Wayne Hussey, Sisters Of Mercy, Knocking On Heaven's Door - 3:40 in
or maybe Marshall Gill doing the intro to Vagabonds:
Marc Ford on The Black Crowes 2nd and 3rd albums, Southern Harmony and Amorica.
Not convinced that's gonna work...anyway Wilco, Impossible Germany. Class act and a great solo.
I should have more faith !
Vai: For the love of god
Kirk Hammetts solo at the end of "the struggle within" on Metallica's black album is ace...
Zappa, Yo Mama... as on the Jonny Dawes Stone Monkey vid, climbing in the Llanberis quarries...
love this from two of my favourites. Great Rock blues.
Dinosaur Jr - Get Me - from four minutes in - effortless and tuneful soloing!
Here also but a bit different live:
Nils Lofgren on "Youngstown"
Ritchie Blackmore goes pretty insane on some of the Rainbow albums live in Japan.
Dire Straits "Once upon a time in the West"
another Neil Young: "Powderfinger"
Mike Bloomfield
Al Kooper "Season of the witch"
Yes anything by Dinosaur Jr, or try J mascis doing Maggot Brain, or Cortez the Killer with Buffalo Tom
Prepare for your jaw to drop to the floor:
Pearl Jam, Evenflow.
Angus Young, Let There Be Rock, live in Paris.
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Firstly for the solo in One in a Million
Secondly for the soulful cover of Ain't in Fun of the Spaghetti Incident
Slither from the Velvet Revolver days
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Well for pretty much anything but I do really like Touch too Much
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Strange World
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All along the watchtower (already mentioned)
Too many to mention really. Guitars are ace.
Machine Head - Aesthetics of Hate \m/
Radiohead - Just
and Paranoid Android
A bit different to the rest of this thread, but one of my absolute favorite solos.
A lad I use to play rugby with keeps posting this on Facebook when he has has a sherbet too many, and the solo from 4:10 is growing on me:
Some excellent slide guitar.
Prepare yourself for some serious guitar playing that will tug at your heart strings. No words necessary.
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Randy Rhodes was a genius- technically brilliant but he knew when to fret**** and when not to. Something sadly not that common, most guitarists seem to think more notes is always better. Quite a lot of the suggestions in this thread just do nowt for me.
Favourite of mine...
Solo starts at 3 minutes, play it in from 2.45. Don't really like the vibrato but otherwise, love it.
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La Villa Strangiato.
OK, so solo aside, it has everything. But what a solo! Actually, musically overall, just wow.
Gob smacked no one has mentioned Andy Timmons yet. Or Adrian Legg for that matter. Or Mattias Eklund or Paul Gilbert.
Nuno Bettencourts solo in Get The Funk Out is probably the greatest solo of all time IMHO or maybe Brian May on It's Late. Both utterly perfect for the song.
Good call. Nuno's a very, very talented axe-wrangler.
See also - Fret****ing to teh max! The Flight of the wounded bumble bee, as an intro...
Two guitar greats playing together and what a classic track to enjoy:
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Nobody's mentioned Eric Johnson yet
Or Thomas Blug the Strat King of Europe
billy corgans playing on the Siamese dream album especially still amazes me.
The intro from this -
Also inkeeping with the "Queen" theme
Also, anything from The Smashing Pumpkins or Metallica obviously 😉
Ooh, and "Baker Street"! Specially the Foos' version
The Knack - My Sharona. The full length solo is awesome and it's so much fun to play! Used to do it in the old cover band and everyone loved the solo which is unusual because most people in bars just want the rest of the song to carry back on 😆
Randy's solo in Goodbye To Romance (either recorded or live) is always great.
Anything by Dime was incredible.
Love the solo in this as well
QOTSA yes!! The solo from little sister then too.
Not really a solo:
Good times by the Roses
Great call on Nuno (always loved that every member of Extreme was noticably talented, except Paul Geary, who presumably owned a van.
Nils Lofgren has been mentioned, but here's one of his songs, that I absolutely love to bits! The whole song has outstanding playing on it, almost one entire solo. Enjoy!
Santana - Oye Como Va
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers with Clapton - Key To Love
Van Halen - Eruption
+1 to a lot of the Zep, Hendrix, Floyd, Neil, and SRV above.
One of my favorite guitar players is Lindsey Buckingham. The last song on the self titled Fleetwood Mac album is "I'm So Afraid." Lots of great giitar solo time in that one! Give it a listen...
Oh, and he plays bluegrass style as well. No guitar pick.
Not technically brilliant like other suggestions, but full marks for composition IMHO.
Noel Gallagher for Live Forever & Importance of Being Earnest
I quite like Teppei Teranishi of Thrice...
