Best guitar solo

[Glooper]

Best guitar solo(s)...

Most of the songs on Tommy Emmanuel's album only

Ben

[rockstar_not]

Favorite guitar solo of all time:

David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb.

No blazing pyrotechnics, just the right notes at the right times with the right technique and the right sound. Every time I hear it, it makes me smile; even on such a downer of a song.

I love guitar solos and have hundreds of faves across a broad mix of genres, but this one is my favorite.

-Scott

[jens]

Favorite guitar solo of all time:

David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb.

Which of them?

[duncanparsons]

Favorite guitar solo of all time:

David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb.

Which of them?

I think you fail to grasp the construct. It's like Sheep and Fish, Solo is both singular and plural. Their was an early adoption of Solii, but it didn't last.



DSP

[wilkoryte]

Eric CLAPTON : rambling on my mind (E.C. was here)

Johnny WINTER : Be carefull with a full (no title)

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[HelgeG]

While it doesn't contain solos as such, the album "Aerial Boundaries" by Michael Hedges contains some of the most amazing guitar playing I've ever heard.

Also to pick nits with an earlier poster:

I think you fail to grasp the construct. It's like Sheep and Fish, Solo is both singular and plural. Their was an early adoption of Solii, but it didn't last.

Solo is not plural. Solos is plural (or soli in a musical context).

[duncanparsons]

errr...

it was a gag...

I know many other gagii I'm willing to share, if you have a few minutii.



DSP

[aMUSEd]

Robert Fripp (guesting with The Roches) - "Hammond Song"

Oh I love that track - and that album. You don't hear much about The Roches here but they were great.

[HelgeG]

it was a gag...

Ooops! Apparently me have no sense of humour

[duncanparsons]

[Sleek Month]

Oh, and Robby Krieger's "L.A. Woman" solo was the first one I felt inspired to learn, lo those many years ago...

...still a good one, though. Lyrical, melodic, singing...and simple.

...and I suppose I have to join the chorus of voices in appreciation of Vai's work on the PIL album...wore out the grooves on that one.

-S.

[Hink]

Okay, hink. You get the direct response...

well I won't argue with you because probably it would be a waste of time...bt listen to I'm the one or Ain't talkin 'bout love....both all whammy tricks...but besides that...uhm Evh used many different tunings (not just a half step low as the myth goes) as well, especially on those songs (see if you can figure out the tuning)...

Okay, ATAL's solo is just all double stops with an open string the end of it is a whammy dive...so, how is it whammy tricks?

I'm the one isn't dependant upon whammy, either...it's mainly these excellent little repetetive patterns...there is whammy on the verse fills, but none at all on the solos...so, how is that one a whammy trick? (A phase 90 trick would be more accurate, though still bullshit.)

Gary Moore is much more precise as you put it, but most people never even heard of him. In fact EVH owes everything he has to one man DLR, one of the best frontmen in the business...

Moore's good, but he's not more precise. I got turned on to him off of Power Windows with it's "End of the World" guitar solo, and I was really impressed by that while young. I grew up and found out it was just these silly pull-off things and fast picking...still sounds great, but on the level of great playing, it's just fromage.

...then GM dorked out and went all blues, one of the lamest things a guitar player can do..."Look at me, I've gone back to my roots, I'm real!"

...yeah, Gary. Um, those aren't your roots...but it's nice that he had an alright carreer as a second class Clapton for a couple years. He deserved it. I guess you really can fool a decent amount of the people most of the time.

If you really wanna hear something cool see if you can get a hold of Brian May and friends, a mini album as they call it EVH and Brian May, with a few others in a hotel room...Eddie is way overrated a guitarist IMHO.

...bought it when it came out on import. I liked it, but I was like:"What's wrong with BM's tone?" I wasn't used to that ultra-smooth vox thing. It just sounded like he had no treble...but I agree it's a really cool record...but not a good EVH record. It was during his bad, bad coke period...there are a lot of fairly tasteless EVH artifacts from then.

but there are people much better at it then EVH, like for tapping listen to Stanley Jordan, Randy Rhodes...you want better picking listen to chet atkins or or roy clark, Eddie is a good guitar player in mainstream rock....

Stanley Jordan was a cute gimmick, but I don't think he really added much to the cannon...aside from showing guitarists everywhere how to do one-man instrumental karaoke...Randy Rhodes was my favorite player, (Probably still is), but had nothing on Eddies tapping. He used to say in his interviews that he felt that he hadn't yet developed his own style, and that his in-concert guitar solos were simply a Van Halen homage...

Chet and Roy aren't really flatpickers. I prefer Jerry Reed for fingerstyle, but who's counting...you might as well say EVH is no Segovia when it comes to picking. It'd be just as relevant.

I infact think that Micheal Schenker and Uli Jon Roth are also exceptional, Akiro Nagasaki too...but put on your radios, let the dj's tell what's good....

...well, having toured with both Michael Schenker and Akira Takasaki (correct spelling...Nagasaki????), I'd have to agree with you...Akira was very Eddie influenced, though...not that that's a bad thing. A lot of good guitar players are.

Lt's see...anything else...Santana bugs me, because he has no idea when not to play...EVH didn't use a lot of tunings, and pretty much everything he played can be easily played in standard relative intervalic tuning...which is to say, with the usual intervals, whether tuned down or not...and EVH and DLR were mutually dependant...though EVH managed to do fine without Roth...Roth wasn't so lucky.

...um, yeah. I gotts go to sleep.

-S.[/i]

sorry sleek but I don't buy it, first there is no Gary Moore album called power windows, it's called Corridors of Power, there's also alot of other albums besides that that is straight rock. Some great songs, Hiroshima, Bad News, Run to your Mama, Nuclear attack, Victims of the future, Military Man, Empty Rooms, Murder in the sky, Dirty Fingers, Rest in Peace, Back to the streets, All messed up, Friday on my mind (cover) another amazing cover Don't let me be misunderstood, Wishing Well, End of the world IMHO is not even in the top 20% of his songs. His blues are tremendous, Pretty Woman,Still got the blues, I've had enough of the blue, I aint got you (obviously you don't like the blues). Plus many of the best musiciams in the world played at one time with Gary Moore because of his diversity.

Second EVH did use alot of tunings, he was responsible for the idea that became the hipshot. One thing that doea impress me about Eddie is that when the 5150 amps came out he had his people go out and buy 60 amps from around the country to make sure they were up to his standard, though he went with a company that would give him the most money for his name Peavy....

The Brian May and friends was during his bad coke period? But yet VanHalen came out with great albums when he had a coke problem and alcohol..how can you say that,playing pure he wasn't that exciting, in the studio with TT and DLR he had time to fix things and make it good...now go tune your guitar to EAEACE and sitdown with the first 2 albums and see what amazing surprise comes over you,...

Stanly Jordan was a cute Gimmick?...I hate narrow minded view points. One measure of good playing to me is one someone can not sound the same every song, jump around and be different and comfortable with their playing and not worry about selling albums. EVH has a sound that is all his own, but it's all the sound he has, whether it be on an accoustic, eletric, keyboard he is very one dimensional. The same thing that bugs me with Malmsteen. Eddie doesn't have any emotion in his playing, just the same old sound album after album. At least Gary Moore played what he felt, not what sold. Eddie was and is total commercialism...like Boston (the biggest crock on earth).

I have a name for it, there are musicians and busicians. A musician puts the music first, the busician puts the benjamens first. I have a live (bootleg) of Vanhalen with DLR, Eddie is trying to hard to play the songs the way he did in the studio and I can't watch the video because he was stumbling drunk and sucked. Gary Moore said he loves playing live because that's where he can really have fun. Be daring and different. Eddies big claim live was at one point they took the most powerful PA on the road.

Don't get me wrong I like Eddie a lot, but he is way overrated and a lot of gimmicks. Btw I thought I spelled the name wrong old age I saw loudness open for Ratt and Poison, they were the only good part of the show.

One of the problems with DLR and EVH was their tremendous egos, they hated each other, it didn't take long for Sammy to hate Eddie either...he doesn't bend he just does the same thing. I like Sammy without Eddie but I don't like a single album with Sammy. BTW Sammy played with better guitar players in his day. Think Montrose...

You obviously care more for main stream rock and put popularity above talent, that's too bad. Because Stanly Jordan is a good show, ( I guess you don't care for jazz much either). On the Monsters of Rock tour Mathias Jabs was better then Eddie in fact we walked out in Vanhalen, they were crap that show (I'm talking the first MOR tour)...oh and BTW his real substance abuse problem was alcohol.

BTW whether you toured with these guys or not doesn't say much to me but name dropping. Anyone who knows, knows that headlining acts looked down on the openers and very, very rarely even bothered to meet the opening bands or watch them. Akira I feel is more like Jake E Lee then EVH.

I do agree with you about Jerry Reed, my wife thinks I'm crazy because I love Amos Moses amoungst a few others. But cChet Atkins was known for his picking.

But more then anything I hope you don't get angry about this because opinions are just that...so don't take offense (even if you did call me an ignorant slut ). But by percentile of good guitar players Eddie is around the 70th perential, he's no where near the top. He can't make it by himself and more of his success was do to DLR and Ted Templeton then Eddie Vanhalen. Eddie hated David, and vice versa, Eddie hated the little dances in the videos that Dave liked, Eddie has put down every musician at one time or another except for his brother and Michael Anthony. Calling them the only "deep" people. The rest are all just faces in the crowd...Even Brian May, he didn't want that released and tried to stop it. Brian may was better and showed him up.

To sum it up there is a lot more to guitar playing then just solos, there isn't much more to Eddie then solos...

EDIT: BTW standard tuning is not based on intervals, infact it's the worst tuning of all. It's based on a tuning from centuries ago that got carried through, but it's totally abitrary. SRV played open E most of the time but a half step low for saving his vocals...open E and standard for some reason get mixed together though they are nothing alike. I haven't played in standard tuning in about 8 years except for the rhythm guitar in my song Reality on my page.

Hell most of the best rock songs are not in standard tuning, like most of Purple is Open G, as is much of the Stones, Kieth even had a five string guitar built for a variation on open G.

I bet you don't like the Dead either huh? Or Hot Tuna? Chick Corea? (spelling)

I just saw you're from Cali...nevermind... Most Californian guitar players are busicians...most of the crap came from LA. American Radio stations (whos networks are based in LA) are totally about telling you what you like (now it's crap like american idol too). Eropean music is bette because the people make their own choices, hell even Hendrix couldn't make it in the states, it wasn't until he went to England that he shined. It's why Queen stopped touring the States, because they were portrayed as gay and not musicians, it's also why you have no clue about Gary Moore because the states don't know who he is (well I do and I'm in the states) in fact I watch musicchoice a lot, never ever seen a Gary Moore song. But ask some europeans and they'll tell you he sells out shows still. I did once hear a Gregg Lake song with Gary Moore on musicchoice though.

One last question, if EVH wasn't about cheap tricks, then why is the first guitar sound you hear on the first album the cheesiest cheap trick of all?

[Hink]

While it doesn't contain solos as such, the album "Aerial Boundaries" by Michael Hedges contains some of the most amazing guitar playing I've ever heard.

Also to pick nits with an earlier poster:

I think you fail to grasp the construct. It's like Sheep and Fish, Solo is both singular and plural. Their was an early adoption of Solii, but it didn't last.

Solo is not plural. Solos is plural (or soli in a musical context).

Ahh Hedges, a man who plays with more tunings then me...he's great.

[jens]

While it doesn't contain solos as such, the album "Aerial Boundaries" by Michael Hedges contains some of the most amazing guitar playing I've ever heard.

Also to pick nits with an earlier poster:

I think you fail to grasp the construct. It's like Sheep and Fish, Solo is both singular and plural. Their was an early adoption of Solii, but it didn't last.

Solo is not plural. Solos is plural (or soli in a musical context).

The plural is always 'soli', independently from the context. This is due to the latinum origin of the word.

(thus 'solos' is as wrong as 'solo')

[duncanparsons]

While it doesn't contain solos as such, the album "Aerial Boundaries" by Michael Hedges contains some of the most amazing guitar playing I've ever heard.

Also to pick nits with an earlier poster:

I think you fail to grasp the construct. It's like Sheep and Fish, Solo is both singular and plural. Their was an early adoption of Solii, but it didn't last.

Solo is not plural. Solos is plural (or soli in a musical context).

The plural is always 'soli', independently from the context. This is due to the latinum origin of the word.

(thus 'solos' is as wrong as 'solo')

..trust a kraut to know more about the language than I do..

DSP