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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:


Eddie Van Halen - Eruption


Ritchie Blackmore - Highway Star


Steve Vai - Fire Garden Suite


yes there are many others including Satriani...but none of their antics reached the heights of the above. 


Those in bold: YES! 

Lots of people are quick to call For The Love of God Vai's masterpiece but Fire Garden really trumps it in just about every measurable metric. The piano/acoustic guitar duel in the middle? Absolute brilliance. 

As for Eddie, I love Eruption as much as the next man, but I think some of my top 5 from him would be:

5. Bottoms Up! (2nd solo)
4. Fools (Intro)
3. Feelin' 
2. One Foot Out The Door
1. HOUSE OF PAIN!!!!!!!!

Hmmm, I'm trying to think of any Satriani solos that are in the same league... It's tough for him because he has so many guitar solos that are really good, but very few that stand out as great among the rest. The only one that really stands out for me is Crushing Day. The epitome of shredding right there. 
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Browsing through the 7 pages of responses it looks like quite a few of my favourites are already listed. Here are some that haven't been listed yet:

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird - I'm not begin sarcastic; this is genuinely a brilliantly written solo. Such great pacing and phrasing with all the build-ups, this one definitely deserves to be as long as it is. I love how it keeps such a bluegrass sort of feel with the high octane hard rock energy. And don't even get me started on how incredible Ed King's bass parts are on the original studio recording. Honestly, drunken rednecks at concerts have fine taste! Interesting to note: the chord progression is (nearly) identical to the coda of Starship Trooper.

Blackfoot - Highway Song - Of course, after Free Bird came out, every Southern Rock band decided that they had to conclude their albums with 1 part slow ballad, 1 part uptempo guitar shred-fest. Rickey Medlocke's take on it is no doubt one of the most effective uses of this formula, though; the minor key feel makes the whole song, and especially the last few minutes where he lets loose, so haunting. Love it!

Outlaws - Stick Around For Rock N' Roll - Most people will look at Green Grass and High Tides as the ultimate display of honky tonkin' country rockin' goodness that these guys recorded, and I would too, but it was already listed earlier in the thread, so this is my supplement. Every solo in this is fantastic; I don't think any song better captures the spirit of Southern Rock, the freedom of the open road, and everything that's awesome about America, better than this one. 

Rayuela - Vendre Con El Tiempo - Of course I can't make this entire list Southern Rock (even if the whole thread should be!), so here's some prog out of Argentina. The guitar solo that ends the album off is so romantic, so haunting, so spine-tingling. The melody is almost cliche, but the delivery is so compelling that it doesn't matter. One of my favourite beautiful moments in music.

Ted Nugent - Fred Bear - The best of the best. This'll blow any wussy prog solo right out of the water. The absolute textbook definition and epitome of a rock guitar solo; driving, exhilarating, liberating. This is pure adrenaline put to music right here. If you can put this on and not find yourself air guitaring, headbanging, or daydreaming of running through the bush naked, trampling over innocent woodland creatures and wrestling grizzly bears into submission, then you need to get something checked out.
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My all time favourite is the closing solo of Throw Down The Sword by Wishbone Ash.

Honourable mentions also to Comfortably Numb, Brothers In Arms, and, like the OP, I love Paul Gilbert's solo at the end of Neal Morse's The Door.
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In no special order, other than the first one:

Fred Frith (Henry Cow, LegEnd) - Teenbeat Reprise
Ted Turner (Wishbone Ash, Argus) - The King Will Come
Paolo Tofani (Area, Caution Radiation Area) - ZYG (Cressida Zero)
Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Tempel, s/t) - Amboss
Manuel Göttsching (Manuel Göttsching, Inventions for Electric Guitar) - Echo Waves
Phil Miller (Hatfield and the North, s/t) - Gigantic Land-Crabs In Earth Takeover Bid
Martin Pugh (Steamhammer, s/t) - Junior's Wailing
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd, DSOTM) - Time
Andy Latimer (Camel, Mirage) - Freefall
Anthony Phillips (Genesis, Tresspass) - The Knife
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Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:


Eddie Van Halen - Eruption


Ritchie Blackmore - Highway Star


Steve Vai - Fire Garden Suite


yes there are many others including Satriani...but none of their antics reached the heights of the above. 


Those in bold: YES! 

Lots of people are quick to call For The Love of God Vai's masterpiece but Fire Garden really trumps it in just about every measurable metric. The piano/acoustic guitar duel in the middle? Absolute brilliance. 

As for Eddie, I love Eruption as much as the next man, but I think some of my top 5 from him would be:

5. Bottoms Up! (2nd solo)
4. Fools (Intro)
3. Feelin' 
2. One Foot Out The Door
1. HOUSE OF PAIN!!!!!!!!

Hmmm, I'm trying to think of any Satriani solos that are in the same league... It's tough for him because he has so many guitar solos that are really good, but very few that stand out as great among the rest. The only one that really stands out for me is Crushing Day. The epitome of shredding right there. 

One i forgot is obviously Dimebag Darrell. Solos such as on "The SLeep" are brilliant. That was just a quick sampling. EVH had many great solos as did all i mentioned, but the ones i listed are the ones that made the biggest impact on me i guess. If you haven't heard the others i listed you should check them out. I only listed the absolute top notch artists of the field. Vai's "For THe Love Of God" is a great track but the monotonous chord progressions gets dull if you aren't focusing on the solo itself. Still impressive though. The reason you couldn't think of a Satriani track is the same reason i couldn't - he's just not in the same league!
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My all time favorite guitar solo is the one of Stairway to Heaven.
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van halen? hendrix? kiss? etc, etc! since when are these guys progressive? lol
listen to Oblivion Sun "Deckard" that is an example of real prog!
 
 
 
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That's a hard one. One that readily comes to mind is Hackett's on Firth of Fifth.
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Saga - Catwalk
Marillion - Easter
Tears for Fears - Shout
Wishbone Ash - Persephone (all 4 or 5 solos in the song Smile)
Barclay James Harvest  - After the Day (middle an endsolo)
Camel - Summerlightning (really)
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Gov't Mule - Towering Fool
Uriah Heep - Shelter from the Rain
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Originally posted by Magnum Vaeltaja Magnum Vaeltaja wrote:

As for Eddie, I love Eruption as much as the next man, but I think some of my top 5 from him would be:
5. Bottoms Up! (2nd solo)
4. Fools (Intro)
3. Feelin' 
2. One Foot Out The Door
1. HOUSE OF PAIN!!!!!!!!

Push Comes to Shove



Oh, and Beat It, of course.




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^ what about Drop Dead Legs?
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^ Fun, though it is textbook Ed, his most cookie-cutter solo.   The riff, on the other hand, is kickin' .
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David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (2nd solo, especially live), On An Island, High Hopes
John Petrucci - Breaking All Illusions, Voices, A New Beginning
Nick Barrett - Masters of Illusion, A Man of Nomadic Traits, And Finally
John Mitchell - The Eyes of Lara Moon (Arena), Black Light Machine (Frost*), Dear Dead Days (Frost*)
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Any live Richard Thompson.
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One of my favorites is Alex Lifeson's solo in Freewill
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Originally posted by RoeDent RoeDent wrote:

David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (2nd solo, especially live
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

^ Fun, though it is textbook Ed, his most cookie-cutter solo.   The riff, on the other hand, is kickin' .


Agreed. Love the riff in Drop Dead Legs but one of my least favourite Van Halen solos (it's still good, though). Push Comes To Shove is another notable one, though what stands out to me in that song is Michael Anthony's bass at the start. Refreshingly smooth/funky for a really heavy album.


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I really like Robert Fripp's solos on Another Green World by Brian Eno, especially on "St. Elmo's Fire".
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