Best Prog Guitar Solo

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

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Did it for Dave as well...

 

Lifeson's on La Villa Strangiato.

Still gives me goosebumps!!

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

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?

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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I think the best solo I've ever heard for guitar is the solo from Fripp on Lark's Tongues part I.

Best bass solo would be anything from Victor Wooten, though I can't really make the difference between his different works. I'm not that good yet....

Best drumsolo, now here's a hard one, since the drummers I think have the most merit have hardly played any drums. I like Bruford's work a LOT, but his solo on Yessongs was not as amazing as his Fragile-work. But then again, if you can count five percent as a solo he's the man.

Keyboard solo would be Wakeman on Edge, great stuff, from the master.

Out of the list, Gilmour.

John Mclaughlin on Dance of Maya sounds very bad to me, especially that reworked boogie section - all I hear is bluff and no music - what am I missing?

It's impossible to pin down one solo as favourite, but (just for today) here are my top 5 gems;

Steve Hillage on "Angel's Egg" - "Castle in the Clouds".

Steve Rothery on "Script..." - "Forgotten Sons".

Andy Latimer on "Mirage" - "Lady Fantasy".

Joe Satriani on "Surfing With the Alien" - title track.

John Squires on "Do It Yourself" (Seahorses) - "Love is the Law".

WaterGate wrote: 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?

Not true.  I attended atleast 8 of those TDB concerts, including the Giant Stadium one here in NJ where they did the entire DSOTM album.  He played that CN solo (1&2)... like a true guitar god... every concert I saw him ... and I hit quite a few of the shows cross country.  I agree that the version of this done on the PULSE cd is absolutely incredible... it makes you drop to your knees and pound your hands on the ground... it was that good!!  I have about 7 different versions of CN from studio, live and bootlegs recordings.

As I mentioned before, David said that on this tour.. in New Orleans on May 14th, 1994... that his performance of CN was the best he ever did...  How unfortunate that I wasn't at this show....  anybody got a bootleg??.......

And its true that DG could sure play with emotion.  My second favorite solo by him is Dogs... but that version of SOYCD from the Delicate Sound of Thunder cd is another drop to your knees moment....

 

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