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Topic: Awesome guitar solos

Its kind of uncool to admit you like guitar solos in some places of the internet. I'm a member of the biggest online guitar community in Norway, and nobody ever mention guitar solos. I really like a good guitar solo, and want you to help me make this thread with the best.
Does not have to be blues, and bonamassa solos are more than welcome!
I go first with my favorite:

Stevie Ray Vaughan and double trouble - Life without you - Live from Montreux '85
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_njaY9p6Vk

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Re: Awesome guitar solos

rioi wrote:

Its kind of uncool to admit you like guitar solos in some places of the internet. I'm a member of the biggest online guitar community in Norway, and nobody ever mention guitar solos. I really like a good guitar solo, and want you to help me make this thread with the best.
Does not have to be blues, and bonamassa solos are more than welcome!
I go first with my favorite:

Stevie Ray Vaughan and double trouble - Life without you - Live from Montreux '85
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_njaY9p6Vk

If you dig back far enough in this topic I believe there's a thread regarding this subject.

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Re: Awesome guitar solos

It's 227 pages and the search function didn't get me anywhere.

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Re: Awesome guitar solos

Life Without You is one of my favorite solos of all time.

Mick Taylor's solo in "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" is just awesome.  A clinic in taste and restraint.

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5 Reply by JBFan4Life (edited by JBFan4Life 2013-05-23 11:12:56)

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Re: Awesome guitar solos

I never heard an SRV solo I didn't like.  Ditto for Joe.

And a good call on Mick's solo, too.

I won't attempt to rehash that old thread, even though I appreciate where rioi is coming from (or trying to go) with this.

So many solos, so little time....  (Which reminds me of Robert Cray's solo in "So Many Women, So Little Time".)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feO8D7PnCtA

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6 Reply by Brack (edited by Brack 2013-05-23 11:43:26)

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Brack wrote:

I posted this once today - but this seems a better place.

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7 Reply by ZeyerGTR (edited by ZeyerGTR 2013-05-23 11:34:33)

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Re: Awesome guitar solos

There could be a whole separate thread for awesome David Gilmour solos.

Comfortably Numb - Solo #1 & #2
Dogs - Solo #1 & #2
Time
Money
On the Turning Away
...

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I really don't remember the old topic. Joe's solos are right up there with anybodys, cannot think of one I didn't like. but I think this guy was the quintessential soloist in his time, tone, phrasing, everything nearly perfect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtF-An9wFLk

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9 Reply by holdemxpert (edited by holdemxpert 2013-05-23 14:30:54)

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Perhaps its time for a "Great Solos" bracket competition, like the recently concluded bands competition!  Whos up for running that one! Just the nomination process should be interesting. And anyone who uses a Rolling Stone survey as a guide is banned from voting! (We have your internet search history, dude!)

My first nomination would be Elliot Randall's solo on "Reelin in the Years", and Id probably try to add 1/2 a dozen Steely Dan solos from various guitarists to the nominees!

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Re: Awesome guitar solos

Martin Barre, Jethro Tull on "Aqualung".

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sounds like a winner, somebody get Deez on the phone. smile You just made me think of those other 1/2 dozen of Dan's to add, including Baxter on My Old School and Carlton on Kid Charlemagne. What about Night by Night off of Pretzel Logic?
I would like to nominate Jeff Beck for Brush with the Blues from Who Else. Many others by him also come to mind, Come Dancing for one.

holdemxpert wrote:

Perhaps its time for a "Great Solos" bracket competition, like the recently concluded bands competition!  Whos up for running that one! Just the nomination process should be interesting. And anyone who uses a Rolling Stone survey as a guide is banned from voting! (We have your internet search history, dude!)

My first nomination would be Elliot Randall's solo on "Reelin in the Years", and Id probably try to add 1/2 a dozen Steely Dan solos from various guitarists to the nominees!

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ahsmith33 wrote:

sounds like a winner, somebody get Deez on the phone. smile You just made me think of those other 1/2 dozen of Dan's to add, including Baxter on My Old School and Carlton on Kid Charlemagne. What about Night by Night off of Pretzel Logic?

Id have to listen for a few hours just to try and single out a Larry Carlton favorite.  Thanks for the reminder of Night by Night, a gem. I assume Baxter?

Back in the day when I had my own company (tax shelter pension plans) Jeff "Skunk" Baxter was a client (via his business manager of course). I loved the name of his personal corporation... "Disappearing, Inc."

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yeah holdem, that was Baxter on Night by Night. You know he was also a national security advisor to the US department of defense? Not sure how long he did that, but how did he get that gig in the first place? for Larry, I would also add Don't Take Me Alive but you are right about having to graze that catalog for hours.

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14 Reply by holdemxpert (edited by holdemxpert 2013-05-23 16:15:46)

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Re: Awesome guitar solos

ahsmith33 wrote:

yeah holdem, that was Baxter on Night by Night. You know he was also a national security advisor to the US department of defense? Not sure how long he did that, but how did he get that gig in the first place? for Larry, I would also add Don't Take Me Alive but you are right about having to graze that catalog for hours.

Don't Take Me Alive was the first that came to mind for me.  The ringing intro and solo are so perfect for a dark song that still has to rock.  A couple of tours ago when the Dan was playing complete albums I went to Royal Scam night and LC sat in. What a joy.  Front row for SD in SD in August! (Jon Herrington is no slouch either!)

BTW maybe there should be a sub-category, guitar solos as awesome to watch as to listen to. Hendrix has several, SRV as well, but the one I literally watched 20+ times in a row was Tom Morello's Ghost of Tom Joad with Springsteen at Rock and Roll HOF 25th. His singing drives me batty (I don't think I could survive a Nightwatchman show), but he certainly has some interesting guitar technique! (Maybe the players will say its gimmicky, but its still fun!)

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I love Tom Morello and never would have listened to him if not for my son. He would make my top 50 living guitarists list easy. We have the RATM DVD, or one of them, and he does not sing on that one.

I think only you would pick up on The Goodbye Look, what a complete treasure that CD is.

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Re: Awesome guitar solos

ahsmith33 wrote:

I love Tom Morello and never would have listened to him if not for my son. He would make my top 50 living guitarists list easy. We have the RATM DVD, or one of them, and he does not sing on that one.

I think only you would pick up on The Goodbye Look, what a complete treasure that CD is.

The Dukes of September (and maybe SD as well) always play I.G.Y, but The Goodbye Look is my favorite cut on Nightfly. SD was a big part of the soundtrack of a very strange and difficult period in my life! 

Those memories makes me want to start another thread.....so I think I will...hopefully a theme that hasn't been done to death already.

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Re: Awesome guitar solos

Believe - Lenny Kravitz.


Seriously...listen to the solo at the end by Craig Ross. So musical, great phrasing. A song within a song. Which is how it should be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8qwEDurot4

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This thread bringing back fond memories.  "Skunk" was always fun to see and hear.

And can't go wrong with those Dan selections, or Gilmour, either.  Although the studio version of Numb is actually the best bits of several solos, all pulled together into one.  But there are plenty of great live ones to choose from.

I would throw "Europa", by Carlos Santana into the mix.

Here's a pretty good live version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frcA6Hk7Mfo

And then there's the studio version of Allen Collins' on his Gibson Explorer, on "Free Bird", from Pronounced....

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