Solo's ?
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Posted on Oct 24, 2006 02:21 am
Bleak
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Bit of an ambiguous question, but what is your favoroute solo?
One of mine is the first keyboard solo in 'Lazy' by deep purple.
Gives me chills
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olddogMember
Since: Jul 02, 2003
Oct 24, 2006 03:33 am That's a tuff one for me there are alot of solo's that really get my attention. Some that come to mind would be
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
"We Are the Champions" & Bohemian Rhapsody"
Intro to "Hot for Teacher"
"Whole Lotta Love"
I don't think I could pick a single favorite. :)
Dan
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
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Oct 24, 2006 06:53 am Bleak, man... DP's Made In Japan album has a great version of that song... the whole album... like victory !
I got'ta go with a Blackmore solo... the one on Knocking At Your Back Door off of Perfect Strangers .
Oct 24, 2006 07:06 am Oooooo, Knocking at Your Back Door, good choice...
I like Crazy Train from Blizzard of Oz...actually, anything off that album.
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
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Oct 24, 2006 07:29 am Yeah, Blizzard ! Oooo, Revelation Mother Earth !!! I remember my bud practicing that solo for a week straight, and was still only able to nail it about every 5th or 6th take . Killer trills !
Oct 24, 2006 07:30 am Randy Rhoads...they'll never be another, simple one of the best...
BleakA small pie will soon be eatenMember
Since: Aug 26, 2004
Oct 24, 2006 09:19 am Oh, and of course, every solo in 'Hanger 19' ;-)
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
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Oct 24, 2006 09:24 am Of course ! haha
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Oct 24, 2006 10:21 am I've always liked the Metallica - Nothing Else Matters solo. Tasteful, yet passionate.
Another favorite, Always With You, Always With Me, from Joe Satriani. Well put together piece
Oct 24, 2006 07:38 pm dio - last in line
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
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Oct 25, 2006 08:18 pm For starters Bleak, you been reading my mid or what. Lazy it is, actually the version from Made in Japan has it for me. Both the guitar and keys although mostly the keys. Jon Lord was my inspiration in those days.
I have a couple others I'll post when I have more time.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
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Oct 25, 2006 09:12 pm Heres one I'm guessing not many will know or remember. Steve Morse on the Dixie Dregs tune Blood Sucking Leeches.
Another would be Satriani Surfing with the Alien, excelant style and grace and speed.
Lots of Petruci, especially with Liquid Tension Experiment.
But I agree Rhodes and Blackmore as well cut like no others for that style of music.
olddogMember
Since: Jul 02, 2003
Oct 26, 2006 01:45 am I don't think one can leave out Zakk for some great solo's, I'd sure love to be able to play like him. :D
Dan
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
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Oct 26, 2006 08:38 am
Gary Moore - Pretty Woman, the live version.
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
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Oct 26, 2006 10:40 am That killer 'phased-fretless' sounding bass solo in David Gilmore's "Murder", is another fave .
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Oct 26, 2006 11:30 am My absolute favorite new guitar solo is in Stephen Malkmus' "No More Shoes". Excellent guitar tone, dual leads, fuzz-box distortion and that compressor stomp-box squish over it all. Gotta love it.
As for classic solos, yeah I was a Rhodes desciple in high school and I knew the whole Tribute album note-for-note (of course I couldn't nail the whole thing, but close enough for a 15-year-old). That cadenza during "Suicide Solution" was the defining guitar solo of my adolescence.
But if I were to pick one absolute timeless favorite, I might have to reach back to my middle school days and pick "Sweet Child O' Mine" from Guns N' Roses. I dont listen to Appetite at all any more, but that one solo still impresses me every time I hear it.
Oct 26, 2006 12:15 pm There are so many,I cant choose.How about Albert Lee,Country boy,Van Halen,Jump,Hendrix,Red House,Wind crys Mary,David Gilmore,Comfortably Numb,and at the end of Brick in the wall,all of Ritchie Blackmore's solo's,oh and that one at the end of Cockney Rebel's Come up and make me smile,and Maggie May,Steve Howe,The Clap,the solo in Beatles,Something and lots more MMMMM.Oh yeah how about The Carpenters,Goodbye to Love,Fleetwood Mac,Go your own way.No I can't choose,maybe if I think about it for a year I'll pick one.
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
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Oct 26, 2006 02:09 pm Bleak this is not a fair question... I keep remembering ones I really like !
Like that Alex Skolnik(sp) solo on Practice What You Preach . OR the 'other Alex'... from Rush... the solo on Free Will . Awesome harmonic tap/bends !(Anything he did on Hemispheres as well .)
Oh Oh Oh !... The Live Berkley College version of Band Of Gypsies "Machine Gun" ! God, how could I overlook that one ?!
Not a fair question at all Bleaky . : p
TallChapAnswer:On a good day, lipstick.Member
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Oct 26, 2006 03:57 pm Lazy, huh? Hell yeah. What amzing stuff...
Lest we forget:
David Gilmour - "Another Brick in the wall - Part 2" (Pink Floyd)
David Gilmour - "Comfortably Numb" (Pink Floyd)
Michael Schenker - "Rock Bottom" (UFO)
Richard Thompson - "Calvary Cross"
Jaco Pastorius (bass) - "All American Alien Boy" (With Ian Hunter)
Stanley Clarke (bass) - "Schooldays"
Hey Hujambo...The end of "Make Me Smile" from Steve Harley and the Cockney Rebel. You know I spent two years tracking the 45 RPM down for that one! It had been out of print and all that.....LOVE THAT SONG.
Bugger....now I'll have it in my head for the rest of the day....
"Blue eyes, blue eyes, how can you tell so many lies...."
TallChapAnswer:On a good day, lipstick.Member
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Oct 26, 2006 04:29 pm Oh, and....
Steve Lukather - "Talk To Ya Later" (With The Tubes)
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
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Oct 26, 2006 08:12 pm TallChap, that Tube one with Steve is more obscure then the Dixie Dregs one I drug out. I love that line, simple but sticks in your head.
I guess if I must pick one single guitarist who's solo's impressed me the most on the creative side I would have to go with Tommy Bolin. The guitar on Teaser was just plain funky for that time of life. But again, another statistic with needles in his arms. Such a pity.
But I agree, this is an unfair question. Some of us just cant settle for one favorite thing. I would have to break them down into catagories as well as instrument types too.
And as well TallChap, do you think many people here remember Richard Thompson as a rocker. I think most now relate him to acoustic, if they know him at all.
LokiCone PokerMember
Since: Apr 07, 2002
Oct 26, 2006 11:37 pm Petrucci improvising. That's all you need.
Oct 27, 2006 06:04 am Check this,
Oct 27, 2006 08:07 am good stuff hujambo, i love alberts signature guitar. love that body shape.
TallChapAnswer:On a good day, lipstick.Member
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Oct 27, 2006 09:47 am Hey Noize, the question was "What is your favourite solo?" It wasn't "do you know any solos we might know too?" I know, I'm being pedantic. I get like that...
Richard Thompson is a phenomenal guitar player - both acoustic, and electric. The solo on "Calvary Cross" is amazing (Live from the "Watching the Dark" anthology). You can actually hear where he closes his eyes and just lets it all out. For feel, there's nothing like it. It may not be 'perfect', but you can hear the emotion. A favourite.
As for the Tubes song, I think everyone's heard it. It's just that not everyone knows it's Steve Lukather.
Also, as an addendum to the UFO song - ANYTHING that Michael Schenker ever played. Heh!
Obscure? I could drag out some Be Bop Deluxe....Bill Nelson? Maybe some Francis Dunnery?
You're right, there's so many genres, and instruments that it's difficult to pick just one.
Robbie Blunt - "Big Log" (with Robert Plant)
Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks on the Gov't Mule live thingy - 30 days in the hole..
Andy McKay's one note sax solo on Roxy Music's "Let's stick together"
Raff Ravenscroft's sax solo on "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty.
Tony Iommi on the first Black Sabbath album - "Warning" F'ing cool.
Most of "Funeral for a friend" on Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album.
Okay, really obscure. PFM "The Chocolate Kings"
Don't get me started...
Oct 27, 2006 09:58 am Now how can we have a thread like this and no one mentions Steve Vai?!?
For me it's a toss-up between many (all are Vai solos):
Big Trouble :: David Lee Roth
Sailing Ships :: Whitesnake
Fire Garden Suite :: Steve Vai
Liberty :: Steve Vai
...and just about everything else Vai has done except the stuff that's a little overboard on the weirdness.
TallChapAnswer:On a good day, lipstick.Member
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Oct 27, 2006 10:35 am The Zappa "Stunt Guitar" stuff? Or the "Strat Abuse" stuff?
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
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Oct 27, 2006 06:08 pm OMG, I forgot. OK, if I have to pick just one then TallChap you restarted my brain thank you very much.
The guitar solo in the live version of Penguin in Bondage. From the Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention album, Roxy and Elswhere. That whole album is full of Zappa at his best in my opinion. But yes indeed, he did become even greater after that as well.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
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Oct 27, 2006 07:33 pm Hujambo, excelant video find my friend. That is one of his best tunes for pickin indeed!!!
Oct 27, 2006 09:36 pm How can a guitarist be "soloing" when the rest of the band is playing behind him? Hmmm..
Oct 28, 2006 02:51 am i dunno. off the top of my head, i have always liked the solos from don't cry and november rain, GNR use your illusion I. also the one in 'victim or the crime' by the grateful dead.
TallChapAnswer:On a good day, lipstick.Member
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Oct 30, 2006 12:18 pm Like Lays potato chips. Betcha can't pick just one...
Oct 30, 2006 05:35 pm favourites today are:
tommy the cat - primus
reign in blood - slayer
cortez the killer (?) - neil young
