<p>Guitar solos have largely disappeared from music. The odd solo nowadays is usually pretty crummy. Guitar fans, please post the songs with your favourite guitar solos here!</p>
<p>Jimi Hendrix-drivin South</p>
<p>Or how about Rage Against the Machine's Darkness. Tom Morello plays a killer new age jazz solo on that.</p>
<p>RATM is great.</p>
<p>I like Eddie van Halen's solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat it"..... without doubt the best solo I've heard. Then comes few others like Van Halen's "Right Now" solo... I'll post others as I remember.</p>
<p>RATM's tom morello on "Settle for Nothing". I don't really like the song, but as for the solo, I don't know if it gets cleaner than that.</p>
<p>I had that song on my mind when I read Juanito's post about RATM! It's nice. Sounds like he's playing a keyboard! Solo from "Know your enemy" is nice too (is this thread turning into a rage against the machine thread?) :)</p>
<p>I really like the Solos from:</p>
<p>Cream - Crossroads
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Crossfire</p>
<p>Joe Pass----Cherokee from Virtuoso 1
Blues For Nina---Montreau 1975</p>
<p>"Joe Pass----Cherokee from Virtuoso 1"</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Someone with taste.</p>
<p>Just about anything by Hendrix, although I'm partial to his bluesier stuff like Red House and his jazzier stuff: Electric Ladyland, Little Wing. Sidenote: the re-mastered Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD of Hendrix at the Monterrey Pop Festival (his first US concert) is unbelievable, especially the version of Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and "The Wind Cries Mary".</p>
<p>Just about anything by Duane Allman -- Live at the Fillmore, Layla, etc.</p>
<p>Just about anything by Steve Morse: not as "soulful" as the two mentioned above, but the most technically impressive guitar player I've ever seen. He makes it look effortless.</p>
<p>I think the most well-crafted solo I've ever heard may be Pete Anderson on Bill Monroe's "Rocky Road Blues". Anderson was Dwight Yoakam's guitarist/producer and they always closed their concerts with this as an extended jam encore. It's available on the "Dwight Live" CD. Terrific rockabilly Telecaster playing that builds, measure by measure, throughout a lengthy solo covering at least a half dozen styles. It's a knockout.</p>
<p>I would agree that there is very little good guitar playing in music today, something I attribute to extra-long guitar straps. It's pretty hard to do much besides strum power chords when you have to reach down to your knees.</p>
<p>Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child</p>
<p>Hey, We've got EDUCATED guitar fanatics here! Joe Pass! Amazing! I liked the bit about Rocky Road Blues, too.</p>
<p>Here's something else to chew on:
I'm not a Paul McCartney fan, but the solo on "Things We Said Today" on the Tripping the Light Fantastic album is very slick. Nothing very virtuoso but very well-developed musically. It's not improvised, but great to listen to nonetheless.</p>
<p>Another fav is Richie Blackmore's solo on Deep Purple's rendition of Neil Diamond's Kentucky Woman, he gives the song an incredible edge and really tears it apart.</p>
<p>Anybody else?</p>
<p>Slash in 'November Rain'</p>
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<p>Some of us old geezers have an unfair advantage. We've seen most of the greats live. For example, the first big rock concert I ever attended (at age 14) was the Jimi Hendrix Experience in the Jacksonville Coliseum. Before I finished high school, I had seen Hendrix a second time (on the 4th of July playing the Star Spangled Banner, no less), the Allman Bros, Led Zeppelin, and The Who play "Tommy". </p>
<p>I grew up with Steve Morse and went to see his garage bands play every Friday night starting in the 9th grade. He used to bring his Strat to the neighborhood swimming pool and practice scales while lying out in the sun. He was like the basketball player that dribbles a ball everywhere he goes.</p>
<p>elvis costello - sweet pear
gorgeous song with equally gorgeous solo.</p>
<p>Saturday Night at the World, Waltz Song, Classical Gas, 12 string stella</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I've always really loved the acoustic guitar solos from Eric Clapton's unplugged version of Layla.</p>
<p>I am not a teenie bopper or anything, but this solo is pretty incredible. <a href="http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/clarkson_kelly/videos.jhtml#live%5B/url%5D">http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/clarkson_kelly/videos.jhtml#live</a></p>
<p>Scroll down past the first five songs and click on the 4 songs on "Live @ VH1.com"</p>
<p>Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin</p>
<p>Pretty Much any Led Zeppelin. Crazy Train is also good.</p>
<p>i personally love the solo by Brian May in Bohemian Rhapsody towards the end of the song. Perhaps not the HARDEST solo in the world, but it sounds amazing.</p>
<p>Ditto yarr03, and I like to add that the solo between the first and second parts of the song is pretty killer. </p>
<p>Other great solos:</p>
<p>While My Guitar Gently Weeps- Beatles/George Harrison
Stairway to Heaven- Zepplin/Jimmy Page
Almost any Carlos Santana</p>