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    Posted: August 05 2023 at 09:43
I'm not so much of a guitar solo guy to be honest, especially not if we are speaking ten minutes of blues scales. But I do have my favourites:

The Beatles: Something, And Your Bird Can Sing, Fixing A Hole (George Harrison)

Blur: Coffee And TV, (Graham Coxon)

Pink Floyd: A lot of candidates here too. Apart from the obvious ones with Gilmour (Shine On, Comfortably Numb), I'd like to mention One of My Turns, the "Funky Dung" part of Atom Heart Mother (also Gilmour), plus a lot of Syd Barrett stuff (Astronomy Domine, Interstellar Overdrive).

C.V. Jørgensen - Sæsonen er slut (Billy Cross), Balladen om Mickey Lama (Ivan Horn).

Sebastian - Sort marcipan (Nils Henriksen)

Deep Purple: Child In Time (Ritchie Blackmore)

Radiohead: Paranoid Android, Electioneering (Johnny Greenwood)

David Bowie: TVC15 (Carlos Alomar), Boys Keep Swining (either Alomar again or Adrian Belew?), Moonage Daydreem (Mick Ronson)

The Velvet Underground: All Tomorrow's Parties (Lou Reed)

EDIT: And how could I forget Television - Marquee Moon (Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd) - it's simply magical!

Another addition: The acoustic guitar bridge between Overture and It's A Boy in The Who's Tommy (Pete Townshend)


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There are so many favorite guitar solos of mine, but today, I'm going to go with "It's Only Me" by Pendragon.
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,

NONE.

Anything I say on this is going to fall into the incorrect ears.

I don't listen to music for the "solo" ... I listen to the whole thing, and never thought that RF was about his solo at all ... he's about his guitar being a part of the whole composition, not something that doesn't belong to it.

It makes for a tough distinction ... for example, when you hear Jean Luc Ponty and some of the jazz folks, it seems like they are all just setting each other up for small bits and pieces that could be considered "solos", but in most rock music ... it gets sad and pathetic, how the same design and placement for the solo is almost always the same ... and the singer has to shut up! Or vice versa, right?

To me, "solos" take away from the flow of the music ... you can go back 500 years of history of music, and you won't identify a single solo ... try Stravinsly. Try Bertok. but in rock music, it is all about the adulation and the bun kissing ... and how great they are ... and the rest of the music ... you don't really care about it ... you just like that one song, right?

If I had to chose "solos" that are way out there, and worth a listen, that I love to listen to  .... I'll take Ax Genrich in the early Guru Guru stuff, specially the live stuff ... no one is as crazy and as nuts as that guy was ... I call it Jimi Hendrix 2 ... the one version that is not a copy ... but I am not sure that folks here can recognize that as valuable and important and far out ... most think it's a guy just stoned out crazy ... and I'm not even totally sure of that ... I'm not sure that the clarity and continuation of the piece would work as it does if that were the case!

One need not listen to music specifically for a solo to be able to appreciate how a well placed and constructed solo can fit perfectly into, and actually enhance, the larger piece of music.  Not all solos are solos for solos sake. 

And there's actually a very long history of solos in music going back well further than Stravinsky and Bartok.  Most composers wrote violin concertos which had... gasp... violin solos!  Even Bartok specifically had violin solos in his violin concertos.  
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I can never get past Blackmore on Stargazer. Will always do it for me.
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Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

one that probably hasn't been listed... and hands down one of the most incredible guitar solos ever recorded...


Hendrix Killing Floor October 10 1968 with Jack Casady driving and pushing him as Noel never could... he uncorked the ultimate guitar solo. Live or studio...

Sounds like you're referring to the version on the Live at Winterland album?  Jimi was definitely on fire for that one.  For me though, his Red House solo on the same album (recorded the next night) is the single greatest guitar solo of all time Wink

What a great album that is!
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Hi,

NONE.

Anything I say on this is going to fall into the incorrect ears.

I don't listen to music for the "solo" ... I listen to the whole thing, and never thought that RF was about his solo at all ... he's about his guitar being a part of the whole composition, not something that doesn't belong to it.

It makes for a tough distinction ... for example, when you hear Jean Luc Ponty and some of the jazz folks, it seems like they are all just setting each other up for small bits and pieces that could be considered "solos", but in most rock music ... it gets sad and pathetic, how the same design and placement for the solo is almost always the same ... and the singer has to shut up! Or vice versa, right?

To me, "solos" take away from the flow of the music ... you can go back 500 years of history of music, and you won't identify a single solo ... try Stravinsly. Try Bertok. but in rock music, it is all about the adulation and the bun kissing ... and how great they are ... and the rest of the music ... you don't really care about it ... you just like that one song, right?

If I had to chose "solos" that are way out there, and worth a listen, that I love to listen to  .... I'll take Ax Genrich in the early Guru Guru stuff, specially the live stuff ... no one is as crazy and as nuts as that guy was ... I call it Jimi Hendrix 2 ... the one version that is not a copy ... but I am not sure that folks here can recognize that as valuable and important and far out ... most think it's a guy just stoned out crazy ... and I'm not even totally sure of that ... I'm not sure that the clarity and continuation of the piece would work as it does if that were the case!
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David Gilmour: "Dogs".
Steve Howe: "Sound Chaser".
Pete Townshend: "The Sea Refuses No River".
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Too many to choose from. But standout guitar solos.. Hackett - firth of fifth... lifeson - la villa strangiato. Stolt, take your pick from All of the above, Monsters and men, Garden of Dreams...
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Cool ^

When it comes to bass tone nothing beats live Crimson Wetton '73 - '74 for me...he was like a steamroller destroying everything in his path...drove Fripp & Cross crazy LOL   

Anyway, getting back to the topic I'd rank my top 5:

1.  Jimi - Red House - Live at Winterland
2.  Fripp - Exiles - USA
3.  Fripp - The Night Watch - Starless & Bible Black
4.  Martin Barre - Bach Double Violin Concerto in D minor - A Sackful of Trousersnakes (1977 tour boot - the encore begins with Martin playing an unaccompanied solo based on the Bach piece - saw it live about a month earlier in Oakland.)
5.  Fripp - St Elmo's Fire - Another Green World (Eno)
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^ clappies to you.

Definitely the album I was referring to...  I'd put that album even over the most excellent Band of Gypsys.

Both songs had Jack guesting on them. He brought out something special in Jimi.  Shame their collaborations were so limited. Love both but still would give it to Killing Floor! Pure insanity and Jack's bass tone? kin to a gravel truck going down a steep embankment, might be the fiercest bass tone ever recorded. Duane Allman rightfully so is widely acknowledged as having the single best greatest guitar tone of all time, and as much as I love and adore Jack Bruce and Squire, Casady wins hands down in the bass guitar category.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

one that probably hasn't been listed... and hands down one of the most incredible guitar solos ever recorded...


Hendrix Killing Floor October 10 1968 with Jack Casady driving and pushing him as Noel never could... he uncorked the ultimate guitar solo. Live or studio...

Sounds like you're referring to the version on the Live at Winterland album?  Jimi was definitely on fire for that one.  For me though, his Red House solo on the same album (recorded the next night) is the single greatest guitar solo of all time Wink
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one that probably hasn't been listed... and hands down one of the most incredible guitar solos ever recorded...


Hendrix Killing Floor October 10 1968 with Jack Casady driving and pushing him as Noel never could... he uncorked the ultimate guitar solo. Live or studio...
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So many to choose from, too many in fact, although Nick Barrett (Pendragon) performs one helluva solo about 4mins in to The Shadow (The Masquerade Overture) which just blows me away.
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Steve Hackett Firth Of Fifth.
Martin Barre Aqualung.
Frank Zappa Watermelon In Easter Hay.
Allan Holdsworth Tokyo Dream.
Duane Allman In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed (Live, 1st Solo
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Well, Hendrix, Gilmour, Page, Trower and Blackmore have been brought up several times. Here's a few that I didn't see (or wasn't paying that much attention anyway):

Brian May: "Brighton Rock" (Queen Sheer Heart Attack)
Eric Clapton and Duane Allman: "Key to the Highway" (Derek and the Dominos)
Al Di Meola: "Race With The Devil On Spanish Highway" (Elegant Gypsy)
Alvin Lee: "Going Home" (Ten Years After Live 1975)
Johnny Winter: "Highway 61" (Captured Live)

And this is about the most savage 16 minute bit of guitar brutality you'll ever hear:
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Frippy on Distributed Being from Nerve Net.
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Originally posted by philipemery philipemery wrote:

Comfortably Numb

No challenge. Virtuosity isn't about playing lots of notes. It is about playing something beautiful, emotional, and something that can wrench at you. David Gilmour does that, and doesn't have to be flashy to do so.

Agreed. That's exactly how I feel about Steve Hackett's solo on The Firth Of Fifth. Gets me every time.
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Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

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!

Great nomination; Flett played some really wonderful guitar for the Earth Band. Pity that he was only active in prog for such a short period. I just checked his Wikipedia page to see what he had been up to afterwards and it states that "with the help of a number of musicians including Manfred Mann and John Lingwood, Flett's first solo album, Flying Blind, was released in April 2014 for download."
I wonder whether anybody has heard it... I really should check it out.

By the way, Mick Rogers also has some great solos on Nightingales and Bombers and earlier Earth band albums.

Another one that hasn't been mentioned yet is Andy Latimer on Summer Lightning (which some people hate because of its disco rhythm, but still the guitar solo, oh the guitar solo...).
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Comfortably Numb

No challenge. Virtuosity isn't about playing lots of notes. It is about playing something beautiful, emotional, and something that can wrench at you. David Gilmour does that, and doesn't have to be flashy to do so.
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon. -- Pink Floyd
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