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Guitar Solos

As a serious music listener and a musician,(although I am a drummer) nothing makes me shiver like a good guitar solo. It's seems to be a dying art,at least in popular music. Still lots of good guitar in blues and jazz. Some of my favs : Dear John by Jack Semple ,La Grange By Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Aqualung By Martin Barre with Jethro Tull and Bluest Blues by Alvin Lee. I'd love to check out some other peoples favs, a couple old and maybe a couple new??
billbeat
exocet954
98 posts
 
David Gilmour, "Fat Old Sun" on "Live in Gdansk".
donbagley
25 posts
 
Exo, I didn't know anyone would mention such a gem as "Fat Old Sun." It just builds, doesn't it?
exocet954
98 posts
 
Donbagley,

Gilmour's solos are works of art. Fat Old Sun being a hidden gem now given new life on Live in Gdansk. Side 2 is all really good. Also check out Raise My Rent on Gilmour's
first solo remastered CD....
bigkidz
3,388 posts
 
As a geetarist, my favorite guitar solo was by George Harrison on Something. Clapton on While my guitar gently weeps. I also really like Steely Dan, Reelin' in the years - Elliott Randall and all of the solos that Elliot Easton did for the Cars, plus most of all of the above.
martykl
3,578 posts
 
A recent addition for blues-rock types is the CD called "Todd Rundgren's Johnson". It's a disc of Robert Johnson covers and Todd simply smokes on this one. He hasn't been doing this kind of stuff since The Nazz and the long lay off seems to have really stoked the intensity. He plays it reasonably straight (other than a very modern lead tone) but makes the familiar material entirely his own.

Marty
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