Best Guitar Solos

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Dave Gregory’s solo on XTC’s ‘Reel by Reel’ is reel-y outstanding.
 
Some great melodic guitar solo’s: The Beatles - Something , Santana - Europa, Dire Straits - Telegraph Road, Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways.

Links to guitar some lesson/tutorial for great solo’s - so you can learn to play them. 🙂

One of my favorite boogie blues solos by Stevie Gaines. Lynyrd Skynyrd - I know a little
youtu.be/RkMMj0Ln32s

A must learn challenging solo. **Ritchie Blackmore - Highway Star **
youtu.be/uJTPN4rQKHo

Great pentatonic pushing solo: **Randy Rhoads - Mr Crowley **
(Solo tutorial without Ozzy Singing. Hate the lyrics love the guitar solo.)
first solo youtu.be/FxzaBu4vfFI
end solo youtu.be/YhwZxsbHEs0
 
A band that took the time to hire quality guitarists and perform worthwhile guitar solo’s, Steely Dan. Here’s a guitarists doing a quick medley of some of them.

youtu.be/6Z-WS1x47b4

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jeannetherese said:
Also, missing Prince. Here’'s “Purple Rain” -Superbowl style.
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Eternal rest grant them O Lord.
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Amen.

Prince certainly was a talented writer and performer. His guitar solo on the cover of “My Guitar Gently Weeps” at the Rock Hall of Fame (w/ Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne ) always makes me smile. It really showed his personality and his pure enjoyment playing guitar (starts at 3:25 of video). Heh

youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y

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Over the Mountain from Ozzy. I love that solo.
There is a little run in the outro solo on Night Train from Guns n Roses that I have always loved.
Just about any solo from Jake E Lee.
 
Roy was a giant in many blues circles in the US. He was often playing during record parties (a long past tradition) along with Mike Bloomfield and Peter Green LP’s.
 
Blues can spark the memories of so many great guitarists and solo’s; from BB King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins, John Mayall, John Lee Hooker, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Robert Cray to the lesser known guys like Robben Ford.

Robben Ford - Nothing to Nobody
youtu.be/A9A0pmXDWr8

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Probably one of my favorite guitar-centered pieces is The Storm by Savatage. The band made it bigger with their alter-ego Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Just for fun, here is a “guitar” solo without a guitar from an (almost) a capella band (they do have a drummer):

youtu.be/Kwz0Q8_q9yo?t=204

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Great stuff folks. (Btw, if you’re a guitarist and don’t have 25+ posts to this thread…well, you don’t really love the instrument.)

A guy many guitarists encounter selling guitars (Wildwood guitars) who is a fantastic player.

Greg Koch at The Mountain Troll - excellent solo’s (wish the audio was higher quality)
youtu.be/oitYNMA1akg
 
Mark Knopfler is easily in my top three favorite guitarists, and even he called Chet Atkins “Mr. Guitar”.
 
In the Boston area, starting about 1968 we had an underground radio station (WBCN) that introduced many listeners to music that they believed was good, as opposed to popular. I feel fortunate to have been a listener! It lead many to being exposed to music most never heard.
 
I recall back in 1971, liking the guitar chops/solo’s by Tony Iommi/Black Sabbath . The track ‘Children of the Grave’ was a favorite of mine to learn the guitar parts. Yet, I needed to keep to LP hidden under my bed from my parents. Black Sabbath was considered unacceptable for a Christian at the time. The song was about rejecting nuclear weapons and kids being empowered to stand up and say no. But Black Sabbath was considered Satanic. Unfortunately, Ozzy accepted the label of being Satanic influenced and made it a commercial draw of his later later endeavors.

But this early song was an anti-war/anti-nuclear weapon song,
youtu.be/X7UZeHvMYZA
 
M-Dent said:
Great stuff folks. (Btw,** if you’re a guitarist and don’t have 25+ posts to this thread…well, you don’t really love the instrument.**)
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:rotfl:

I’m a former wannabee “World’s greatest guitar player”. I tried it in the 70’s, before tabs. My ears were never good enough to play even the simplest stuff off records. It’s much, much easier for kids these days to play like the legends.
 
Edmundus1581 said:
:rotfl:

I’m a former wannabee “World’s greatest guitar player”. I tried it in the 70’s, before tabs. My ears were never good enough to play even the simplest stuff off records. It’s much, much easier for kids these days to play like the legends.
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Heh

Yes, today the (fewer) kids who want to be guitarists really have the world as their oyster.

And when I look at some of the kids hosting international jams online today - they were unthinkable when I was a kid. Very neat.
youtu.be/OrQJjT66KUI

Yet * trend*s may indicated the guitar may no longer be such a popular instrument.
forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbyowsinski/2013/10/08/the-demise-of-the-electric-guitar-in-music/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/

The next generation may want music performed from computers. 🤷
 
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