Legendary guitar solos!

BigshotSpike · Post by **BigshotSpike** » Sun May 11, 2003 2:49 am

Alright boys and girls, time to list your favorite songs with awesome guitar solos:

ART OF LIFE
X Japan: Hide and Pata
Solo: 9:40-12:40
X Japan's experimental tour de force boasts approximately five different guitar solos throughout the 30-odd minute long song, all of them extremely well done. The one to look out for starts at approximately 9:40 and continues until about 12:40. Hide and Pata work extremely well together and this solo is the epitome of all their past and future solos.

UNDECIDED
Dir En Grey: Die and Kaoru
Die plays a melodic solo on his acoustic. Kaoru comes in a little while later, playing mostly chords but he starts plucking as well, the two acoustics playing beautifully off each other. I can't emphasize how truly exceptional that instrumetal bit is. You'll just have to listen for yourself.

BLUE SKY COMPLEX
hide
The solos are funky, jazzy, and rocking at the same time. This is by far the best solo hide laid down on his Hide Your Face album.

HI-HO
hide
Definately an Aerosmith influence on this one!

TRIPTYCH
Siam Shade: Daita and Kazuma
No need to tell you where the solo is in this one, because Triptych is entirely instrumental. The Siam Shade guitarists are phenomenal as always, and though the Art of Life solos had the tiny edge of finnesse that pushed it above this one, the flawlessly bold guitar lines in Triptych definitely make a memorable statment.

STANDING SEX
X-Japan: hide and Pata
Okay, X-Japan has the best guitar solos. Bar none. There are simply none that are better.

JESUS, I/MARY STAR OF THE SEA
Zwan
A very powerful solo that switches from psychadelic, to hard edged, to soft, and to powerful and intense in nearly 10 minutes.

ROMANCE
Penicillin: Chisato
Solo: 3:12-3:57
Lots of distortion plus great technique. The guitar fits very well with the drums, especially in the last section of the solo where it becomes a guitar/drum duet with even more distortion and synthesized effects added in.

Rozard · Post by **Rozard** » Sun May 11, 2003 8:40 am

The Beatles - Let It Be

Hell, both John and George recorded solos for this song, one on the left stereo track and the other on the right. There are two versions out there, they and hear them both!

Satanic Kyo · Post by **Satanic Kyo** » Sun May 11, 2003 9:42 am

I say Jisatsuganbou by Due le Quartz, Miyabi's solo was short and sweet, but very cool.

Another is Yokan by Dir en Grey, it was Die I believe.

Lone Wolf · Post by **Lone Wolf** » Sun May 11, 2003 11:04 am

I can't believe you all didn't mention Van Halen - Eruption!

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sun May 11, 2003 11:52 am

Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet (Album - hard to pick out a track)
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze, Star Spangled Banner (how the hell did you not mention him before??? And these tracks???)
Frank Zappa - Muffin Man (a beloved great solo of mine), Peaches en Regalia (possibly the funnest instrumental of all time)
Brian May's work on Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and Night at the Opera - pick your own tracks.
Joe Pass - Virtuoso (Album, Jazz - hard to pick out single track)
John McLaughlin - Electric Dreams (Album, Jazz-fusion, again uniformly good)
Robert Fripp - Fracture (Possibly the most complex instrumental rock track of all time, chilling guitar work), 21st Century Schizoid Man (most legendary)

many, many others left in this category... See if you can name a few more, meanwhile I'll go back to my listening library and return later with a few more concrete legendary examples.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sun May 11, 2003 11:55 am

BigshotSpike wrote:Alright boys and girls, time to list your favorite songs with awesome guitar solos:

ART OF LIFE
X Japan: Hide and Pata
Solo: 9:40-12:40
X Japan's experimental tour de force boasts approximately five different guitar solos throughout the 30-odd minute long song, all of them extremely well done. The one to look out for starts at approximately 9:40 and continues until about 12:40. Hide and Pata work extremely well together and this solo is the epitome of all their past and future solos.

30-minute long song? Ah! Sounds like my kind of thing. Where can I get this baby, never seen X-Japan in any record store around.

Propyro · Post by **Propyro** » Sun May 11, 2003 1:27 pm

ben harper: live guitar solo from a concert in Portugal.
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the alien (whole album)
System of a down - Soil (well ok it's not the hardest thing in the world, but i like how it sounds)
rush - La villa strangiato
and pretty much any hendrix or zapa song has good solos in it.

Rozard · Post by **Rozard** » Sun May 11, 2003 10:48 pm

Anything done by Jimmy Page

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon May 12, 2003 11:22 am

Ah, can't forget Jimmy Page, of course!

Stairway to Heaven is obviously obligatory guitar material for any guitar player, legendary needless to say.

Still... aren't we slipping sort of into Artist and Album territory here as opposed to actual Solos?

Which sort of makes me question - what do we all call a legendary guitar solo? Is it, say, a solo that is bound to go down in history or a solo we just like? And also, it seems people have been mentioning more than one musician for a solo... is it really a solo if you have two guitarists playing, working together? Wouldn't that make it more of a duet, not a solo?

In that case, a most worthy & legendary electric guitar duet is, by and far, Robert Fripp + Adrian Belew. Just because there simply isn't anyone in the world who does the interlocking guitar stuff the way they do.

But, I digress. More to solos...

Here's some of my favorites, lifted directly off of the "100 greatest guitar solos" list by Guitar World magazine...

Jimmy Page - Stairway to Heaven (listed #1 in the survey, no less)

Jimmy Page - Whole Lotta Love

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (shoot... forgot it last time around)

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (my personal fav)

Don Felder/Joe Walsh - Hotel California (again, one of those obligatory things)

Ritchie Blackmore - highway Star(dude, you cannot underestimate Ritchie's influence... there's a whole school of guitarists who took after his style)

Brian May - Bohemian Rhapsody (just to solidify the Queen example there...)

Brian May - Brighton Rock (Funky use of simple delay... love it)

Mark Knopfler - Sultans of Swing (I love this guy, he's a fun guitarist if there ever was one)

Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien (oh wait, Propyro mentioned that one... well, it deserves a double mention

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Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures (ah, yes, that one too)

Artists not mentioned with concrete examples but worthy of mention - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Yngwie Malmsteen, Jeff Beck, Adrian Belew, and maybe even Tom Morello.

Beefmaster10000 · Post by **Beefmaster10000** » Mon May 12, 2003 12:23 pm

Slaughter's Prelude is Awesome. I think it is a solo, and a great one at that.

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