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Best Guitar Solo...

SoejckdswgSoejckdswg Member Posts: 338
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Freebird! FTW!

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  • XeximaXexima Member UncommonPosts: 2,698
    Either Hey You by Pink Floyd or Save Me by Damageplan

  • TamalanTamalan Member Posts: 1,117
    Eruption by Eddie Van Halen, landmark track in rock guitar history
  • WantsumBierWantsumBier Member Posts: 1,079

    This is not too original but I agree... not necessarily the order:

    1. Stairway To Heaven - Jimmy Page
    2. Eruption - Edward Van Halen
    3. Freebird - Collins/Rossington
    4. Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour
    5. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
    6. November Rain - Slash
    7. One - Kirk Hammet
    8. Hotel California - Don Felder/Joe Walsh
    9. Crazy Train - Randy Rhoads
    10. Crossroads - Eric Clapton
    11. Voodo Chile (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
    12. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
    13. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
    14. Layla - Clapton/Allman
    15. Floods - Dimebag Darrel
    16. Heartbreaker - Jimmy Page
    17. Cliffs Of Dover - Eric Johnson
    18. Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
    19. Highway Star - Ritchie Blackmore
    20. Bohemian Rhapsody - Brian May

    I have a soft spot for SRV and Randy Rhodes

    ( I got it from Ask.com)

    I shoot for the curve... anything above that is gravy.

  • NihilanthNihilanth Member Posts: 1,357

    I agree with the OP.  Nothing beats Freebird.

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  • beethoven89beethoven89 Member Posts: 21
    I would think the best guitar solo would be Dream Theater's Goodnight Kiss. Its just such an vehemently played solo and it just seems so dramatic in the end while he's playing an intense guitar solo while there are sound clips of a woman screaming and crying.

    Also Jimi Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower's great.  Gotta love that wah


  • qotsaqotsa Member UncommonPosts: 835

    Originally posted by WantsumBier


    I have a soft spot for SRV and Randy Rhodes
    ( I got it from Ask.com)

    Amen to that. Two of the best ever. Anything SRV played was awesome.

    My two favorite solos of all time:Revelation(Mother Earth)-Randy Rhoads andNovember Rain's. I've never liked the song, but nothing tops Slash's solo in it.
  • SlickinfinitSlickinfinit Member UncommonPosts: 1,094
    I like One and Master of puppets from Metallica but Jimi with Vodo chile and along the watch tower own as well. So many good ones to many to name!

    {(RIP)} SWG

  • TheodorykTheodoryk Member Posts: 1,453
    Freebird is THE guitar solo. Thanks for the idea, haven't listened to that song for years.

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  • RazorbackRazorback Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 5,253
    Frank Zappa - Watermellons on Summer Hay

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  • albinofreakalbinofreak Member Posts: 449

    Zappa is god. One of the best musicians in the 20th century. I wish I had seen him live. The closest thing I got was Steve Vai playing "My Guitar is Gonna Kill Your Mama," to close his show I went to.

    But as for best guitar solo, I'd have to go with Buckethead on "Ignorance is Bliss." The song is by Les Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains. Buckethead is a sweet avante guard guitar player who has chops beyond belief.

    I used to think Freebird was the best guitar solo of all time, then I learned how to play guitar and I realized its just a few licks played over and over and over with some different bends here and there. Its still a sweet song, but there's alot out there thats alot better.

  • naldricnaldric Member UncommonPosts: 909

    I love the solo from this song from Dragonforce check it out at time 3m21s in this link  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7_JafYlMY8 

  • KhuzarrzKhuzarrz Member Posts: 578

    OMG I was actually writing this post while I was going to bed last night - my internet cut out though lol - thieves!!!

    I have to say though, 'Best Guitar Solo' is WAY too broad a category... Need best jazz/metal/classic rock/classical/techno at the least... Some personal favourites off the top of my head HAVE to be Eruption, King Twang by Scott Henderson, one of Toto's songs has a awesome solo but I forget the name of it, Dreams of Swedenborg - Therion, The Nearness of You - Martin Taylor, Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden, Beast and the Harlot - Avenged Sevenfold, Time Together - David Mead (it's just a solo track more than a guitar solo, but it's still awesome), Martin's (a guitarist in a band I play for) lead guitar version of Eye of the Tiger :p The Willing Well (all 4 parts) - Coheed and Cambria, and finally, Canon in D  - Jerry C (this version though :P http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1491516901670441597&q=canon+in+d)

    Now, to chuck out some flamebait... Dragonforces solos are somewhat lacking imho... The dual guitar stuff works quite well, but alone, they just seem to play fast extracts of scales, and that REALLY irritates me... Also they sound WAY too much like Mario... I actually prefer their pianist's solos than the supposed 'Best Guitarist in the World' (as dubbed by Metal Hammer Magazine). Martin>Herman ANY day of the week...

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