Best ever guitar solos

[steveo]

Go on, go on, go on. You know you want to...

[*Bob*]

Oh go on then... where's the harm?

Working Class: The Only Ones / Another Girl, Another Planet

Middle Class: Stooges / I Wanna Be Your Dog

Upper Class: Led Zep / Since I've Been Loving You

[Otta]

Slash

Sweet Child (the big one at the end), Estranged, November Rain, Fields of Joy (Lenny Kravitz song he played on).

"Comfortably Numb" (Dave Gilmour)

"Mr. Crowley" (Randy Rhoads in fact mosy of his solos were pretty damned awesome)

"Little wing" (Hendrix)

"Hotel California" (Eagles) - Not a fan, but great solo

A good old one is in My Sharona by The Knack, although it goes on a bit!

[Otta]

Oh, and Stairway to Heaven is not allowed!

[red devil]

Working Class - Big Country whilst necking a bottle of Thunderbird;

Middle Class - Counting Crows whilst necking a bottle of JD;

Upper Class - necking the au pair in the stables...

[Jeremy]

Dinosaur Jr ? Get Me

Built To Spill ? Carry The Zero

All this classic rock stuff is all well and good, but not particularly interesting to my ears.

[woodrot]

bowie- boys keep swinging bludz

freebird is big fail btw

[Jah Lush]

Anything by Jeff Beck.

Mick Taylor's solo on Sway by the Stones

Neil Innes solo on the Bonzo's Canyons Of Your Mind.

[MrBen]

Does "best" mean fastest/most acrobatic notes per second? Or most musical, soulful and loin stirring....?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I think you mean Peter Green, Mr Ben.

[MrBen]

Indeed. Genius early playing. I interviewed him once for a student rag when he had a brief mid 90's comeback. Lovely guy but also a sombre lesson in why not to drop acid with the Grateful Dead. Bless him.

[BrandNewGuy]

Prince's solo, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", George Harrison tribute... arrogant, infuriating and a work of heartbreaking genius:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zByqXu6nGYA

[taper]

Not sure it's the best, but Michael Schenker's in UFO's Strangers in the Night version of Lights Out is pretty good. In fact you get a couple.

And East Bay Ray in the DK's Holiday in Cambodia

[uncleglen]

Very under-rated (just because Yes were prog)Steve Howe- Clap etc

[Otta]

I've never been a huge fan, but Brian May has played some lovely solos over the years. He has a good ear for melody, and it shows in his solos.

Can't stand it when it's all about "shredding" mega fast and tapping all over the shop just to show that you can. (I probably say this because I'm rubbish at it)

[Michael Palaeologus]

UFO, Schenker, marvellous.

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Freebird

[Chippy Minton]

Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode

Dinosaur Jr - Freak scene

[El Pibe]

Marty McFly at the disco.

Ya kids will love it, he failed to mention that their kids will be a bit confused and their kids will revive stupid eighties hair, but guitar solos, not so much.

[TillieTrotter]

I'm very much on Otta's train of thought here.

[Jeremy]

MrBen Wrote:

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> Does "best" mean fastest/most acrobatic notes per

> second? Or most musical, soulful and loin

> stirring....?

"Enjoyable" beats "technically impressive" every time.

[maxxi]

Agree with Otta - has to be one from my childhood - Brian May's solo on Brighton Rock.

I know he's done it to death since (and that he appears to have become a knob), that he relies on echo-tricks too much and that it's all a bit prog-rock at times (well it was 1974) but I saw them live back then and the first incarnation of this solo live was memorable.

That and any of the mini-solos by Wilko Johnson either Dr Feelgood (Back In The Night) or after.

[DulwichFox]

Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) Dark Star ( 13 mins )

Foxy.

[BrandNewGuy]

Neil Young - Down By The River.

[Otta]

Gary Moore - Still got the blues.

Kirk Hammett (Metallica) - Enter Sandman

[jctg]

Buzzcocks - Boredom.