What do you think is the greatest guitar solo?Music 

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Heres Old School for you Peter Frampton " Feel Like I Do " from Frampton comes alive. Its a 70s thing.:sly:
 
Heres Old School for you Peter Frampton " Feel Like I Do " from Frampton comes alive. Its a 70s thing.:sly:


Sweet , back burnered that one , awesome recording.Went through several records ( records ? LOL ) on that one , good call 'Dubs 👍
 
Led Zeppelin - Since I've been Loving You

Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

Metallica - One

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb


And many...many more.
 
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The guitarist from Rush is Alex Lifeson. Geddy Lee is the singer/bassist/keyboard player.

All of the songs mentioned in this thread are more or less just great rock or blues songs.

The absolute "greatest" guitar solo depends on whether you look at technicality or musical tone, or a combination of both and also the musical inclination fo the person stating their opinion.

The most "technical" guitar solos that I can think of would be something like Michael Angelo Batio or Shawn Lane, Paul Gilbert, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci. I saw MAB live recently and he played "Speed Kills" on his double-neck guitar and it was very impressive to say the least.

The guitar solo that "I" think is the greatest as both combination of music and technicality would be possibly Metallica - Ride the Lightning.

The guitar solo that "I" think is the greatest in terms of musicianship would be something by Queen like "Gimme the Prize" or "Tie Your Mother Down" or maybe Jimi Hendrix's solos on Voodoo Chile and Little Wing.
 
The last few are whole songs, but I don't really care. You can pick apart any "solo" from it what you will; it all sounds awesome.


Pink Floyd - "Comfortably Numb" (video Delicate Sound of Thunder at the 5:00 minute mark and past)




Van Halen - "5150" (video Live Without a Net at the 3:16 minute mark)




Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Riviera Paradise" (video Austin City Limits)




Steve Vai - "For the Love of God"




Andres Segovia - "Asturias"

 
Great solos - Stairway to Heaven. Any questions?

I find this funny because if you really listen to the solo its a mix of Jimmy Page soloing and then picking out the best parts and putting them all together. Not only can you here it, but Page I have read interviews with him where he talks about the solo. Don't get me wrong, I thinks its a good solo, I just think its a little ironic that it gets so much recognition when basically its a solo "collage"
 
Possibly Sonho Dourado by Daniel Lanois. Not because it has a lot of notes, but because it's moving. You'll recognize this from the movie "Friday Night Lights".

 
In most cases all it takes are some strong personal associations or even just some meaningful video sequences to make a piece of music, or a solo, great. Seem great. One of the reasons I became turned off by high-end audio equipment as a hobby, was the simple truth that the right song at the right moment means everything, even if its coming out of a cheap car radio tuned to an AM station.

From a guitarists point of view its interesting to imagine what you'd rather be: a simple but effective soloist in a group where the song is everything, or a super technical baby-beethoven who hires a group as an excuse to allow him solo against. Theres a million examples of songs that represent a place and time really well because of what was going on in the culture, and the solo might be just a few notes, but perfect. Beatles songs. The solo on Jefferson Airplanes song White Rabbit. Hendrix. All the way into modern times and styles.

Because lets be honest: half the players coming out of GIT (Guitar Institute of Technology) could play any guitar solo from the 60's, 70's, or 80's with their teeth, probably. Anyway this is just a long winded way of saying that solos mean nothing without the song and without the circumstances... otherwise all the teenagers of today who practice sweep-picking arpeggios all day long in their bedrooms would eventually be heroes of rock. The Sex Pistols hit the music scene like a panzer division, and with no guitar solos required.

But one of my favorite baby-beethoven guitar player solos is Yngwie Malmsteens solo on Little Savage.
 

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