Favorite Solos
 

What's your favorite guitar solo(s)

Some of mine are:

Sweet Child of Mine- G'n'F'nR (#1 fav)
Money- Floyd
Heartbreaker- Zepellin
Dazed and Confused- Zeppelin
Thin Ice- Floyd
Confortably Numb- Floyd
Stairway to Heaven (yes, Stairway)- Floyd
Ride the Lightning- Metallica
Hanger 18- Megadeath ( Dualing Guitar solos. Daves are the best ; )

Gimmie some of your favs.

ROGER WATERS-Sexual revolution. (ERIC CLAPTON-GUITAR)
PINK FLOYD-THE FLETCHER MEMORIAL HOME (DAVID GILMOUR)
PINK FLOYD-Oh sod it-all of Gilmours solos are the bollocks.
ZZ TOP-I NEED YOU TONIGHT (BILLY GIBBONS)
LED ZEPPELIN-SINCE I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU (JIMMY PAGE)
JOHN LEE HOOKER-THE THRILL IS GONE
FLEETWOOD MAC-I NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD (PETER GREEN)
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE-KNOW YOUR ENEMY (TOM MORELLO)
PRINCE-PURPLE HOUSE
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN-LITTLE WING
IRON MAIDEN-RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER live version (ADRIAN SMITH/DAVE MURRAY)
GARY MOORE-PARISIENNE WALKWAYS


Plenty more when I think of them.

Floyd? Tripped out man.

Eruption.

Jeff Beck's cover of Beatles' A Day In The Life.

Soul Source- Fly
Children of Bodom- Follow the Reaper
Dragonforce- Revolution Deathsquad
Cannibal Corpse- The Time to Kill is Now
Iron Mainden- Aces High
Judas Priest- Painkiller
Helloween- I Want Out
Imperanon- Rhythm of Pain

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Oh, thanks! Good to know.

Metallica-One
Megadeth-Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
Judas Priest-Painkiller
Death- Scavenger of Human Sorrow
Rush-Freewill

Judas Priest - Demonizer

Death- Zero Tolerance
Death- The Philosopher
Necrophagist- Diminished to B
Arch Enemy- Bury Me an Angel

All I can think of at the moment. I'm sure there's more, but that's all that sticks out at the moment.

The solo in War Pigs by Sabbath is just wonderful.

that said, generally, i see guitar solos are a waste of time in a song because it distracts me from the whole atmosphere of the song, and I always end up thinking "fine, you can play guitar well - now play something that SOUNDS good rather than an indecipherable 10 notes a second". Maybe you guitarists can find MORE VALUE in them though.

Blasphemy! Sometimes a good guitar solo can actually salvage a song.

True. A dull or lagging song can be JUICED UP real nice by a good solo. But I say the reverse is much more often the case, with me at least.

Highway Song--Blackfoot

tears in the rain -joe satriani
texas flood - srv

.. although they are both songs, they are really more like long solos.

Metallica - Orion. Not my favorite solo of all time (c'mon, how can you choose ONE?), but definitely would be on the top of the list.

Frank Zappa-Sexual Harrassment In The Workplace. He is one seriously underated guitar player.

No doubt, man.

Yeah, but when a guitar solo makes the song suck it is because it is by a band that sucks at guitar anyway.

Well, soloing isn't required of every player. Rhythm is more than enough to showcase ones skills.

There was this one Indie band I heard though, Overvil River, the song was called For Real. What I recall most is how ridiculously bad the solo was.

Well, the solos don't make the song SUCK as such, but when I'm enjoying a good piece of music which is interrupted by some flash guitar solo, it is annoying. Nah actually, I don't mind solos as long as they don't go on forever, with some exceptions.

It fits the song, plus the solo is kind of dirty which fits their sound, I don't see anything wrong with it though Okkervil River soloing is kind of eh for the most part because its unnecessary.

I really love the solo in Blind Guardian's Into The Storm.

I Could Have Lied - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (John Frusciante)
Easily - Californication (John Frusciante)

^2 of my favorites, although theres tons more

bob marley - no woman no cry

Definitely. Kurt Cobain was put on top guitarists for Rolling Stones top 100, because hes one of the best rhythm guitarists.