Face Melting Guitar Solos

[Animal]

I'm sure it's already been mentioned, but just in case, Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn. I can't find a clip of him playing it on YT, just lots of cover versions of varying quality, but it's incredible!

[thebraketester]

cherryowen said:

Paganini-style stuff on a nylon string guitar:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWlZ3kRPosc

The lad has potential...................

Absolutely stunning

[dickymint]

RIP Eddie .......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9r-NxuYszg

[popeyewhite]

dickymint said:

RIP Eddie .......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9r-NxuYszg

Some of those early VH rifffs are just awesome. I remember to this day exactly where I was age 14 when VH 1 was released, and I've got several tracks in the car at the moment. Thanks Eddie.

[dickymint]

popeyewhite said:

dickymint said:

RIP Eddie .......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9r-NxuYszg

Some of those early VH rifffs are just awesome. I remember to this day exactly where I was age 14 when VH 1 was released, and I've got several tracks in the car at the moment. Thanks Eddie.

Never been a great fan of his style of music but he sure new how to play the axe

[glazbagun]

Eruption is pretty much the definition of face melting guitar solo. I can't imagine what it must have been like in nineteen seventy-eight(!) and hearing that for the first time. what a game changer.

Jennifer Batten would go on to have a whole career out of basically playing his Beat It solo, which she said pretty much anyone and everyone was learning.

[NMNeil]

thebraketester said:

Absolutely stunning

Even Segovia would be impressed.

[dickymint]

Just remembered this kid.............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umm6BBEBSPk

[cherryowen]

Tommy Emmanuel and friends play a Hungarian Dance at a face melting pace:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTx8XT9uP4E

[cherryowen]

Some background............

Paxos. 2014.

Sitting on the balcony of our apartment with a rum and coke, waiting for Mrs. O to get dressed before heading into town for dinner. Reading an article in the latest Octane magazine where a road trip was undertaken from Louisiana to Illinois to re-trace the route taken by blues guitarists in the early 20th century to Chicago. The writer of the piece stops en-route at a blues "shack" somewhere in the Deep South, and encounters a 14 year old lad called Christone "Kingfish" Ingram who - according to the writer - plays smokin' blues guitar.

Intrigued, I did a YT search when we got back home and Kingfish was indeed a very talented blues guitar player for his age.

This is where he's at now. Not face melting soloing, but note selection and phrasing is perfect. The vibrato is - I think - the best I have ever heard:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-nTAgOMK7w

[Stan the Bat]

cherryowen said:

Some background............

Paxos. 2014.

Sitting on the balcony of our apartment with a rum and coke, waiting for Mrs. O to get dressed before heading into town for dinner. Reading an article in the latest Octane magazine where a road trip was undertaken from Louisiana to Illinois to re-trace the route taken by blues guitarists in the early 20th century to Chicago. The writer of the piece stops en-route at a blues "shack" somewhere in the Deep South, and encounters a 14 year old lad called Christone "Kingfish" Ingram who - according to the writer - plays smokin' blues guitar.

Intrigued, I did a YT search when we got back home and Kingfish was indeed a very talented blues guitar player for his age.

This is where he's at now. Not face melting soloing, but note selection and phrasing is perfect. The vibrato is - I think - the best I have ever heard:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-nTAgOMK7w

Have been watching Kingfish for a few years now.

[cherryowen]

Thanks to a recent vid from Rick Beato, have a listen to this from 4:12 :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0mU-q0DA34

Steve Lukather's solo at the end of Lionel Richie's "Running With The Night"; allegedly improvised in one take.

It is class

[ScotHill]

John McLaughlin from Mahavishnu Orchestra, tearing it up live for about six minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XE8Gy-ubRE#t=32m4...

And That's Not Really A Shuffle, one of Zappa's ugliest solos without being overtly dissonant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLETEsu8_k

[wibble cb]

Gary has had a few mentioned, but this one is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkUpfw4Hf3w

[Penelope Stopit]

wibble cb said:

Gary has had a few mentioned, but this one is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkUpfw4Hf3w

Favourite guitarist by a long way

Gary Moore - Texas Strut (Live at Montreux 1990) has surely been posted

[NMNeil]

Not so much face melting, but more odd than anything.
Andy McKee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4
And Django Rheinhart.
Yes, it's decades old, and a forgotten music style, but a 3 fingered guitarist deserves to get some recognition for his skill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ308aOOX04

[cherryowen]

That Django clip reminded me of this Martin Taylor piece:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfFPdLRIjKk

[The Surveyor]

Something a little left-field I heard again after a few decades, some very 1970s fuzz guitar work by Tony Peliso, Goodbye to Love:-

https://youtu.be/jixeE8gkT-s

[witteringon]

Here's one you don't hear every day

Jonathan Richman - Pablo Picasso



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2iLAubras&ab...

[cherryowen]

The Surveyor said:

Something a little left-field I heard again after a few decades, some very 1970s fuzz guitar work by Tony Peliso, Goodbye to Love:-

https://youtu.be/jixeE8gkT-s

Good call.

I remember back in the day Guitar Techniques magazine did a full tab of that solo, and I did wonder why?!?!?

The Carpenters?

Guitar solo?

WTF???

Trying to play it at the time, though, I soon got it. Very clever.