Best Rock Solo Ever

Fungtank

Never mind the song never mind the band. What is the BEST rock solo of all time??

This my friend is the question i ask of you!!

I'd have to say

Feed my Frankenstein - Alice Cooper

or

Emerald - Thin Lizzy

Karl Hungus

Out of those two, Emerald, absolutely hands ****ing down!

Personally, my favorites would be...

Anathema - Sleepless
Opeth - The Leper Affinity

D!ve^Bomb!

im sorry,, but it is impossible to answer this question!!!

exiot

I love Slash's solo in Sweet Child O' Mine

Baggio

Alex Lifeson: Rush:_ La Villa Strangiato...

Martin Barre :Jethro Tull:_ Aqualung (live)


outstanding...,,ciao'amigo's...Baggio.............

iasc

diamond head/ metallica - am i evil

Giblet

Originally posted by iasc
diamond head/ metallica - am i evil

Thats probably one of the worst and cheesiest solos ever.

iasc

no its not its great

Pugsley

Children of Bodom - Kissing the Shadow

Not a rock solo, but best solo ever in a metal song

evad_lhorg

It's still a rock solo. maybe some should say 'oh thats not a rock solo, its an acid house heavy metal, psychadelic happy grunge solo. '

Its all rock. you like smashing pumpkins or Opeth youre still a SMELLY ROCER;)

wiped

Anything by Angus Young

cournioni

Rock solo... Hmmm... I'll have to go for Slash's solo on Paradise City for that one.

munster rucker

not really a solo(3 guitars i think), but well worth a mention - Freebird by lynyrd skynyrd

RossFixxxed

Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd

Awesome.

Doctor J

Probably Tornado Of Souls, Marty Friedman on Megadeth's Rust In Peace album. Tasteful as f*ck and incredibly impressive technically too. It always gets my undivided attention. Special mention to Chris Poland's work on Peace Sells...

Treebeard

Originally posted by Doctor J
Probably Tornado Of Souls, Marty Friedman on Megadeth's Rust In Peace album. Tasteful as f*ck and incredibly impressive technically too. It always gets my undivided attention. Special mention to Chris Poland's work on Peace Sells...

Hell yeah, Tornado of Souls and Comfortably Numb are my all time favourites.

Sarky

I love the solo in the middle of Blue Oyster Cult's (Don't Fear) The Reaper.

elvis2002

My Favourties include,
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing, Tunnel of Love and Telegraph Road
Eric Clapton - Let It Rain, Crossroads
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien, Midnight and Mystical Potatoe Head Groove thing
Steve Vai - Eugene's Trick bag, Bad Horsie, Erotic Nightmares.
Vince Gill - Liza Jane.
Brad Paisley - The Nervous Breakdown
Jeff Beck - Becks Bolero
Slash - Sweet Child of Mine, Paradise City, Patience, Civil War
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird, Sweet Home Alabama
Rory Gallagher - Messin with the Kid, Laundromat, Out on the Western Plains.
Hendrix - Little Wing,
SRV - Little Wing (better than Hendrixs), Texas Flood.
Eagles - Hotel California, Life In The Fast Lane


I love many more but I think its impossible to choose a solo thats best, My altime favourite is "Sultans of Swing" Especially the live versions, but I never can pick my mouth of the floor when listening to Satriani.

mayordenis

the solo in Battery is deadly also Cowboys from hell

Quatre Mains

Return to Serenity by Testament

loismustdie

kurt - rape me and i know you're right and teen spirit

elvis2002

personally I believe kurt cobain and great guitar solo should not be mentioned in the same sentence. You obviosuly have not heard much guitar playing if you think he didn't anything that was great!!......... That ****er single handly destroyed guitar solo's for a decade, between Nirvana ----> Darkness, guitar solos in mainstream music were non existent! I vote for Kort Cobain in producin the worst guitar solos Ive ever heard in my life, smells like teen spirit solo sucks ass!!!

It wasn't me!

Cobain was a very "average" guitarist. None of his solos were great. They were appropriate to his riffs but they weren't great. His riffs were good though.

Not necessarily great solos but two I like a lot and can't seem to get out of my head lately are QOTSA's Noone Knows and Pantera's Mouth for War. Also love the solo in Slayer's Spirit in Black

Lemming

Aren't we all forgetting Hendrix' Voodoo Chile?

I would also second Emerald by Thin Lizzy, along with 'The Black Rose'

elvis2002

I'd prefer "Still believe in you" solo to Emerald. I never got into emerald that much... On a side note I seen a nice looking new double cd Thin Lizzy Best Of. Very nice. nothing new though.

Lemming

Originally posted by elvis2002
I'd prefer "Still believe in you" solo to Emerald. I never got into emerald that much... On a side note I seen a nice looking new double cd Thin Lizzy Best Of. Very nice. nothing new though.

Have a look in HMV next time you're around and have alook for the Thin Lizzy "book" album thiungy. It's 4 cd's inside a book of Lizzy's history. There's other ones available, like Hendrix, etc too.

Marq

OK, some may not regard this as a solo, but the six and a half minutes of triple guitar harmony that makes up the bulk of Rain on Tin by Sonic Youth is guitar playing par excellence.

bumblebeemouth

The Great Southern Trendkill - Go Dimebag!!!!!

Dr. Loon

Originally posted by It wasn't me!
Not necessarily great solos but two I like a lot and can't seem to get out of my head lately are QOTSA's Noone Knows

Haven't heard the song in a while, but is there actually a solo in there?!

<edit>Sorry... I just copped on - there's a wee solo in there alright. Nothin special.

Most of Guns N Roses (read: Slash) solos were excellent.

museslave

led zepplin song "since ive been been you"... Pages solo in that really takes the biscuit.... absolutley amazing

useeme

queen - brighton rock - from live killers

MunkyHed

Definetly Pink floyd cumfortably numb,
and since someone mentioned zeppelin at last since i've been loving you is sheer genius along with no quarter and the insane bowing on dazed and confused.

It wasn't me!

I was wondering, what do people think of the weird little solo in Time is Running Out by Muse?

Sleepy

Sometimes less is more and there's truth in simplicity so I'm going for old Slowhand:

Layla

Pyr0

I know its not a Rock solo but i'll say it anyway

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Pyr0

Oooooo yeah another one i forgot

Pantera - Walk

Can't get enough of it

$lash

Slash -> Estranged , or anything by Slash for that matter..

nadir

Originally posted by Pugsley
Children of Bodom - Kissing the Shadow

Not a rock solo, but best solo ever in a metal song

YEAH, or the one in northern comfort.
slash is great alright, the godfather one is awesome,a lso nightrain(extended version)


or the one I wrote last night, heh
I hate these threads, but at lest i get to say BODOM RULE!!!

the_obsolete

I dunno...off the top of me head I would say I love the solo in Soul To Squeeze by the chilies and the build up after it...love 'em! Also I know it's a bit on the cheezy side by now but the solo from Under The Bridge, when the drums kick in and Ferscante starts...mmmm...
Also the carazzy solos in Innuendo by Queen or Cliffs 'solo' in Orion

Magnolia_Fan

Chuck Berry - Johnny Be Good duh!

Cina

Jimmy Page - Stairway to Heaven / Heartbreaker.
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower / Voodoo Chile
Slash - Sweet Child O mine
Lots of Frank Zappa stuff too.

Heathen

Originally posted by RossFixxxed
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd

Awesome.

AAAGGGHHHH!!!!
u beat me to it :(
i love that solo. im actually listening to it right now
its pure class its euphoric!!

later
Macker

yami308

Originally posted by Sarky
I love the solo in the middle of Blue Oyster Cult's (Don't Fear) The Reaper.

Hell yeah!!! B.O.C. are rock gods.
Also,
Hendrix- All Along the Watchtower
Led Zepplin- Immigrant Song

funky penguin

Both the solos flea does on "Coffee Shop" from the one hot minute album. Also the one he does on "Naked in the Rain" From BSSM.

Portrait of Tracy by Jaco Pasrorius. Whole song is a solo.

As for the guitar....im surprised ne1 hasnt mentioned the finale to November Rain...........unless some1 has mentioned it already, and ergo i will look quite the fool.....

ARKANGEL

we are stars:we are stars
listen to the solos on that track that was made in 85 for charity(american version of live aid by american hard rock stars)
including difrent solos by george lynch(dokken)and a few others..
excellent

SirLemonhead

Originally posted by ARKANGEL
we are stars:we are stars
listen to the solos on that track that was made in 85 for charity(american version of live aid by american hard rock stars)
including difrent solos by george lynch(dokken)and a few others..
excellent

We're Stars? I have the video for that, plus the making

George is normally brilliant, but his solos on that weren't great.

funky penguin

So, just cos you have the name master of solos, you think you know everything eh?

weemcd

http://www.guitar.about.com/library/bl100greatest.htm

Im only new to listening to old school rock but id say erruption by Van Halen and machinegun by hendrix are my two favourites

Phil_321

Lynyrd Skynard - Freebird
AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie

I like my solos fast and bluesy.

amarc

Pink Floyd - Money
Led Zeppelin - Thank You (LIVE BBC Sessions Version)

2+2=5

pink floyd- shine on you crazy diamond

most of the song is a solo :cool: