Guitar Solo

[electric funeral]

So, what are you looking for in a guitar solo?

I'm a sucker for a good guitar solo. I don't want a solo which has nothing to do with the melodie of the song. Basicly no Malmsteen please.

The solo of this song has everything, going with the melodie of the song and showing the quality of the player.

So post your favourite solo and please give the reason why!!

 

[runningshoes]

Here's what I'm looking for. It's simply a work of art. No one can get a sound from a guitar like Frank could. At the four minute mark is where he really shows it off.

 

[JerseyGirl]

^^^EF must have been reading your mind, eh?

 

[electric funeral]

Frank has an unique approach to playing the guitar and it shows on that song, RS.

Magical!!

 

[runningshoes]

^^^ Defiantly.

Here's another amazing one from Frank.

 

[runningshoes]

Most of the solos on Joe's Garage were done live and then dubbed in, which in itself is pretty incredible.

 

[AboutAGirl]

Best case scenario I want a guitar solo that basically functions as the orgasm of the song. There's all this tension building up and then it just lets loose. Sometimes it actually helps when there isn't a lot of guitar in the rest of the song. Stairway to Heaven is probably the most classic example but I assume you all know what that sounds like already! Here are some other examples:





Roger Waters' led Pink Floyd was full of them and they're also not uncommon in pop music.

Another of my favorite guitar solo styles are ones that are melodic and ultra-simple. To me it's a very satisfying type of solo. Sometimes just following the melody of the verse, like Smells Like Teen Spirit. Other examples:





Nirvana was of course full of them. You even find them in Johnny Cash songs sometimes!

Now, when it comes to the more elaborate solos... I am harder to please. It has to be really up my alley to dig it. But I can be turned around to the most juiciest of solos, sometimes....

 

[runningshoes]

The solo by Larry Carlton on Kid Charlemen was voted number 80 of the best 100 guitar solos in rock history. I would have ranked it higher, but that's just me. Give it a listen and you'll understand why. Jazz fusion to perfection.

The song features a famous and notoriously difficult jazz-inflected electric guitar solo by guitarist Larry Carlton, notable for a single finger-tapped hammer-on near the end. (Fingertapping was not widely known in rock till two years later with the release of Van Halen's first album

 

[Slip'nn2Darkness]

^^^ Defiantly.

Here's another amazing one from Frank.

This album is loaded with awesome shreds from Zappa!!

Here's what I'm looking for. It's simply a work of art. No one can get a sound from a guitar like Frank could. At the four minute mark is where he really shows it off.

Again.. What I like most about Zappa's quirky guitar solo's.. Even his son..Dweezle said.. I can't even play like that..

Here's some older Zappa solo's that are famous and well played in my book..

@ 1:55 he kicks in to some sweet guitar stuff..


Try playing this any time..@ 2:33

 

[Slip'nn2Darkness]

Oh and I have to add that Rival Sons guitarist Scott Holiday pulled off a un complicated but satisfying solo in Pressure and Time Looks like he's using a vintage Gibson Thunderbird.... Retro instruments.. Simple Kit and I havn't seen many Bass players using the old style String Guard..