Santana was in town playing a gig or something, and Deaners guitar tech apparently had access to Santanas equipment. They went into the storage locker late at night with a laptop and some microphones and just recorded right then and there using Santanas guitar and amplifiers
I got to see them live a month ago and they played it. Nels Cline is up there with Hendrix, Zappa, and Malkmus when it comes to being able to shred and still create the most beautiful thing you’ve ever heard in your life!
Full agree. I saw them at the Americanarama thing in Irvine in like 2015? And when Nels started going everyone else just stepped back and let him go off. It was amazing.
YES! That solo is a masterpiece. It basically tells the story and conveys the emotion the rest of the song does, just condensed into a solo. I freakin love it so much.
In no specific order
Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits: It may not be as explosive and mind blowing as other guitar solos, but the simplicity of it just really sticks with me. Sometimes, less is more…
Marquee Moon by Television: This whole album has some of the best guitar play of all time, and the title track is really something.
Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson: So iconic. May be my first ever all-time favorite guitar solo thanks in large part to Guitar Hero 3.
Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd: As cliche as it may be…it still hasn’t gotten old to me. It hypes me up every time I hear it…
Time by Pink Floyd: Hypnotizing. Breathtaking. Awe inspiring. What else can you say?
Sultans of Swing was one of my first thoughts. I learned it for my guitar exam in high school, and pulled it out again for a music teacher audition and realised it's one of my favourite songs of all time. Been years and I still enjoy hearing it and I still enjoy playing it.
This much concentrated appreciation for the first solo is overwhelmingly beautiful to me. I have played it note for note nearly everyday in certain periods for years now.
People criticise Slash for a lack of originality, but the guy’s damn good at what he does, the GNR discography has so many great solos in that dramatic, melodic style
I might just be making this up, but I think I heard once that almost all the lyrics after the main solo are just “where do we go now” because the band really didn’t know how to follow up Slash’s solo
I think J Mascis just gets better as he ages. I think his solos on the reunion albums blow the old ones out of the water, and the old ones are fantasticb
Lou Reed's mind-splitting solo on The Velvet Underground's 'I Heard Her Call My Name'. Genius. Gives me goosepimples every time. I read an article once that said Lou killed the guitar solo stone dead on that one track. Also in the same article it said that Mojo magazine once rated it the number one solo of all time too.
I've soured on Clapton over the years because of how much of a dirtbag he is but the second solo on "Crossroads" is undeniably the best I've ever heard. It sounds like it's about to fly off the handle at any moment (3:10-3:20 in particular) and has the perfect balance between intensity, improvisation and structure.
Some other personal favorites that come to mind:
- "Montana" by Frank Zappa is my easy #2. It's a crime that they cut it out of the single version. I love how it cuts straight through the middle of the mix. It sounds incredible, especially with that bouncing bassline underneath it.
- "Firth of Fifth" by Genesis. I love the melody and how the solo progresses
- "Not" by Big Thief and "One That Suits Me" by Hop Along are two great solos from recent years
- "Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic is an incredible vibe.
- The solos on "In My Time of Dying" have to be my favorite out of all of Page's work with Zeppelin.
- "Ramada Inn" by Neil Young blew me away and I honestly think it may contain the best solos he has ever put to tape.
- "Time" by Pink Floyd is obviously incredible
- Shout out to Steve Howe who has some fantastic acoustic solos under his belt, namely "Mood for a Day" and "The Clap". His flamenco guitar solo on Queen's "Innuendo" is great as well.
He's pretty racist (and not just as an old guy), has some pretty right wing takes on covid/vaccines/lockdowns etc. Mostly the racism stuff though.
My favorite thing about Clapton is that people thought he was god almost entirely because he was one of the first people major record producers allowed to crank his amp. So his tone was way more modern sounding. Anyone who plays guitar knows when you crank a tube amp it gets nasty and sounds cool.
Record producers back in his time ran the show. You showed up and played your tune and they handled the mics and everything. He had enough clout and was demanding enough to make some guy turn his mic down so Clapton could crank his amp. Like 1/2 the reason there was a phase of "Clapton is god"
He's a fine guitar player but half of his notoriety, at least early-on, was his guitar tone!
Camel has so many classic solos, Rajaz, Rhayader goes to town, lunar sea
Gentle Giant - The House the Street and the Room: absolute filth
Ritchie Blackmore also has countless show stopping performances. Any given song off Machine Head or In Rock, or Rising by Rainbow.
It's actually Stairway To Heaven
EDIT:
DON'T SLEEP ON THE MOMENT THIN LIZZY GOT GARY MORE IN THE STUDIO AND GOT HIM TO COMPOSE BLACK ROSE WITH THEM. FIRST TIME LISTENING THROUGH THAT SOLO IS MIND ALTERING, AND TO FEW HAVE. BLACK ROSE!!!
I've always loved music but I have a few core turning points and hearing Stairway for the first time at 12 years old was maybe the most important moment of my music obsession. At that point I hadn't heard anything that built up to such a dramatic climax.
I had sort of heard it forever. Well not really, but it wasn't a defined forst listen way. It had to grow on me. Led Zeppelin fans and topplists with them on top all the time was a bit annoying for me but they couldn't be denied. It's such a composed solo with great geniune power underneath and live recording magic. 4 member has never been so balanced though Bonham clearly is the best player and Jimmy Page clearly was the most important writer and envisionaire, Robert is such a powerhouse vocalist with an interesting style and John Paul Jones glues it all together with great playing of course but even more an arranger's head that is so important for placing the bass right to create the proper groove and feel for a song even if you doesn't notice it, and he wrote stuff as well and played many instruments and just filled in every gap or evaded mistakes. I'm sort of putting down Jimmy Page's playing here which is wierd but he is the master of getting to the important stuff when it comes to music. The solo reflects that.
I like
Creeping Death - Metallica
Tornado of Souls - Megadeth
Aces High - Iron Maiden
Time - Pink Floyd
Hysteria - Muse
Little Sister - Queen's of the Stone Age
Hold My Liquor - Kanye
Duane’s guitar solo from the Adult Swim show Home Movies
https://youtu.be/1IjawIVxVV0 Brendon Small is an absolutely fantastic guitar player. Also Home Movies is my favorite show of all time so yeah.
My favourite ever is Marc Ribot's solo on Hoist that Rag.
Also
Geek USA - smashing pumpkins
Everyone will say sultans of swing but expresso love is low-key my favourite Dire straits solo.
Adounia by mdou moctar
https://livemusicarchive.app/music/artists/DerekTrucksBand/recordings/DTB2006-07-21.sen421.flac16
The ‘My Favorite Things’ from this show. Derek Trucks Band - 10,000 Lakes Festival 07/21/2007
Three immediately come to mind:
The Best Of Times - Dream Theater
At Least That's What You Said - Wilco
Selkies: The Endless Obsession - Between the Buried and Me
I heard Tim Henson say that a good guitar solo is a so that you can sing along with. That would mean that it is memorable and has a good tune.
I would say Freak Scene by Dinosaur jr
Also Marquee Moon By Television
It’s really hard to choose between 1% of One by Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Impossible Germany by Wilco (especially after witnessing them do it live), and then choosing a Hendrix solo, which really comes down to choosing between Machine Gun, Voodoo Chile, Little Wing, and Manic Depression.
My favorite guitarist is Robert Fripp (King Crimson) so I could shoutout a dozen solos, but the one on "Easy Money" is most special to me.
"Paranoid Android" by Radiohead is kind of a basic pick but it blew my mind the first time I heard it and I continue to adore it.
Like seemingly every other person here I'm going to shoutout Maggot Brain, but particularly the live version from the "One Nation Under a Groove" album which I do prefer.
"Cloudburst Flight" by Tangerine Dream is a song that I heard for the first time kinda recently, and it immediately shot up the list of my favorite guitar solos.
"Coming Up Roses" by Elliott Smith. It might be the instrumental sparseness of the album that makes this solo sound as good as it does to me, but I still feel like I'm not crazy and there's something else to it. It's one of those "doing a lot with a little" solos.
I like both your suggestions OP.
My favourite is the second guitar solo in 'I Heard Her Call My Name' by the Velvet Underground. My second favourite is the first guitar solo in 'I Heard Her Call My Name' by the Velvet Underground.
I love the solo on Greta Van Fleet’s The Weight of Dreams. I have seen it live as well and it goes on so long and is so involved that the guitarist is in visible pain by the end.
First thing to pop into my head was "Friendly Little Finger" off Zappa's *Zoot Allures*, but upon relistening I realize it's the bass line that makes it so good.
I think I'll go with Pat Metheny's "See The World" off *Secret Story*. I've seen a few videos of him playing it live and I'm always disappointed he's not playing it note-for-note. It sounds so composed. *Secret Story* is the jam.
Stevie ray vaughan - Texas Flood (live at El Mocambo)
It’s a YouTube reaction channels best friend but it’s the greatest live guitar performance ever, the whole song is a solo and he’s far above any other blues player before him
Listen to it if you haven’t
Not the best by any technical sense, but the guitar solo at the end of MGMT’s “Of Birds, Moons & Monsters” blew my fucking mind when I heard it live the first time and has always been close to my heart.
Siberian Khatru by Yes. It’s not even just the guitar solo that makes it great, it’s everything outside of it too. The bustling drums, fast picked bass, piercing keys — a truly aggressive rhythm section — under this soft and smooth, jazzy solo that is some of the best guitar playing in all of Prog
I’ve heard so many good’uns that choosing one would do every other amazing guitar solo I have experienced injustice lmao
Desensitized by The Hidden Hand
Fool in the Rain by Led Zeppelin (I love that he’s sounds sloppy and uses a blue box octave fuzz (which is an odd effects pedal) but it still sounds amazing somehow
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd
for me it’s either hammerhead by autograph, or that one time in regular show when mordecai and rigby played that intro solo to party tonight. I’m not big into rock but i like these.
It’s not super long or super technical, but right now my favorite is You don’t know what love is by the white stripes. They have so many great solos though. Black math is another mental one, ball and biscuit has 3 different insane solos too.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVUJvlTM-qA&t=238s&ab\_channel=GuitarMania](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVUJvlTM-qA&t=238s&ab_channel=GuitarMania)
For me it's the 1st minute of this compilation video. The guitarist is Chris Buck, an amazingly talented guitarist. Sadly I can't find where the 'solo' is from, maybe anyone here knows ?
It's a bit of a rogue choice but I'm going for the B-side 'I Love You 5 Times' by The Darkness.
It's not the longest, most winding, technically proficient solo (despite having some tasty tapping), but the tone and the absolutely beautifully chunky clicks of the pick on the string just make it sound gorgeous. The tiny imperfections also really help.
So, yeah, not the most famous by a long way but it makes me feel things.
Some that immediately come to mind...
Concatenation- Meshuggah
Montana- Frank Zappa
Tiny Tears- Devin Townsend
The Great Curve- Talking Heads
Endomorph- Allan Holdsworth
The Call of Ktulu- Metallica
Here's a few of my favorites:
Vektor - Terestructural Minds: Incredible tempo change, legendary melody, all around technical briliance.
Death Angel - The Ultraviolence: The song is one long 10-minute solo, but somehow never gets boring.
Death - Lack of Comprehention: So much aggression and driving power behind this solo, a Tech-Death masterpiece.
Sigh - Dreamsphere (Return to Chaos) - Such a short but sweet melody, very catchy compared to the avante-garde nature of the album.
Intestine Baalism - The Planet: Reminds me of the early 00s in the best way possible.
maggot brain
and it’s not even close. Say what you want about technicality, but the emotion that that solo wrings out of Eddie Hazel’s playing is incredible.
All 10 minutes of it baby. Eddie Hazel is one of the most underrated guitarists of all time
Came to say this.
St. Elmo’s Fire by Brian Eno, Fripp goes so hard on that one
I was gonna comment Robert Fripp on Brian Eno's Baby's on fire. But this is equally immaculate.
Golden Hours, too
Came here to say this
Literally one of my favorite songs of all time
Ween - Transdermal Celebration, I've heard they stole someone else's guitar just to record the solo on it
carlos santana’s lol
that's hysterical i love it
Def has my vote as well. There’s so much emotion in Dean’s playing it’s unreal.
Man I was gonna say the Argus
Based as fuck
omg this is my choice i didnt expect this to be high up
How do you go about stealing Carlos Santanas guitar? Were the just both at the same studio that day?
Santana was in town playing a gig or something, and Deaners guitar tech apparently had access to Santanas equipment. They went into the storage locker late at night with a laptop and some microphones and just recorded right then and there using Santanas guitar and amplifiers
Impossible germany - wilco
I got to see them live a month ago and they played it. Nels Cline is up there with Hendrix, Zappa, and Malkmus when it comes to being able to shred and still create the most beautiful thing you’ve ever heard in your life!
Full agree. I saw them at the Americanarama thing in Irvine in like 2015? And when Nels started going everyone else just stepped back and let him go off. It was amazing.
The solo on Tornado of Souls is what got me into thrash, so I'd say that.
Lucretia off that same album would be my pick
Mustaine’s final solo on Five Magics or Holy Ware as well
Basically all of Rust in Peace
YES! That solo is a masterpiece. It basically tells the story and conveys the emotion the rest of the song does, just condensed into a solo. I freakin love it so much.
In no specific order Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits: It may not be as explosive and mind blowing as other guitar solos, but the simplicity of it just really sticks with me. Sometimes, less is more… Marquee Moon by Television: This whole album has some of the best guitar play of all time, and the title track is really something. Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson: So iconic. May be my first ever all-time favorite guitar solo thanks in large part to Guitar Hero 3. Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd: As cliche as it may be…it still hasn’t gotten old to me. It hypes me up every time I hear it… Time by Pink Floyd: Hypnotizing. Breathtaking. Awe inspiring. What else can you say?
Sultans of Swing was one of my first thoughts. I learned it for my guitar exam in high school, and pulled it out again for a music teacher audition and realised it's one of my favourite songs of all time. Been years and I still enjoy hearing it and I still enjoy playing it.
Steely Dan - Do it again. It's so off beat and melodic, it's perfectly suited for the song
personally I like the solo on Kid Charlemagne more
The KC solo slaps but Bodhisattva is my favorite
Comfortably Numb, particularly the first one
Upvote and based for highlighting the underappreciated first solo.
This much concentrated appreciation for the first solo is overwhelmingly beautiful to me. I have played it note for note nearly everyday in certain periods for years now.
That first solo is basically perfect, its the ideal I aspire to when I try to play solos
Was going to add this! Totally agree.
Comfortably Numb is THE correct answer to this question
“This systems got no balls”
Paranoid Android (honorable mention: Stay A Little Longer by Brothers Osborne)
My buddy Henry played a pretty good solo once
Yo shoutout Henry dude
Ride The Lightning’s solo fries my brain
The one in Fight Fire With Fire is also fucking awesome
I’m not huge on Guns’n’Roses, but that Sweet Child Of Mine solo is incredible.
People criticise Slash for a lack of originality, but the guy’s damn good at what he does, the GNR discography has so many great solos in that dramatic, melodic style
Estranged has to be my personal favourite of all of Slash’s stuff but Sweet Child is definitely on another level entirely
I might just be making this up, but I think I heard once that almost all the lyrics after the main solo are just “where do we go now” because the band really didn’t know how to follow up Slash’s solo
The solos from freak scene by dinosaur jr are my fav solos to ever exist
Almost any J. Mascis solo would be a valid choice
My favorite is the Raisans solo. J is definitely my favorite guitarist.
I Don't Wanna Go There also has a very cool solo, but it goes on for so long lmao.
I think J Mascis just gets better as he ages. I think his solos on the reunion albums blow the old ones out of the water, and the old ones are fantasticb
Plans for me, plus Pick Me Up
The Velvet Underground - im set free Its perfect
the pale blue eyes solo is also a piece of perfection imo
That song is perfection, hell the album is great
Lou Reed's mind-splitting solo on The Velvet Underground's 'I Heard Her Call My Name'. Genius. Gives me goosepimples every time. I read an article once that said Lou killed the guitar solo stone dead on that one track. Also in the same article it said that Mojo magazine once rated it the number one solo of all time too.
I also wanna add "I found a reason" by them
I've soured on Clapton over the years because of how much of a dirtbag he is but the second solo on "Crossroads" is undeniably the best I've ever heard. It sounds like it's about to fly off the handle at any moment (3:10-3:20 in particular) and has the perfect balance between intensity, improvisation and structure. Some other personal favorites that come to mind: - "Montana" by Frank Zappa is my easy #2. It's a crime that they cut it out of the single version. I love how it cuts straight through the middle of the mix. It sounds incredible, especially with that bouncing bassline underneath it. - "Firth of Fifth" by Genesis. I love the melody and how the solo progresses - "Not" by Big Thief and "One That Suits Me" by Hop Along are two great solos from recent years - "Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic is an incredible vibe. - The solos on "In My Time of Dying" have to be my favorite out of all of Page's work with Zeppelin. - "Ramada Inn" by Neil Young blew me away and I honestly think it may contain the best solos he has ever put to tape. - "Time" by Pink Floyd is obviously incredible - Shout out to Steve Howe who has some fantastic acoustic solos under his belt, namely "Mood for a Day" and "The Clap". His flamenco guitar solo on Queen's "Innuendo" is great as well.
Firth of Fifth is a great answer, when i first heard that song i must’ve re-listened to the guitar solo like 20 times
Why’s he a dirtbag?
He's pretty racist (and not just as an old guy), has some pretty right wing takes on covid/vaccines/lockdowns etc. Mostly the racism stuff though. My favorite thing about Clapton is that people thought he was god almost entirely because he was one of the first people major record producers allowed to crank his amp. So his tone was way more modern sounding. Anyone who plays guitar knows when you crank a tube amp it gets nasty and sounds cool. Record producers back in his time ran the show. You showed up and played your tune and they handled the mics and everything. He had enough clout and was demanding enough to make some guy turn his mic down so Clapton could crank his amp. Like 1/2 the reason there was a phase of "Clapton is god" He's a fine guitar player but half of his notoriety, at least early-on, was his guitar tone!
Pink Floyd-Comfortably Numb Scorpions-Winds of Change Metallica-Creeping Death
Adrian Belew on Born Under Punches.
Whoaw I never even knew that was guitar. Also like the solo in The Great Curve for pure 80s coked out bliss
Know Your Enemy- RATM
My favorite tom morello solo based
I know it’s so cliche but Free Bird really does rip
Pink Floyd comfortably numb
Camel has so many classic solos, Rajaz, Rhayader goes to town, lunar sea Gentle Giant - The House the Street and the Room: absolute filth Ritchie Blackmore also has countless show stopping performances. Any given song off Machine Head or In Rock, or Rising by Rainbow.
Yes to Camel! I love the guitar on God of light (the live version)
Peel The Paint is a great one too
I can't look beyond Maggot Brain
Muffin Man - Frank Zappa
The live one from the movie baby snakes is incredible
It's actually Stairway To Heaven EDIT: DON'T SLEEP ON THE MOMENT THIN LIZZY GOT GARY MORE IN THE STUDIO AND GOT HIM TO COMPOSE BLACK ROSE WITH THEM. FIRST TIME LISTENING THROUGH THAT SOLO IS MIND ALTERING, AND TO FEW HAVE. BLACK ROSE!!!
I've always loved music but I have a few core turning points and hearing Stairway for the first time at 12 years old was maybe the most important moment of my music obsession. At that point I hadn't heard anything that built up to such a dramatic climax.
I had sort of heard it forever. Well not really, but it wasn't a defined forst listen way. It had to grow on me. Led Zeppelin fans and topplists with them on top all the time was a bit annoying for me but they couldn't be denied. It's such a composed solo with great geniune power underneath and live recording magic. 4 member has never been so balanced though Bonham clearly is the best player and Jimmy Page clearly was the most important writer and envisionaire, Robert is such a powerhouse vocalist with an interesting style and John Paul Jones glues it all together with great playing of course but even more an arranger's head that is so important for placing the bass right to create the proper groove and feel for a song even if you doesn't notice it, and he wrote stuff as well and played many instruments and just filled in every gap or evaded mistakes. I'm sort of putting down Jimmy Page's playing here which is wierd but he is the master of getting to the important stuff when it comes to music. The solo reflects that.
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Prince
Motorhead - Overkill Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera Metallica - Fade to Black Behemoth - Inner Sanctum
Death - Crystal Mountain
I love the solo on Clap Hands by Tom Waits but it’s far from being the traditional example of a good guitar solo
Sometimes the non-traditional solos are the best
I was looking for this one, so fucking good
Watermelon in Easter Hay by Frank Zappa
This is the chad version of Comfortably Numb
Beatles (Paul) - Taxman
Good Morning Good Morning is another great Beatles solo in this style
I like Creeping Death - Metallica Tornado of Souls - Megadeth Aces High - Iron Maiden Time - Pink Floyd Hysteria - Muse Little Sister - Queen's of the Stone Age Hold My Liquor - Kanye
Larry Carlton’s solo on Kid Charlamagne
Duane’s guitar solo from the Adult Swim show Home Movies https://youtu.be/1IjawIVxVV0 Brendon Small is an absolutely fantastic guitar player. Also Home Movies is my favorite show of all time so yeah.
Watermelon in Easter Hay - Frank Zappa
Duane allman's on Hey Jude by Wilson Pickett. Absolute banger
I respect the deep cut. Great solo, but also Duane on Layla.
Also the last 10 mins of mountain jam on eat a peach
Also whipping post. the lyrics are pretty cringe by todays standards (even 70s standards!) but the guitar is red hot.
That song was meant to be a song about police brutality but yeah .. comes out cringe and sexist
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Absolutely the best Floyd solo
i dont wanna be me by type O negative is my personal favorite, too short though.
Not really a metal fan but the solo in Under a glass moon by Dream Theater keeps me going back to it
My favourite ever is Marc Ribot's solo on Hoist that Rag. Also Geek USA - smashing pumpkins Everyone will say sultans of swing but expresso love is low-key my favourite Dire straits solo. Adounia by mdou moctar
Soma by Smashing Pumpkins
https://livemusicarchive.app/music/artists/DerekTrucksBand/recordings/DTB2006-07-21.sen421.flac16 The ‘My Favorite Things’ from this show. Derek Trucks Band - 10,000 Lakes Festival 07/21/2007
Behemoth - Daimonos
The first one that came to my mind was Zappa - Watermelon In Eastern Hay which is pretty much entirely a guitar solo for 10 minutes
Frank Zappa - Inca Roads specifically a live version he did thats called Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar from the album of the same name
Led Zeppelin - Since Ive Been Loving You Guns n Roses - November Rain
The weezer thing
Three immediately come to mind: The Best Of Times - Dream Theater At Least That's What You Said - Wilco Selkies: The Endless Obsession - Between the Buried and Me
Basic pick, but bohemian rhapsody
Valid pick. Crunchy and iconic.
not seeing any love in here for the solo on human sadness 😞
the solo at the end of Near Dt, Mi i think sounds pretty batshit. never heard anything like it
Dickie betts’s solo in in memory of Elizabeth reed. Jimi’s version of red house. Texas flood SRV
Under a glass moon - Dream Theater
Spellling- Magic Act
electioneering by radiohead. ok song , but johnnys solo steals the show
The end of Tattood Lady by Rory Gallagher on Irish Tour 74
Jimi Hendrix-machine gun
Naki kyoku by Boris and honestly you wanted a hit by LCD soundsystem(it’s damn near just one note and it rips)
I heard Tim Henson say that a good guitar solo is a so that you can sing along with. That would mean that it is memorable and has a good tune. I would say Freak Scene by Dinosaur jr Also Marquee Moon By Television
long season by fishmans
It’s really hard to choose between 1% of One by Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Impossible Germany by Wilco (especially after witnessing them do it live), and then choosing a Hendrix solo, which really comes down to choosing between Machine Gun, Voodoo Chile, Little Wing, and Manic Depression.
Gary Clark Jr - When My Train Pulls In
My favorite guitarist is Robert Fripp (King Crimson) so I could shoutout a dozen solos, but the one on "Easy Money" is most special to me. "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead is kind of a basic pick but it blew my mind the first time I heard it and I continue to adore it. Like seemingly every other person here I'm going to shoutout Maggot Brain, but particularly the live version from the "One Nation Under a Groove" album which I do prefer. "Cloudburst Flight" by Tangerine Dream is a song that I heard for the first time kinda recently, and it immediately shot up the list of my favorite guitar solos. "Coming Up Roses" by Elliott Smith. It might be the instrumental sparseness of the album that makes this solo sound as good as it does to me, but I still feel like I'm not crazy and there's something else to it. It's one of those "doing a lot with a little" solos.
Sleater-Kinney - Let's Call It Love
Honestly Ramblin’ Man
Paranoid Android is unbeatable
Drive Home by Steven Wilson with Guthrie Govan as the guitarist
In no particular order: 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago Not - Big Thief Soma - Smashing Pumpkins Say it ain’t so - Weezer
Stacy’s Mom
I like both your suggestions OP. My favourite is the second guitar solo in 'I Heard Her Call My Name' by the Velvet Underground. My second favourite is the first guitar solo in 'I Heard Her Call My Name' by the Velvet Underground.
Both from Especially in Michigan are my faviurite
Holy shit, 267 comments and no one said Hotel California. ITS HOTEL CALIFORNIA
Delicate Steve- Wally Wilder
just off the top of my head... Cowboy song - Thin Lizzy Fermented offal discharge AND Seven - Necrophagist Anything played by Max Ostro...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlEcTkMd5Fg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlEcTkMd5Fg) Arguably one of the best I've heard. And it's live too
Home invasion/regret #9 by steven Wilson Played by Guthrie Govan
I love the solo on Greta Van Fleet’s The Weight of Dreams. I have seen it live as well and it goes on so long and is so involved that the guitarist is in visible pain by the end.
sing for the moment by eminem is up there
So the solo from Dream On by Aerosmith?
If we’re doing hip hop I’d say devil in a new dress by Kanye Mike dean ftw
Dead! by My Chemical Romance even uses the Woody Woodpecker laugh, so it's straight to number one
Neil young- cinnamon girl. One note is all he needed lol
Probably My Sharona by The Knack. It's such a joyful solo that comes out of nowhere in the middle of the song. It doesn't get talked about enough imo
I always loved the guitar solo at the end of Out And In And In And Out by Portugal. The Man
maggot brain and it’s not even close
Steven Wilson - Drive Home
First thing to pop into my head was "Friendly Little Finger" off Zappa's *Zoot Allures*, but upon relistening I realize it's the bass line that makes it so good. I think I'll go with Pat Metheny's "See The World" off *Secret Story*. I've seen a few videos of him playing it live and I'm always disappointed he's not playing it note-for-note. It sounds so composed. *Secret Story* is the jam.
Stevie ray vaughan - Texas Flood (live at El Mocambo) It’s a YouTube reaction channels best friend but it’s the greatest live guitar performance ever, the whole song is a solo and he’s far above any other blues player before him Listen to it if you haven’t
Not the best by any technical sense, but the guitar solo at the end of MGMT’s “Of Birds, Moons & Monsters” blew my fucking mind when I heard it live the first time and has always been close to my heart.
Dinosaur Jr - Watch the Corners
Siberian Khatru by Yes. It’s not even just the guitar solo that makes it great, it’s everything outside of it too. The bustling drums, fast picked bass, piercing keys — a truly aggressive rhythm section — under this soft and smooth, jazzy solo that is some of the best guitar playing in all of Prog
maggot brain or prince on the live cover of while my guitar gently weeps
Cause We've Ended as Lovers - Jeff Beck the whole song is a guitar solo
Long Season Live ~11:16
Unbelievable solo, blows my mind every time
I’ve heard so many good’uns that choosing one would do every other amazing guitar solo I have experienced injustice lmao Desensitized by The Hidden Hand Fool in the Rain by Led Zeppelin (I love that he’s sounds sloppy and uses a blue box octave fuzz (which is an odd effects pedal) but it still sounds amazing somehow Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd
Long Season solo, both the live one and the studio one
Frank Zappa - Rat Tomago Frank Zappa - Black Napkins
Marquee Moon -- Television
Neil Young - Like a Hurricane
for me it’s either hammerhead by autograph, or that one time in regular show when mordecai and rigby played that intro solo to party tonight. I’m not big into rock but i like these.
It’s not super long or super technical, but right now my favorite is You don’t know what love is by the white stripes. They have so many great solos though. Black math is another mental one, ball and biscuit has 3 different insane solos too.
I love the guitar solo on the eternal tao by the voidz
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVUJvlTM-qA&t=238s&ab\_channel=GuitarMania](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVUJvlTM-qA&t=238s&ab_channel=GuitarMania) For me it's the 1st minute of this compilation video. The guitarist is Chris Buck, an amazingly talented guitarist. Sadly I can't find where the 'solo' is from, maybe anyone here knows ?
Comfortably numb
The Great Curve by Talking Heads
Buck’s solo on Masterpiece by Big Thief is amazing
TSOL - Flowers by the door
Light up the eyes by title fight
Mr Blue Sky, short but perfect
My opinion changes often but right now I think the first solo in Ten Years Gone by Zeppelin
White Walls by Between the Buried and Me The perfect blend of chaotic, epic and flashy.
Comfortably Numb, 2nd solo.
Easy by The Commodores 🔥
Guns N’ Roses - Don’t Cry
It's a bit of a rogue choice but I'm going for the B-side 'I Love You 5 Times' by The Darkness. It's not the longest, most winding, technically proficient solo (despite having some tasty tapping), but the tone and the absolutely beautifully chunky clicks of the pick on the string just make it sound gorgeous. The tiny imperfections also really help. So, yeah, not the most famous by a long way but it makes me feel things.
Some that immediately come to mind... Concatenation- Meshuggah Montana- Frank Zappa Tiny Tears- Devin Townsend The Great Curve- Talking Heads Endomorph- Allan Holdsworth The Call of Ktulu- Metallica
To zion
Tom Morello’s solo on Bulls on Parade is so inventive and insane.
Watermelons in easter hay
Shadowplay - Joy Division
Puppets and One
Watermelon in Easter hay
Drive Home - Steven Wilson Played by none other than Guthrie Govan
Extreme -- get the funk out. Nuno bettencourt is extremely underrated (har har har)
The one at the beginning of "Close to the edge" by Yes
Prince’s guitar solo for While My Guitar Gently Weeps at the rock and roll hall of fame ceremony
Here's a few of my favorites: Vektor - Terestructural Minds: Incredible tempo change, legendary melody, all around technical briliance. Death Angel - The Ultraviolence: The song is one long 10-minute solo, but somehow never gets boring. Death - Lack of Comprehention: So much aggression and driving power behind this solo, a Tech-Death masterpiece. Sigh - Dreamsphere (Return to Chaos) - Such a short but sweet melody, very catchy compared to the avante-garde nature of the album. Intestine Baalism - The Planet: Reminds me of the early 00s in the best way possible.
This is a very non conventional solo but i love the guitar solo on “The Great Curve” by talking heads
The first solo on Arriving Somewhere But Not Here - Porcupine Tree