Some more from me;
Marillion - Splintering Heart
Skid row - Wasted Time, 18 and Life
Little Angels - Boneyard (From the Live Jam album. Any rock band with a horn section just has to rock!)
GnR - Move to the City (from the Live Era album. Normal rock fare until Axl says, "Ladies and gentlemen.....the band!" and it turns in to a mad, big band, jazz and rock mayhem rack. Epic.)
Love/Hate - Black out in the red room
Tesla - Love Song (the version from Five Man Acoustical Jam)
Gun - Word Up. Covertastic!
Am sure I can think of more...!
Oooo, decisions... A few oldies -
The Rock Glory solo - [url=
Wish It Would Rain by Little Caesar[/url] (at 2.10, brilliant, if short)
The Power Metal solo -[url=
Out, by Anthrax[/url] (at 3.55, by Dimebag, RIP)
The 'Up to 11' song - [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WccfbPQNMbg ]LOOUUUDDD![/url]
The 'Emotional Wreck Solo' - [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zxWWSdrYE&feature=PlayList&p=AE38901A74C80EE8&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=8 ]My Day, by Noise Ratchet[/url] (solo at 3.10; pause, turn lights down, let it wash over you... not sure about the video, mind!)
This is a seriously tough one and these are in no particular order:
'Voodoo Child' by Stevie Ray Vaughan (from 'Live at Montreaux').
'Little Wing' By SRV again (from 'The Sky is Crying').
Joe Bonamassa - anything from 'A New Day Yesterday Live' (to my ears, the definitive JB album).
SRV manages to get my spine tingling and there's no words on Little Wing. I know these are Hendrix but he played them so well.
A mention must be made for Free and Paul Kossoff who sadly is no longer with us.
Also Carlos Santana but can't decide which.
Better stop now, can't you just tell I love guitars? 🙄
Wow, where to start...
2nd cinnamon_girl for SRV's version of Little Wind but I'd have to go with JB's Slow Gin. What a solo in the title track, took me weeks to work it out.
John Petrucci's (Dream Theater) solo from Glass Moon is a stunner and pretty much ANYTHING by Richie Kotzen, especially his work with Poison (yes, I know) but his tone and note choice is the work of a genius.
Audioslave - Cochise
Motorhead - Killed By Death
Aerosmith/Run DMC - Walk This Way
edit: these are songs that beg to be played loud rather than great solos
[url=
minutes of pure god-like genius[/url]
...sublime track from Weller. This track has been known to convert the odd heshie or two... 😉 (shame someone's added a USA-centric video)
Abominable Iron Sloth - Hats Made of Veal.. etc. That song up loud is so heavy 🙂
Solo wise, it's cheesy but the (full length) one in My Sharona is a great one.
+1 for Baba O'Riley, my youngest (aged 4 at the time) used to insist that we played BO'R by The Who at window-rattling volumes in the car!!!
I'd like to add
Budgie - Breadfan. Metalicas cover on Garage Day is almost as good.
Another one to play full whack is Electric Wizard - Dopethrone. Fuzzy doomy goodness 🙂
More riffs than solos but here's my four . . .
Am I Evil - Metallica
Eye of the Storm - Bullet for my Valentine
1320 - Megadeth
Beast and the Harlot - Avenged Sevenfold
Whitesnake Featuring Steve Vai - Fool for your loving.
Skid Row - 18 & LIFE
Hathen - Set me Free (whole song is just one big air guitar)
Ozzy Osbourne Feat Zakk Wild - Desire
BB King - Paulys Birthday
Poison - Every Rose has it's thorn.
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[url=
on, you know you want to....[/url] 😆
Loud - see what happens!
grtdkad - Good call! I have that on blue vinyl somewhere... 🙂
A few more;
Change It (Live) by SRV
Hungry for Heaven - Dio
The Bed's Too Big Without You - the Police
aye,corroded. i was going to say janes addiction - three days.
well ive just tried listening to a few and marillion splintering heart is crap! i`ll go back to j.a.- three days and attempt to listen to new stuff tomorrow!
"blistering" guitar solo - elo mr blue sky? ::goes to bed::
Good call grtdkad, Mr Blue Sky loud is one of those songs that just forces you to crack a smile, Mushaboom by Feist is another 😀
Also
Dave Lee Roth - Yankee rose
King Crimson - Dangerous Curves, 21st Century Schizoid Man and too many others to mention, Like Red and Larks Tongues in Aspic
Rush - Passage to Bangkok
Dire Straits - Calling Elvis
Paranoid, Crazy Train, Mr Crowley by Ozzy/Black Sabbath
Which Side are you on? - Billy Bragg
and [url=
Tet - She Moves she[/url] for the weird electronica fans
A couple more songs that HAVE to be played at full whack...
[url=
- New Rose[/url]
[url=
York Dolls - Personality Crisis[/url] RIP, well, half of 'em.
Couple off Lynyrd Skynyrd -
Freebird 12 inch single
Sweet Home Alabhama
Ah bollocks. We got so far without mention of that disgusting ****ery. You've ruined it 🙁
^Agreed. Freebird is possibly the most overrated piece of guitar ****ery ever written! It's not even a good song.
Stone Dead Forever by Motorhead is awesome.
So is Zappa's brilliant solo on "Stinkfoot" on the Apostrophe album. Best use of the wah-wah pedal EVER.
Blue Sky by the Allman Brothers Band.. twin guitar heaven
oh well by the origonal fleetwood mac
Rainbow-Stargazer/Kill The King
Iron Maiden-Hallowed Be Thy Name/Alexander The Great
Deep Purple-Black Night(Live)
UFO-Doctor,Doctor
Black Sabbath-Neon Knights
Thin Lizzy-Emerald
Driving South on Jimi Hendrix radio 1 album - plus the greatest ever radio jingle on the same album
Social Distortion - Dont drag me down
Allman Bros - Whipping Post (live)
Billy Idol - Mony Mony (live)
Rory Gallagher - Bullfrog Blues
Cream - Spoonful (live)
Free - Mr Big (live)
George Thorogood - Who Do You Love (live)
Led Zep - Black Dog
Prince - Purple Rain
Ry Cooder - All Shook up
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
...........Spot the old codger.
Bit late but have to give a vote to Mother Knows Best by Richard Thompson. Stunning solo which is so long the tape ran out during the recording!!
Urge Overkill - Sister Havana
Rush - Limelight
On the Turning Away by Pink Floyd.
Sweet Child in Time Deep Purple.
Anything by the Stones but played by anybody else! For example, Sympathy for the Devil by GnR's
Some cracking stuff, loved the Paul Gilbert vid - been a fan of his for years.
+1 on Joe Bonnamassa, great live and very punctual too.
Kings X, very underrated.
The Ventures - Pipeline
(Not so into the hair bands but got a soft spot for surf rock, which falls into the 'full whack' category. Needless to say Dick Dale and SRV kill it.)
[url= http://www.reverbnation.com/thewickeffect#/artist/song_details/4143428 ]try this one loud[/url]
Iron Maiden - Phantom of the opera
Velvet Revolver - Slither
Come on peeps. This thread is about blistering guitar. This should sound like the flames of hell lapping at your souls......
Holy wars ( the punishment due) - megadeth.
Pretty much all of Rust in peace really.
Dave Mustain= Riff Lord! \m/
let's go crazy - prince
terrahawk - Member
Stone Dead Forever by Motorhead is awesome.So is Zappa's brilliant solo on "Stinkfoot" on the Apostrophe album. Best use of the wah-wah pedal EVER.
For this I've always enjoyed Page on Custard Pie. In the car, foot on accelerator of course.
she sells sanctuary- the cult
[s]Come as you are - Nirvana[/s]
I think you'll find that was 80's by killing joke, ripped of by nirvana note for note and ended up with the nirvana being sued, the case was dropped once kurt kobain had sucked on a 12 bore 😀
[url=
in a void - avoid love[/url] Souixsie and the Banshees
ooh haven't heard that one for a while
don't you think it ironic that Dave Grohl played drums for Killing Joke one at least one album?
this lovely bit of folk metal makes me want to go mental every time 😆
fantastic fiddle solo
[url=
- Machine Gun[/url].
4 minutes or so in, what is he doing to that poor instrument...
skyclad - er, ok...
I quite liked their version of "Swords Of A Thousand Men" though
for fantastic fiddle you should see/hear Ed Alleyne Johnson. Frequently to be found busking across the north of England, but also known for this:
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now played on a Les Paul by Marshall Gill: [url]
I remember Ed from his days playing with NMA, and purple electric violin concerto was ace. The stuff he did with his nasal singing wife was bloody terrible though 😯
his music was also used on the kellogs crunchy nut cornflake advert with the vampire in the 90's
[i]kellogs crunchy nut cornflake advert with the vampire[/i]
😯
Forget the rest and play the best..............BREADFAN BY BUDGIE,Metallica's cover is good as well.
therapy?
simply brilliant
Deicide
SNOWY, YER OLD BUDGIE FROM 91?
Snowy died in 91-92 but we wont get into that otherwise the RSPCA will be visiting both of us in the morning, at least I never picked up dead badgers and tried to sell them to get £3 to buy the Jane says ep 🙄
I wasnt cruel to the budgie.. only the dog.It nearly broke its back and i was only playing with the bloody thing.Thought it could defy gravity,poor sod.
So you don't think putting it on my tennis racket and spinning it around was cruel, remember it used to get dizzy as **** and stagger around the bedroom, not the first or last bird to stagger around my bedroom dizzy though. 😀
Loads of cracking material here keep it up.
Ozzy;Mr Crowley (with Randy)
Metallica; Nothing Else Matters
V.Revolver; Fallen.
And EVERYTHING else above.
Remember..."Death to all but metal"
Come on peeps. This thread is about blistering guitar. This should sound like the flames of hell lapping at your souls......
more like the sound of my grannies long-haired spandex w*nk fantasy lapping at her corn plasters... the smell of piss and gravy almost but not quite masked by patchouli oil..
Smashie and Nicey live again..
Zappa: Yo Mama
Nantucket Sleighride: Mountain (the 30 min live version...)
anything by biffy clyro
Oh yunki, it's not about the spandex and big hair. It's about energy, passion and soul! I read this thing a while back - the untold story of rock and roll. A love of rock comes from either:
a) a sweet mother who died young
b) an angry father
c) both
Dunno how true it is, although a) is true for me.
Bevis Frond "High in a Flat"
Penetration - Iggy & The Stooges
Sister Ray - Velvets
You're Gonna Lose - Royal Trux
Halleluwah - Can
Its a Long Way To The Top - Lucinda Williams....
Maggot Brain - Eddie Hazel & Michael Hampton
Yunki - That sounds like something from a Bill Drummond novel. You have a disturbed mind.
[url=
Chameleons [i]Up the down escalator[/i][/url]
One of my favourite songs ever, ever, ever.
[url=
Child [i]The Four Horsemen[/i][/url]
Vangelis, Roussos and the mighty prog axe solo of the Apocalypse!