Your Top Ten Guitar Solos in Prog

Lots by Steve Howe, especially the Yessongs versions of Starship Trooper and Yours is No Disgrace, also Awaken and Sound Chaser. Jan Akkerman - Eruption, Why Dream?, P's March, La Cathedrale de Strasbourg among many brilliant solos.

1. David Gilmour        - "Comfortably Numb" (Pink Floyd, 1979)

 1). Firth of Fifth - Genesis (Steve Hackett)

just want to add a fantastic solo i heard only yesterday, in overhead's epic beginning to end..great band

el böthy wrote: Robert Fripp (King Crimson) - Sailor´s tale (the most iconoclastic solo in music...love it love it love it)

1.  Robert Fripp     Baby's on Fire
2.  John Etheridge (Darryl Way's Wolf)  Isolation Waltz
3.  Ollie Halsall  Toujours La Voyage
4. Robert Fripp  21st Century Schizoid Man
5.  Franco Mussida     Dove,  Quando
6.  Steve Hackett  Voyage of the Acolyte
7.  Andy Latimer   The Snow Goose
8.  Robert Fripp  The Heavenly Music Corporation
9.  Fred Frith  Beautiful as the Moon,  Terrible as an Army with Banners
10.  Steve Howe  Nous Sommes du Soliel

1. Allan Holdsworth: Obsession (ex. Jack Bruce's A Question Of Time)

Takeshi Kovacs wrote: Raff wrote: Takeshi Kovacs wrote: A couple that spring to mind are: Dave Gilmour - Have A Cigar Buck Dharma - Astronomy (the version on Some Enchanted Evening) Happy to see another Buck Dharma fan! I love so many of his solos that I don't even know where to start... I'd give first prize to  "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" (notably the version on ET Live ), which I was so lucky to see him play live in Rome in 1986, or possibly "The Last Days of May" (the killer live version on A Long Day's Night ). As regards guitar solos in prog, I don't have too many favourites, since I hold that prog is not so much about guitar as about every instrument working together. Anyway, if I had to choose a few, I'd mention the following: David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb Greg Lake - Battlefield (in "Tarkus") Robert Fripp - Starless Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth Steve Howe - Siberian Khatru However, the overwhelming majority of my favourite guitar solos are either in the Prog-Related and Proto-Prog categories (namely anything by Ritchie Blackmore and the aforementioned Buck Dharma), or in classic rock and metal. An exception could be a musician who is featured on his site also as a member of a prog band - that is, Gary Moore (formerly with Colosseum II). I saw BOC in London in the Summer (for the first time!) and they played Astronomy, and it was great to be up there at the front about 20 feet away from the band. Buck and Eric Bloom must be early sixties now!

Takeshi Kovacs wrote: A couple that spring to mind are: Dave Gilmour - Have A Cigar Buck Dharma - Astronomy (the version on Some Enchanted Evening)

Happy to see another Buck Dharma fan! I love so many of his solos that I don't even know where to start... I'd give first prize to  "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" (notably the version on ET Live ), which I was so lucky to see him play live in Rome in 1986, or possibly "The Last Days of May" (the killer live version on A Long Day's Night ).

As regards guitar solos in prog, I don't have too many favourites, since I hold that prog is not so much about guitar as about every instrument working together. Anyway, if I had to choose a few, I'd mention the following:

David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb
Greg Lake - Battlefield (in "Tarkus")
Robert Fripp - Starless
Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth
Steve Howe - Siberian Khatru

However, the overwhelming majority of my favourite guitar solos are either in the Prog-Related and Proto-Prog categories (namely anything by Ritchie Blackmore and the aforementioned Buck Dharma), or in classic rock and metal. An exception could be a musician who is featured on his site also as a member of a prog band - that is, Gary Moore (formerly with Colosseum II).


Edited by Raff - November 07 2008 at 05:35