Favorite Guitar Solos (your list)

[Zmog1974]

i love the solo in Steel Feeling Blue.(followed by a mean fiddle solo).by.Gram Parsons, also i love it when Prince does the Purple Rain solo live....gets me everytime...Prince's" i could never take the place of your man"from the Sign o the Times album has one mean solo too..though it does sound very 80's now...Nearly every Hotclub in Cowtown song has a top solo...theres millions of others, gonna have to get my thinking cap on.

[Zmog1974]

OH YEAH.....forgot Eric Clapton's and Robbie Robertsons solo in the Last Waltz i love the expressions on their faces...one of the best things about the last waltz is the fun they are having..Rick Danko smile when Ronnie Hawkins is singing is priceless.

[Oz]

Mine would be the song Untitled#2 on John Frusciante's solo debut Niandra LaDes and usually just a t-shirt, wich is a 5 minute song consisting of an accoustic guitar playing chords and rythm and an electric guitar playing a solo backwards. It's awesome.

And then there's Patrick's hilarious live drum solo on 'Steam engine', but that's another topic...  :)

[SmoothOprtr]

Please add Sweet Child O Mine to my list!

[marktwain]

Please add Sweet Child O Mine to my list!

Welcome, my brother!

[wordawg]

Just shoving this up the list to try and get a reply to my Rory Gallagher question.

Are the US posters aware of the mans work? Was he big over there? He probably toured more than anyone ever (even more than MMJ!). Top class guitarist - electric/acoustic/slide/mandolin.

Word?

[Chills]

Not from USA, and I'm not so familiar with the man's work, though I love cranking up songs like moonchild or seventh son of a seventh son on a regular basis!
Definitely intersted in hearing more... Any hints on where I should get started?

That man ROCKS

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

for some reason I thought that guy did "children of the sun"

[Rabid_Washcloth]

Anything by Doug Martsch

Anything from Robert Quine's Lou Reed days (specifically Waves of Fear - will make you intentionally wreck your car if too loud)

Anything by Leo Kottke - every song's one big solo

[The Boar]

Wow, big props for mentioning Leo Kottke. What an awesome artist.

[Chills]

Robert Quine, didn't he die from a heroin overdose last year? That's pretty sad.

I think he also played guitar with Richard Hell and the Voidoids in the 70's. Anybody remember their classic punk single Blank Generation? Check it out!

[MMJ_fanatic]

Just shoving this up the list to try and get a reply to my Rory Gallagher question.

Are the US posters aware of the mans work? Was he big over there? He probably toured more than anyone ever (even more than MMJ!). Top class guitarist - electric/acoustic/slide/mandolin.

Word?

Greggy--yes and yes and word!

[wordawg]

Any hints on where I should get started?

That man ROCKS

Taste - Same Old Story, Catfish (especially a live version), What's Going On, Sugar Mama (again, look for a live version)

Rory Gallagher - One of his best albums I think is 'Live in Europe' (its old, but still available).  It has such classics as Pistol Slapper Blues, Going to My Hometwown and Bullfrog Blues.

I am a sucker for live albums, I much prefer them to studio albums and the Live in Europe basically showcases him at his very best.  He was staggering live.  Saw him dozens (honestly) of times. Very under rated.

Due to wandering backwards in time thinking about this, I've just ordered the Best of Taste. Can't wait.

Hope this helps.

[Chills]

Thanks, i'll try to search something out!

[Complainer]

A couple people mentioned Free Bird by Skynyrd, particularly the end of it. Are you being sarcastic? That's possibly the lamest solo in rock history. "deedle dee deedle dee deedle dee deedle dee...." It's finger exercises. So is the solo in One Big Holiday, for that matter. Skynyrd's 'I Ain't The One', though, has one of the best classic rock solos I've ever heard.  

[EC]

Yeah, but a lot of guitar solos are excercizes with personalization to them, right?  Like, there's only so many ways you can make the notes go really fast, and it's all about what you've learned.  Sometimes you go into zone mode and just play whatever comes into your fingers, and sometimes you've planned it out...

And, damn me if the One Big Holiday beginning bit isn't really effin' hard to get the hang of.

(The 2nd part should give you the clue that I actually don't know what I'm talking about in the first part.)

[Sal Paradise]

Well, if the solo in One Big Ho is just a finger exercise:
Goddamn, I love that finger exercise!

[sweatboard]

A couple people mentioned Free Bird by Skynyrd, particularly the end of it. Are you being sarcastic? That's possibly the lamest solo in rock history. "deedle dee deedle dee deedle dee deedle dee...." It's finger exercises. So is the solo in One Big Holiday, for that matter. Skynyrd's 'I Ain't The One', though, has one of the best classic rock solos I've ever heard.  

I have to disagree.  I think there is quite a bit of soul involved in those "finger excercises".  The solos on Freebird and One Big Holiday are both certifiably "MIND BLOWING".  If you don't recognize that then you need to try listening with a more OPEN MIND, or something.  

[sweatboard]

Can someone please explain how you post an image in your message?  Thanks,

Brian

[Sal Paradise]

There's this icon with a pretty landscape, looks like canada or something. Click it and replace URL with your uh, URL. It's real easy once you know it.