Favourite Guitar Solos?

Here are some current favorites:
-Gary Green on Gentle Giant's "Just the Same"
-Brett Kull on Echolyn's "A Habit Worth Forming"
-Phil Miller on Hatfield and the North's "Fitter Stoke Has a Bath"
-Mike Holmes on IQ's "The Wake"
-Jan Akkerman on Focus' "Focus II"
 
Ask me again tomorrow, and I'll probably have another 5

"In The Light" - Mahaley Star

"Tarkus" - Emerson, Lake, & Palmer

"Mission" - Rush

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My favorite guitar solos in no order:

1. Dream Theater - "A Change of Seasons": the final jazz solo in "The Inevitable Summer": it develops to a point of chillling and blinding beauty, and from there brilliantly progresses to the finale.

2. Enchant - "Sinking Sands": very emotional and epic solo; the MP3's on this site, download it and listen to it!!

3. Yes - "Close to the Edge": perhaps not a solo in the best sense of the term, but Steve Howe's leads that he plays after Jon Anderson's final "La-da-da-da-daaaa!!" in the intro. Very moving.

4. Dream Theater - "Overture 1928": the solo that reprises the melody of Labrie's final vocal parts on "Metropolis Part One" and the masterful solo that is reprised at the end of "Finally Free"; I have trouble understanding how ANYONE can listen to that and tell me that Dream Theater is just showing off, because it's also easy to play

5. Metallica - "Welcome Home Sanitarium": the very first slow solo is very powerful and epic; gives you a mental image similar to the cloud-filled horizon on the album cover

6. Yes - "South Side of the Sky": the outro solo is fantastic; it shows you that the simplest solos are often the most powerful and epic

7. Black Sabbath - "NIB": a personal favorite of mine; one of Iommi's best solos, and the playing of it several times throughout the song was awesome

....there's more, but I can think no longer!!

Manuel Gottsching's delicate electric guitar solo on the very beautiful and spacey Midnight on Mars (from the Ashra era) 

coffeeintheface wrote: My favorite guitar solos in no order: 3. Yes - "Close to the Edge": perhaps not a solo in the best sense of the term, but Steve Howe's leads that he plays after Jon Anderson's final "La-da-da-da-daaaa!!" in the intro. Very moving.

Yes how could i forget thats one of the best solos ever!

And Master of puppets the song have a fantastic one i love very much, but seriusly its imposible to remember all great solos one have heard through the years.

Genesis (Hackett) - Firth Of Fifth;

Steve Hackett - Every Day;

Yes (Howe) - Starship Trooper.

David Gilmour - Both CN soloes, specifically the Pulse version

David Gilmour - SOYCD (DSOT version is my favorite)

David Gilmour - Sorrow

David Gilmour - Marooned

David Gilmour - Dogs

David Gilmour - Time

Greg Lake - KE9/1/2

Greg Lake - Tarkus (Battlefield)

Steve Howe - Sound Chaser

Steve Howe - Starship Trooper

david gilmour - comfortably numb, time, soycd, mother, dogs

john petrucci - a change of seasons, lines in the sand, home, the spirit carries on, hollow years (on
         &nbs p;         &nbs p;  live at budokan), learning to live

alex lifeson - la villa strangiato, yyz, 2112

steve hackett - firth of fifth

steve rothery - the web, chelsea monday

steve howe - mood for a day, sound chaser

"Surfing..." is my favourite Satch track - but there are so many great solos around...

 

5) "Script for a Jester's Tear" - Marillion

4) "Let There Be Rock" - AC/DC

3) "Lady Fantasy" - Camel

2) "Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd

1) "Forgotten Sons" - Marillion

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Matt0001 wrote: Robert Fripp's solo on Sailor's Tale.

Yes, that is quite a demented guitar performance: arythmic, atonal, yet somehow you just gotta keep listening to it---there's a lot of emotional intensity in Fripp's delivery.