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I was driving to the store this evening and No More Tears came on the radio. Without thinking I automatically turned it up a few notches. Thinking back, I realized that I do this every time the song comes on because I love the guitar solo. 

 

What are some of your favorite guitar or drum solos?

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I'm guessing I'll post about 50 times in this thread. 

 

Off the top top of my head:

 

Celebration Day - Page

No More Tears - Wylde 

Voodoo Chile - Hendrix

Texas Flood - SRV

Time - Gilmour

Freewill - Lifeson

Little Guitars - Van Halen

 

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8 minutes ago, Gugny said:

I'm guessing I'll post about 50 times in this thread. 

 

Off the top top of my head:

 

Celebration Day - Page

No More Tears - Wylde 

Voodoo Chile - Hendrix

Texas Flood - SRV

Time - Gilmour

Freewill - Lifeson

Little Guitars - Van Halen

 

I haven’t heard Little Guitars in over twenty years.  I just played it. Memories flooding back. :beer:

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I'm a drummer and I hate drum solos.  

Best guitar solo?  Jesus.  As a huge Allman Brothers fan I'll go with this.  Doesn't have to be fast or shredding.  Slow and bluesy is actually my favorite

 

 

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Comfortably Numb, Guitar Solo 2 is one of the best pieces of guitar music I've ever heard.

 

The live version David Gilmour did on tour in Gdansk is phenomenal.  I have the DVD/CD set of that concert and the CDs live in my car, so I've listened to that version of the solo about 10,000 times now.

 

 

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This performance of Sunshine of Your Love from the Cream concert at Royal Albert Hall, 1968, is beyond mind blowing.

 

A couple different solos are great and made even better by Jack Bruce's wandering base lines and Ginger Baker flipping out on the drums.

 

So much more alive and up-tempo compared to the way they did it in 2006 (?) at their reunion concert at the same venue.  But they were also a hell of a lot younger and sharper too. 

 

I freaking love this version:

 

 

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Baby’s on Fire, no matter if it was Fripp or Rudolph or a combo

 

 

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36 minutes ago, Fadingpain said:

Comfortably Numb, Guitar Solo 2 is one of the best pieces of guitar music I've ever heard.

 

The live version David Gilmour did on tour in Gdansk is phenomenal.  I have the DVD/CD set of that concert and the CDs live in my car, so I've listened to that version of the solo about 10,000 times now.

 

 

Thanks for this one.

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2 hours ago, RaoulDuke79 said:

I was driving to the store this evening and No More Tears came on the radio. Without thinking I automatically turned it up a few notches. Thinking back, I realized that I do this every time the song comes on because I love the guitar solo. 

 

What are some of your favorite guitar or drum solos?

 

I just now realized that you had No More Tears in your original post. I just saw "favorite guitar solos," and started typing. How friggin funny/ironic that we both cited that solo!?!

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Love the topic and there hasn't been a solo posted yet that I don't like/love. Totally agree with Chef that it doesn't have to shred, but I love shredding too.

 

OP mentioned drum solos. Obviously not a solo, but I heard Zep's Whole Lotta Love for the first time in a long time recently and how kick-a$$ is the opening drum fill? Iconic, Bonham was a beast. 

 

I'm not big on favorites since there's so much outstanding music, but I'll throw some love to the Zappa's. I could easily go with Muffin Man, but here are two more:

 

Not sure if Chef is a Zappa fan but you might like Frank's Watermelon in Easter Hay:

 

 

 

Overall I'll go with Dweezil's cover of Franks Pygmy Twylyte..solo starts around 4:15 in:

 

 

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I have lots, but one of my faves that many probably don't know is this (starts at 1:33, although whole song is great and check-out the outro):

 

 

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1 hour ago, Chef Jim said:

I'm a drummer and I hate drum solos.  

Best guitar solo?  Jesus.  As a huge Allman Brothers fan I'll go with this.  Doesn't have to be fast or shredding.  Slow and bluesy is actually my favorite

 

 

 

I was two months short of 8 years old,  living maybe 20 miles from that venue. 

 

Little did I know that would be an all-time favorite song of mine. 

 

Cool that the Allmans had a renaissance with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks. 

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1 hour ago, Fadingpain said:

Comfortably Numb, Guitar Solo 2 is one of the best pieces of guitar music I've ever heard.

 

The live version David Gilmour did on tour in Gdansk is phenomenal.  I have the DVD/CD set of that concert and the CDs live in my car, so I've listened to that version of the solo about 10,000 times now.

 

 

 

Just watched. Kicked donkey. Thanks.

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21 minutes ago, Teddy KGB said:

Freebird, Stairway to Heaven, and One 

 

 

 

 

I love (early) Metallica. Saw them thisclose a week before Kill Em All dropped

 

I can't decide whether this is worse than Trubinsky or Tyrod. 

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I know that I've heard "better" , or more technical solos from a number of artists, SRV in particular, but this one is my favourite.

 

Grateful Dead - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (Jerry Garcia guitarist)

 

To me, it just encompasses the "get up and shake your ass" feeling of a Grateful Dead concert.  Nothing else like it.

Solo begins at around 6:10.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTPndsG_KA4

 

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For those that liked the Comfortably Numb performance above, listen to "On an Island" from the same concert.

 

Second guitar solo starts at 5:04; this one is great too and so much better than the studio version.

 

 

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