Your Top Ten Favorite Guitar Solos?

[Doc Safari]

My list:

1. Mick Taylor, The Rolling Stones, "Can't You Hear Me Knocking "
2. Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix Experience, "Third Stone from the Sun"
3. Jimi Hendrix, "Star Spangled Banner"
4. Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven"
5. Alex Lifeson, Rush, "Working Man"
6. Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, "Since I've Been Loving You"
7. Roger Fisher, Heart, "Magic Man"
8. Ritchie Blackmore, Deep Purple, "Highway Star"
9. Eric Clapton, Derek and the Dominoes, "Layla"
10. Don Felder, Joe Walsh, The Eagles, "Hotel California"

Honorable Mention: Eric Clapton, Cream, "Sunshine of Your Love" because the rhythm guitar part is more like a lead guitar part.

[markm]

I like a little heavier stuff.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji3DGejt4xc&list=RDji3DGejt4xc

[Phillygunguy]

My list no particular order
1 Van Halen eruption
2. Jimi Hendrix voodoo chile
3 Rush Alex Lifeson YYZ
4 Rush ... Free will
5 King Crimson Robert Fripp asbury park
6 Ozzy with Randy Rhodes I don't know
7 Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page No quarter
8 Yes Steve Howe the clap
9 Jeff Beck Freeway Jam
10 I'll add a jazz guitarist Pat Martino Impressions

[sandman99and9]

I like a little heavier stuff.



I am with you on this one, love Zakk Wylde and his guitar melting solos. Here is one of him ripping up a cover of Machine Gun Man on a crappy Epiphone guitar.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOPthyEtOmg


S.M.

[Outlander Systems]

http://youtu.be/yLkexyUNrT0

[Alex V]

1. Page - "Achilies Last Stand"
2. Page - "Stairway to Heaven"
3. Gilmour - "Comfortably Numb"
4. Slash - "November Rain"
5. Collins, and Rossington - "Free Bird"
6. Hammet - "One"
7. Clapton and Allman - "Layla"
8. Betts - "Jessica"
9. Page - "Dazed and Confused" but the live version with a violin bow
10. Van Halen - "Beat It"

[sandman99and9]

Another insane jam session with Zakk Wylde doing Voodoo Child


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1OGQQk5HpM

I grew up in the 80's so I have a love for all the guitar sounds from the late 70's to mid 80's or so.

I will have to think about who I would put on my list and what songs.


S.M.

[soulezoo]

Van Halen - Eruption
Ronnie Montrose - space station #5
Rush- Working Man
Page- Stairway
Page - dazed and confused
Montrose- bad motor scooter
Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner
AC/DC - Dirty deeds
Judas Priest- living after midnight
Nugent- stranglehold

[GTF425]

Tornado of Souls - Megadeth
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
Divinations - Mastodon (the whole song rules)
Gates of Babylon - Rainbow
The Sentinel - Judas Priest
Bark at the Moon - Ozzy
Nutshell - Alice In Chains
Mean Street - Van Halen
Over the Mountain - Ozzy

No particular order, but Tornado of Souls is #1.

[Averageman]

My list:

1. Mick Taylor, The Rolling Stones, "Can't You Hear Me Knocking "
2. Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix Experience, "Third Stone from the Sun"
3. Jimi Hendrix, "Star Spangled Banner"
4. Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven"
5. Alex Lifeson, Rush, "Working Man"
6. Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, "Since I've Been Loving You"
7. Roger Fisher, Heart, "Magic Man"
8. Ritchie Blackmore, Deep Purple, "Highway Star"
9. Eric Clapton, Derek and the Dominoes, "Layla"
10. Don Felder, Joe Walsh, The Eagles, "Hotel California"

Honorable Mention: Eric Clapton, Cream, "Sunshine of Your Love" because the rhythm guitar part is more like a lead guitar part.

I was listening to "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" on my way home from work, I ran in to an old friend and a cold beer and asked him, "Why did the Stones keep Keith Richards when they had Mick Taylor?" Taylor was a master, Richards, well, not so much.
My Friend agreed, but had no answer.

[soulezoo]

That is so hard to limit to ten.

I left out GnR, Metallica, Nirvana, Queen, the Who and more. Did not capture some of the listed artists better works (like Hendrix- Watchtower) How about Chuck Berry? I see Ozzy a few times and no Mr Crowley?

[SteyrAUG]

Kashmir.

[HKGuns]

As a guitar player I don't much appreciate the Metal hard stuff. I prefer stuff with more feeling.

Here are a few I would put up there, mostly obscure, not due solely to popularity.

Mark Knopfler: https://youtu.be/611Wxihk9vk?t=5m59s
Mark Knopfler: https://youtu.be/DYk2A-fTEHc?t=4m20s
Sonny Landreth: https://youtu.be/Pf2k7WpkIxQ?t=41s (Everything he plays is simply amazing this is just one example)
Roy Buchanon: https://youtu.be/deeBQZ8Aklc?t=2m9s
Neil Gerardo: https://youtu.be/0JRgHol94Xc?t=2m36s (This is extremely difficult to play well) he's surprisingly under rated

[26 Inf]

Blue Sky - Duane Allman
Layla - Clapton - Derek and the Dominos
Stairway to Heaven - Page
Stairway to Heaven - Joe Bonamassa
Anytime Joe Bonamassa picks up a guitar
Jessica - Dicky Betts
Reeling in the Years - Steely Dan - had to look up guitarist - Elliott Randall
Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Little Martha - Duane Allman

I hit a rough patch about 1974, busted myself up in an MC accident, new to the marriage thing and wasn't sure I'd made the right choice, I went to sleep every night with Eat A Peach on the cheap turn table playing both records. To this day Jessica, BLue Sky, Little Martha can take me to a happy place.

[tb-av]

1. Roys Bluz - Livestock - Roy Buchanan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9CpiJnvtI0 - if at any point that sounds like more than one man with one guitar.. it is not.
2. Down By The River - SweetDreams: The Anthology - Roy Buchanan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLhdS-8-YS8
3. Brown Sugar - ZZ Top First Album - Billy Gibbons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W8d8YIsDkk
4. The Width of A Circle - David Bowie Live - Mick Ronson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASitcSAk330
5. Brush with the Blues - Jeff Beck - Jeff Beck - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG5r6USvFHs put a guitar in his hands and you are going to hear one of the best solos you have ever heard.
6. Comfortably Numb - The Wall - David Gilmour - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Ht6WIhhmU
7. Baby's On Fire - Here come the Warm Jets ( Brian Eno ) - Robert Fripp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nItuhuY1U04
8. Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa with a guitar in his hands - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k18S91ZZMck

This is more solo guitar than guitar solo but extra credit for engaging the audience and playing along with them.
9. Three of A Perfect Pair - king Crimson - Adrian Belew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ758xfIK4I
10. Little Wing - Axis: Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix - looks like the Hendrix family has purged YouTube


--- and someone you wouldn't normally think of for a guitar solo --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DYC61HzmtM

[Campbell]

Tornado of Souls - Megadeth
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin
Divinations - Mastodon (the whole song rules)
Gates of Babylon - Rainbow
The Sentinel - Judas Priest
Bark at the Moon - Ozzy
Nutshell - Alice In Chains
Mean Street - Van Halen
Over the Mountain - Ozzy

No particular order, but Tornado of Souls is #1.

Saved me the trouble...spot on for me too👍
Would add anything SRV was playing when he was deep into it😎

[Phillygunguy]

#11 probably the greatest in my opinion
Allan Holdsworth

https://youtu.be/uJF5zB7YcXc

[Co-gnARR]

Just a few right off the top of my head:
Strangle Hold- Ted Nugent
Man in the Box- Alice in Chains
Cemetary Gates- Pantera (I think Dimebag said this was his greatest solo ever)

[daddyusmaximus]

Rocking is fine but top honors go to smoothness and subtlety.

1. Mark Knophler in "Brothers In Arms".
2. Don Felder & Joe Walsh in "Hotel California".
3. Whoever does those blues licks on the studio track of Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason". EDIT: Adam Levy, Great job man.

^^^ Top three in history right there.

4. Eddie VanHalen in "Eruption".
5. Mark Knophler in the Notting Hillbillies' "Feel Like Going Home".
6. Uncle Ted in "Strangehold".
7. Paige in "Stairway To Heaven".
8. Whoever is Lynyrd Skynyrd's Lead Guitar in "Simple Man".
9. Jimmy Thackery in "Cool Guitars".
10. Kenny Wayne Shepherd in "Blue On Black".

[tb-av]

3. Whoever does those blues licks on the studio track of Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason".

It may very well have been her. If not, it was Adam Levy.

ETA: here ya go...


Working with Norah Jones was just one experience in a string of elite gigs for Levy. A few years prior he had met Tracy Chapman, who invited him to play on her mid-’90s masterpiece, New Beginning. Levy’s guitar earns the limelight in the bluesy “Give Me One Reason,” which won Best Rock Song at the 1997 Grammy Awards.

[tb-av]

If you could have seen them do this live... it was quite a thing... hard to tell where the sax ended and the guitar began and vice versa. I've never heard anyone do it since.

It was mesmerizing ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLsXib4VFdA They just faded between the instruments so closely voiced. Danny Gatton was the ultimate in fun soloing. He wasn't just Jazz, Rock, he wasn't Metal, he wasn't Rockabilly... he was 'fun'. A total joy to listen to and watch. You really felt good after having seen him.

[Endur]

I am bad at remembering songs.

Here is a couple I do remember:

CCR - Suzie Q
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy
Metallica - Fade to Black
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

[Moose-Knuckle]

Whoa was that markm in GD?!



Yeah hard to nail down ten . . .

Here is one that I never tire of, Warren Haynes covering Neil Young's Cortez the Killer with Dave Mathews Live in NYC:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwgIn3vobag

[Straight Shooter]

Some of these came pretty quick- a few I had to study on a minute. In no order:
1. Pink Floyd-Fat Old Sun
2.Thin Lizzy-Cowboy Song
3. Joe Bonamassa- ANYTHING.
4.Ted Nugent-Fred Bear
5. Bob Seger- Like A Rock
6. The Knack- My Sharona
7. The Outlaws- Ghost Riders in the Sky
8.Boston-More Than A Feeling
9.The Cult-Wildflower
10. Night Ranger-Don't Tell Me You Love Me

[Spurholder]

Gary Moore...

Player of Les Pauls, and a Strat on occasion. Love his work.

Here's one of his only hits. He played with everybody, though, to include two iterations in Thin Lizzy.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_YMLDvvnw

[sva01]

Knopfler in Down to the Waterline.
Maybe not a full blown solo but the intro and the guitar throughout the whole song is one that sticks with me...

https://youtu.be/Lz1TlJGLzqs

[RazorBurn]

My top ten in no particular order.

Randy Rhoads - Suicide Solution w/solo - Ozzy "Tribute"
Randy Rhoads - Over The Mountain - Ozzy "Blizzard Of Ozz"
Jake E Lee - Bark At The Moon - Ozzy "Bark At The Moon"
George Lynch - Mr. Scary - Dokken "Back For The Attack"
George Lynch - When Darkness Calls - Lynch Mob "Lynch Mob"
Mark Kendall - House Of Broken Love - Great White "Twice Shy"
Mark Kendall - Mista Bone - Great White "Twice Shy"
Warren DeMartini and Robbin Crosby - Round And Round - Ratt "Out Of The Cellar"
Frank Hannon and Tommy Skeoch - Modern Day Cowboy - Tesla "Mechanical Resonance"
Eddie Van Halen - Mean Street - Van Halen "Fair Warning"

[ABNAK]

Jeff Beck in "People Get Ready" (about the only Rod Stewart song I can stomach).

Rainbow in "Since You've Been Gone".

[markm]

Another insane jam session with Zakk Wylde doing Voodoo Child


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1OGQQk5HpM

I grew up in the 80's so I have a love for all the guitar sounds from the late 70's to mid 80's or so.

I will have to think about who I would put on my list and what songs.


S.M.

Holy crap! That was impressive.

[docsherm]

One of my all time favorites.

https://youtu.be/WaLX_DoGp20

[1_click_off]

While my guitar gently weeps. Prince steals the show in it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

[sniperfrog]

The White Stripes at the 2004 Grammys. Jack White played Seven Nation Army right into Death Letter using his beat up 1950s Kay hollow body.

[ABNAK]

I also like the one by Nazareth in "Love Hurts".

[RazorBurn]

George Lynch is one of my all time favorites. This is some real sick stuff!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbCB5xxIUUI

[1_click_off]

Steve Vai is another good one.

[tb-av]

Here's someone probably most don't know. He can really play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCq4TwUUti8


and here two for the price of one.. Robben Ford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te9gu-hmGzg


Here's another I'm sure you've never heard of. This guy used to play guitar then was the bass player in a local jazz band out of VCU. He would steal the show every night with "Bassballs". The band was Secrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYmf1LJg8V8&list=PL36152F30C8644C2E --- stay tuned to the end.


another Two-fer...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeJHnkUKg_M

... and a side line acknowledgement as to how important Vince Gill is to American music and guitar playing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5qdfTIrOw8

Johnny used to walk on stage and say "How ya'll doin'" then proceed to take your head off for about two hours. His shows were a guitar solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lALDoqbT7Rs

[Moose-Knuckle]

Roy Clarke ****'n kills it . . .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFfB2JQmTCs

[elephant]

1. John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) - Every single solo on every single album AND every single live intro/outro jam
2. Jimi Hendrix (Band of Gypsies) - Machine Gun
3. Gary "Dirty Mugg" James (Bootsy Collins New Rubber Band) - Night of the Thumpasorus People - Live in Tokyo 1995
4. David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) - Comfortably Numb
5. David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) - Have a Cigar
6. Chris DeGarmo (Queensryche) - Jet City Woman
7. Van Halen (Van Halen) - Humans Being
8. Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) - Alive
9. Dimebag Darrell (Pantera) - Cemetery Gates
10. Stephen Shockley (Lakeside) - Fantastic Voyage

[RazorBurn]

1. John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) - Every single solo on every single album AND every single live intro/outro jam
2. Jimi Hendrix (Band of Gypsies) - Machine Gun
3. Gary "Dirty Mugg" James (Bootsy Collins New Rubber Band) - Night of the Thumpasorus People - Live in Tokyo 1995
4. David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) - Comfortably Numb
5. David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) - Have a Cigar
6. Chris DeGarmo (Queensryche) - Jet City Woman
7. Van Halen (Van Halen) - Humans Being
8. Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) - Alive
9. Dimebag Darrell (Pantera) - Cemetery Gates
10. Stephen Shockley (Lakeside) - Fantastic Voyage

DeGarmo always had tasty phrasing, and Dimebag is awesome! To me, Queensryche died when DeGarmo left.

[GTF425]

George Lynch is one of my all time favorites.

Even better from Mr Scary...


https://youtu.be/pQSobhEO_FU

[Outlander Systems]

Solo @ 3:00


http://youtu.be/0jgrCKhxE1s

[Firefly]

Anything by Stevie Ray Vaughn

Stairway

Randy Rhoads(pbuh) Suicide Solution

Respect the Wind by Van Halen. Man Twister was a good movie but I remember people sneaking in at the end credits JUST to hear Respect the Wind.

and like him or hate him Ted Nugent's Stranglehold.

[RazorBurn]

Even better from Mr Scary...


https://youtu.be/pQSobhEO_FU

Cool. Thanks for sharing! He can do it live too. Saw him back in 2005, and I was blown away at the harmonics he gets. He's cool as hell too! Warren DeMartini's another one of my favorites and he was cool as could be too.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y194/Razor24/Concert%20Pics/LynchandRay12-2-2005-1.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/Razor24/media/Concert%20Pics/LynchandRay12-2-2005-1.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y194/Razor24/Concert%20Pics/RattHOB7-11-05Demartini1.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/Razor24/media/Concert%20Pics/RattHOB7-11-05Demartini1.jpg.html)

[Straight Shooter]

Solo @ 3:00


http://youtu.be/0jgrCKhxE1s

WOW! Im plum wore out just watching that...AWESOME!!!

[Outlander Systems]

Those dudes ruined power metal as a genre.

You can't beat it. There's nowhere left to take it. It can't be outdone.


WOW! Im plum wore out just watching that...AWESOME!!!

[firefighter37]

As a guitar player I don't much appreciate the Metal hard stuff. I prefer stuff with more feeling.

Here are a few I would put up there, mostly obscure, not due solely to popularity.

Mark Knopfler: https://youtu.be/611Wxihk9vk?t=5m59s
Mark Knopfler: https://youtu.be/DYk2A-fTEHc?t=4m20s
Sonny Landreth: https://youtu.be/Pf2k7WpkIxQ?t=41s (Everything he plays is simply amazing this is just one example)
Roy Buchanon: https://youtu.be/deeBQZ8Aklc?t=2m9s
Neil Gerardo: https://youtu.be/0JRgHol94Xc?t=2m36s (This is extremely difficult to play well) he's surprisingly under rated
I was waiting to see how long it would take for someone to mention Mark Knopfler, I think he is one of the best guitarists of all time.

[orionz06]

Comfortably Numb... Not sure anything else comes close.


Hotel California might but it would take third with the Pulse version of CN and The Wall album version being 1-2.




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[Redhat]

In no particular order:

Steve Lukather - Lionel Richie - Running With the Night
Steve Stevens - Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Eric Clapton - Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Albert Lee - Rosanne Cash - My Baby Thinks He's a Train
Neal Shon - Journey - Stone in Love
Billy Gibbons - ZZ Top - LaGrange
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Eddie Van Halen - Mean Streets
Jerry Reed - Georgia On My Mind
Lynyrd Skynyrd - I Know a Little

Honorable Mentions:

Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me
Eagles - Hotel California
Blackfoot - Fox Chase / Train Train / Highway Song

Pretty much anything from Stevie Ray Vaughan but one of my favs is more of a jazz tune - Riviera Paradise

[brickboy240]

Steve Vai's "Fire Garden Suite" and Joe Satriani's "Crushing Day" come to mind.

[jmp45]

EJ, Cliffs of Dover.. Drop mic...;)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15eu7ar5EKM

[Spurholder]

EJ, Cliffs of Dover.. Drop mic...;)

Nah. Close, but nah.

Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways Live. Mic officially dropped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G-fK9HDEeg

[JackFanToM]

Mr. Scary by George Lynch has to be the best guitar solo ever

[daddyusmaximus]

Framptom's Do You Feel Like We do?