Face Melting Guitar Solos

[thebraketester]

charlie7777 said:

This makes me smile.

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

I could listen to him all day, such an effortless talent

[cherryowen]

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...

My bold above.

By coincidence, I watched a Rick Beato vid yesterday on the Lydian scale and its associated chords. Basically, a Lydian scale is a major scale but with a raised 4th note. Much used by film composers, Flying In a Blue Dream is a tune written by Satch entirely based on Lydian and is by some measure my favourite Satriani tune.

Great to see Diamond Darrell, Marty Friedman and Mark Knopfler mentioned!

That "Red House" cover by Gales / Fish / Ingram is just dynamite. He's AFAIK still just 19 year old as well (Octane magazine did a feature back in 2014 where they drove from Louisiana to Chicago. They stopped at a blues shack somewhere down south, and a 14 year old "Kingfish" Ingram was playing that night)

Talking of 19 years old:-

Muddy Waters : She's Nineteen Years Old

Solo starts @ 2:17

Edited by cherryowen on Wednesday 8th January 22:59

[popeyewhite]

Got about 5 minutes into the Satriani track above, waiting for it to start. All I heard was someone who was technically brilliant playing a guitar very fast but without any soul. Eric Gales also falls into that camp. And Vai, And Trout. Although Gales is slower he's also very good but a lot of his solos signal his virtuosity and little else and they can get raucous.. Guitar solos are so hard to think about objectively I won't bother. Here's four different ones

ZZ Top - A Fool For Your Stockings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv4B0xK8rNs

Ted Nugent - Stranglehold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c3d7QgZr7g

Gary Clark Jr - When My Train Pulls In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXMDCNjl8M

Frank Zappa - Sexual Harassment in the Workplace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28kTwoDK-g

[OFORBES]

ben5575 said:

OFORBES said:

Pink Floyd - David Gilmour - Coming Back To Life

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

Such a brilliant track.

Its my favourite ever track that I could listen to over and over again, its brilliant. In fact, whilst its not anywhere near their most popular album, The Division Bell also happens to be my favourite album of theirs.

[oddball1313]

So many to choose but these three by Roy Clark, Philip Sayce, Marty Freidman and Phil X always make me smile

https://youtu.be/-xssnp7R51A

https://youtu.be/ZMgiiQQfJg0

https://youtu.be/Zie1Rl2sOas

https://youtu.be/mJaArDhWPEE

[wombleh]

Love a bit of Slash, especially the retro stuff he did with Lenny Kravitz.
Sister https://youtu.be/QgY65wHc8PM
Fields of joy https://youtu.be/kESn-Df34ug

Appreciate the chops involved in shredding but find most of it pretty dull. A couple of new players who I do appreciate Josh Middleton of Sylosis/Architects who does some great tutorial vids:
https://youtu.be/m8p-gc_4Hms

And Pers Nilsson (Meshuggah) who is a technical genius: https://youtu.be/VbZ27N9L3GQ

[stuartmmcfc]

Vastly underrated as a guitarist and sadly missed
Prince,
https://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9
https://youtu.be/TvnYmWpD_T8

Edited by stuartmmcfc on Thursday 9th January 08:31

[irocfan]

Pastor Of Muppets said:

Rush... A Farewell To Kings. Alex Lifeson on fire in that one, incredible.

to be fair they're always on fire!

[Stan the Bat]

popeyewhite said:

Got about 5 minutes into the Satriani track above, waiting for it to start. All I heard was someone who was technically brilliant playing a guitar very fast but without any soul. Eric Gales also falls into that camp. And Vai, And Trout. Although Gales is slower he's also very good but a lot of his solos signal his virtuosity and little else and they can get raucous.. Guitar solos are so hard to think about objectively I won't bother. Here's four different ones

Exactly, a lot is just widdling, solos gotta have soul.

[irocfan]

stuartmmcfc said:

Vastly underrated as a guitarist and sadly missed
Prince,
https://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9
https://youtu.be/TvnYmWpD_T8

Edited by stuartmmcfc on Thursday 9th January 08:31

as an aside I never rated the purple pain - and then I saw him in concert... WOW!!! Abso-fking-lutely amazing

[Blackpuddin]

charlie7777 said:

This makes me smile.

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

+ 1

[NDA]

My Old School with Skunk Baxter has to be one of the greats... badly mimed here, but worth a listed.

2.27 in is where I used to burn the tweeters on my old hifi system.

https://youtu.be/kgWWliZHjtI

[rgw2012]

irocfan said:

Pastor Of Muppets said:

Rush... A Farewell To Kings. Alex Lifeson on fire in that one, incredible.

to be fair they're always on fire!

Exactly! Lifeson is a virtuoso guitarist, especially evident when you listen to what he does on some of their instrumental pieces such as La Villa Strangiato and many others!

Always loved Stevie Ray Vaughn, provides a tonne of good soloing but Texas Flood has always stood out IMHO.

[Composer62]

Two examples I've always loved from Mike Oldfield's - "Ommadawn"

https://youtu.be/0_igQKKqZ2s?t=583 - Makes it sound effortless from around 9:44 - 11.04

https://youtu.be/0_igQKKqZ2s?t=974 - I've always loved the intense vibrato and screaming ending in the final section from around 16:14 - 18:22

Not bad for someone in his early 20's who played almost every other instrument on the album too

[One Shot]

Terry Kath - Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4.

[chilistrucker]

It would be this for me, purely self indulgent so you can choose to listen or ignore.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljrgs4TzkTQ


Its the Red Hot Chili Peppers at Slane Castle in 2003 playing 1 of their lesser known songs, Venice Queen.
There is big back story to the song/lyrics of which I can personally relate too but won't bore you all with the details, but it has a huge meaning to me personally and I rarely listen to the song as its that powerful for me.

It is a bit ironic really as beings as this is such a big tune on a personal level, and the fact I have worked on 4 different tours with the band, it is the 1 song they never played during any of those 4 tours, (probably just as well really.)

Any way, there are much better I'm sure, but not for me,
the pivotal moment for me on the clip is at 4.11, when John Frusciante swaps from electric to acoustic.

I hope it resonates with someone.

[cherryowen]

wombleh said:

And Pers Nilsson (Meshuggah) who is a technical genius: https://youtu.be/VbZ27N9L3GQ

That is deeply impressive on both technical and melodic levels.

For something a little different:-

Have You Ever Loved a Woman : Derek & The Dominos Live at The Fillmore

Clapton at his best, on - for me - one of the best live albums ever recorded. The solo proper start at 4:35, but his lines in the intro are delicious.

[gbbird]

Led Zep - Achilles Last Stand
Floyd - Comfortably Numb.
Floyd - Time
Scorpions - Still Loving You
Rainbow - Stargazer
Death - Voice of the Soul

[Simes205]

Kid Charlemagne - Steely Dan
Guitar, Larry Carlton

https://youtu.be/jJ9Xk-VoGqo

[popeyewhite]

Allan Holdsworth and Mick Taylor (ex Stones) both play on this.
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Heavy Tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znchZzjRfuU

Face melting?
Motorhead - Metropolis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z38R-EucqMw

A bit different this one because the guitar solo is at the start of the track and fades in and out the whole way through. The brilliant
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Cowgirl in the Sand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6GyzspbuPU

There's a great solo, and a young Eddie Vedder goes nuts,
Pearl Jam - Alive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0unH11yjklE