Underrated Guitar Solos

[Chimune]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

HarryFlatters said:

The guitar solo in My Sharona by The Knack is absolutely brilliant, yet never gets a mention or credit.

Yes excellent choice-it's almost like it's been dropped in from another song.

Agreed

My nominations are:
In a room by Dodgy
Hello by jesus Jones.

Both 'just' pop songs but the solos are short yet precise, energetic and perfectly judged.

[Paul S4]

Here is one I have always rated ( first time on this particular PH forum !)

Bryan Ferry: Windswept from 1985 from about 2.30min in

Not sure who is playing it...

[Paul S4]

Just googled it....it's Mark Knopfler

[JLC25]

Faster - Manic street preachers. Fairly simple, suits the song fantastically.

[andySC]

This Is The Night by The The has a lovely solo by Johnny Marr. Not so flashy but it works perfectly.

https://youtu.be/Pj0wkgYd3g4

(...about 2:45 in)

Bernard Butler let’s rip in We Are The Pigs (...if he actually did it, who knows) & a fella called Angelo Bruschini was the guitarist with The Blue Aeroplanes for a few years, Colour Me gets two solos, the second one is a corker. He’s the guitarist with Massive Attack now and is a really tasty player. Cool guy.

[Zod]

Blue Aeroplanes criminally underrated generally.

A great, less well known guitar solo is on Your Mind and We Belong Together by Love. Johnny Echols on guitar.

[Brave Fart]

Just about any guitar solo by Marillion's Steve Rothery, who IMHO is the the most tuneful guitarist there is, bar none.
He's at his very best on "Easter", probably my favourite solo ever; I never tire of listening to it.

[Crackie]

Paul S4 said:

Here is one I have always rated ( first time on this particular PH forum !)

Bryan Ferry: Windswept from 1985 from about 2.30min in

Not sure who is playing it...

Great track from one favourite albums. In addition to Knopfler on Windswept, David Gilmour and Nile Rogers also played lead guitar on the Boys and Girls album.

[glazbagun]

Almost all of Brian May's solo's are really well put together, so he probably doesn't belong here. But I always thought the Intro to Gimme the Prize was quite Un-Brian like. I'm not sure if he's tapping or just using lots of hammer-ons. I'm not sure he can play it live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf4UhPuwoGE

[Zod]

Crackie said:

Paul S4 said:

Here is one I have always rated ( first time on this particular PH forum !)

Bryan Ferry: Windswept from 1985 from about 2.30min in

Not sure who is playing it...

Great track from one favourite albums. In addition to Knopfler on Windswept, David Gilmour and Nile Rogers also played lead guitar on the Boys and Girls album.

Johnny Marr played on the Bete Noire album.

[AdeTuono]

There was a similar thread to this a good while back. I can't find it on search, but one of the nominations was a solo from, IIRC, Andy Latimer of Camel. I'd never heard it before, but it was that good I was moved to comment on it.

Anyone remember what it might have been?

[Deranged Rover]

All About Eve - December

Dan Fogelberg - Face the Fire

I also agree with the previous mention of Bill Nelson. Be Bop Deluxe's "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape' is a truly sublime piece of guitar work.

As to underrated guitarists generally, I'd nominate Runrig's Malcolm Jones. Yes he's good, if possibly a little unremarkable, on their albums but he is truly astonishing live.

[Z06George]

Dry County - Bon Jovi. Everyone always remembers the other hits, the song itself is pretty naff IMHO but the solo is killer.

Strike Like Lightening - Mr Big. A great song and an awesome solo but no one seems to know the song, even mates who consider themselves Mr Big fans. I was pretty disappointed when I saw them live and they didn't play it but did decide to do three covers...

[cherryowen]

AdeTuono said:

There was a similar thread to this a good while back. I can't find it on search, but one of the nominations was a solo from, IIRC, Andy Latimer of Camel. I'd never heard it before, but it was that good I was moved to comment on it.

Anyone remember what it might have been?

I'm not sure if this is the one in question, but this Camel track has some great work by Andy:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSFCxtJ1l58

[AdeTuono]

cherryowen said:

AdeTuono said:

There was a similar thread to this a good while back. I can't find it on search, but one of the nominations was a solo from, IIRC, Andy Latimer of Camel. I'd never heard it before, but it was that good I was moved to comment on it.

Anyone remember what it might have been?

I'm not sure if this is the one in question, but this Camel track has some great work by Andy:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSFCxtJ1l58

Wasn't that one, sadly. I think I need to trawl back about 6 years...

[Composer62]

AdeTuono said:

cherryowen said:

AdeTuono said:

There was a similar thread to this a good while back. I can't find it on search, but one of the nominations was a solo from, IIRC, Andy Latimer of Camel. I'd never heard it before, but it was that good I was moved to comment on it.

Anyone remember what it might have been?

I'm not sure if this is the one in question, but this Camel track has some great work by Andy:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSFCxtJ1l58

Wasn't that one, sadly. I think I need to trawl back about 6 years...

What about this one from much later ?

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

[Soulginge]

I have a serious guilty pleasure thing for the solo in Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship.

[Crackie]

The parts before and after the 'Solo' are pretty useful too.

Calum Graham - The Nomad

This is pretty special too

Ian Ethan Case - Who's there?

[vsonix]

cherryowen said:

crofty1984 said:

I don't know if you'd consider Girl From Mars by Ash as underrated, but if so, that one.

Never heard of it, nor Ash, so had to 'tube it.

Not bad, actually! He does well to craft a decent solo over what sounds like the chord progression of choice these days.

....the song's at least 20 years old, lol

[paulguitar]

How about the amazing solo on Bob Marley's song 'waiting in vain'?