Greatest Guitar Solos

[maxrandb]

I swore there were multiple guitars until I saw Frank Zappa play this live. It's all Frank. Amazing!

[maxrandb]

1. David Gilmour Comfortably Numb Live

[Hassin Bin Sober]

20. Fucking amazing

[lastlib]

46. +11 googol!!!

That is unquestionably THE greatest guitar riff in rock music history!!

[flying rabbit]

48. +1000

[CincyDem]

2. Layla - Derek and the Dominos.

[Duppers]

16. This version...

And must add this to the thread:

[CincyDem]

18. Hadn't heard this one - thanks.

I'm debating between the two. Probably take me more than a few listens to feel the live version. I love the steel guitar sound and the way that Duane Allman feels right on the verge of running away with the tempo in the original. Without him, all the other versions are great but they feel like a different piece of music to me.

Thanks for the heads up.

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. I'm glad you added Prince

That was a hell of a performance.

[flying rabbit]

49. Yeah, Prince had it too.

[TEB]

3. Cool I been exploring fret board 42 years

[Croney]

4. Segovia: Recuerdos de la Alhambra.

I can't post links.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

45. +1

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Lots of the time, people only think of modern Rock guitarists, but the Classical people have some skills to show off, too.

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[ADX]

5. Jimmy Page - "Dazed and Confused" from "The Song Remains The Same" soundtrack...

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[maxrandb]

6. What teenage boy in the 70's didn't want to be Jimmy Page? n/t

[pintobean]

32. Me.

[apkhgp]

44. Led Zeppelin Forever

Dazed and Confused
Whole Lotta Love
Heartbreaker
Bring It On Home
Immigrant Song
Rock'N'Roll
Black Dog
Stairway To Heaven.....I could go on

[maxrandb]

7. Going Mobile

Pete is amazing here, but the drum work by Keith Moon is fucking amazing!

[Iggo]

8. Keith Moon is The Beatles of The Who. (n/t)

[hurl]

9. Fripp

Robert Fripp's guitar work with a pick is impressive. If you don't feel like sitting through 9 minutes, about 5:08 - 7:03 is the most intense section.

[MiltonBrown]

10. Some of the best electric guitar solos were also some of the very first:

Other than some Hawaiian music, these recordings by Milton Brown were the first ever to feature electric guitar. It was Bob Dunn on lap steel guitar that he learned to amplify from a street musician. From Jan 1936

In rock-n-roll music, few ever topped Danny Cedrone's killer from 'Rock Around the Clock' which he also played on the even earlier record 'Rock This Joint' from 1952!

[DFW]

11. Airproofing

Leo Kottke

[OilemFirchen]

21. Master of the 8-string guitar.

[DFW]

23. Well, 12 String, actually

When I first saw him in 1972, I was mesmerized not only by his ability, but also by his guitars. When I found out who made them I sought the guy out and had him make me several over a period of 23 years. I treasure every one.

[OilemFirchen]

24. I winked.

Note that in the video his guitar has had four of the pegs removed. Pretty astonishing to achieve a 12-string sound with four strings missing.

But then, pretty much everything about Kottke is amazing, including his geese farts on a muggy day.

[DFW]

25. I haven't seen him live for years now

But he still has all his chops if video clips are any indication, and he is now 72!

[Paladin]

12. Neil Young's single-note solo, "Cinnamon Girl."

Runner-up: Willie Nelson's flawless break in "Heartbreak Hotel."

[maxrandb]

28. Here's another great one note solo

But the real treasure is Keith Moon's "Lead" Drums

[Paladin]

29. I'd forgotten that one. Amazing work. (nt)

[kwassa]

13. The original. Eric Clapton with Cream, "Crossroads"

The solo that sold ten thousand guitars.

[Callmecrazy]

14. Eric Johnson... Cliffs of Dover

[yallerdawg]

15. If you haven't heard Tommy Iommi, these cuts sum up a lifetime! Released 47 years ago!

[lame54]

17. David Gilmore - Have a Cigar

[OilemFirchen]

22. Steve Hackett, "Firth Of Fifth".

[Cary]

26. Paul Personne

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[BeyondGeography]

27. The older I get, the more I go back to this guy

[Codeine]

30. Funkadelic; "Maggot Brain"

The whole damned thing is a solo, and it's bloody amazing.

[ADX]

38. One of my favorite songs of all time...

[7wo7rees]

50. Eddie Hazel is the man!

I first heard it in Detroit in 1982 or 83 on WLBS by the amazing DJ The Electrifying Mojo, then after I moved to Cleveland I got to enjoy this midnight classic again on WMMS the Buzzard!

Wikipedia:
From 1976 to 1995, disc jockey Bill "B.L.F. Bash" Freeman started a tradition of playing the original full version of the song on 100.7 WMMS/Cleveland every Sunday morning at 1:30 (around "last call&quot . The tradition picked up in 1987 is still carried on to this day, by Mr. Classic host of "The Saturday Night Live House Party" featured on 98.5 WNCX/Cleveland at 11:50pm. The song appeared in "The Down Low", an episode of the television series House and was featured in the films Towelhead, I Melt with You, and Gaspar Noé's Love. In March 2005, Father Nature Magazine placed Eddie Hazel's performance on "Maggot Brain" at number 1 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos; the solo came in at #71 in "100 Greatest Guitar Solos" by Guitar World. The solo has had great influence on some guitar players, Vernon Reid and Dean Ween among them.[6][7]

[ADX]

54. Yeah, but Mike Hampton was no slouch either...

[Oubaas]

53. I'm Too Late!

You beat me to it. Eddie Hazel. He never got the recognition that he deserved, IMO.

[retread]

31. One amoung many, many choices

[VOX]

55. East-West is CLASSIC and still underrated...

The first two Butterfield albums are incredible. I know them by heart, but still can't get enough, even 50-plus years later!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

33. The Allman Brothers need to be in this debate

specifically Duane and Dickie Betts

[jpak]

34. David Gilmore - Ibiza Bar - More

[jpak]

35. Donavan - Hurdy Gurdy Man

[maxrandb]

36. Since I've Been Loving You

[OriginalGeek]

42. while that may be my second or third

all-time favorite Zep song, i think the solo starting about 1:46 in Celebration Day is just so perfectly happy it cures what ails me every time I hear it.

[maxrandb]

37. Definitely quite a few on here that will be added to my IPOD

Heard that guitar sales are down. I think it's because there are not many current Guitar Gods.

My generation had folks like Zappa, Townshend, Page, Clapton, Gilmour, Duane Allman, Lindsey Buckingham, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Alvin Lee, Jimi Hendrix, etc. Prince was fantastic, but where are the guitar gods today that are motivating kids to go down to the music store and buy a cheap Yamaha and a Craig Amp?

[NewJeffCT]

40. I tend to agree with you

A lot of great guitar players in the 60s and early 70s. I graduated high school in 1985 and EVERYBODY that I knew that played guitar loved Eddie Van Halen as well - he was a huge influence on everybody doing hard rock and heavy metal from the late 70s through the 80s.

There are a lot of guitar players out there today that are probably better technically than anybody from the 60s, 70s and 80s, but they just don't seem to inspire the awe that teens had during those eras. (You see the youtube video and think "wow, they're great" and then somebody else comes along next week that's just as good, and the week after that, still another great one. Then, a few weeks later, you've forgotten the guitarist you saw the first week)

Of course, I could just be an old man now yelling at the kids of today to get the hell off my lawn.

[maxrandb]

41. LOL

Hey, we may be old men yelling for kids to get off our lawn, but at least we can listen to Hendrix' "Red House" while we do it.

[VOX]

59. Big article recently in WaPo about the fading popularity of the electric guitar...

I'll see if I can't scrounge it up and give it its own thread.

[NewJeffCT]

39. No mention of Jimi Hendrix or Eddie Van Halen?

Star Bangled Banner at Woodstock?
Eruption from Van Halen's first album?

[Hula Popper]

43. Heres two greats

playing together..

[retread]

47. Dust My Broom - Elmore James

[VOX]

58. Awesome. Raw and straight from the vine.

[Eko]

51. Jimi Hendrix Machine gun.

Nothing comes close to me.

[Moostache]

52. Prince - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" @ RnR HOF...2004

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From around 3:30 mark...gone waaaaaaaaaaaay too soon.

[Mme. Defarge]

56. Blues in the Night, Kenny Burrell

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[VOX]

57. Vintage Clapton: "Have You Heard" w/Bluesbreakers 1966...

Solo begins @ 3:20 mark. EC gave it everything he had that day. Still gives you a shiver up the spine some 50-plus years later.

[tymorial]

60. Johnny Winter, "You keep sayin' that you're leavin'"

[njhoneybadger]

61. Frank Zappa.... The Muffin Man (Bongo Fury album)

[tymorial]

62. Feels So Good always makes me think of the Meglo Mart

But Grant Geissman is an underrated talent. I won't torture you all with the YouTube but if I had the time I would crop out the solos.

There was a version I saw once of the tune performed live on some show and they ramped up the tempo due to time limits. The dude didn't miss a beat.

[Zorro]

63. John McLaughlin is an amazing and blazing talent

[DFW]

64. Then there's this one from 1970s German TV

It's not dubbed or overdubbed. I have seen this live.

[MosheFeingold]

65. What? No mention of Dick Dale, King of Surf Guitar?!

[DFW]

66. Different genre

Dale may have had the fastest pick in the west, but Kottke has 47 fingers on his right hand.

[ooky]

67. Here's one

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[The King of Prussia]

68. So many to pick from

But right now I vote for Ernie Isley on "Summer Breeze"

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[Doug the Dem]

69. Joe Satriani

Any track!