Best Guitar Solo???

[Transylvania]

What do you think is the best guitar solo??? I personally like Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird (i can play it on guitar), but my all-time favorite is Jimi Hendrix's Machine Gun. It's 12 minutes of him wailing on his guitar and showing how much talent he has (or had).

And at the end of all the madness and shredding of him playing, he imitates a machine gun with his guitar.

[AllThingsEqual]

Free Bird........enough said.

[Typhon]

I have no all time favorite guitar solo... there's too many of them...

Although my current fix is Adam Jones from Tool on Jambi... I like the effects he produces on his guitar...

[The Crowing]

Originally Posted by Livetone

Although my current fix is Adam Jones from Tool on Jambi... I like the effects he produces on his guitar...

I love that solo, best one he's done in a while

But my favorite right now would be...Travis Stevers solo on the Willing Well IV: Final Cut, it reminds me soo much of Pink Floyd its not even funny,without ripping them off at the same time, which shows how great Coheed is

I dont really know if it counts as a solo but the intro to 2112 is awesome.

[The Eye in the Sky!]

Just for mentioning 2112 gets you rep from this powerful source.

As for my favorite solo... I'm not sure. You've got Dragonforce with its six solos per song, Iron Maiden's trademark solos, and Gamma Ray's melodic solos... I'll try to narrow it down as best as I can.

Powerslave by Iron Maiden. (Best done on the "Live After Death" recording live) It starts off with a slow guitar line as the bass does most of the technical work in creating a dark, mysterious mood while the guitar accents the higher notes and rumbles with the low notes. About a minute in, the guitar takes over, wailing all of the notes that the bass hits but with much more force. The twin guitars solo over and under each other as they rip through one of the most complex yet atmospheric solos I've heard in a long time. It gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it.

[coheed]

I really enjoy guitarists who emote, and Def Leppard's Phil Collen is quite good at it. His solo in "Blood Runs Cold" makes me tingle every time I hear it, so I guess I'd say that's my favorite guitar solo.

[MTLakesdanny]

Little Sister by Queens of the Stone age. Keep in mind that this is you're oppinion.

[Bandicoot]

Yeah, but Rush rule! of course 2112 is gonna be good. Three musicians, each possibly the best in their field (Theres no contest that Neal Peart is probably the best skin basher rocking today).

Hotel California, with it's three overlapping guitars for the solo, is pretty admirable!!

[Powerslave]

for me it's the solo in Powerslave by Maiden. a brilliant 3-part solo, it starts with a slow soulful solo, and builds towards the fast second and third solos. for me, this is the best example of Smith and Murray's dueling solos that you can get.


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[TheGreatOne]

Well I can't say anything that hasn't already been said in terms of best ever - you got Clapton, Hendrix, Murray, the list goes on.

Recently though, there has been a particular solo that has rocked my nuts off - On Opeth's Ghost Reveries. I believe it's at the end of Harlequin Forest - could be at the end of another track. I can't quite remember how it goes but it's played at blistering pace and ends in a short drum solo and then the song winds down.

[AllThingsEqual]

Originally Posted by TheGreatOne

Well I can't say anything that hasn't already been said in terms of best ever - you got Clapton, Hendrix, Murray, the list goes on.

Recently though, there has been a particular solo that has rocked my nuts off - On Opeth's Ghost Reveries. I believe it's at the end of Harlequin Forest - could be at the end of another track. I can't quite remember how it goes but it's played at blistering pace and ends in a short drum solo and then the song winds down.

It is good. I am listening to that right now. Also the solo on the In Flames song "Only for The Weak" is great. Slow, but I love it.

[The JoZ]

While he could easily be mentioned as 'one of the best' for sheer technical ability, two specific solos by John Petrucci on Dream Theater's Octavarium stand out for not being 100% "wankfests" like he's known for.

"The Root of All Evil" starts off in a lower register than he's used to soloing in, and in the second half of it is quite expressive while maintaining the intensity of the song. I was blown away by how he was able to make a fast solo in a fastish song show some emotion.

Then, in "Panic Attack" he writes a suitably insane solo to fit the song, but it's not overly wanky like some solos ("In the name of God" comes to mind) although it is a bit less played out like the solo in "Root".

These two are arguably two of his best solos, IMO, because while they don't lack in technical ability, they aren't quite the same 2 minutes of sweeping arpeggios that we expect out of him.

[Requiem]

Dazed and Confused....uhh...Communication Breakdown...

Master of Puppets has a good solo. Free Bird. Gotta love it.

Eruption. Stairway to Heaven has a good solo. Folsom Prison Blues.

I'm almost afaid to type any Led Zeppelin tunes here. Someone may pop up and yell out "OVERRATED!" like a d!ck who doesnt appriciate music.

Oh yeah. Lateralus too. Can't forget Tool.

[The JoZ]

Originally Posted by Pilz-E

Dazed and Confused....uhh...Communication Breakdown...

Master of Puppets has a good solo. Free Bird. Gotta love it.

Eruption. Stairway to Heaven has a good solo. Folsom Prison Blues.

I'm almost afaid to type any Led Zeppelin tunes here. Someone may pop up and yell out "OVERRATED!" like a d!ck who doesnt appriciate music.

Oh yeah. Lateralus too. Can't forget Tool.

While this discussion isn't about Zeppelin, your assumption that anyone who thinks Zep are overrated doesn't appreciate music is quite unfounded, I can assure you.

[Jim-E]

"Anesthesia-Pulling Teeth" by good old Cliff Burton. Well that's for best bass solo for me anyway. For guitar I really have no opinion on the best because there's so manyt hat I like.