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
Jerry Garcia, Hard to Handle from 08-06-1971

Kieth Richards & Mick Taylor, Sympathy for the Devil from Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! In my humble pinion, Mick outshines Keith. 

Allen Collins, Free Bird live at Knebworth, 1976. 

Peter Green & Danny Kirwan - Rattlesnake Shake live in Boston, 1970.
Albert Lee on "Country Boy".

Amos Garrett on Maria Muldaur's hit "Midnight At The Oasis".

Jerry Douglas on anything he plays on. 
Perhaps not the greatest of all time, yet definitely on the top 100 list. 
Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads - Tribute album. 
Song - Crazy Train
Many of us know the classic rock staples, so I will add something from the 21st century...
Avenged Sevenfold-Hail To The King(2013)
@tablejockey The Kiseki Blue NS is the best cartridge I own, or at least my favorite to listen to.  I bought mine at a significant discount from seller kron here.
Rock Guitar: I nominate Kim Thayil of Soundgarden. Song: Far Beyond The Wheel. HARD 🅰️💲💲
big_greg-

Thanks for heads up. The internet is great, I now have something to watch during dinner now!

Currently using another Kiseki Blue by the way. Remindedme of how great it is, especially for what I purchased it for.
@tablejockey If you haven't already seen it, there's a really cool documentary about the making of Aja and they talk a lot about how they chose different musicians to bring different things to the table on different songs.
I usually don’t bump old threads, but since it’s guitar solos’s I couldn’t resist.

bdp24 always has great nominees.

"Many Steely Dan records have a lot of hidden gems in terms of guitar solos."

big_greg-
As a fan of SD up to maybe Aja- ALL the guitar solos are fantastic!
The great Denny Dias does most, but SD always had epic session players including Jeff(Skunk) Baxter-Doobie Brothers who did "Rikki"

An EPIC SD solo by Denny Dias is -Bohdisattva(Countdown to Ecstacy)
Classic call and response between guitar and the other musicians.

A truly good guitar solo or on any instrument is the musician telling a story. There are a many "shred" nomineess listed here, but many of them are just noodling away with technique and no substance-IMO.

A solo is like an essay-intro, body and close. Most shredders are guilty of too much technical flash-boring.


The great Larry Carlton is another SD session player who did Josie.


Many Steely Dan records have a lot of hidden gems in terms of guitar solos.  I say hidden, because when you think of Steely Dan, you don't typically think of them as a guitar band and the guitar solos are usually a little further back in the mix, but listen to Rikki Don't Lose That Number or Night by Night on Pretzel Logic.  The solo from Reelin' In the Years is one of my favorites ever.
“Eric Clapton - Let It Rain”

Without a doubt - goosebumps every time I hear this one.

Duane Allman early on in Mountain Jam is also astonishing. 
Michael schenker. Rick derringer has some wicked solos!

 Also Johnny winter, and a lot of blues songs have wicked solos!

Megadeth, tornado of souls

dragomforce has great solos as well.

 Judas Priest, 

 so many more!


Absolutely love a great shredding guitar solo!

  Malmsteen has some, but they are too short. 
 Gary Moore has a lot! Live “we want Moore” has some very good solos!

 Flying high again (ozzy) randy Rhodes solo. It should be 3 minutes longer! 
Paul Gilbert solos are amazing.
   This is a good read.......

 list more rock, metal solos!

  OOOHHH!,!   Uriah heep, the magicians birthday I love!
great solo!

 List more rock and metal solos!

  Modelo in the brain, can’t think now.....
Ry Cooder's little solo on John Hiatt's "Lipstick Sunset". I am fortunate enough to have heard him perform it live (as a member of Little Village, same lineup as on the recording: John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, Kim Keltner), and though I have seen and heard a lot of greats live (Albert King, Mike Bloomfield, Clapton, Jeff Beck, Hendrix, Robben Ford, hundreds of others), Ry is in a class of his own.
Shout out for Craig Chaquico on Jefferson Starship  “Ride The Tiger”. 
Apron Strings - John Entwistle, Whistle Rhymes: solo by Peter Frampton
Musical Box - Genesis, Nursery Cryme: solo by Steve Hackett
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin I: solo by Jimmy Page
Nevermore - UK: solo by Allan Holdsworth
Aqualung - Jethro Tull, Aqualung: solo by Martin Barre
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Beatles, White Album: solo by Eric Clapton
Crossroads - Cream, Wheels of Fire: solo by Eric Clapton
Something - Beatles, Abbey Road: solo by George Harrison
Dogs - Pink Floyd, Animals: solo by David Gilmour
Money - Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon: solo by David Gilmour
Mark Knopfler: Tunnel of Love, Telegraph Road, In The Gallery and pretty much everything else he plays. Never get tired of it.
I nearly forgot the guitar army Outlaws and "Ghost Riders in the Sky"
Hughie Thomasson & Billy Jones

Thanks for the Music RIP
First one that I remember was Sunshine of Your Love by Crean(Clapton) .I still love cranking it to this day.
Mick Box on "Salisbury" - simply the best wah-wah sound
Buck Dharma on "Then Came the Last Days of May" both studio and live ´cos the sounds are way different, both brilliant anyway
Mick Box on "The Magician´s Birthday" terrific wah-wah and so many
Buck Dharma on "Dominance and Submission" the best clean and "The Reaper" and so many
Clem Clempson on "Skelington" live terrific wah-wah work
Jimi Hendrix on "All Along the Watchtower" his finest
David Gilmour on "One of the Days"
Martin Barre on "Aqualung"
Steve Hackett on "Firth of Fifth" + all early Genesis all sublime work really, and he´s still performing old Genesis stuff (have seen and heard)
Steve Howe on "America"
Jimmy Page on "Since I've Been Loving You" and "Stairway to Heaven" 
Leslie West especially when with other guitarist as heard on "Twin Peaks"
Carlos Santana so many say "Europa"
Ritchie Blackmore on "Made in Japan"
Frank Marino on "It´s Begun to Rain"
Albert Järvinen on "Roadrunner" and "High"
Bill Nelson of Be-Bop Deluxe so many just sublime work
Alex Lifeson on "La Villa Strangiato"
Michael Schenker on "Into the Arena"
Andrew Latimer on "Ice"
Joe Satriani on "Surfing with Alien" + so many
Django Reinhardt
Bela Fleck (actually his playing mandolin ; )
Al di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco de Lucia on "Friday Night in San Francisco" the Masters at work
Rodolfo Maltese on "Moby Dick live " RIP
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
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.
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....
Exo, I didn't know anyone would mention such a gem as "Fat Old Sun." It just builds, doesn't it?
"Take Five," George Benson
"Comfortably Numb," Dave Gilmour
"Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape," Bill Nelson
"Voodoo Child," Jimi Hendrix
"Sweet Jane," Steve Hunter (with Lou Reed)
"Stinkfoot," Frank Zappa
"Since I've Been Loving You," Jimmy Page
Jay Farrar on Chickamauga - the mountain crumbling, earth shattering solo starts at 02:05

The greatest singer/songwriter/guitar "strangler" to ever live
then you must have heard Dimebag Darrells solo on song "Floods" on great southern trendkill album...
Joe Satriani have nice solos on his albums, specially the song with Tarja (ex nightwish)
Phasecorrect, You may be interested in The New Tony Williams Lifetime (album) "Believe It". Very heavy duty!
George Benson and Alan Holdsworth had been mentioned, (I agree) otherwise, have any of this thread's contributers heard of jazz?
enjoying zappa's "shut up and play yer guitar" - 3 discs - lots of terrific solos.
Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter on Aerosmiths "Train kept a rollin" and Earl Slick's solo on "Moonage Daydream" on David Bowies, DAVID LIVE record. Just to name
a couple for me.