Yeah, like you said it might not be a solo but it is still good. I guess I appreciate the 25 or 6 to 4 solo more because it doesn't really repeat where as the Freebird duo or whatever sounds like a big part of it is just a bunch of hammer-ons and pull-offs. But whatever, it's all good music.
Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page) - "The Song Remains The Same" & "The Rain Song" live at Madison Square Garden 1973. Pink Floyd (David Gilmour) - "Time" & "Money" from Dark Side Of The Moon. Both guitar solos on those songs are as equally impressive as "Comfortably Numb". Yes (Steve Howe) - "Yours Is No Disgrace" live at the Rainbow Theatre, December 1972. Jefferson Airplane (Jorma Kaukonen) - "Uncle Sam's Blues" & "Somebody To Love" live at Woodstock. "The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil" & "Eskimo Blue Day" live at Winterland Theatre, December 1969. The Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia) - "Dark Star" from Live/Dead. George Harrison, Eric Clapton, & Jesse Ed Davis - "Wah Wah", "My Sweet Lord", and "Beware Of Darkness" from the Concert for Bangladesh. Badfinger (Pete Ham, Joey Molland) - "No Matter What" & "Day After Day". Pete plays the really heavy rhythm guitar and Joey plays the George Harrison-like slide guitar.
i wouldn't call it a solo but the intro to King Crimson's "Heartbeat" is my favourite peice of guitar, it's like so cool, just a few short notes played through fripp's strange noise machines.. or how about the whole of "Ceremony" By Satch *kisses* Drew
Some of my favourites off the top of my head.. Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin Have You Heard - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers The Stumble - Freddie King Sitting On Top Of The World - Cream Need Your Love So Bad - Fleetwood Mac Roy's Bluz - Roy Buchanan 'Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck Tin Pan Alley - Stevie Ray Vaughan Brighton Rock - Queen Rat Tomago - Frank Zappa I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Eddie Hazel .. Scotty Moore's leads in the early Elvis material also appeal to me greatly. :H
I have to agree with Jim, of course, 'cuz Since I've Been Loving You just does it for me like no other guitar solo. It's so incredibly sexy and the talent just gets to ooze out of Mr. Page as he plays. Beautiful. Another one, though not comparable to, is the solo from Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughn. It's just got so much heart and soul in it. Just really gets my emotions, I guess.
Comfortably Numb(off Pulse)-Pink Floyd Stairway to Heaven-Led Zeppelin Coming Home-Lynyrd Skynyrd 1 band though that has alot of great guitars in almost every song, and is not incredibly famous-Thin Lizzy.
Almost any brian may solo. Slash - Sweet Child O' Mine REO Speedwagon - 157 Riverside Avenue (I personally think Dave Amato was better than Gary Richrath on solos on this one) Voodoo Chile - Stevie Ray Vaughan version Any solo Derek Trucks (allman brothers band) or Warren Hayes (allman bros, gov't mule) has ever done... Johnny Winter (that man doesn't waste a note) There's really way too many to list... umm.. I have to say Stephen Stills on Carry On also...
Jimi Hendrix's Purple haze solo that goes into that long instrumental afterwards when he played it at woodstock after voodoo child and the star spangled banner>>>>The most unbelievable thing I've heard on guitar ever!!! Oh yeah Almost forgot the solo from Blackened by Metallica! OMFG!!!!
Any hendrix, pink floyd any of the solos, don't think twice it's all right by Bob Dylan, Stair way to heaven. Maybe not "the best" but my favorites.
Yours Is No Disgrace by Yes (The Yes Album) has about two minutes of guitar perfection that starts with a funky wah bit and goes through four or five changes of tone, technique and meaning until the vocals resume. This was Steve Howe's first song with Yes and maybe he felt he had to let everyone know just whose presence they were in. (The) Clap, also from The Yes Album. An ecstatic solo guitar piece that Howe wrote the night his first son was born. If you think you are a good guitarist then go ahead, just try to play it . . . are you humbled yet? Machine Gun by Jimi Hendrix (Band of Gypsies) The story I heard was this - after doing the first show of a two night, four show run, Jimi came off stage and asked Bill Graham (the owner of the Fillmore) what he thought. Graham let him have it. He told Jimi he was wasting his talent, that his stage antics - playing with his teeth, behind his head, rolling around on the floor, etc - were causing his music to suffer. Pissed off by Graham's remarks, Jimi did the next show standing still and focusing only on playing the music. The result is . . . sublime. Jimi was on a different plane of existence on this one. This is the best song from that show. Layover by Michael Hedges (Breakfast In The Field) O.K., everything on this album is . . . otherworldly beautiful. In the hands of Michael Hedges, the guitar became a whole new instrument. He was to the accoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric. I saw him play at Oberlin College in 1990. If you took a quick look around the room, you knew instantly who were the guitarists in the audience. They were the ones with their jaws on the floor. Dazed And Confused by Led Zeppelin (The Song Remains the Same) This is where mystique meets the mystic. Who knew that with a Les Paul, a Marshall stack (or two or three) some effects pedals and a violin bow, you could open a door into the mythosphere. Well, apparently, Jimmy Page did.
EVERYONE OF YOU should go directly to your music store and look for DON ROSS... this guy is a true acoustic master. I'd put him up there with John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia and Al Di Meola. He sometimes plays a Beneteau custom job with an extra 7th string, strung low (B most often). When he hits the low string you should hear the rumble. He really plays around with different tunings alot. Seriously, go and find some NOW!!! http://www.gobyfish.com Check out This Dragon Won't Sleep, or I Can't Dance... but all his songs are gorgeous pieces.
Mike mcready's solo in evenflow in live at the garden. And also his solo in november hotel by mad season. Also, pretty much of anything that buckethead during their praxis show at bonnaroo 04, along with brain's drum solo during the same show. Bucketheads version of machine gun is as good as or better than hendrixs original. The solos in "you dont love me" by the allman brother recorded at the filmore east are great too. And of course, money and comfortably numb, but also a live pigs solo by water's lead guitarists is fuckin sick. He turns his guitar upside down and plays the solo backwards. Its fuckin insane.
