

by **riskllama** on Mon May 02, 2016 10:20 am

Dukasaur wrote:How solo is solo?

I can think of a lot of great guitar riffs I like, but none of them are pure solos, more like "lead-guitar-dominated passages with some accompaniment."

i believe they're called "fills", duk...

by **Serbia** on Mon May 02, 2016 11:44 am

Actually, the whole term "solo" is a bit loosely defined anyway, given that most are still accompanied by other instruments. Take Mike McCready's "solo" on Pearl Jam's Alive. The whole band is still playing while McCready just soars. So yeah, anything like that is cool. Unless it's a drum solo, where literally the drummer is the only one going, then like I say, you'll nearly always have others jamming along, it's just one instrument takes liberty to do whatever they want.

Bollocks.

by **apey** on Mon May 02, 2016 11:51 am

Comfortably numb david gilmore (of pink floyd for the people who live in a deep dark cave and have no idea what good music is)
And of course bohemian rhapsody brian may

by **riskllama** on Mon May 02, 2016 3:05 pm

hmm...that's a good question... :-k

off the top of my head, in no particular order :
5 vs 7 - the hellacopters
eruption - van halen
red house - jimi hendrix
immortality - pearl jam(a possible Neil young ripoff)
rebel sodville - marcy playground(a total Neil young ripoff)
left hand path - entombed(the last one, after the "twinkly" part)
Neil young - "dead man" theme
and lastly, anything off obituarys' cause of death, dinosaur jrs' where you been or niles' in their darkened shrines albums, respectively.

by **Keefie** on Mon May 02, 2016 3:26 pm

This guy, Sek Loso

by **jonesthecurl** on Mon May 02, 2016 5:49 pm

about two minutes in... until about 3.30

by **Symmetry** on Mon May 02, 2016 8:00 pm

apey wrote:Comfortably numb david gilmore (of pink floyd for the people who live in a deep dark cave and have no idea what good music is)
And of course bohemian rhapsody brian may

+1 for Comfortably Numb

by **iAmCaffeine** on Wed May 04, 2016 3:40 am

Andy McKee on his Drifting solo on Acoustic! Simply Celestial...I can't get enough of it when I hear it...watch it yourself!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/347553/amazing_guitarist/

by **thegreekdog** on Wed May 04, 2016 10:22 am

The guitar riff on Yellow Ledbetter is my favorite; probably not a solo.

by **tzor** on Wed May 04, 2016 11:48 am

Let's see ... I was a junior in high school and she was a senior ... she had a 12 string guitar. O:)

Oh and it was "highway to heaven" ...

by **apey** on Wed May 04, 2016 11:57 am

Highway to heaven is one that is so epic it really doesnt need a mention lol

by **TA1LGUNN3R** on Wed May 04, 2016 2:21 pm

thegreekdog wrote:The guitar riff on Yellow Ledbetter is my favorite; probably not a solo.

I'm not a big Pearl Jam fan, but yeah, I like that riff. It's very Jimi-esque, it reminds me of Little Wing, probably my favorite Jimi song.

-TG

by **Army of GOD** on Wed May 04, 2016 2:31 pm

woah, tgd is back

by **thegreekdog** on Wed May 04, 2016 2:50 pm

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:
thegreekdog wrote:The guitar riff on Yellow Ledbetter is my favorite; probably not a solo.

I'm not a big Pearl Jam fan, but yeah, I like that riff. It's very Jimi-esque, it reminds me of Little Wing, probably my favorite Jimi song.

-TG

I'm not a big fan of anything after Vitalogy. Too folksy for me.

The Rival Sons have a guitarist with some pretty good solos.

- 2:47

I also enjoy most of Tom Morello's solos (if you could even call them that). GNR also good (obvs).