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Olympus 
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 02:07 |
Vote for your favorite guitar solo from any type of music.
My favorites are the Starway to heaven solo by jimmy Page and Starship Trooper by Steve Howe
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SenorValasco
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 02:52 |
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Send Me An Angel by Neal Schon from the album Beyond The Thunder.
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Ricochet
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 02:54 |
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Is the middle part from Trespass,with the electrifying part played by Philips,considered a guitar solo?If so,YEAH!
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 02:59 |
alot of petrucci solos on the scenes from a memory dvd...like on the spirit carries on  and on voices and especially on a change of seasons
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Blacksword
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 04:41 |
Lunar Sea (Camel) - Andy Latimer
Starship Trooper (Yes) - Steve Howe
Since I been loving you (Zep) - Jimmy Page
Xanadu (Rush) - Alex Lifeson (Especially the ESL live version!)
No one at the bridge - (Rush - From the Fountain of Lamneth) - Alex Lifeson
Freewill - (Rush) - Alex LIfeson
Comfatbly Numb (Floyd) - Dave Gilmour
Everyday - Steve Hackett
Spectral Mornings - Steve Hackett
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Cygnus
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 04:50 |
Gates of Babylon - Rainbow
La villa Strangiato - Rush
Throw down the sword - Whishbone ash
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 04:55 |
Now if we are suddenly getting on the non progressive side of things then:
Dave Murrays solos on:
Killers
Sign Of the cross
Run to the hills
The duellists
and flight of icarus
are the best guitar solos ever!!! and davey is the best guitar player ever!!!
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fender101
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 04:57 |
 Blacksword wrote:
Starship Trooper (Yes) - Steve Howe
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This is really a bad solo I dont know why people give it any credit at all. Its just out of time and frankly very typical.
Prog
Rush - La Villa Stranglatio
Pink Floyd - Shine On
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
ELP - Some part of Karn Evil 9 (Not so much a solo but still great guitar)
Non-Prog
ACDC - Highway to Hell
Zeppelin - Since I've been loving you
Ozzy Osbourne (Zakk Wylde) - No More Tears (AWESOME!!! HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS ONE)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Well I could go on for years!
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Well McGarnical Billy is dead! They slit his throat from ear to ear!
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Phil
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 05:08 |
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Blimey, there's loads. Steve Howe on intro to "Close to the Edge", also
during 1st part of "Awaken". Fripp in "Easy Money". Dave Gilmour on
"Comfortably Numb" and "Money". Steve Hackett in "Firth of Forth".
McLaughlin in "Meeting of the Spirits". Zappa on "Willie the Pimp".
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Blacksword
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 05:15 |
fender101 wrote:
Blacksword wrote:
Starship Trooper (Yes) - Steve Howe
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This is really a bad solo I dont know why people give it any credit at all. Its just out of time and frankly very typical.
Prog
Rush - La Villa Stranglatio
Pink Floyd - Shine On
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
ELP - Some part of Karn Evil 9 (Not so much a solo but still great guitar)
Non-Prog
ACDC - Highway to Hell
Zeppelin - Since I've been loving you
Ozzy Osbourne (Zakk Wylde) - No More Tears (AWESOME!!! HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS ONE)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Well I could go on for years!
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A lot of Howes lead guitar playing sounds 'messy' and he's not among my favourite guitarists for that reason. However, the closing section of Starship Trooper I find very dramatic, and his solo is very effective in that context.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 05:18 |
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And i prefer jazzier guitarists instead of blusier guitarists nowadays actually...
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Tony Fisher
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 05:59 |
The solo on Everyday by Steve Hackett is everything that is good about prog guitar playing: two finger tapping, effects, melody, speed, control, emotion.
There are many other good solos (Latimer does dozens, as do Hackett, Gilmour, Green, Rothery etc etc etc) but this is my favourite.
And if we're including non prog, just about anything by Wishbone Ash is great but the solo on Living Proof (from Just Testing) is particularly superb as is the whole of Argus.
Edited by Tony Fisher
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rockandrail
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 07:11 |
Led zeppelin I - Dazed and Confused
Colosseum live - Lost angeles
Genesis Selling - Firth of fith
Deep Purple in Rock - Child in time
So many others....
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Pierre R, the man who lost his signature
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johnnyalien
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 18:06 |
City Boy's guitarist, Mike Slammer's solo on "Cigarettes" from the "Book Early" album.
Frank Zappa's solo on "Inca Roads" or "San Ber'dino" from "One Size Fits All"
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From eternity and back, we come and go.
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Philrod
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 19:51 |
probably shine on...but solos are not what I like the most!
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The Miracle
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 21:48 |
It's very hard to pick...
My top right now are
- Jimmy on Since I've Been Loveng You (How The West Was Won)
- Petrucci on Beyond This Life (Live @ Budokan)
- Child In Time
- Smith/Murray on Trooper
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con safo
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 22:08 |
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Deep Purple - Child In Time
Genesis - Return Of The Giant Hogweed
Yes - Starship Trooper
Pink Floyd - Dogs (all of them)
The Doors - My Eyes Have Seen You
atm
Edited by con safo
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johnnyalien
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 22:11 |
YA, Child In Time is a tight song
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transend
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Posted: September 27 2005 at 22:18 |
Easy to pick three...
Zappa - Torture never stops - 'You cant do that on stage Vol 1'
Brian May - Brighton Rock - 'Queen live killers' version.
David Gilmour - Pigs -three different ones -June '77 -Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio
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BaldFriede
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Posted: September 28 2005 at 02:02 |
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The solo of Steve Hackett in the live version of "The Knife" is one of my all time favourites.
Two other great ones are by a sadly very little known guitar player,
Roman Bunka (of Embryo, Aera and his own band). On the "Live" album of
Aera he plays an excellent one in "Lost Scooters", and on his first
solo album "Dein Kopf ist ein schlafendes Auto" he plays an incredible
one at the end of "Heartbeat", starting very slow and bluesy, with only
a few seemingly random notes, but picking up an incredible pace after a
while and going really wild.
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