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    Posted: August 10 2008 at 20:36
What is your favorite guitar solo of all time?? Mine's the guitar solo and the end of The Door (Neal Morse, Sola Scriptura) performed by Paul Gilert.LOL

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John Petrucci's solo in Under A Glass Moon.
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Somehow  I knew you'd say that MikeLOL

My absolute number 1 solo of all time, is non prog, Megadeth-Tornado Of Souls, the solo of course being played by Marty Friedman. It's ingrained into my heart now.


Speaking in prog terms,
1.The Spirit Carries On solo by John Petrucci.

Actually yeah, since it's in the list section,
2.  I'll add the outro sweep picking solo from Selkies:The Endless Obsession.
I believe it's a Paul Waggoner solo there. It's hard to get sweep picking solos that sound so beautiful, but it worked here.


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^ I thought you'd say Selkies actually, that's pretty high up there with me. The Spirit Carries On rulesssssss though. Thumbs%20Up
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^indeed, check my edit n00bThumbs%20Up
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Andy Latimer on Ice - gut wrenching (especially on the live dvd Coming of Age)

Steve Hackett on Spectral Mornings - fluid heaven

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Statutory-Mike Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2008 at 22:48
Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Somehow  I knew you'd say that MikeLOL

My absolute number 1 solo of all time, is non prog, Megadeth-Tornado Of Souls, the solo of course being played by Marty Friedman. It's ingrained into my heart now.


Speaking in prog terms,
1.The Spirit Carries On solo by John Petrucci.

Actually yeah, since it's in the list section,
2.  I'll add the outro sweep picking solo from Selkies:The Endless Obsession.
I believe it's a Paul Waggoner solo there. It's hard to get sweep picking solos that sound so beautiful, but it worked here.
 
It is Paul, I saw him do that right in front of me Tongue
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote febus Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2008 at 23:19
Very easy choice for me:
 
CLEM CLEMPSON (future Humble Pie)from Colosseum on ''Lost Angeles'' from their ''live'' double-album! ...8 apocalyptic minutes of mayhem!!!
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Originally posted by progrocker2244 progrocker2244 wrote:

What is your favorite guitar solo of all time?? Mine's the guitar solo and the end of The Door (Neal Morse, Sola Scriptura) performed by Paul Gilert.LOL


Nothing wrong with Paul Gilbert.
He's a gifted man, no doubt. Emotion with flash, yet doesn't take himself too seriously and always has fun doing what he loves.
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I have to add Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs , proggy heavy metal blues, par excellence.
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Originally posted by tszirmay tszirmay wrote:

Andy Latimer on Ice - gut wrenching (especially on the live dvd Coming of Age)

Steve Hackett on Spectral Mornings - fluid heaven

 
Two very nice selections.
 
I'll throw in Holdsworth's solo on In the Dead of Night as well.
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1) Jimi Hendrix - "Machine Gun" Band of Gypsys - album "Band of Gypsys"
 
2) Al Di Meola - "Shadow of Lo" Return to Forever - album "Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology"
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in no particular order, and just off the top of my head

1. Frank Zappa - Inca Roads
2. Return to Forever - Sorceress (all the solos)
3. John Scofield - Otay (Dennis Chambers version, Sco's on it)
4. Jeff Beck - You Know What I Mean
5. Gentle Giant - His Last Voyage


strangely enough, even though i am a guitar player, i get more excited hearing a horn solo or keyboard solo (especially electric or rhoades piano Thumbs%20Up). Hell even the occasional bass solo gets me off more than a guitar solo. Anyone else have this "problem"?
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Gentle Giant - Peel The Paint and So Sincere
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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3 current faves of mine:-
1. Roine Stolt at the end of All of the Above by Transatlantic
2. Steve Wilson on Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape by Porcupine Tree
3. Steve Howe on Awaken
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Must add Michael Romeo's (from Symphony X) solo from Communion and the Oracle.
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Dream Theater - In the Name of God. Despite TOT being one of their least prog albums [only in front of FIF I believe], it has some of Petrucci's most impressive guitar work.

Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On, beautifully composed solo, beautifully composed song as a whole.
 
 
Other Notables:
 
Between the Buried and Me - Selkies: The Endless Obsession. More notably the ending solo, beautiful sweeping, but the clean solo in the soft section is also very nice.
Megadeth - Tornado of Souls. Also love this one.
Trivium - A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation. I'm not a huge Trivium fan, not so much as I was, but I always took special notice to this solo. The dualing section is really great, not too crazy but a great melody.
 
Just to name a few.

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Another solo by Roine Stolt, at the end of the Merrygoround on Stardust We Are, just blows me away. The man is a genius.
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BLACK SABBATH - SLEEPING VILLAGE / THE WARNING
Other good ones:
Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun *
Pink Floyd - Echoes *
Deep Purple - Mandrake Root *
Megadeth - Hangar 18
Led Zeppelin - Dazed & Confused *
The Flower Kings - Big Puzzle

Plus a few more...
* = Preferly live versions


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1. solo on Les Aventure Des Saxinette et Clarophone - Maneige. Presumably from the guest guitarist.

My other top six, beyond which it's blurry

Hackett on the opening of Tigermoth
Gary Greene on The House, The Street, The Room
Barre on We Used To Know
Lake on Battlefield
Howe on Without You
Hendrix on All Along The Watchtower


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