Best Prog Guitar Solo

I have to say La villa is probably my favourite Rush piece and Hemispheres one of my favourite albums. Alex has plenty of amazing and intricate guitar work. Although not prog I am a big fan of Joe Satriani particularily of the Surfing with the Alien album. If you guys can get hold of Dance Of The Flames by Guru Guru listen to Houshcang Nejadepour's soloing. The track ''Day Of Timestop'' contains some of the the fastest fretwork I have ever heard and is comparable to John Mclaughlin's electric work and Akkerman's fills on Hcus Pocus with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Two other McLaughlin electric solos are from Visions of The Emerald Beyond. The one from Lilas Dance the piece begins with a minor keyed piano intro and develops into a Frankenstien of a compsition. Brutal guitar solo with the amp cranked to ELEVEN. The other track is Be Happy where he duels with violinist JL Ponty and coaxes some interesting feedback out of his amp, and once again his Marshall is cranked up to ELEVEN. As a drummer it's funny, I hate listening to drum solos. The only exception would be Bruford's solo on Perpetual Change on the live Yessongs album. I can't stand Peart's Rythm method . C'mon Niel come up with something different. Does anyone have any comments about Holdsworth's solos?

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My vote goes to Mr. Gilmour.

But if I could choose I would prefer the version played in the PULSE concert. Have you heard it? What an amazing solo! So wonderful...
But I have a doubt about this solo during PULSE tour, I've been reading David has some kind of pre-arrangements prepared in the studio and in fact it isn't really a live solo.
Maybe I'm wrong, could someone tell me more about it?

Comfortably numb, defintely. But.... solo 1 or 2?

It's not a traditional guitar solo per se, but Belew and Fripp doing "Indiscipline" has some of my favorite guitar work of all time. I'm pretty sure Larry LaLonde would agree . "Matte Kudasai" is another favorite, and Fripp's sweeping lead on "The Night Watch" is beautiful, too.

On a similar track, Belew's "Naive Guitar" from his Lone Rhino solo album gives me goosebumps. Is Belew's solo stuff in the archives?

It's hard to pick a favorite Zappa solo...there's so many great ones. The title tracks to both "Apostrophe" and "Zoot Allures" are pretty choice.

I'm not saying he's a virtuoso, but Justin Hayward has some great moments- the guitar is pretty tasty on "Isn't Life Strange" and the final (almost Brian May-ish) moments of "Procession" from "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour".

I like Lifeson's solo on "La Villa Strangiato" even better than "XYZ".

Howe could have done 15 minutes more of soloing at the end of "A Venture" and I wouldn't have complained one bit; I love his (less often used) fuzz tone. I'm not a huge fan of "Clap", but "Mood for a Day" is classic.

"Dogs" has my favorite Gilmour lead- the double-tracked bit- but my PF guitar highlight has to be the climax to "Echoes".

Whoops, almost forgot- I love the guitar solos on Mezquita's "Recuerdos de mi Terra". Somewhere between Steve Howe, Dick Dale, and Carlos Montoya .

The guy from "Deus ex Machina" is pretty amazing, too. Check out "Macte Aequitatem"...but listen quick, or you might miss his genius...

 

 

 

 

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Lifeson's on La Villa Strangiato.

Still gives me goosebumps!!

Did it for Dave as well...

 

You get the gist of it chose any solo you like these are just a few of my faves.

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