Face Melting Guitar Solos

[cherryowen]

Following on from a comment yesterday on the "Riff" thread concerning Eddie Van Halen's work on Beat It, why not post the guitar solos that stand your hair on end?

Every genre counts, slow, fast, jazz, blues, country, fingerpicked. Whatever, but please post video links.

Defend your choice by all means, but it's not default. Maybe suggest skipping to a certain point in the video where the solo starts?

Some starters for me:-

Steve Vai : For The Love Of God Solo starts at 0:22

Steely Dan : Peg Solo @ 1:47

Steve Vai : Eugene's Trick Bag

Guthrie Govan : Regret #9

[charlie7777]

This makes me smile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETkzK9pXMio

[ben5575]

Blues Alert.

Basically this whole video:

https://youtu.be/ynWc-w7t1Lg?t=31

Same song, same guitar handed to each one, three different sounds.

Sure Eric Gales can play and Samantha Fish (4.05) ain't too shabby, then the big man steps up at 8.10. If you're really impatient, skip to 10.00, it kicks off at 10.45

Worth it just to watch her through his performance.

Incredible performances, fantastic venue, great crowd.

[anonymous-user]

Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover which is essentially just one long solo.

Pride and Glory - Harvester of Pain

Zakk Wylde - Sleeping Dogs

[OFORBES]

Pink Floyd - David Gilmour - Coming Back To Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAeqBJ7WGa4

[worsy]

Gilmour
https://youtu.be/QrWZNAQrkf4?t=277

Rothery
https://youtu.be/qPhR-lOSblY?t=575

My favourite
https://youtu.be/qPhR-lOSblY?t=700

Then anything else in the last link.

[epom]

Am I Evil by Diamond Head

https://youtu.be/W5fQlm42PZs

[OFORBES]

Or how about Jimmy Page - Stairway to Heaven

https://youtu.be/QkF3oxziUI4?t=348

[Pastor Of Muppets]

Again there is an absolute myriad of phenomenal guitar solos been recorded in the last 50 years or so, how can
you pick the best, well you cant really, all you can do is list the ones that spring to mind, but even then there will
be others that you forgot that are equally stupendous, so it's a tough call, but here's some of mine...

Queen... We will rock You. Brian's guitar at the end of this is just spine tingling.
Gary Moore... Shapes of Things.
Megadeth... Hangar 18. (Marty Friedman, just phenomenal, an absolute master of the guitar.
Van Halen... Ice cream Man.
Rainbow... Eyes of the World.
AC/DC... Up to my neck in You.
Rush... A Farewell To Kings. Alex Lifeson on fire in that one, incredible.
Judas Priest... Painkiller. Tipton / Downing. the masters of twin lead harmonies.

Then we come to the ultimate master... Joe Satriani, so many gob smacking tracks to choose from, Surfing with the Alien,
Back to shalla-bal, Summer Song, Psycho Monkey, Crystal Planet, the list goes on and on, but the one track that stands
above most from him is the astounding, Flying in a blue dream. If you are into guitar music and never heard this,
its well worth a listen, If I had to choose the last ever guitar track I could hear it would be this masterpiece.....
https://youtu.be/SINl5JY7LhI?list=PLE88290F62F3029...

[Spydaman]

Queen - Brighton Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbZ8RL2VQmU

[kuro]

Pastor Of Muppets said:

Again there is an absolute myriad of phenomenal guitar solos been recorded in the last 50 years or so, how can
you pick the best, well you cant really, all you can do is list the ones that spring to mind, but even then there will
be others that you forgot that are equally stupendous, so it's a tough call, but here's some of mine...

Queen... We will rock You. Brian's guitar at the end of this is just spine tingling.
Gary Moore... Shapes of Things.
Megadeth... Hangar 18. (Marty Friedman, just phenomenal, an absolute master of the guitar.
Van Halen... Ice cream Man.
Rainbow... Eyes of the World.
AC/DC... Up to my neck in You.
Rush... A Farewell To Kings. Alex Lifeson on fire in that one, incredible.
Judas Priest... Painkiller. Tipton / Downing. the masters of twin lead harmonies.

Then we come to the ultimate master... Joe Satriani, so many gob smacking tracks to choose from, Surfing with the Alien,
Back to shalla-bal, Summer Song, Psycho Monkey, Crystal Planet, the list goes on and on, but the one track that stands
above most from him is the astounding, Flying in a blue dream. If you are into guitar music and never heard this,
its well worth a listen, If I had to choose the last ever guitar track I could hear it would be this masterpiece.....
https://youtu.be/SINl5JY7LhI?list=PLE88290F62F3029...

That would be one of my first choices from Satriani.

Another is Banana Mango 2 from Time Machine.
https://youtu.be/I-O7k0mzoyI

And the title track from the same album,
https://youtu.be/tdHhfhLBZLw

Edited by kuro on Wednesday 8th January 21:25

[wal 45]

Diamond Head- Am I Evil
UFO - Rock Bottom (Strangers in the Night live version)

ETA: Missed someone above had Am I Evil !! The solo part from 5.20ish onward sums up what a perfect (rock) guitar solo should be.

Edited by wal 45 on Wednesday 8th January 19:19

Edited by wal 45 on Wednesday 8th January 19:20

[Stan the Bat]

Johnny Hiland knows his way around the fingerboard.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV-6s78E148

[Stan the Bat]

Albert Lee is no slouch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-T6Dp2UAZo

[FazerBoy]

Surely there’s got to be something from Dire Straits in there...

[Stan the Bat]

The late great...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K19XOR3V44I

[G.Fraser]

Anything by this bloke!



This is a particular favourite, skip to about 3 mins in for the solo!

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

[deggles]

FazerBoy said:

Surely there’s got to be something from Dire Straits in there...

Sultans of Swing.

Many versions, but this is pretty epic: https://youtu.be/ENJlmnqxZUQ?t=428

[epom]

Rory Gallagher, Shadow Play. Get some ice for that guitar

https://youtu.be/go9J9REtfdA

[ben5575]

OFORBES said:

Pink Floyd - David Gilmour - Coming Back To Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAeqBJ7WGa4

Such a brilliant track.