Best Prog Guitar Solo

You are right of course Cesar. What I would say is that some guitarists sound more emotional than others. The sound of Andy Latimer of Camel's guitar work for example to me sounds emotional.

In what I admit is a sweeping generalisation, I don't find that Petricci's guitar work sounds like he is putting much emotion into it. I readily acknowledge however that I may well be completely misjudging him!

"Yes but my point is that a lot of the newer guitar gods have got sucked into the Eddie Van Halen thing of speed is good"

Now I see your point more clearly, and I hope I'm more capable of understanding it. You're right at pinting out the dangers of excessive and gratuitious love for speed for the sake of it, but again, speed is not in itself an enemy of emotional pouring: I listen to Holdsworth and DiMeola, and I can tell you that these guys are really fast and skilfull, and at the same tiem, their lines and phrases are really moving.

Petrucci has done a lot of stuff that was emotional and pyrotechnical at the same time: his solos on 'Erotomania', 'Another Day', 'Misunderstood', 'Scarred', I find them really motivating on a personal level, as much as impressive from the merely technical point of view. At least that's how I feel about them.

Anyway, my vote went to Akkerman's amazing performance on 'Hocus Pocus': here comes another guitarist who is fast and emotional, sometimes simultaneously.

Alex Lifeson is another guitarist who is well crafted technically and capable of expressing and motivating pure emotion. Well, I could find lots of examples like them...

Regards.

arcer wrote: again not really prog but Richie Blackmore 's playing on the 'On Stage' version of 'Catch the Rainbow' is wonderful.

Well done, Arcer! Blackmore is probably my all-time fave guitarist. As to Rainbow, I feel the first three studio albums and the live should be in the Archives under Prog-Metal... After all, how do you call an eight-minute track with a backing orchestra like Stargazer, if not prog?

Back to the list, I like all of the first three, but my vote went (of course) to Dave...