Best Rock/Metal guitar solo?

[Skip Intro]

I'm going to say the solo in Iron Maiden's "Trooper," but Slayer and Living Color and KISS and Priest and Metallica and Megadeth and so many others rank.

But I'll stick with The Trooper for now.

Killer solo...

[Archae]

1. Eddie Van Halen, "Hot For Teacher."

They were at their peak.

[opiate69]

2. Man.. so many to chose from...

Gotta go with Sabbath - "Turn up the Night" I think though..

[Tabasco_Dave]

3. Metallica Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)

[Populist_Prole]

4. Love that bass solo

[AsahinaKimi]

5. FOUR!! !

X~Japan

Alice Nine

The Gazette

Miyavi

[Demo_Chris]

10. We are X!!!!!

Hide

[AsahinaKimi]

11. ADDED Miyavi too

he is freaking awesome.

[Demo_Chris]

12. That solo of Forever Love is from Last Live, if you look closely

You can see Hide is crying

[Demo_Chris]

13. Beyond awesome

[AsahinaKimi]

14. More Miyavi

[Demo_Chris]

16. I love his style!

[AsahinaKimi]

17. one more...

[Callmecrazy]

19. Wow!

The bit by Miyavi is Incredible.
Thanks for posting.

[AsahinaKimi]

24. Miyavi is amazing !

Where are you?

[Demo_Chris]

6. This shouldn't even need to be posted....

[Demo_Chris]

7. And of course the incomparable Steve Howe!

Turn the volume down a bit

Okay, not electric guitar this time, but still classic.

[Populist_Prole]

8. 'Speed Metal Symphony'

Well, Technically it's 2 solos in one. From the Jason Becker/Marty Friendman album of the same name.

Can't get the link to post. Copy and paste it. It's worth it: ( Edit: fixed it )

[EvilAL]

22. yeah, that's pretty fuckin sweet!!

I remember some of their stuff.. nuts...

[arcane1]

27. Wow, now THAT is a flashback!!!!

I loved Marty's solo work in Megadeth's "Rust in Peace", he really blew me away on that album for some reason.

Last time I heard Cacophony, it was on an LP. Thanks for the memory!!!!

[Demo_Chris]

9. And of course, the greatest EVAR!

[nomorenomore08]

15. Keeping it to hard rock/metal, I'd say:

Cream - "Spoonful" ('Wheels of Fire' version)
The Who - "See Me, Feel Me" ('Isle of Wight' version - maybe not a solo technically, but some amazing guitar work)
Deep Purple - "Highway Star" and "Space Truckin'" from 'Made in Japan'
most anything from UFO's 'Strangers in the Night'
Judas Priest - "Victim of Changes" ('Unleashed in the East' version)
Iron Maiden - "Where Eagles Dare"
Slayer - "Angel of Death"
most of Megadeth's 'Rust in Peace' but especially "Hangar 18"
all of Morbid Angel's 'Altars of Madness' and Suffocation's 'Pierced From Within' (two of the best death metal albums ever)

[OriginalGeek]

20. When I clicked on this thread I was already thinking Lord of All Fevers and Plague

or Maze of Torment. Or maybe Chapel of Ghouls.

Or actually you're right and it's the whole album.

Too bad they don't write shit like that any more. (their last album was pretty weak)

In the early 90's my wife went and stood in line with our baby daughter at a record store to get my copies of Altars... and Covenant autographed at an MA in-store appearance. lol, she said she felt a little out of place (She didn't go with me to shows back then) but the guys thought it was awesome of her to do that for me - standing in line for over an hour with all those metal-heads.. I thought so too.

[nomorenomore08]

23. I have no idea how Trey got that lead tone. Makes the Slayer dudes sound like Django Reinhart.

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[Iggo]

18. Judas Priest -- Beyond The Realms Of Death

I would also direct you to both solos from Dogs by Pink Floyd.

[arcane1]

28. Ah yes, that's a good one. Back in the day Glen Tipton was my idol

[EvilAL]

21. MINE!! muahahahahah

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LOL I know it doesn't make sense, but I was pretending that was the slow version for people to learn...Did that for facebook a few months ago as part of my fake guitar tutorial series, too bad I got rid of most of the vids, they were pretty funny...

[Throd]

25. "Cult of Personality"

[stlsaxman]

26. Robert Fripp on King Crimson's "A Sailor's Tale".

at 2:30 Mr. Fripp runs his guitar through a little slap-back and proceeds to SLAP THE FUCK out of "guitar solos" for generations to come!

ps... you'll have to get past a "jazzy sax" solo... but worth it.

pps... without Fripp there would be no metal. so NYAH!!!

[arcane1]

29. Since "Rock" is included, I'm going to give some love for the guy who played for Pat Benatar

I love the "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" solo too, but couldn't find a decent vid.

[Doc_Technical]

30. West, Bruce, & Laing- "Love is worth the blues"