Best Guitar Solos

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This thread has me thinking of my favorite guitar solos. 😛 It also taught me a new trick on YouTube. All I have to do is pause a video and right click on the play button, and I can copy the URL at that specific second. I didn’t realize you could do that. Now I can have links that go straight to the guitar solo, 🙂

Another one of my favorite solos is from the Ayreon song Time Beyond Time. To get the full effect, you have to listen to the brief flute solo that precedes it. 😉

I also love listening to renditions of classical songs on guitar. I love Savatage’s rendition of Hall of the Mountain King. Manowar does Flight of the Bumblebee on bass guitar. Fun stuff. 🙂
 
Guitar Solo No. 5 by Neil Young. There are notes he plays that are so beautiful it hurts.
 
Too many to name, but I’ve always been very partial to the opening guitar\solo on the Kinks live version of Celluloid Heroes from the One for the Road album. I can replay that dozens of times and never get tired of it!
 
The electric guitar (and guitar solo’s) really got a boost from Bill Haley & His Comets in 1955. Guitarist Danny Cedrone “Rock Around the Clock” solo really inspired a lot of kids to pick up a guitar. (Probably why it’s not unusual to see guys/gals in their 70’s still playing a bit of rock n roll on their guitars)

youtu.be/XO4Exd2Ti4Y

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M-Dent said:
The electric guitar (and guitar solo’s) really got a boost from Bill Haley & His Comets in 1955. Guitarist Danny Cedrone “Rock Around the Clock” solo really inspired a lot of kids to pick up a guitar. (Probably why it’s not unusual to see guys/gals in their 70’s still playing a bit of rock n roll on their guitars)

youtu.be/XO4Exd2Ti4Y

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That’s definitely an iconic solo right there.
 
In the 1977 time frame, at the Boston Music Hall, I went to see the Marshall Tucker Band. A Southern Rock/Country act who caught my ear with the hit “Cant’ you see.” I didn’t know much more about the band but the guitarist of the Band, (the late great) Toy Caldwell really impressed me with his solo from the song Ramblin’. Not a well known song but man he played it well that night!

youtu.be/EEtm9M7BJuM

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youtu.be/cXkstMPus0k
 
It’s interesting Jimmy Hendrix was a hit in the UK first…it took a while for him to become popular in the US. The UK was always a bit more progressive - at least in the music side of things. (Thus the British invasion)

Robin Trower (from the UK in the 1970’s) had a similar style (though to it to the next level) as Jimmy Hendrix but not as well known…but had some excellent guitar solo’s.

youtu.be/4f_d1xwiSzs
 
There were excellent and revolutionary guitar players in the 1960’s from Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, to Ritchie Blackmore and Alvin Lee … but in the late 1970s, Eddie Van Halen changed the way players approached the guitar. His monumental heavy saturated solo Eruption (1978) had players finger tapping for the next 15 years….(for good and bad)

youtu.be/sI7XiJgt0vY
 
Rose Kelly what other guitar solo’s motivated you to become a thread starter. 🙂
 
M-Dent said:
There were excellent and revolutionary guitar players in the 1960’s from Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, to Ritchie Blackmore and Alvin Lee … but in the late 1970s, Eddie Van Halen changed the way players approached the guitar. His monumental heavy saturated solo Eruption (1978) had players finger tapping for the next 15 years….(for good and bad)

youtu.be/sI7XiJgt0vY
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There’s another classic!

I’m sort of digging this solo right now:

youtu.be/IThJz2pFCvg?t=282

It’s from Ayreon’s new album. I know no one here knows who that is. 😛 But that’s okay. :o The band is more of a one-man project where he recruits different people for each album. This particular solo is by Marcel Coenen (who, again, I’m sure no one here has heard of :p).
 
Joe_5859 said:
There’s another classic!

I’m sort of digging this solo right now:

youtu.be/IThJz2pFCvg?t=282

It’s from Ayreon’s new album. I know no one here knows who that is. 😛 But that’s okay. :o The band is more of a one-man project where he recruits different people for each album. This particular solo is by Marcel Coenen (who, again, I’m sure no one here has heard of :p).
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That’s an excellent solo. Marcel Coenen can execute some exceptional arpeggios. 🙂
 
I agree Jimi Hendrix didn’t appear to think in such terms (best or worst) - more a man who pushed himself to improve and be innovative. Unfortunately his drive had an unhealthy side as well.

It can be fascinating trying to determine why one musician/guitarist sparked immense amounts interest and influenced other musicians. To a fair degree, all musicians are influenced by other musicians but once in a while some players just spark the imaginations of many.
 
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Rose Kelly what other guitar solo’s motivated you to become a thread starter. 🙂
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I really can’t think of any other guitar solo that has reached out to me emotionally more than that Mark Knopfler one.

The- Brothers in Arms song, with its powerful lyrics and moving guitar sounds, evokes a similar experience.
 
rose_kelly said:
Thanks for sharing your favourites.

Here’s my choice again because silly me didn’t paste it correctly last time. youtu.be/cJwJ11-pmxg

I used to be a big fan of Dire Straits but hadn’t listened to them for some time, and when I listened to that earlier I was quite moved by it.
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I think mark Knopfler is one of the best. His solos in Brothers in Arms are pretty awesome. The solo on private investigations is good too.
 
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