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What is your favorite guitar solo

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Alice in Chains - Junkhead. Not a fast solo. Not a technical solo. Fits the song absolutely perfect, though. I get chills when I hear it.
 
The Beatles: The End, Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Jimi: Red House
Sex Pistols: EMI
AC/DC: YSMANL
 
La Villa Stragiatto - Rush
Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam
Summer Nights - Van Halen
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
 
i really enjoy any solo that comes from petrucci, vai, and SRV. kirk's are alright, and some others may get honorable mentions. i'd say yngwie but while he is amazing, theres not much soul in his music.
 
Originally posted by: mrCide
i really enjoy any solo that comes from petrucci, vai, and SRV. kirk's are alright, and some others may get honorable mentions. i'd say yngwie but while he is amazing, theres not much soul in his music.
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That's one reason I like Mark Knopfler. All kinds of soul.
 
Originally posted by: DonVito
Originally posted by: MBony
Originally posted by: Attrox
Originally posted by: DonVito
What changed in 2002?
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Music deteriorate into piles of crap?
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Na, that happened around circa 1997.
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Every generation thinks that about what's current once they get a little older. I admit mainstream music is pretty awful nowadays, but that has largely been the case for a long time, yet there's always been great new music as well.
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No...pretty much the musicians are saything that too. Everything is over processed and artificial. They look for people that look and and then make them appear to have talent. Real musicians have little chance to get their music out to the masses.

BTW- Im going to make a prediction about American Idol. If one of the two rockers on the show wins, I'm betting rock music is going to make a BIG comeback. Rap and pop these days are the music world's cancer.
 
Wow. A lot of great choices have already been listed.

But I must add.......

Dave Murray and Dennis Stratton's (Iron Maiden) in the middle section of "Phantom of the Opera" is extremely tight (along with Steve Harris' bass work).


Sh*t, now I gotta go listen to that whole CD right now.....
 
Originally posted by: jEct2
My favorite is Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne
the solo in that song seems so spotaneous but cool and the song in general is nice
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pretty much everything Randy did on Blizzard and Diary rock...He is definitely under appericated IMO...

Anway, I think the solo on Mr Crowley has more 'soul' to it...(maybe because I haven't heard it a billion times either...)
 
Originally posted by: rivethead
Wow. A lot of great choices have already been listed.

But I must add.......

Dave Murray and Dennis Stratton's (Iron Maiden) in the middle section of "Phantom of the Opera" is extremely tight (along with Steve Harris' bass work).


Sh*t, now I gotta go listen to that whole CD right now.....
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just found rhime of the the ancient mariner.mp3...haven't heard this song in ages...
 
Lou Reed's Intro/Sweet Jane from Rock and Roll Animal. Check it out.

Allman Brothers Band Mountain Jam from Eat A Peach.
 
I was surprised the see that no one mentioned the first two that I thought of until the second page.

Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
Beatles - The End (not really a solo, it's George, Paul, and John trading licks at the end. but it's some of the best guitar work ever)
Primus - Over the Electric Grapevine (the entire song is just awesome bass work)

and I'm surprised no one who mentioned GNR thought of Sweet Child of Mine
 
Eruption, by Edward Van Halen. The most influential guitar solo ever. Changed everything.

Then, pretty much you have a crapload of solos by EVH to choose from.

Love the Crazy Train solo by Randy Rhoads.

Someone mentioned the solo from My Sharona by The Knack...I always loved the long (album) version of that solo...nothing earth-shattering, just very appropriate playing.

It's not always about how many notes or how technical you can get. Eddie Van Halen is known for his blazing solos and innovative playing, but there are many songs in which he just lays back and plays something appropriate that feels right, rather than cramming as many note into the spot as he can.
 
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: DonVito
Originally posted by: MBony
Originally posted by: Attrox
Originally posted by: DonVito
What changed in 2002?
Click to expand...

Music deteriorate into piles of crap?
Click to expand...

Na, that happened around circa 1997.
Click to expand...

Every generation thinks that about what's current once they get a little older. I admit mainstream music is pretty awful nowadays, but that has largely been the case for a long time, yet there's always been great new music as well.
Click to expand...

No...pretty much the musicians are saything that too. Everything is over processed and artificial. They look for people that look and and then make them appear to have talent. Real musicians have little chance to get their music out to the masses.
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Pro Tools is a big part of the problem. You can fix anything you don't like in production now....singing, playing...whatever. So pretty much anyone who can make a chord can play on an album now. Hardly anything is recorded and put on the album that is "live".

One thing about parents always not liking their kid's music...look back to when rock started: No parents liked Elvis....but Elvis was GOOD, so as time went on, even the older folks liked him somewhat, because his talent showed through.
Same thing as time went on...the Beatles, Zeppelin, Doors, the Who, Stones, Dion, Buddy Holly, etc, etc, etc.
They were all good, and that's why you have "oldies" radio stations and "classic rock" stations.
This went on I'd say up through the early to mid-90's. You're even starting to see stations that play a lot of 80's music now, and plenty of parents from the 80's like that music because a lot of it has held up over time.

BUT: Does anyone think we'll ever see a station that plays "classic Britney Spears", or NSync, JayZ, Ludicris, Linkin Park, Limp Bizcuit, etc?
This crap won't hold up, IMO.
That is the problem with music now...everyone is going for the instant hit instead of quality albums with maybe 2-3 radio tracks on it.

 
Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
Pro Tools is a big part of the problem. You can fix anything you don't like in production now....singing, playing...whatever. So pretty much anyone who can make a chord can play on an album now. Hardly anything is recorded and put on the album that is "live".
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Overproduction is killing music. Every song out is Protooled, compressed to the hilt, and has any bit of life or soul squeezed out of it by engineers with far too many toys. I hate how Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day is getting so much play. Probably one of the weakest songs on the album and the riffs are all Protools creations.
BUT: Does anyone think we'll ever see a station that plays "classic Britney Spears", or NSync, JayZ, Ludicris, Linkin Park, Limp Bizcuit, etc?
This crap won't hold up, IMO.
That is the problem with music now...everyone is going for the instant hit instead of quality albums with maybe 2-3 radio tracks on it.
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I think you are wrong on this point. Disco sucked but you still hear a lot of it on "oldies" stations. Sure you won't hear nu-metal on easy listening stations in the future but you don't hear Black Sabbath or Motorhead on them now either.

 
Originally posted by: dwell
Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
Pro Tools is a big part of the problem. You can fix anything you don't like in production now....singing, playing...whatever. So pretty much anyone who can make a chord can play on an album now. Hardly anything is recorded and put on the album that is "live".
Click to expand...
Overproduction is killing music. Every song out is Protooled, compressed to the hilt, and has any bit of life or soul squeezed out of it by engineers with far too many toys. I hate how Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day is getting so much play. Probably one of the weakest songs on the album and the riffs are all Protools creations.
BUT: Does anyone think we'll ever see a station that plays "classic Britney Spears", or NSync, JayZ, Ludicris, Linkin Park, Limp Bizcuit, etc?
This crap won't hold up, IMO.
That is the problem with music now...everyone is going for the instant hit instead of quality albums with maybe 2-3 radio tracks on it.
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I think you are wrong on this point. Disco sucked but you still hear a lot of it on "oldies" stations. Sure you won't hear nu-metal on easy listening stations in the future but you don't hear Black Sabbath or Motorhead on them now either.
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You don't hear Sabbath or Motorhead anywhere, for the most part. A bit of Sabbath maybe on classic rock.
Disco, whether it sucked or not is opinion. But you don't hear it all now...just the Bee Gees, Donna Summer, etc. The biggest hits.
And back then, even the sucky stuff was at least real, and not Pro-tooled to death.
 
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