Best guitar solo ever.

[Gonadz]

Pink Floyd - Sorrow on the Pulse live album is dirty as hell.

And Dias de los Angeles on the Once Upon a Time in Mexico OST rocks your box aswell o/!!!!

 

[DiebytheSword]

I almost forget the Mustaine action. That guy is SICK. Tornado of Souls = "holy ****, how is he playing that!?" The ****er's hand barely moves...

You should see it live . . . all five digits are doing something on the fret board . . . pure pwnage.

@Koort, I agree, Angus is ignored when he should be deified.

 

[Abe Froman]

Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You

All kinds of gut-churning bluesy, not to mention it really adds to the song instead of drawing focus away from the big picture with a forced-sounding 5 minute long series of notes and chords that come way the heck out of nowhere. That is my main complaint with technical guitarists, they aren't aesthetically pleasing, which is kind of the point of music.

Unless of course you just get off hearing some guy starting fires on his fret board, then they would be aesthetically pleasing

 

[Silent_Bob]

Indeed, Angus is the reason I started playing guitar, and still remains one of my favourites. The day I mastered Thunderstruck was one that still stands out in my memory. Also the school uniform get-up is funky.

 

[Kurt`]

The reason I started playing was Randy Rhoads, because I was obsessed with the song Crazy Train.

Any Rhoad's solo is one of the best in my opinion as well.

Imagine how much more we'd have from him if he was still alive today. :|

Edit:
And to further rape my bandwidth, here's an old video of Rhoads doing Suicide Solution O_O

http://anime-overload.com/files/Ozzy_-_Suicide_Solution.zip

 

[owa]

Not true, the solo in Sanitarium blends quite well, as does the intro solo for One, and Fade to Black, and many others for that matter.

Some of my favourites are:
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing(the ending one)
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters(not terribly skillful, but it blends so well)
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Metallica - Master of Puppets(the middle solo, where the slow melody is playing with no distortion)
The Knack - My Sharona(man that guitarwork is so crazy compared to the rest of the song, and it's a damn good solo on it's own as well)

The song by The Darkness, Love Is Only a Feeling isn't too bad either, nice rythm and good guitar work(I like teh tapping, it sounds real funky)

Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets album both have just meaningless solos in my opinion. They just seem like they are trying to show off, rather then blend it well. I'm not going to argue you anymore, so whatever, they may have some well blended solos, but for the most part they are bad. Songs like: Fight fire with fire, and trapped under ice just aren't well thought out.

Also, to Cuc: I'd hardly call the Anestesia bass solo the best ever, it is rather easy to do, and uses alot of effects. The song "I play bass" or "I play bass guitar" or some name like that is alot better.

 

[DiebytheSword]

Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets album both have just meaningless solos in my opinion. They just seem like they are trying to show off, rather then blend it well. I'm not going to argue you anymore, so whatever, they may have some well blended solos, but for the most part they are bad. Songs like: Fight fire with fire, and trapped under ice just aren't well thought out.

Also, to Cuc: I'd hardly call the Anestesia bass solo the best ever, it is rather easy to do, and uses alot of effects. The song "I play bass" or "I play bass guitar" or some name like that is alot better.

This is why I hate discussing music. You are automatically substituting my opinion with your own because you assume that you are right, when in reality you cannot judge these sort of things against one another.

Anesthesia (pulling teeth) happens to be one of my favorites, and that is my opinion . . . you judgement does not supercede mine, as mine does not supercede yours. There are lots of arguments both ways, and there are no reasons to state that someone elses opinion is invalid when you can just state that you liked yours better.

Further, there is no proof that any one of these is better than the other. Argue all you like, it's essentially pointless to argue asthetics. You and Abe Froman are both using a different standard, a different ruler if you will. At least he recognized that in his post while taking a jab at my tastes.

 

[owa]

This is why I hate discussing music. You are automatically substituting my opinion with your own because you assume that you are right, when in reality you cannot judge these sort of things against one another.

Anesthesia (pulling teeth) happens to be one of my favorites, and that is my opinion . . . you judgement does not supercede mine, as mine does not supercede yours. There are lots of arguments both ways, and there are no reasons to state that someone elses opinion is invalid when you can just state that you liked yours better.

Further, there is no proof that any one of these is better than the other. Argue all you like, it's essentially pointless to argue asthetics. You and Abe Froman are both using a different standard, a different ruler if you will. At least he recognized that in his post while taking a jab at my tastes.

I never said my opinion or judgement was better, I just argued why I felt it was not the best solo. I am just giving my opinion on the music, I was not trying to over throw others opinions, I am sorry if it seemed that way.

 

[grOOvy]

Personally, the best solo's I've heard are:

Metallica - Outlaw Torn
Metallica - (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

There are tons of GnR solos that I wub with all of my heart, but am not going to post them since I know I'll find it hard to pick out just one or two [Guns N' Roses being my all time favourite band].

 

[DPredator]

Symphony X - The Odyssey

A single track with a total run time of 24:07 has got alot of good Solos ^_^

 

[nZ]

omg have none of you ever heard of yngwie malmsteen????

i suggest you start listening to some of his songs , he was rated the fastist solo player and best solo artist a while back. Kirk from metallica is gd but i can play most of his solos, they may sound gd but he isnt rele that fast.

second fastest rated was van halen , he has sum gd songs.

my fave malmsteen songs are : arrpeggios from hell (the whole song is a solo) and vengeance(amazing solo) and evil eye(great riff) <--- i suggest you listen to these three then you can judge good he is.

my fave van halen solos are: eruption and mj beat it solo

santana: europa

scorpions: rock you like a hurricane

santana and malmsteen are top quality solo artists

 

[DaRkOwNs]

you guys are nuts the best solo ever made and im backed up by the international music corporation is the solo to mr. crowley made by rhandy rhoads

 

[nZ]

you guys are nuts the best solo ever made and im backed up by the international music corporation is the solo to mr. crowley made by rhandy rhoads

ive heard it but i still dont think it matches up to malmsteen.

 

[DaRkOwNs]

because you havent seen what the solo looks like on paper its way more complex than it sounds most of the notes are played so fast you dont notice them but if your looking for a quality solo than the solo from back in black would do the job nicely not to hard but sounds awesome

 

[Kurt`]

Malmsteen cheats by detuning his **** though...

Joe Satriani is gross as well. My favorite song (solo) by him is The Extremist.

 

[nZ]

detuning?? how is that cheating lol??? he detunes half step to a flat to make the sound of the guitar better lol even i do that on some songs btw most gd guitar players do. take a look at the tabs

darkowns take a look at malmsteens tabs .

I just looked at mr. crowley tabs, looks like a basic shreding solo tab to me, not to too different to van halen.

 

[owa]

Detuning is fine, alot of guitarists detune. Standard tuning is to plain, some people ture down to get a dark sound, just look at Tool's guitarist.

 

[Ravendust]

AFI - Dancing Through Sunday, it's short, but only because of it's intense speed.

 

[DaRkOwNs]

darkowns take a look at malmsteens tabs .

I just looked at mr. crowley tabs, looks like a basic shreding solo tab to me, not to too different to van halen

hah no you havent in all the books and on the internet everybody does all they can to make it easier and besides speed doesnt make a good solo tone quality and style does i havent even looked at that malmsteens solo yet and i know its just gonna be a solo where hes just shredding the hell out of his guitar not really caring if it sounds good just tries to make it impressively fast and not to mention randy rhoads solos were good because he didnt constantly use a series of pentatonic scales he combined the minor pentatonics with the major scales most just use pentatonic

and the only thing detuning does really is make the strings easier to pluck and push down it doesnt cheat in any way infact i tune down alot when im making a song

 

[Fire Phoenix]

hah no you havent in all the books and on the internet everybody does all they can to make it easier and besides speed doesnt make a good solo tone quality and style does i havent even looked at that malmsteens solo yet and i know its just gonna be a solo where hes just shredding the hell out of his guitar not really caring if it sounds good just tries to make it impressively fast and not to mention randy rhoads solos were good because he didnt constantly use a series of pentatonic scales he combined the minor pentatonics with the major scales most just use pentatonic

and the only thing detuning does really is make the strings easier to pluck and push down it doesnt cheat in any way infact i tune down alot when im making a song

Just stop, It all depends on what people like, you like this, they like that. Get over it and stop trying to make them think like you. They think for themselves. They like what they like your not going to change that. Arguing about it won't change anything either. This thread was going great until you showed up and started trying to change the way people view music. If someone likes a fast solo then they like a fast solo, if someone likes a slow long solo then they like a slow song solo. Some people like the "sound" of the solo while you apparently like the notes of one. (from what i read) Audio Slave Highway i beleive is the name i'm too lazy to go find out. The solo is only one string. But he uses so many foot pedals, each sound is different. Some people love that. Others can't stand it. It's thier opinion

::EDIT::
Blah and because of my anger i just spammed. But i won't delete it. So to try and get back on topic

Like i said I like pretty much all Van Halen Solo's Eruption is awsome because thats all it is, is a guitar and drums

I also like Most of Audio Slaves Solo's.