<p>"Slash in 'November Rain'"</p>
<p>Yes! Go GNR and VR</p>
<p>Whole lotta love- Led Zepplin
Brick in the wall- pink Floyd
Rock and Roll hotchie Koo- Rick Derringer and Johnny winter's version
anything by Hendrix
anything by Becker- Steely Dan</p>
<p>Good question ! There are others I am sure can;t think of then right now---</p>
<p>Comfortably numb- Pink Floyd</p>
<p>And I love the opening riff of Smoke on the Water :)</p>
<p>Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Judas Priest - Electric Eye
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (Randy Rhoads)
Rainbow - Stargazer
Van Halen - Eruption(Eddie)</p>
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<p>Not at all! Ever heard of progressive metal? I think the defintion of prog. metal is a 26 minute solo followed by 3 minutes of vocals, followed by a ten minute solo :)</p>
<p>I don't know if there's any solos that I consider my favorite, but certainly guitarists that play much better solos than others. My favorite soloists would be:</p>
<p>Michael Romeo (Symphony X. . .perhaps the greatest guitar technician that ever lived?)
Herman Li (Dragonforce. . .another technical master, holds record for "second fastest solo ever in 'Fury of the Storm' - almost 400 bpm(!!!))
Jani Liimatainen (Sonata Arctica)
Timo Tolkki (Stratovarius)</p>
<p>that dragonforce solo is crazy! who placed first in the ranking for fastest solo?</p>
<p>"Slash in 'November Rain'"</p>
<p>Yes! Go GNR and VR"</p>
<p>The greatest piece of music EVER...</p>
<p>The fastest single "run" during a guitar solo ever recorded is by Allan Holdsworth. Unfortunately, the run lasts only about a second, but it's unbelievable, and comes close to hitting 64th notes(!!). The song is called 'Fred' and it's on the Tony Williams Lifetime album from 1975 - it's a jazz fusion album. The other part was that this song was recorded live during an improv and is most likely impossible to play, I highly doubt Allan Holdsworth himself could ever play this again. If you want to look it up (good luck finding it), the exact run happens between 4:32 and 4:34 in the song.
I think the reason this is classified as the fastest is because it's a smooth solo - every note can be heard - and because there is no tapping involved, like in Michael Angelo's "No Boundaries" or "Time Traveler."</p>
<p>Rusty Cooley is getting there though - <a href="http://www.rustycooley.com/video.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.rustycooley.com/video.html</a> - check out the videos. I've never seen a human being move a hand that fast.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if this is a 'solo', but there's a beautiful piece of guitar by Mark knopfler halfway through Je Sui de Sole...</p>
<p>Don't bring up Mark Knopfler. Mark Knopfler is a sore topic with me right now :(</p>
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The fastest single "run" during a guitar solo ever recorded is by Allan Holdsworth. Unfortunately, the run lasts only about a second, but it's unbelievable, and comes close to hitting 64th notes(!!).
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What the hell.... this is music, not olympics.</p>
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Don't bring up Mark Knopfler. Mark Knopfler is a sore topic with me right now
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<p>what's up? Upset because you couldn't go to the concert? well, I heard the concert was a success, so he'll probably be back in a couple of years.</p>
<p>I think the best living guitarist in the world, if there is such a thing, is in Europe, hooked on drugs, sick and not playing publicly right now.</p>
<p>Which makes me sad…</p>
<p>His name is Jimmy Rosenberg. He’s a Gypsy guitarist in the Django Reinhardt tradition.</p>
<p>You can find him on youtube including short performaces when he was under 10 years old. </p>
<p>Amazing.</p>
<p>There is a DVD out called Frank Vignola’s Gypsy Jazz Jam. There are several pieces where Frank and Jimmy practice together. </p>
<p>Mindblowing.</p>
<p>This isn’t rock though.</p>
<p>Frank Vignola is no slouch himself. He is one of the best guitarists in the world.</p>
<p>I don’t get why Jimmy’s name is not on the cover of the DVD.</p>
<p>One, it would probably sell more copies.</p>
<p>Two… it’s Jimmy Rosenberg for God’s sake. A genius.</p>
<p>“Marquee Moon” by Television or “We’re An American Band” by Yo La Tengo</p>
<p>Richard Thompson on many of his songs, especially live versions of Vincent Black Lightning 1952.</p>