Favorite guitar solo?? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Or maybe Jimi Hendrix' Machine Gun.

I've not read back all 11 pages in this topic! So I will just say that for pure emotional power and that undefinable "aah" feeling, it has to be Hackett's solo in Genesis's "Firth Of Fifth", which was originally intended to be a flute according to Banks.

Second place would probably go to Mike Oldfield in Robert Wyatt's "Little Red Robin Hood Hits The Road" from Rock Bottom.

I must put in a mention for Dave Flett's solo on "The Road to Babylon". It's on the Manfred Mann's Earth Band album The Roaring Silence (1976). There's another, rather more famous song on the same album which also has a phenomenal Flett guitar solo!

the guitar solo in the "blues section" of "Heartbeat" on the first solo album of guitarist Roman Bunka. the song starts at 33:56 and the section I mean at 39:36 (but by all means listen to the whole song, or even better the whole album).

Bunka is by far the most underappreciated guitar player here; the only ones who ever mention his name are Friede and I, though he is a fantastic player

Edited by BaldJean - January 19 2018 at 12:03

A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta

I made a mix tape in the late 70s of my favourite guitar solos at the time. Besides the usual suspects from Zep, Sabbath, Purple, Yes, Floyd, Genesis etc., these three were probably less well known, but remain personal favourites to this day:

Tattoo'd Lady - Rory Gallagher - Closing solo from 'Irish Tour '74'
All Too Much - Steve Hillage - Closing solo from 'L'
Foreplay/Long Time - Boston - Main solo from 'Boston'

“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”

The ending solo from Oldfield's Man on the Rocks, just awesome.

Thanks Mike!

It's a toss-up between :
DAVID GILMOUR - The Fletcher Memorial Home
NICK BARRETT - The Shadow
...........but, of course, there's many solos that move me, but these 2 - boy-oh-boy.........

I find really hard to choose only one solo as my favorite. Instead, I opt to share the honorifics with many specimens... inside non-prog metal, I really love Mustaine's solo in the ending of Wake Up Dead; Chris Poland's solo on Blackmail the Universe (from The System Has Failed by Megadeth too) and Hammett's solo on The Four Horsemen.

On non-prog rock, Blackmore's Highway Star and like 20 solos by Brian May. He's freaking brilliant, dude. But if I had to choose one of his, I'd pick Dead on Time and Liar (oh my god, Liar is so amazing). I also love Nuno Bittencourt's Get the Funk Out, It's a Monster and Play With Me. Extreme sucks, but good lord, Bittencourt is amazing. He's like a non-proggy cousin of Petrucci. I have seen a live video where he literally yawns while tapping Play With Me. Like, seriously? I also really, really, REALLY love the solo in Moonage Daydream by Bowie's guitarist and the one in Is This Life by Cardiacs because both are reverb to the core and highly melodic. Another solo that I love with all my heart is the spoof solo in Eat It by Weird Al Yankovich because that solo is simply put amazing.

On prog rock, roughly anything by Lifeson, really. He's one of my favorite lead guitarists and I find REALLY hard to dislike his solos. For me, he's like the Brian May of prog - he's not virtuoso and absurdly technical like say Petrucci but he doesn't need any of this to be legendary. Highlights go to The Weapon (Jesus, that synth-guitar duet sounds so delicious), 2112's late solo, YYZ's Egyptian solo, and The Camera Eye.

On prog metal I'm going for Petrucci's A Fortune in Lies, Surrounded, and In the Name of God. That's one of the most mind blogging shredding I've ever heard, it sounds so damn clear but at the same time to uncomparably difficult. Also, I sort of like the intro solo in Corpsecry Angelfall by Shinichi (Sigh), but it's not one of my favorites.

Hard to pick, here are a few that come to mind:

Muffin Man - Frank Zappa
Starship Trooper - Steve Howe
Race with the Devil - Al Di Meloia
Stream Of Consciousness - John Petrucci
Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour

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Any live Richard Thompson.

At last! Someone has mentioned the guitarists' guitarist i.e. RT

Thanks for posting that.....I'm a fan of RT...wasn't familiar with that live track.....great player with an unusual style.

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