A few choice Steely Dan cuts:
Larry Carlton's guitar solos on Kid Charlemagne and Don't take me alive
Elliot Randall's guitar solo from Reeling in the Years |
How about: "Are you going with me" Pat Metheney Group, and Steve Hackett on "Everyday" and "Firth of Fifth". Mwilson-that must be the first Hawkwind plug I've ever seen at this site (from a closet fan). |
Eric Clapton, "Go back Home" on Stephen Stills album entitled Stephen Stills. |
Hey, great responses Folks. I spent the majority of last evening playing many of the solos that you all had mentioned. I don't doubt that many of you ended up doing the same. This morning I walked out into my living room only to find LPs and CDs strewn all over the place.
Many of you are correct in stating "It's so hard to pick just one or two". And I seem to always forget about Zappa. Where is my head? Man, that guy could play guitar. I have over 30 of his LPs all the way back to "Just Another Band From LA". This also gave me the opportunity to listen to some other stuff I hadn't listened to in years.
53 responses in less than 18 hours. I guess this proves that once again, "It's all about the music". No matter how intensely involved we get with our equipment.
Thanks to everyone. And keep em' coming. I've got nuthin' better to do again tonight. Ed.
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Donald Roeser (B.O.C) - Cities On Flame (with Rock N Roll)
Stevie Ray - Little Wing
David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb
Buckethead - Big Sur Moon |
Dave Meniketti, On the Blue Side -Just picked up this cd and it is worth a listen. Some very good guitar work. |
This one started it all for me - now I can't get enough of him or Steve Kimock.
Kinda funny, but I don't think I saw a single reference to Carlos Santana in the posts above - just listened to Moonflower (LP) yesterday and it blew me away, again. |
Sorry, previous post got messed up - I was referring to John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service) doing the "Who Do You Love Suite" from the Happy Trails album - sublime!! |
Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing." |
"Blue Incantation" Sanjay Mishra and Jerry Garcia
"You Don't Love Me" Allman Bros. "Fillmore"
"NRPS" New Riders Of The Purple Sage |
Rlwainwright: I've always been partial to QMS's "Mona". |
Nice to see someone else mentioning the perenially underrated Ritchie Blackmore. Off the top of my head, here are two goodies:
Blackmore on "Gates of Babylon" from Rainbow's Long Live Rock 'n' Roll.
Vinnie Zummo (I think) on "Evil Empire" from Joe Jackson's Blaze of Glory.
Bonus goodie: Tommy Bolin on "Savannah Woman" from Teaser. |
Peter Frampton playing that excellent solo at the end of "Apron Strings" from John Entwistle's 70s' album Whistle Rhymes. |
Divid Gilmour on "Comfortably Numb". I can never turn it up loud enough! |
Jack Williams, "Waterbug" from the album "Across The Winterline" |
The Edge's solo on "One". I love the minimal approach that he uses, but with so much feeling and attack. Also, Keith Richards' solo on "Love In Vain". |
Johnny Winter - Life is Hard
Jimmy Hendrex - Machine Gun
Melvin Taylor - almost anything
Jimmy Bryant - almost anything
Guitar Shorty - I Wonder Who's Sleeping In My Bed |
Rather than repeat those already nominated, I'll put in a pitch for the Dickey Betts/Duane Allman solo on "Blue Sky." |
Jeff Beck - Beck's Bolero (Truth)
Ronnie Montrose - Town without Pity (Open Fire)
Eric Clapton - Layla (Derek & the Dominoes) |
Eric Clapton - "Crossroads" w. Cream (Wheels of Fire"
Jimmy Page - "I can't quit you babe" - Zep's 1st
Tom Verlaine - "Marquee Moon" - Televison
Jerry Garcia - "China Cat Sunflower" - G.D. Europe'72
Mike Bloomfield - "Really" - Supersession
Jerry Miller - "Can't be so bad" Moby Grape - WOW
John Cipollina - "Who do you love" Quicksilver Messengers S. |
John Sykes- Crying in the Rain off Whitesnake 87'. Incredible! For sheer dexterity, this one can't be topped.
Steve Vai- The Attitude Song.
Paul Gilbert- Live solo. 1 million notes a minute, originator of the drill technique.
George Lynch- Mr. Scary. |
Wanna wear horse hair underwear? Swear to a life of celibacy...pick one favorite guitar solo? Hey Buscis, y'know, i tried for a couple of minutes, but asking for that is just being MEAN! Anyway, here's a few more good ones (in no particular order):
John Abercrombie, Timeless, Backwoods Song, Cosmic Chicken
Richie Kotzen, Acid Lips, Electric Toy, Slow Blues
Jim Thomas (Mermen), With No Definite Future...
Greg Howe, Direct Injection, Land Of The Ladies
Ron Thal, Scrapie, Blue Tongue, Q Fever
Zoot Horn Rollo, Peon, Veterans Day Poppy, Big Eyed Beans...
Tsuneo Imahori (Tipographica) Prositute Robot
Thurston Moore, Blues From Beyond The Grave
Toto Blanke, Ladies Bicycle Seat Sniffer
David Fiuczynski, The Quest
Ares Tavolazzi (Area), Nervi Scoperti
Christy Doran, B&D
Reeves Gabrels, McCarthy At The Levee, I can't Read
Jan Akkerman, Eruption, Hocus Pocus, Wrestling to Get Out
Michael Hedges, Rickover's Dream, Sofa
Jurgen Havix (Kollektiv) Rambo Zambo
Nels Cline, The Darkness Of Each Endless Fall
Frantisek Griglak (Fermata) Perpetuum II
Larry Coryell, Treats Style, Stiff Neck, Jam w/Albert
Charles Bullen (This Heat) Rimp Romp Ramp
Steve Khan, Penetration
Peter Wollbrandt (KRAAN!!!) Holiday am Marterhorn (Live 74)
Hendrix, Pali Gap, Little Wing (Winterland), All Along the Watchtower...
Michael Karoli (Can) Vernal Equinox, Gomorrah, Chain Reaction
Radim Hladik (Blue Effect) The whole "Benefit" album
Leo Kottke, Three/Quarter North
Kackie King, Blue Moon
Terje Rypdal, Ornen, Chaser, Silver Bird is Heading For the Sun
Sylvain Luc, Night In Tunisia
David Torn, Guinea, Bandaged By Dreams, Angle of Incidents
Allan Holdsworth, Last May, Velvet Darkness, Gattox, Letters of Marque, Where is One, Strangeher...
Ax Generich (Guru Guru), Der Elektolurch, Oxymoron
Ollie Hallsall (Patto) Money Bag
Zeno Sparkles (Good God) A Murder of Crows
John McLaughlin, Dance of the Maya, Purpose of When, Follow Your Heart
John Etheridge (Wolf), Saturation Point
Danny Gatton, Tradgedy, Harlem Nocturn
Robert Fripp, Asbury Park
Fred Frith (Massacre), Ladder
Roy Gaines, Okie Dokie Stomp
Tony McPhee, Grey Maze, Split
Donald Roeser, Anwar's Theme, Last Days of May
Frank Zappa, Get a Little Orange Co. Lumber Truck, Zoot Allures, Son Of Mr. Green Genes, Easter in Watermelon Hay, Muffin Man...
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-I think Bill Kirchen is Mr. Hot Rod Lincoln.
-Kinda doubt that William Ackerman is related to Jan Akkerman (too bad both of em' are so stale now) |
jeff baxter- my old school-on steely dan lp
eric clapton-in the presence of the lord-blind faith
jimi hendrix-all along the watchtower
carlos santana-too many to list
frank zappa-my guitar's going to kill your mama |
Here are my three favorite solo's:
Jimi Hendrix Live in Winterland - Red House
Steve Vai (actually Whitesnake) - Wings of the storm
Joe Satriani, from Not of this earth - Memories
Actually, Jimi Hendrix was the reason I started playing guitar, and Steve Vai the reason I quit...... |
Robert Fripp on Brian Eno's "Baby's on Fire" off of the album "Here Come the Warm Jets". |
My favorites the same as Pug's. |
Billy Gibbons ZZ Top "Blue Jean Blues"
Carlos Santana too many to list. |
The lead in "Highway Star" by Deep Purple has to be one of the best ever. |
Clapton - the bit at the end of Cream's live version of "Sitting on Top of the World." A few seconds long, but absolutely incendiary. |
Great responses, but I did not see any Eddie Van Halen votes? With the continuing mediocrity of the current Van Halen config, his legend seems to be diminishing. But the guy is really a brilliant musician.
I'm going to go out on a limb and put the into to "Hot for Teacher" up for consideration. Not just speed, but inventiveness, and creating a whole new sound.
After that, I'm onboard with Roger Waters on "Comfortably Numb". Great licks. |
Duane Alllman and Eric Clapton at the end of Layla. |
Duane Allman on "Loan Me a Dime" from Boz Scaggs first album. the rythm accompaniment on it is pretty right on too.
(sorry if someone already said this . . I didn't spot it above) |
Actually, I would put Duane Allman's collective solos up against probably anyone else. He may not have been the fastest, the loudest, or the flashiest but he always played it right. That's something that many, maybe even most guitarist, just don't get. |
Sorry I read it as solos
David Gilmour's solo on "Dogs" from Animals.
Peter Frampton's solo on "Apron Strings" from John Entwistle's Whistle Rhymes.
Kirk Hammett's solos on "The Four Horsemen" from
Metallica's Kill 'em All.
Jimi on "VC-Slight Return" from Electric Ladyland.
Clapton on "Crossroads" from Wheels of Fire |
I don't really like guitar solos, but I love a great guitar line woven into the fabric of a great song. Listen to the guitar line on "I've Had Enough" from Quadrophenia just before Pete sings "my jacket's gonna be cut slim and checked..." or the absolutely brilliant work of Dave Davies on the Kinks album "Sleepwalker", particularly on the title track, "Juke Box Music", and "Life Goes On". That's fantastic stuff.
Cheers. |
Billy Corgan-"Mayonaise" or "Geek USA" |
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Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing from the "Hendrix in the West" British Polydor pressing. Cleanest recording of Hendrix ever. Also the most lyrical, powerful, precise, AND concise electric guitar solo ever recorded. SVR and Clapton payed homage Jimi's Little Wing for a reason. Jimi's solo was the greatest! |
Clapton - Live version of Crossroads |
Listened to Terry Kath's performance on 25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago 2) last night on DVD-A. Forgot how good he was. |
Jeff Baxter: "My Old School" and just about anything Stephen Stills did. |
Do the Dew, Frank Zappa from the Lather album.
Chris |
Too many great solos out there to have one favorite IMO. To add one of my favorites- Ten Years After, Alvin Lee: I'd Love To Change the World. |
Here are the ones that jumped into my head:
Jeff Beck - The Final Peace (off of There and Back) (as a huge Beck fan, I think anything by JB is outstanding)
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing (The Sky is Crying)
Arthur Adams - Sagg Shootin' His Arrow (Root Down, by Jimmy Smith)
Mark Knopfler - Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits)
David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (The Wall) |
1a. Jimmy Page "Stairway to Heaven"
1b. Jimi Hendrix "Voodoo Chile Slight Return"
1c. Eric Clapton "Crossroads" live |
Tony Rice, Neon Tetra...an acoustic masterpiece |
Al DiMeola, Paco De Lucia, John McLaughlin in Mediterranean Sundance/Rio Ancho from Friday Night In San Francisco.
I don't know about superlatives, but this is one amazing 11.5 minute pure guitar piece. |
Garcia - 1965-1995, but my favorite is from an audience recording of the Jerry Garcia Band, 6/16/82, "Catfish John."
Your ears will melt right off your head..
I'll make B&P copies of this show for the first 3 people who e-mail me. |
Django- Nuage
Hendrix- Little Wing
Clapton (Derek and The Dominoes)- Nobody Knows You When Your down and Out
Django- Swing guitars
Alvin Lee (Ten Years After at Woodstock)- I'm Going Home |
Steve Howe in the cover of America by Paul Simon.... |
