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Fraja

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Posted: October 07 2005 at 06:39

My Fav solos are:

1.Brighton Rock

2.Ice

3.Comfortably Numb

4.Crazy Train

5.Heaven And Hell

Ray Lomas

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Posted: September 29 2005 at 05:45

Here are my favourites:

Jimmy Page - Communication Breakdown

Anthony Philips - The Knife

Gary Green - Funny Ways

Martin Barre - Aqualung

Steve Howe - Starship Trooper

Several Frank Zappa's solos and Michael Schenker's solos on UFO's Strangers In The Night

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Posted: September 29 2005 at 05:42

ROBERT FRIPP playing his Gibson Les Paul in "Evening Star", which is on the ablum with the same name.

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Posted: September 29 2005 at 04:34

Jeremy Bender wrote:

HIGH HOPES-DAVID GILMOUR

Brilliant Dave is at the Lap Steel. Excellent work on Shine on and One of these days with the steel as well.

Well McGarnical Billy is dead! They slit his throat from ear to ear!

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Posted: September 29 2005 at 03:49

Tony Fisher wrote:

The solo on Everyday by Steve Hackett is everything that is good about prog guitar playing: two finger tapping, effects, melody, speed, control, emotion.

There are many other good solos (Latimer does dozens, as do Hackett, Gilmour, Green, Rothery etc etc etc) but this is my favourite.

I second this! I could easily listen to it ten times a day but I try to refrain as I don't want to get bored with it, lol. Three and a half minutes of pure guitar bliss, and not a second too long at that; a wonderfully composed solo, which just keeps growing until the very end. Granted, I only have the live version from Time Lapse so far, but I look forward to hear the studio version at some point soon.

I was made to love magic

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Posted: September 28 2005 at 16:00

HIGH HOPES-DAVID GILMOUR

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Posted: September 28 2005 at 14:14

DEATH - Voice of the Soul

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Posted: September 28 2005 at 14:07

queen - bohemian rhapsody

lynyrd skynyrd - freebird

beyond this life - live at budokan - dt

yours is disgrace (or something) - yes

We want... a shrubbery!

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Posted: September 28 2005 at 14:00

The my all time fav solo would be Petrucci's solo from Lie.. not 2 long, powerfull, melodic, gives me shivers... what would I want more?

If You want a perfect blend of emotions & skill try his opening solo from "Freedom of Speech" by LTE.. my 2nd fav of all time (followed by Wasted Years)

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Posted: September 28 2005 at 13:58

maidenrulez wrote:

Now if we are suddenly getting on the non progressive side of things then:

Dave Murrays solos on:

Killers

Sign Of the cross

Run to the hills

The duellists

and flight of icarus

are the best guitar solos ever!!! and davey is the best guitar player ever!!!

Me likes Murray very much but Adrian SMith is just better...

Amazing riffs & solos from somewhere in time (Wasted Years)

The guitar harmonies on the title track form 7th Son of a 7th Son are awesome & jaw opening

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Posted: September 28 2005 at 13:55

In no order or genre -

Marrillion - Out of This World (short but great emotion in that solo)

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (powerful)

Genesis - Firth of Fifth (especially on Seconds Out)

Holdsworth (UK - In The Dead of Night and on Jean Luc Ponty's Nostalgia from the Individual Choice album - the Nostalgia solo is one of my all time favorites. send chills up my spine - it's incredible)

Yes - Starship Troopers

Be Bop Deluxe - Sister Seagull (great guitar work all over that song - check out Axe Victim by them if you haven't already. Bill Nelson tears it up quite a bit on that album)

Van Halen - You can't deny the inpact that "Eruption" has.

Montrose - Town Without Pity (great version - Open Fire album is a guitar fan must have)

Queen - Brighton Rock

There is so much, I better stop or I'll be here all day!!!

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Posted: September 28 2005 at 13:37

My Top 10 in no particularly order:

Paco de Lucia-Entre dos aguas

Andy Latimer-Ice

David Gilmour-Comfortably numb (live)

Alex Lifeson-La villa strangiato (live)

Steve Hackett-Firth of fifth (Seconds out version)

Steve Rothery-The web

Steve Howe-Roundabout (Yessongs version)

Jimmy Page-Stairway to heaven (The song remains the same version)

Brian Setzer-Drive like lightning/crash like thunder (Live in Japan with Brian Setzer Orchestra)

Eric Clapton-White room

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Posted: September 28 2005 at 13:27

my king of solos is dave gilmour, when i play his material, its just make me to think more:"wow what a brilliant solo!".

i love his solos on:"Shine On You Crazy diamond", and also in "Have A Cigar", and there is a lot more...

i love fripp guitar work in the song "Well le You Know" on Starless and Bible Black...

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Posted: September 28 2005 at 13:16

Remembering back... I was very emotionally related to the following solos, purely ordered as they come to my mind:

Firth of fifth Steve Hackett

Yours is no disgrace Yessongs version Steve Howe

Lark's tongues in Aspic part I Robert Fripp

Comfortably Numb Live David Gilmour

The song remains the same Live Jimmi Page

Child in time Studio version Richie Blackmore

Larks' tongues part 2 BBoom Adrian Belew

Zappa...which one would I pick???

Hendrix-SRV Voodoo chile

La VIlla Strangiato Alex Lifeson

etc etc better I post it otherwise I go on...

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Posted: September 28 2005 at 02:02

The solo of Steve Hackett in the live version of "The Knife" is one of my all time favourites.
Two other great ones are by a sadly very little known guitar player, Roman Bunka (of Embryo, Aera and his own band). On the "Live" album of Aera he plays an excellent one in "Lost Scooters", and on his first solo album "Dein Kopf ist ein schlafendes Auto" he plays an incredible one at the end of "Heartbeat", starting very slow and bluesy, with only a few seemingly random notes, but picking up an incredible pace after a while and going really wild.

BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.

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Posted: September 27 2005 at 22:18

Easy to pick three...

Zappa - Torture never stops - 'You cant do that on stage Vol 1'

Brian May - Brighton Rock - 'Queen live killers' version.

David Gilmour - Pigs -three different ones -June '77 -Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio

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Posted: September 27 2005 at 22:11

YA, Child In Time is a tight song

From eternity and back, we come and go.

con safo

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Posted: September 27 2005 at 22:08

Deep Purple - Child In Time
Genesis - Return Of The Giant Hogweed
Yes - Starship Trooper
Pink Floyd - Dogs (all of them)
The Doors - My Eyes Have Seen You

atm

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