ped Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 We're all bass players here but there's no doubting there's little better to do with your time than listen to a guitar solo. Especially when you know you can switch it off afterwards and not have to speak to the guitarist. My fave solo ever is by Pink Floyd on the track 'Wearing The Inside Out' - the solo at the end of the track just sounds like the guitar is speaking... whilst I consider some guitarists to make their guitars sing, I've always found Floyd solos are intellectually superior and just so complex and multi layered. I can listen to this solo again and again and never tire of it. I was thinking we should all post a youtube clip of our fave solo with a time stamp to say when the solo begins. Check out 5.10 here: [media]http://youtu.be/5HmfwLvJZIg?t=5m13s[/media] Cheers ped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyfisher Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 A somewhat less polished but no less haunting example of sheer 'less-is-more' feel . . . starts at 2:12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkFOBZRAbMU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Either this: [media]http://youtu.be/YLTFbtOfmxk[/media] (solo around 3'30") or this: [media]http://youtu.be/CR4dI8vrTqM[/media] (solo around 1'27") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AttitudeCastle Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Awake - Dream Theater Next Time Around or To Be With You - Mr Big Countless others, but those are really my very favourite (and they are all rather different!) Oh and things Brain May did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Immo Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 (edited) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0AXjUy1_gY[/media] Edited June 14, 2012 by Immo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiehoffmann Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Great stuff so far, guys! I guess my favourite guitar solo ever is this one by Dean DeLeo. I love this band, love this album, love this song and this guitar solo gives me goose bumps every time. A tribute to Jimi Page, but better! At 2'24" [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds_43MdYiuQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds_43MdYiuQ[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Here you go... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oRdxUFDoQe0#t=190s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 [quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1339714198' post='1693371'] Here you go... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oRdxUFDoQe0#t=190s"]http://www.youtube.c...xUFDoQe0#t=190s[/url] [/quote] nice playing, shame he didn't tune it first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 The one I love is this, by DJ Ashba of Sixx AM, in Live Forever. There is so much melody in it, instead of impressing with a zillion notes a minute. A hark back to the years when you could actually sing a lead guitar solo. Clicks in at 3:31. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjyUNNiSE8E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRYzo7uQugc This. I love this song. I think it's probably my favourite ever. I can't remember exactly where in the song it is, so you'll have to listen to the whole thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamster Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 This I regard as a solo without some singing in it! It blew me away the first time I heard it - and I'm a pretty big Hendrix fan! It's just some kind of undefinable quality that I'm unable to describe that just does it for me - and it always will. For my ears I doubt very much if it will ever be bettered. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVVmsxR67ZE[/media] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbass4k Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcY3UF6_IaM Basically the last 5 minutes is a solo, and it's a perfect solo, it's about melody not technical w***ery. Not sure I'd call it a solo really but the guitar melody that comes in at 4:27 is just sublime, as is the whole song, it's a masterclass in melody. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNlU0zA8zOU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 OOOOOH ... it would have to be the opening 2 minutes of "Power to Love", by Jimi Hendrix. It's on the "Band of Gypsys" live album ... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVkzLQ9dTHc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVkzLQ9dTHc[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earbrass Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 (edited) 1min 30 secs (tried to put the time into the link, but not working for some reason) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMt1Oy5uQ0w&feature=youtu.be&t=1m30s Edited June 15, 2012 by Earbrass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Mariner Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 I can't believe no one has posted any Cream yet. Regrettably I can't find my fave versions of the live solos on youtube, but for your delectation here's Eric, Jack and Ginger. Solo starts around 1min 58. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqh54rSzheg[/media] And then there's Carlos, not of Jackal fame. I can remember the first time I heard Samba Pa Ti, aged 14, and I've always enjoyed this as one of my favourite solos. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teRiRdu9J1g[/media] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Mariner Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 If you're going to play one note, make it count, every bit of it. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44FFMejVTU[/media] Another classic, this time from the 80s. And only 1 hand on the fingerboard. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIvBpe7q1Cg[/media] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Mariner Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 This album got me into Gary Moore as a solo artist - the solos are all just so powerful. This is a collection of all the solos off the album. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UdAd_wNApg[/media] And coming up to date, this is Joe Bonamassa from 2006, covering a whole bunch of people. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_g4M9C5QKs[/media] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pst62 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 "A 22 year old Michael Schenker giving the old guard something to think about!" [media]http://youtu.be/n0OatiI5XcE[/media] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbayne Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing. I know its two guitars, but when I first heard this song I loved it! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F67g64NapY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F67g64NapY[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopsdabassist Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Steve Hackett/Genesis Firth of Fifth....absolutely sublime. This clip is from a solo set though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLTlAnVUx3A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary mac Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNF5w4pP_Eo&feature=related[/media] Glen Tilbrook's solo starting at about 2.18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stu Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 For a solo fitting within the context of the song, tone, playing and everything I've never been able to hear better than this yet.......... A very young Micky Moody, and a band I discovered by accident as a young sprog, when I went to see Nazareth with my sister; Snafu were support. I loved both bands ever since....................... pity about the prog rock keyboards though. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqFEPcJ7wHU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqFEPcJ7wHU[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oggiesnr Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Not really a solo but the outro on the extended version of "Freebird" (three solos for the price of one?) gets me every time, sublime. For a solo hook then (I know it's old and cliched) but they don't come much better than "Layla" Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pst62 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 This is could go on and on! Captain Sensible's lovely little solo kicks in at 3:59 [url="http://youtu.be/Ln3CFyq9TSk"]http://youtu.be/Ln3CFyq9TSk[/url] Paul Gilbert rocking up the Spice Girls, the solo at 4:50 is sublime. [url="http://youtu.be/QrPUWkZQZSw"]http://youtu.be/QrPUWkZQZSw[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfinbernard Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Probably my life long favourite, Hendrix's solo on Hey Joe. I also love Jack White's ecstatic solos such as on Ball & Biscuit, the solo ffrom Paranoid (Black Sabbath obviously) and countless other things! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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