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Your Favorite All-Time Rock Guitar Solo
For die-hard 'rock' afficionados, the topic of one's favorite all-time guitar solo occasionally comes up. While songs such as Free Bird, Comfortably Numb and Stairway to Heaven frequently top the lists of various polls and individual favorites, there are countless others, oftentimes less played that warrant serious attention as well.
While striving to avoid the atypical shortcomings of various 'top 100' listing selections, I am going to start off with a piece that probably falls into the top 1-5 (although rarely acknowledged as such). Funkadelic's Maggot Brain originally composed and recorded by the late Eddie Hazel in 1971 (along with subsequent renditions performed by Michael Hampton who replaced Hazel as Funkadelic's lead guitarist, Carlos Santana, Warren Haynes/Derek Trucks et al) would seemingly qualify this brooding, pathos-laden guitar solo as one for the ages. Some rock music critics have even gone so far as describing the instrumental as 'Jimi Hendrix meets David Gilmour'. From a personal listening/perspective, Maggot Brain and its creative use of the Pentatonic E Minor scale + fuzz pedal epitomizes one of the best musical offerings from that particular timeframe in rock history. Ref:/FYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKn33-q4Ao |
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Joe Satriani's live version of "Always With Me, Always With You". He throws everything into it and it's an incredible piece of written material for rock guitar. I think it demonstrates why there aren't very many Joe Satriani tribute bands around, lol! At 8:10 the bass player takes off with him.
Here ya' go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eYQp_f9x80
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My favourite: Metallica, Kill 'em all. Anesthesia. SUPERB!!
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For me, Duane Allman in "Dreams" is my all time favorite guitar song. He used a glass pill bottle for his slide play... not really a solo, as drums and base accompany his magic.
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If only one, Stairway to Heaven.
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One of my favorites is Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd).
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Tough call but Randy Rhodes with Ozzy. Can't pick a song there are about a dozen with incredible solos.
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Clapton's in Crossroads
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Oh man - loaded question with soooo many possibilities. Today I'll go Jimi and All Along the Watchtower
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Has to be the solo in Hotel California.
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Any guitar work by Mike Bloomfield.
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For me it's this clip from the venerable Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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Eddie Van Halen Eruption: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uDOFIttS69I
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Ritchie Blackmore & child in time or
Michael Schenker with UFO - song called rock bottom. Both 2 of my favs |
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Oh man oh man ... you guys have nailed some
of the best ones already . Who can compete ??? Edie Van Halen Randy Rhoads Jimmy Page Comfortably Numb ... David Gilmour At the top of the list I'd also like to add 2 Great Guitarists... these songs take me to a higher place .. Al Di Meola w/ Paco De Lucia " Mediterranean Sundance " https://youtu.be/hhccIfevjCU And Allan Holdsworth. " Devil take the Hindmost " https://youtu.be/zLukR6J-06o. |
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In the dictionary, this is what should be there under 'Rock & Roll'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUhsV0HxC6E
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Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_YMLDvvnw Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q7Vr3yQYWQ Any of Randy Rhoads' live solo really https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxN0mQgQdPM |
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Saw SRV's last NE concert with Jeff Beck and was blown away! Have seen Clapton probably 10 times, always in awe, Satriani like 6 times and Eddie 3 times. Pure talent Steve Morse and Eric Johnson are hard to beat, Eddie though is easily the most entertaining...
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One of the Greatest Rock Guitarists of All-Time
All the above are Fantastic! However, no one has mentioned Joe Banamassa. He is IMHO among the best guitarists players of all times too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bonamassa Look Joe up and listen to some performances online... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQw...=RD0u03h73ClZ8 ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u03h73ClZ8 100 Greatest Guitarists Find out who our panel of top guitarists and other experts picked http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...rists-20111123
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Don't need YouTube videos and certainly NOT Rolling Stone magazine to tell me what I think.
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Joe Banassa's great! Funny, I was checking out the YouTube video below and I recognized the drummer, Tal Bergman. I played a show at CBGBs, and recorded with him at Carriage House studios in the early 90s. He was playing with Billy Idol at the time. Luckily I was the guy who always had a camera and have tons of pics from back in the day.
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Start as you mean to go on…
https://youtu.be/XAbO7IcIG_o https://youtu.be/YYXHdFUAqK4 John Sykes being…well, John Sykes. https://youtu.be/hfsZ4EzSn80 And you don’t get any more technical than a perfect chromatic scale… https://youtu.be/XNh-KkhGlsA?t=4m50s |
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Paige in Stairway to Heaven. Nothing else comes even close IMHO.
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