Progarchives.com has always (since 2002) relied on banners ads to cover web hosting fees and all.
Please consider supporting us by giving monthly PayPal donations and help keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage") |
8 Great Guitarists - 8 Unforgettable Solos |
Post Reply 
|
Page 12> |
| Author | ||||
Magog2112 
Forum Senior Member 
Joined: February 05 2023 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 539 |
 Post Options
 Thanks(0)
 Quote Reply
 Topic: 8 Great Guitarists - 8 Unforgettable SolosPosted: August 03 2023 at 08:12 |
|||
|
1. Steve Hackett: "Firth of Fifth" 2. John Mitchell: "The Visitor" 3. Alex Lifeson: "Limelight" 4. Roine Stolt: "A King's Prayer" 5. David Gilmour: "Comfortably Numb" 6. Jimi Hendrix: "All Along the Watchtower" 7. Steve Rothery: "The Great Escape" 8. Nick Barrett: "It's Only Me"
|
||||
 |
||||
|
SteveG
Forum Senior Member
Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20609 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 04 2021 at 09:57 |
|||
|
||||
|
This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State.
|
||||
|
||||
|
BrufordFreak
Collaborator 
Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 25 2008 Location: Wisconsin Status: Offline Points: 8192 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 04 2021 at 09:25 |
|||
|
Jan Akkerman “Streetwalker” from Jan Akkerman Roy Buchanan “Fly… Night Bird” John McLaughlin (with Shakti) “Face to Face” from Natural Elements Pat Metheny “The Truth Will Always Be” from Secret Story Bruce Cockburn “The Tibetan Side of Town” from Big Circumstance Ray Gomez “Mating Drive” (from Lenny White’s Venusian Summer) Jeff Beck “Going Down” from “Orange” David Gilmour “Comfortably Numb” from The Wall Steve Howe “Awaken” from Yes’ Going for the One Ernie Isley “Summer Breeze” from 3 + 3 Todd Rundgren “The Last Ride” from Todd Robby Kreiger “Light My Fire” from The Doors Tom Scholz “Long Time” from Boston’s s/t debut Neil Young “Corez the Killer” from Live Rust Robert Fripp on David Sylvian’s “Upon This Earth” from Gone to Earth James Grant “Jocelyn Square” from Strange Kind of Love Mirek Gil on Collage’s “The Blues” from Moonshine Hiram Bullock on Sting’s Nothing Like the Sun “Little Wing” Adrian Belew “Big Electric Cat” from The Lone Rhino John Martyn “Small Hours” from One World Roye Albrighton “Always” from Evolution Pete Townsend “Rough Boys” Nick Barrett “Water” from Love Over Fear Allan Holdsworth “Sahara in the Snow” from Bruford’s One of a Kind Corrado Rustici “Vimana” from Nova’s Vimana Al Di Meola “The Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant” from RTF’s Romantic Warrior Frank Zappa “Black Napkins” and so many more! Edited by BrufordFreak - June 04 2021 at 09:25 |
||||
|
Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
||||
|
||||
|
BarryGlibb
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 28 2010 Location: Melbourne, Oz Status: Offline Points: 1781 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 02 2021 at 20:18 |
|||
|
Tommy by Jan Akkerman has always been my favourite prog guitarist solo. |
||||
|
||||
|
cstack3
Forum Senior Member
VIP Member Joined: July 20 2009 Location: Tucson, AZ USA Status: Offline Points: 7272 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 01 2021 at 17:50 |
|||
|
^Thanks, this is a thoughtful post!!
|
||||
|
I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!!
|
||||
|
||||
|
thief
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 21 2015 Location: Poland Status: Offline Points: 1546 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
Quote Reply
Posted: June 01 2021 at 15:39 |
|||
|
Okay I'll just stick to the original 8!
1. Steve Howe. Awaken There are actually two prominent solos off the top of my head and they both mop the floor with 95% of "classic rock" guitarists. Not even in terms of technical proficiency (although that's fantastic for 70s) but how well they fit into the song. That is a trademark sound if there is one... 2. Steve Hackett. The Lamia So I'm just being contrarian here, certainly Firth of Fifth is at least TOP3 solo of his career, but I feel The Lamia is so perfectly articulated, so yearning and full of emotion I can't leave it behind. Besides, it's one of the few iconic Hackett moments on TLLDOB, a great album that's not exactly the best display of skills. Also, for some reason, it just sounds so refreshing and original. Perhaps my favorite on this list. 3. David Gilmour. Dogs I just like Animals so much that I had to pick this one. I like Gilmour, but he never was as much of an inspiration as the guys above, perhaps I naturally followed more fiery and showoff axemen... Anyways, Dogs solo does it for me so why not? 4. Jimmy Page. Since I've Been Loving You (TSRTS) That man made me (and 80+ million other teenagers) believe that Les Paul solos are the best thing on Earth, or at least up there with tit*ies and beer. Yeah, there would be a Germany sized country if all Page fans settled there - free Rock Am Ring tickets for everyone in the constitution! Stairway, Achilles, Ten Years Gone, In the Evening, Dazed, I mean he has tons of solos. Stairway to Heaven might be the most influential and timeless of all - that's old news but true. But if I were to turn on YT today and let my jaw drop watching him go ballistic, I'd have this perfect blues rock tearjerker. Today! 5. Alex Lifeson. Limelight I know some solos are more accomplished and fascinating, but this one... this one comes to mind immediately when I think of Lifeson. What a great whammy control, what a flow... and that endless vibrato at the end, it just gets me every time! Seriously give it another shot if you can. Tight, lyrical, simply marvelous. (Ceterum censeo, Alex is underrated) 6. Allan Holdsworth. Letters of Marque What a showoff! But a genius, too. 7. Trevor Rabin. Owner of a Lonely Heart Maybe it's lazy, but this song is just iconic. That hectic, synthesized sound just screams 80s, in a good way. Bonus points for being the only solo I've heard in a mall (from this list). 8. Ritchie Blackmore. Child In Time So if Jimmy Page was like god to my teenage soul, giving my guitar dreams momentum and influencing my equipment choices for years to come... then Ritchie was like lovecraftian Ancient One, the One that started it all. The One who planted a seed, the One who had a Key. The Original Pissed-Off-Like-Titans-Thrown-To-Tartarus One. Seriously, I think he's made me ready for anything that guitar pantheon would throw at me later in life. Shredders following EVH footsteps? Okay. Thrash metal technicians, Vetterlis of the world? Gotcha. Filthy monstrosities brewed by Death, Cryptopsy, Psyopus? Sure! I mean, all of those guys are ferocious, brilliant, AND a lot of fun. But after being exposed to Ritchie's speedruns as a child, I can't be shocked anymore. To me it was Ritchie who invented TAKE NO PRISONERS approach in rock soloing, and I dare you to find pre-1970 record remotely as vicious as Deep Purple In Rock. And it's not only about balls, it's also about guitar storytelling. Blackmore solos truly are like stories, and the one told in Child In Time had so many satisfying twists and turns that would make George R. R. Martin jelly. Seriously, if I had a dime every time I was floored by Blackmore solo, I'd have like $92 in my pocket; and still couldn't afford a Rolling Stones concert Edited by thief - June 01 2021 at 15:42 |
||||
|
||||
|
noni
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 1092 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 28 2021 at 15:06 |
|||
|
Nick Barrett (Pendragon).... Breaking The Spell
|
||||
|
||||
|
noni
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 1092 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 28 2021 at 15:03 |
|||
I agree!
 |
||||
|
||||
|
dr wu23
Forum Senior Member
Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20623 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 28 2021 at 12:07 |
|||
Mike Holmes.....love the almost 2 minute one on Province of the King from Frequency.  |
||||
|
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin |
||||
|
||||
|
Steve Wyzard
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 30 2017 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 2583 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 28 2021 at 10:01 |
|||
My favorite solo from the albums under his name is "The Un-Merry-Go-Round" from Metal Fatigue - truly epic!
|
||||
|
||||
|
tszirmay
Special Collaborator 
Honorary Collaborator Joined: August 17 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 6673 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 28 2021 at 08:10 |
|||
|
No Santana? hahahahaha! Too many to choose from. How about Transcendence or Every Step of the Way or Europa or...
|
||||
|
I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
|
||||
|
||||
|
I prophesy disaster
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 31 2017 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 4780 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 28 2021 at 07:03 |
|||
|
A guitar solo that I quite like is one that I don't think would be on anyone's radar: the guitar solo in KA II.
|
||||
|
No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
|
||||
|
||||
|
Nogbad_The_Bad
Forum & Site Admin Group
RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 20850 |
Post Options
Thanks(1)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 28 2021 at 06:04 |
|||
|
Not Fripp no Nogbad, Babies On Fire, nuff said
|
||||
|
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
||||
|
||||
|
dwill123
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 19 2006 Status: Offline Points: 4460 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 28 2021 at 05:32 |
|||
|
Frank Gambale "The Natives Are Restless". There is a live version on YouTube where the guitar playing is even more insane. Terry Kath (Chicago) "Sing a Mean Tune Kid". Long song, solo starts around 4:19) |
||||
|
||||
|
essexboyinwales
Forum Senior Member
Joined: April 27 2015 Location: Bridgend Status: Offline Points: 4970 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 28 2021 at 02:21 |
|||
|
Steve Rothery - Sugar Mice
John Petrucci - solo at the end of The Best Of Times Mike Holmes - so many! But how about the one at the end of Zero Hours?.... |
||||
|
||||
|
cstack3
Forum Senior Member
VIP Member Joined: July 20 2009 Location: Tucson, AZ USA Status: Offline Points: 7272 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 27 2021 at 22:36 |
|||
Bloody hell, I meant Stargazer, not Man on the Silver Mountain!!
 |
||||
|
I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!!
|
||||
|
||||
|
richardh
Prog Reviewer
Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 28059 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 27 2021 at 13:20 |
|||
|
Blimey, no mention so far of Stargazer for Ritchie Blackmore!
Hackett - Firth Of Fifth Gilmour - Comfortably Numb Howe - Wurm Greg Lake (yes I'm including him!) - Battlefield Mike Holmes - The Last Human Gateway (Edited version on the Lost Attic) |
||||
|
||||
|
yogev
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 09 2021 Location: Israel Status: Offline Points: 396 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 27 2021 at 13:12 |
|||
I was going to say that. his best solo ever.
|
||||
|
||||
|
Sacro_Porgo
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 15 2019 Location: Cygnus Status: Offline Points: 2057 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 27 2021 at 12:37 |
|||
|
Here's some I love from some of the guitarists mentioned:
Steve Howe - Starship Trooper (from part III, The Wurm) Steve Hackett - The Musical Box David Gilmore - I agree, Dogs is the one for me Jimmy Page - hard to beat Stairway no? Alex Lifeson - one of my all time favorites has always been from 2112: Soliloquy, just after the line "this cold and empty life" Ritchie Blackmore - I'm not nearly as well versed in his catalogue as the previous guitarists, but to me the solo in Smoke On The Water is one of the most well written and well performed in classic rock cannon Holdsworth - I've only got one album from this guy, it's pretty much solo all the way through, and it's all really good Trevor Rabin - not super well versed here either, but I know 90125 really well. Owner Of A Lonely Heart does it for me. Those mind bending dissonances and that angular phrasing are not easily forgotten. Martin Barre - Aqualung, that song's secret weapon Mark Knopfler - Sultans, you know the part.
|
||||
|
Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
|
||||
|
||||
|
Grumpyprogfan
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 09 2019 Location: Kansas City Status: Offline Points: 11630 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
Quote Reply
Posted: May 27 2021 at 10:18 |
|||
 Others.... Pat Metheny, Frank Zappa, Steve Morse, John Petrucci, Kerry Livgren, Guthrie Govan. And the criminally neglected guitarists on PA... Mike Keneally and Phil Miller.
|
||||
|
||||
|
Post Reply
|
Page 12> |
| Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |
Topic Options
essexboyinwales wrote:
