OT: Best Guitar Solos

[Deadrody]

Prince's "Purple Rain"
Slash in "Sweet Child O' Mine" and "November Rain"
Duane Allman in "Layla"

Slash's best GnR solo, IMO is in Estranged on Illusion II. So good Axl thanked him in the liner notes.

Can't really add any of Garcia or Mayer's stuff since their best work is live and so ubiquitous you can't pick just one. I mean, the entirety of Scarlet>Fire from 5/8/77 is exquisite.

 

[Deadrody]

Estranged has the best Slash solo for my money.

Ding

 

[Deadrody]

Mostly I'm just sad I found this thread at work where there are no speakers. I'll have to spend some time with this thread just listening to everyone's picks. Of course, also beyond those, because they're already listed.

My personal picks, as opposed to commenting on others, would be David Gilmour on Mother (short and simple, but perfect). As far as my Jerry picks, the ones I personally saw were in the same show - 9/18/93 when I really got on the bus - Loose Lucy and China Doll. It was surreal standing in MSG when Jerry lit off during China Doll. Still gives me goosebumps to this day, thinking of it.



Doesn't appear you can easily link to a specific track on Archive.org. Tracks 8 (3:10) and 18 (2:40) are the ones you want.

 

[Deadrody]

Cliche....but I always have liked Slashes solos on Sweet Child O' Mine, Knocking on Heavens Door, Night Train, Welcome to the Jungle...

Yeah, he's just crazy good.

 

[eastmill]

Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner on the live version of "Sweet Jane"

 

[August_West]

I really love unconventional solos. Two that have been mentioned are Magic Man (Roger Fisher= unsung genius) and Yours is No Disgrace. Steve Howe really makes the case by following his crazy solo with one that would make any jazz player jealous.

this one is the definition of uncoventional and so great, so outside,

Like a whos who of the best sessions players cut solos for this including Robben Ford and Larry Carlton and Becker and Fagan kept thinking it wasnt working,

and then Jay Graydon came in and came up with this madness.

 

[August_West]

and here it is broken down by Jay himself


great watch

 

[tdrink]

this one is the definition of uncoventional and so great, so outside,

Like a whos who of the best sessions players cut solos for this including Robben Ford and Larry Carlton and Becker and Fagan kept thinking it wasnt working,

and then Jay Graydon came in and came up with this madness.

That is an awesome solo. That’s what the Dan were largely about.

Did you listen to my track yet? Now we have a basic studio track for that and a couple others. I gotta start thinking overdub solos.

 

[jayteeman]

Carlos Santana - Europa