Best guitar solo

[Beardedone]

Hey Topaz. Thanks! Btw, Get a hold of the DVD of the DeJohnette/Hancock/Holland/Metheny show- smply brilliant!

[j_T]

Jimi Hendrix - intro in Little Wing (and solo) ... or the solos in All along the Watchtower ... or Red House ... or ...

Maybe Jimmy McCullogh, Something in the Air ...

No, definitely Keith Richards playing the intro to Honky Tonk Women in Paris ...

Regards,

Tommy

[paul minot]

Nirvana - In Bloom

Yeah, that's gotta be my favorite Kurt Cobain lead for sure.

[paul minot]

Jimi Hendrix - intro in Little Wing (and solo) ... or the solos in All along the Watchtower ... or Red House ... or ...

Maybe Jimmy McCullogh, Something in the Air ...

No, definitely Keith Richards playing the intro to Honky Tonk Women in Paris ...

Regards,

Tommy

Regarding "Little Wing"--have you ever heard the live version he did on "Hendrix in the West"? I think that version (better recorded than the original, no corny glockenspiel) is way better than the original. Actually, my favorite Hendrix track--maybe...

[topaz]

cool;)

so far I think your one of the only ones that got the thread topic, so far it's all personal favorites.

buzzcocks, yeh right and Adam Clayton blows Marcus Miller away, and while we are there

Welling unitited F.C are better than Man United

(im my mind anyway)

Hey Topaz. Thanks! Btw, Get a hold of the DVD of the DeJohnette/Hancock/Holland/Metheny show- smply brilliant!

[Bunnyboy]

I cant believe nobody has mentioned Lou Reed's proto-noise (so it says in the Wire ) freak-out on "I heard her call my name"

Also i'm with paul minot & VoidoidSurrealist


Bow down at the feet of Tom Verlaine and his utterly magestic playing on "Marquee Moon"

[clueless]

Bow down at the feet of Tom Verlaine and his utterly magestic playing on "Marquee Moon"

[paul minot]

f**k, this is a tough one. I'm not going to judge on talent here (although some I'll list ARE talented) I'm just going to judge on the gut feeling I get when I hear them:

Gonn - Blackout of Gretely
Blue Cheer - Doctor Please
The Stooges - 1970
Mercyful Fate - The Oath
Ash Ra Tempel - Amboss
Morbid Angel - Invocation of the Continual One
The Sonics - Strychnine
Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name
Television - Marquee Moon
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Love Comes in Spurts
Megadeth - Hangar 18
The Status Quo - Pictures Of Matchstick Men
Metallica - The Call of Ktulu
The Monks - I Hate You
Rush - Temples of Syrinx
Opeth - White Cluster
Dick Dale and the Del-Tones - Miserlou
Deep Purple - Highway Star
The Elastic Band - Spazz
Burzum - Ea, Lord of the Depths
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
Slayer - Angel of Death
The Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind
Judas Priest - Beyond the Realms of Death
Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida
Carcass - Carneous Cacoffiny
The Dead Boys - Down in Flames
The Count Five - Psychotic Reaction

and finaly, the greatest guitar solo of all time:

Trojans of Evol - Through the Night

Some great punk shit here--looks like somebody else is in love with their Nuggets box set as I am! BTW, what really blows me away about the Nuggets set is not so much the guitar, as the VOCAL performances. More great punk vocal performances by that bunch of 17-year-old clods than in all of the punk-new wave era, if you ask me.

BTW, what about James Williamson--"Shake Appeal", anyone?

[jens]

nice to see someone is on the right track of the thread

John Scofield "Resolution" on Bass Desires

Pat Metheny "Shadow Dance" on Parallel Realities Live

Frank Zappa: "Pink Napkins" on Zoot Allures

What do jaathers know about guitar-soli?

[topaz]

a hell of a lot more than someone who thinks Keith Richards or Adam Clayton are great musicians thats for sure.

what do jaathers know about guitar-soli?

[meeks]

I still argue that the best guitar "solo" work is on PIL's album...here we see a young Vai, fresh out of Zappa, with free reign on Lydon's "I still have something viable to say" intensive work. The chording is nice and the guitar is emotional, raw and unperfectionized by today's standards. EX: These things at ease.

As far as structure and voicing: Page

As far as live, I'm drunk and jamming: Townsend

[Def: unperfectionized] Solo's should not prioritize perfection and neatness over emotion and expression. It killed me as a guitar player to read an article some time back descibing Page as "a sloppy player". My two cents.

[Voidoid Surrealist]

[quote="topaz"]cool;)

so far I think your one of the only ones that got the thread topic, so far it's all personal favorites.

Hey, gimme a break, I just woke up ... gotta go make some coffee now

However, as far as "best" as opposed to just "Favorite" goes, I'll still stand by these:

Blue Cheer - Doctor Please
Television - Marquee Moon
Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name
The Stooges - 1970
Tim Sparks - Ravayah

Anyway... As good as Nuggets was, the Back From The Grave series was still better

[topaz]

yeh right,

and Mcdonalds is better than Burger King.imo.

However, as far as "best" as opposed to just "Favorite" goes, I'll still stand by these:

Blue Cheer - Doctor Please
Television - Marquee Moon
Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name
The Stooges - 1970
Tim Sparks - Ravayah

Anyway... As good as Nuggets was, the Back From The Grave series was still better

[donkey tugger]

a hell of a lot more than someone who thinks Keith Richards or Adam Clayton are great musicians thats for sure.

what do jaathers know about guitar-soli?

Hmm, back to that old question of does best = widdliest? To me it doesn't. I'd rather listen to Adam Clayton play one note Mark King play horrible slappery pappery.

[Shifrin]

My to cents :-

Stanley Jordan's version of 'Angel' by Jimi Hendrix, Steve Vai's 'For The Love Of God', and for a bass solo Victor Wooten's 'Amazing Grace'

Shif.