Your favorite solos

Im curious what are your favorite guitar solos? I choose zeppelins heartbreaker and sabbaths warning.

I am not sure about an all-time favorite solo, but I enjoy these:

Dream Theater's "Another Day"
Ozzy's "Mama I'm Coming Home"
Pantera's "10s" and "Floods"
Smashing Pumpkins' "Soma"
Alice in Chains' "Sunshine"
Atreyu's "Lip Gloss and Black"
Dinosaur Jr's "Out There"

no quarter by zeppelin
money by pink floyd
and over the hills and far away by zeppelin (idk why but i really really love that solo)

You Ready?....

In no particular order...

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Judas Priest - Revelations
Megadeth - Wake up Dead
Megadeth - Tornado of Souls
Megadeth - Holy Wars (The Punishment Due)
Dream Theatre - As I Am
John Petrucci - Glasgow Kiss
Alestorm - Pirate Song
Deep Purple - Burn
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Label Society - Bleed for Me
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Metallica - Fade to Black
Pantera - Cemetery Gates
Racer X - Viking Kong
Racer X - Super-heroes
Santana - Europa
Scorpions - Sails of Charon
Steely Dan - Reelin in the Years
Turbo - Szalony Ikar
Whitesnake - Bad Boys
Yngwie Malmsteen - Seventh Sign
Rainbow - Stargazer
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd - Time

And there is more

Hmm. There are so many.

Basically anything by Guns N' Roses, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, Pantera, Jeff Beck, Zeppelin, Ozzy (whoever was playing it), and so many more. I just love listening to anything with guitar.

if your talking about a composed solo not a jam like jerry garcia, trey...

id say just about anything by david gilmour,

especially love echoes (if you dont consider that a jam)
shine on you crazy diamond
time
money
comofrtably numb (first solo)
mother

id say so many i like are more of jams rather then solos...

but if you want real composed solos id go randy rhoads. amazing. i can hear it over and over and realize new things and how ingenious it is.

wasnt there already a thread like this?

I have way too many but hear are some of mine that I really like:

UFO - Rock Botton (live)
Scorpions - Sails of Charon (intro)
Rainbow - The Gates of Babylon

Here we go :
All Buckethead (they are all solo)
A7X - Dancing Dead
A7x - The Beast and the Harlot
A7X - Afterlife
A7x - Sidewinder
FFDP - Dying Breed
FFDP - Far From Home
FFDP - War is The Answer
FFDP - Bad Company
FFDP - Canto34(All pure Guitar Solos)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

I don't have a favourite solo, but these are my favourites (I probably have a few missed ones)

After 48 years it's hard to have a favorite since styles have changed but here goes:
Jethro Tull-Aqualung
Steely Dan-Bodhisattva
A7X-M.I.A.
John Petrucci-Glaskow Kiss
Dennis Cameron-(everything)

I could do this all day but these stick out mostly because the solos are structured around the rhythm not just an all out shred.

Probably one of my favorite Steely Dan songs! Larry Carlton is one of my favorite guitarists as well.


«Rock on!»

Mmmm, maybe I put some too

Alex Berserker (all contents) Becoming fast my favorite guitarist atm
Carlos Santana - Corazon Espinada
Al di meola (all contents)
Rush - XYZ
Joe Satriani (all contents)
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond

oh well... manymanymany others too, not clear favorite.

One of my favs..

Megadeth - Tornado of Souls

i prefer pretty simplicity over technical wizardry. dont' get me wrong, if you listen to some of those metal solos that are insanely fast they are very impressive. but they do not resonate with me as "great solos". sometimes they can get lost in the context of a song as a whole (i think a good solo should compliment the framing song well)

weezer has a lot of good solos on the blue album (so far the only weezer album i've ever listened to) and the solos are also good because they are easy enough that i can start to play them.

but one of my all time favorite solos is from muse's "hysteria".

btimm i also really like minus the bear's double-solo guitar rock-out in the middle of "into the mirror". i went to see them monday at this dump hole club. SOLD OUT. what in the world? i've been to that club 3-4 times before they've never had tickets. you just pay the cover and they stamp your hand. sold out? get outta here!

Yeah Dave Knudson has some sick solos gx. Not sure why that slipped my mind when posting, weird cause they are by far my favorite band. Maybe cause I have been in an early 90s kick. lol

I didn't see them in Charlotte, because I was in a bad mood and couldn't find anyone to come with me. Super regretted that decision.

what about... Dirty Projectors - No Intention. i really like that solo. if you go looking for it on youtube make sure you find the studio recording i've seen some live ones where he does it with an acoustic... not as good. lots of nifty guitar work on that album (Bitte Orca).

True gx1327. For me I can really appreciate both fast and slow solos and everything inbetween. As long as it's done well. Like the solo on Sunshine of Your Love by Clapton. It's slow and melodic. He plays it based on the melody of the song Blue Moon.

I agree Larry Carlton was great but Countdown to Ecstacy was Denny Dias and Jeff(Skunk) Baxter. I believe Skunk Baxter was the soloist on Bodhizattva.

Van Halen: Jump, Humans being, Running with the Devil
RATM: Sleep now in the fire
Rammstein: STEIN um STEIN, Du Riechst so gut, Rein Raus, Links 234
Metallica: Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters
NIN: The Hand that Feeds

Pink Floyd with the pulse version of high hopes. It gives me goose bumps everytime!

Free - 'Alright now' for it's simplicity and tension building qualities.

Almost any solo by Richie Blackmore. Technically excellent and he keeps it in context with the song.

jcb3000,thanks for that...for a moment i left PF aside..i forgot how mucho i love that band,thanks!

Garcia, Garcia and Garcia

Yeah Garcia!

MR CROWELY

"Crazy Train" and "Don't Wanna Stop" by Ozzy

Speaking of Randy Rhoads "Over the Mountain"

Id like to add garcia garcia and gilmour to that :)

Im throwing in revelation mother earth.

Cemetery Gates-Pantera
Seize the Day-A7x

Steve Vai - All Contents
Mr. Big - All Contets
Guns N Roses - All Contents
RATM - All Contents

A7x - Dear God
The solo blows my mind, especially the pedalsteelguitarpart played by Greg Leisz is so tasty that I can feel every note on my tongue.

i'm not a big avenged sevenfold fan. but their first album was pretty good. it was a good rock album without being too metal-ish. i'm not even sure what you would classify them as. i guess what i'm trying to say is that i'm not a fan of their genre, but i enjoyed their first album regardless. and one song that stood out to me was "sieze the day". the solo is really cool.

First album? Are you talking about "sounding the seventh trumpet"?

A7x "Dear God" is amazing. The solo is a bit like "Hotel California" solo. They should do more things like Seize the Day and Dear God.
P.S - Wasn't sounding the 7th trumpet one of their old scream(o) albums?

Yes, but it was after a small demo their first real album, thats why I was wondering. I think gx is referring to city of evil. And yeah, the solo is quite hotel california like, I really love the structure of it.

i dug through my music collection when i got home. i meant their first commercial album (city of evil), and i kind of like seize the day but it's not the song i was thinking of. i was thinking of "strength of the world", with the guitar break-down part in the middle.

that album is actually really good. Strength of The World has a good intro i personaly think, and Listen to the end solo of "Sidewinder"(different album i think), it's a kinda nice acoustic solo.

To me, Strength of the World is a masterpiece. Should have been on the sound track for Braveheart. The acoustic solo at the end of Sidewinder is actually Synyster Gates and his dad( Brian Haner Sr.-AKA Papa Gates) trading licks.

Check out his vid here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ficmpGst0

haha, hes pretty funny, talented guitarist too.