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I luvs good guitar solos, even by bands I hate. Here are some of my favorites:

Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Cult of Personality - Living Colour

Three Days - Jane's Addiction

Mr. Crowley - Ozzy (feat. Randy Rhoads, aka GOD)

Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way. Check out the solo using a talk-box @ 3:10

...and, for classical aficionados, John Williams playing Asturias by Isaac Albéniz. I could listen to John Williams all day, I'd even go so far as to say he is the best guitarist alive today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_lwocmL9dQ

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Floods - Pantera

Rude Mood - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Phantom of the Opera - Iron Maiden

Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam

David Gilmore

among others....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY

Another version...just brilliant....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVxsB5oNiTw

or look for The Wall live in Berlin, stupidly good.

Six by All that Remains ( I couldn't find a video with just the solo so you'll have to listen to the whole song.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0pYWGjECLE

December Flower by In Flames (video is just the solo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCWrNZbFUyU

The Air that I Breathe by All that Remains (video is a cover of the solo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spWnCTWxpKc

Best Kalmah Solos (a video of the solos from twelve different songs by the melodeath band Kalmah. 1. They Will Return 2. The Blind Leader 3. Hollow Heart 4. Hades 5. Alteration 6. Evil In You 7. Heroes To Us 8. Tordah 9. Closed Insanity 10. Dead Man's Shadow 11. For The Revolution 12. Wings Of Blackening)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9qSZW5Rdc

no Santana? I don't know much about music but he's amazing.

2 words.....

John Frusciante. Living god.

ok sorry 4 words.

L M S wrote:David Gilmore

Definitely approve. Comfortably is one of the greatest solos. It's so God damn simple yet so amazing.

nietzsche wrote:no Santana? I don't know much about music but he's amazing.

Admittedly, I only have Europa and Black Magic Woman on my iPod, but he's great.

jigger1986 wrote:2 words.....

John Frusciante. Living god.

ok sorry 4 words.

Hahahaha, the name doesn't ring a bell.I had to look him up. Apparently he's the RHCP guitarist. He's good...but I'm not sure about his solo ability...={

Army of GOD wrote:
Rude Mood - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Phantom of the Opera - Iron Maiden

Awesome. You just gained my respect. SRV is the man, and Maiden is my favorite band. I'm quite amazed that you knew Phantom, most Americans don't know any of their stuff, let alone early songs. Kudos to you sir. btw Pantera is always great as well. Dimebag Darrell really was one of the greatest guitarists, to affect electric guitar playing as much as he did that late in the game.

I'm gonna say Emerald- Thin Lizzy

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Awesome. You just gained my respect. SRV is the man, and Maiden is my favorite band. I'm quite amazed that you knew Phantom, most Americans don't know any of their stuff, let alone early songs. Kudos to you sir. btw Pantera is always great as well. Dimebag Darrell really was one of the greatest guitarists, to affect electric guitar playing as much as he did that late in the game.

Haha, I'll admit I didn't know SVR for a long time and Maiden was my favorite band for a little bit, but I didn't know them until I played Guitar Hero. Phantom of the Opera is by far my favorite song by them. And their bassist is the best of any bands imo. I love it. And Pantera is so great, it's ridiculous. They don't get nearly as much credit as they deserve.

Here's some more..I'll try to keep the genres and guitar styles changing.

Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien

The Middle - Jimmy Eat World

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A classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7-EEGiABBU

That reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXz0AkHDwEM

BTW, listen to it a bit. It really is The Beatles just jamming. McCartney can sing.


Guitar Solos?

I saw Rik Emmett a few years ago.

Okay...a little Rik for ya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGalRRX0CXk


I saw Alvin Lee a few times in the 1980's.

How about Alvin? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFpfureaCVs


Not to be confused with Albert. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uDaEuKzXLw


I saw SRV mentioned a few times. I was about 15 feet away from him for an entire concert in about 1982. I don't think I blinked the entire show. Unbelievable. Such a lose of talent.

Blues Deluxe- by Joe Bonamassa

If any of you have never heard of Joe Bonamassa, please do. He's a god. He plays better than just about anyone.

not technically a guitar solo

This guy does a decent job of covering it on guitar

Ronald Jenkees 4 Life

Eric Johnson... Cliffs of Dover

Opening is a solo, the song is not a sole but 100% instrumental. It rocks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nAwmVLQSk

hahaha3hahaha wrote:Here's a few obvious ones for ya...
Pink Floyd- Comfortably numb 4.33-6.22
Metallica- Master of puppets 3.32-4.48
Led Zeppelin- Dazed and confused 3.35-4.58
Deep Purple- Child in time 3.33-6.05
Pantera- Cemetary gates 4.53-5.34
System of a down- Psycho 2.37-3.40
Guns n Roses- November rain 3.57-4.44

The best genre for solos is obviously melodeath, death, thrash etc etc but that's obviously an acquired taste so I didn't include any.

yes pink floyd, ahh the best of all time

Always good for a watch

PS. You have to keep watching till he makes this face:

The Bison King wrote:Always good for a watch

PS. You have to keep watching till he makes this face:

That was awesome.

I also liked him in the later days of his career when he was on Taxi.