What are your favorite guitar solos?

[Camel Jockey]

Maybe this had been discussed before, but incase it hasn't..


Mine are:

November Rain - Guns 'n' Roses (all three solos)
One - Metallica (both)
Sweet Child of mine - Gun 'n' Roses
Four Horsemen - Metallica (midway and towards the end)
Since I've been Loving you - Led Zeppelin (The first guitar solo)

[njflex]

going way back intro to van halens 'hear about later' and the solo,intro to 'fools 'on vh women and children first,little guitars off diver down.

[AVBG]

Eruption - EVH .. 'nuff said.

[Havenbull]

Polaris - Rust in Peace - Megadeth

Jump in the Fire - Metallica - Kell 'Em All

[Bluto]

The Kinks - You Really Got Me  (Dave Davies)

[Saxon]

Manowar - Battle Hymns

[UK Gold]

Maiden - the trooper
Manowar - pleasureslave
Zep - since i've been loving you
Dream theater - Any off metroplis part 2
King Diamond - Lurking in the dark
Britney Spears - crazy

[UK Gold]

For the love of god - steve vai [apart from the spoken word shit at the end]

[UK Gold]

THIS IS THE BEST SOLO OF ALL TIME!!!!
[although i bet most getbiggers could play stuff like this when they were ten ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhjDIY0B3IE

[The Master]

THIS IS THE BEST SOLO OF ALL TIME!!!!
[although i bet most getbiggers could play stuff like this when they were ten ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhjDIY0B3IE

Great stuff, I think he won a grammy or something for that G3 performance

[powerpack]

"Still of the night" by White snake
"Love removal machine" by the Cult

[Saxon]

THIS IS THE BEST SOLO OF ALL TIME!!!!
[although i bet most getbiggers could play stuff like this when they were ten ]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhjDIY0B3IE

I was 8 when I could play that 

Another I just thought of

Candlemass - Black Stone Wielder .... the way it kicks in over the most kick ass riff in metal at 04:31 is

[Bluto]

michael jackson - beat it

[BroadStreetBruiser]

Waiting for the Bus - ZZ Top
Mind Control - Slayer
I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide - ZZ Top (2nd solo)

[ButtonMan]

Goat Worship  -  Beherit

[natural al]

michael jackson - beat it

that's actually Eddie Van halen doing the solo and Steve Lukather playing rythm guitar.
some cool solo's worth checking out if you get a chance:

Vito Bratta-leave me alone from white lion's Mane Attraction CD.
Reb Beach-Baptized by Fire off of wingers Heart of the Young CD
EVH's work on Pleasure Dome from the FUCK CD

anything from Dream Theatre's Scenes from a Memory, Vai's work on the movie Crossroads....there's more but that's all I can think of right now.

[troponin]

Waiting for the Bus - ZZ Top
Mind Control - Slayer
I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide - ZZ Top (2nd solo)

Billy Gibbons, incredible guitarist. 
Try playing La Grange....half the solo is one note....total control of the guitar.

[troponin]

that's actually Eddie Van halen doing the solo and Steve Lukather playing rythm guitar.

Isn't the solo supposed to be a one take, no practice, 'just wing it' solo as well?

[BroadStreetBruiser]

Billy Gibbons, incredible guitarist. 
Try playing La Grange....half the solo is one note....total control of the guitar.

Yeah, you have to hit the string with the pick and your thumb at the same time at different points along the string. It's some sort of pitch harmonic.

[natural al]

Isn't the solo supposed to be a one take, no practice, 'just wing it' solo as well?

ed actually did 2 solo's, I'm pretty sure he winged it and MJ picked out the one he liked best, if you go on youtube there's actually a clip of Ed onstage with the jacksons trading licks with Tito, I haven't seen it in along time but I think Tito is doing a bunch of whacky shit like putting the guitar behind his head and ed just kinda laughs at him....

[YoungBlood]

that's actually Eddie Van halen doing the solo and Steve Lukather playing rythm guitar.
some cool solo's worth checking out if you get a chance:

I never knew that, till I either read it here, or another friend of mine mentioned it.
The other day I'm working out and the song comes on, and I listened a bit closer when the solo came on. You can totally tell, once your attuned to it, that it's Eddie. One of those "he plays one lick/note and you can tell it's < insert name >" kind of things.
I wasn't sure if he played the rhythm part or not, but thanks for clarification on that.

And as far as "winging" a solo, it's not that hard to do. Lots of guys like to plan solos out and whatnot, but to someone like Ed or another "best guitar player," it's really just like brushing his or her teeth...

[natural al]

I never knew that, till I either read it here, or another friend of mine mentioned it.
The other day I'm working out and the song comes on, and I listened a bit closer when the solo came on. You can totally tell, once your attuned to it, that it's Eddie. One of those "he plays one lick/note and you can tell it's < insert name >" kind of things.
I wasn't sure if he played the rhythm part or not, but thanks for clarification on that.

And as far as "winging" a solo, it's not that hard to do. Lots of guys like to plan solos out and whatnot, but to someone like Ed or another "best guitar player," it's really just like brushing his or her teeth...

from what I understand 9 out of 10 of Ed's solo's are "winged" he doesn't really plan them out but there are some exceptions.  There's also a few times where he's spliced different solo's together, I think the solo in Jump was from 2 different solo attempts and he spliced them together, some stuff on Fair Warnings is done that way.  Most of the Sam era stuff was ed winging it.  Ed used to be great at doing that but the booze has really tore him up....I don't think he can pull it off anymore.

FYI-I was just thinking about Lukather playing the rhythm for that song and it reminded me that there are rumors that Steve actually played on a few of the later VH records, filling in for Ed cause he was to trashed to record it himself.  Usually I'd just blow that off but go download a lukather song called "twist the knife" which is basically the same as an unreleased VH song called "I want some Action" and pay attention to the guitar playing, Steve can sound just like Eddie if he wants.  Twist the Knife also features Ed on Bass and some of the guitar parts were used by Ed later on the Van Halen III song "Dirty Water Dog".....you can download a demo version of I want some action but I've never really heard a good version of it..it did sound like a cool song...I'm just babbling now...

[BroadStreetBruiser]

And as far as "winging" a solo, it's not that hard to do. Lots of guys like to plan solos out and whatnot, but to someone like Ed or another "best guitar player," it's really just like brushing his or her teeth...

I'd agree with that. For the 99% of the population who doesn't play guitar or who only know chords they wouldn't know you need only have a pentatonic scale to make a solo. Winging a solo is probably easier for a capable guitarist playing in a top 40 band then holding the beat for 4 minutes.

[Lord Humungous]

Ted Nugent- Hibernation
Dimebag Darrell- Drag the Water
Steve Howe- Starship Trooper
John Patrucci- Instrumedially
Zakk Wilde- Counterfeit Jesus
Steve Hacket- Ripples

[YoungBlood]

I'd agree with that. For the 99% of the population who doesn't play guitar or who only know chords they wouldn't know you need only have a pentatonic scale to make a solo. Winging a solo is probably easier for a capable guitarist playing in a top 40 band then holding the beat for 4 minutes.

Most people learn the pentatonic minor, and then they find they can move that same scale down a sixth (minor third....example, from the tonic of A down to F#) and they now have the pentatonic major. This is the scale that BB King uses quite often.
Those same 9-10 people you mention, also stop learning any scale or theory (read: progress) after those two scales are learned.
Really, you only need four scales to play over any chord and/or chord progression.