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Post by melon1 on Mar 11, 2006 15:34:36 GMT -5
This board is for wankery worship. Sorry, Ken.  . The following solos are the best I've heard: "Thumb" - Dinosaur Jr. (my all time favorite, love J Mascis) "I'm Gonna Crawl" - Led Zeppelin "Dogs" - Pink Floyd "I Could Have Lied" - RHCP "Hell Is Chrome" - Wilco "Time" - Pink Floyd I'm forgetting a few but this is enough to get the thread started. |
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Post by phil on Mar 11, 2006 18:33:07 GMT -5
Just a few off the top of my head ...
- Watermelon in Easter Hay - Frank Zappa
- Dreams - Duane Allman
- Star Spangled Banner (Live/Woodstock) - Jimi Hendrix
- Soul Sacrifice (Live/Woodstock) - Santana
- Crossroads (live) - Eric Clapton
- Cortez the Killer - Neil Young
- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Jeff Beck
- Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughn
- Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour
- Telegraph Road - Mark Knopfler
- Surfin' with the Alien - Joe Satriani
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Post by Ayinger on Mar 11, 2006 20:59:29 GMT -5
oooo, "Telegraph Road" --- I was just thinking of that song yesterday evening as my boss & I were having a discourse on Dire Straits.
maybe not 'great' but some fav's anyhow:
"Tangerine" - Led Zeppelin (short on wanking but sweet on weeping)
"The Messiah Will Come" - Roy Buchanan
"Anna Stesia" - Prince (vers. off One Nite Alone...LIVE!
"Candy's Room" - Bruce Springsteen (comes in n' rips the wallpaper off)
"Still In Love With You" - Thin Lizzy (vers. off Live & Dangerous)
"Maggot Brain" - Funkadelic (yeah, basically an instrumental but there ARE some spoken words!)
"That Lady (Pts. 1 & 2) - The Isley Brothers (fuckin' A right, brother!) word
"Still Got The Blues For You" - Gary Moore (vers. off Blues Alive)
"I'll Be Alright Without You" - Journey (ok...let the insults begin...but really, Schon does a nice little bit in closing this whinner down)
"Old Love" - Eric Clapton (vers. off 24 Nights)
My stand-by #1 and #2 solo's come by the same band, BAP, who hail out of Germany:
#2: "Helfe Kann Dir Keiner" (vers. off LIVE Bess Demnahx -- just never fails to raise gooseflesh when that solo comes around)
#1: "Alexandra, Nit Nur Dir" (vers. off LIVE...affrocke!! -- perfectly moving that keeps you just going up, up, and up)
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Post by kool on Mar 11, 2006 21:08:16 GMT -5
My 2 favourites...
"Sweet Child O' Mine" - GNR
"Iron Man" - Black Sabbath
Can't say I'm a big fan of any kind of 'solos', especially on studio albums. Keep that stuff for live performances where you can get away with it... like Prince does brilliantly.
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Post by strat-0 on Mar 11, 2006 21:58:28 GMT -5
"Iron Man" indeed has an excellent solo.
So many...! Phil - I'm right with you on many of your picks. I was a little surprised to see "Dreams" on there - I didn't think you cared much for the Allmans. That is a great solo!
Some nice picks from Don, too!
Well, there's way too many, but just shooting from the hip:
Train Kept A-Rolling - Joe Perry
(several other Aerosmith tunes)
Sweet Jane [Mott the Hoople] - Mick Ralphs
Intro Sweet Jane; Rock and Roll; Heroin [Lou Reed] - Steve Hunter (plus?)
Hot Rails to Hell - [Blue Oyster Cult] - Buck Dharma
All I Ever Wanted Was to be With You - Santana
Damn, there's a ton more! I'm trying to think of some from the Who, and there are several, but Pete (as great a guitarist as I think he is) is not very large on the linear guitar solo. I mean, there are some, but that's not his long suit.
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Post by phil on Mar 11, 2006 22:27:25 GMT -5
I didn't think you cared much for the Allmans.
I care much more for Duane Allman than I care about the band ... !!
Got introduced to his work with the two Anthologies
that were released after his untimely death ... !
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Post by Ayinger on Mar 11, 2006 22:30:32 GMT -5
I'll see your "Hot Rails To Hell" and raise you one "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars" (ET Live) !
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Post by RocDoc on Mar 11, 2006 23:08:44 GMT -5
..and I'll see your 'Dreams' and raise you one 'Somebody Loan Me A Dime'.
Duane's solos on Boz by way of Fenton Robinson has moved me to effing tears....
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Post by Ayinger on Mar 12, 2006 0:42:43 GMT -5
...what Doc said....
I gotta feelin' someone's gonna scream out "Layla" next
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Post by strat-0 on Mar 12, 2006 0:43:35 GMT -5
I call, with "The Red and the Black" and "Jessica" (on anything).
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Post by wayved on Mar 12, 2006 1:15:47 GMT -5
solo at the end of "Earful of Wax" by Guided By Voices. Sheer unadulterated guitar power. Wheres my kleenex? (for my eyes! for my eyes!) Same goes for Gillards solo in Slick as Snails. Str8 up. No BoC, mind you but still pretty good. My favorites.
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Post by wayved on Mar 12, 2006 1:18:25 GMT -5
when it comes right down to it--Maggot Brain has my vote. Crazy, sad.....horrible in its sadness.
I love the guitar breakdown at the end of "Why Does Love Got to be So Sad" by Derek and the Dominoes though....
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Post by achn2b on Mar 12, 2006 19:40:39 GMT -5
wish you were here-david gilmour(hell, practically any gilmour solo, the man knows that what you don't play, the spaces you leave between the notes, is just as important as what you do) and it's acoustic
field of fire-richard lloyd(hell, practially any lloyd solo, too)
shoot out the lights-richard thompson
broken hearted savior; bittersweet-big head todd
get me-j mascis
voodoo child-stevie ray vaughn(like it better than hendrix')
is it yellow ledbetter that starts off with that great mccready strat work? "make me cry"
just a few real quick off the top of my head. to tell you the truth, i have a hard time recalling what most guitar solos sound like out of the context of the song.
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on Mar 12, 2006 21:19:36 GMT -5
I've always had a thing for Harrison's solo in "Let It Be".
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Post by RocDoc on Mar 13, 2006 16:45:42 GMT -5
voodoo child-stevie ray vaughn(like it better than hendrix')
But which version from BOTH of them?
There are at least three easily available versions that each them had...studio and live...which is to not even mention the bootlegs and radio shows I have where that song would bring down tha muthafukkin HOUSE...never in a million years could I make a choice.
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There was a board of a similar name at the oldold Rolling Stone site where I spent WAY to much time writing up a list of like , 50 solos...god, I wish I could find that somehow. It was saved to a computer who's hard drive mysteriously burned out while we were on a vacation a few years back.
Anyway, that's where I think I met Don P von Aying here, and Brother Howie, Clicker and a shitload of other cool folks..
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