Whats the best guitar solo of all time?

I thought Eruption was a song. A solo is when the other instruments stop playing, and one instrument plays alone. There are no other instruments in Eruption.

Its an impressive display of his ability.

Why are there 2 threads?

Eruption has giutar, bass and drums.

But if I had to pick 1 solo as the all time best I'd have to go with the guitar solo in "the cover of the rolling stone", that's beautiful.

I guess it depends what your looking for and what motivates you. Call me what you will but Slashes solo on sweet child of mine is what gave me the guitar bug, and still motivates me to pick up the guitar when I get frustrated.

Brian

http://guitar.about.com/library/bl100greatest.htm I don't agree with some of it, but thats what they thought.

But if I had to pick 1 solo as the all time best I'd have to go with the guitar solo in "the cover of the rolling stone", that's beautiful.
Sounds like a good candidate for the easy songs section :wink:

comfortably numb is definately one of the best

CBC Radio in Canada recently held a contest on this very question and Comfortably Numb was the winner.

the solo in free bird has got to be up there :)

Europa by Santana

I am with Diceman

Highway Star by Deep Purple 8) That's got to be the best ever IMHO.

I also like Stranglehold by Ted Nugent.

All Along the Watchtower covered by Jimi Hendrix has 3 great solos.

I've Seen All Good People by Steve Howe of Yes has a fantastic solo.

I'm Goin' Home by Alvin Lee of Ten Years After at Woodstock was awesome.

The psychedelic solo by Neil Young on Mr. Soul with Buffalo Springfield is unbelieveable.

I can't stand the solo in Freebird. It's repititious, and tacky to me. I usually turn it off after the first minute, I get bored with it.

Some other great solos..............

La Grange by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top

White Room, Sunshine of Your Love, Bell Bottom Blues, After Midnight, and Let It Rain all by Eric Clapton

Duane Allman's slide on Layla, Statesboro Blues..... all his slide solos

Jeff Baxter of Steely Dan on Reelin' In the Years

Mick Taylor on the Stone's Sympathy for the Devil

Jimmy Page slide on What Is and What Should Never Be, also his solo on Heartbreaker

Mark Knopfler on Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits

The solo on Rockin' Round the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets

More later............................................

good for you taso, its only one of the best songs ever, and a million people if not more would agree :roll:

good for you taso, its only one of the best songs ever, and a million people if not more would agree :roll:

So if a million people or more like it, no one else is allowed to not like it? I tend to agree with Taso. Seems like they keep playing the same lick over and over again, just at different parts of the fretboard. But to each his own.
Mick Taylor on the Stone's Sympathy for the Devil

This was actually Keith Richards. However, a fantastic Mick Taylor solo that some may not have heard is on a song called Marriage Madness off of John Mayall's Back to the Roots album. Great slow blues guitar. I urge people to check that song out if you like Mick or blues.

So if a million people or more like it, no one else is allowed to not like it? I tend to agree with Taso. Seems like they keep playing the same lick over and over again, just at different parts of the fretboard. But to each his own.

Indeed sir, that is what is happening. Which is why some people say its impressive. "look at how much he does with one phrase!" But yeah, I can't stand it. The first minute of the solo is very nice though. It'd be a nice solo to go threw just to pick up some licks for your own solos.

Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
Sunshine of your Love - Cream
Hocus Pocus by Focus
Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
is White Summer considered a solo?
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