# Best fade out guitar solo. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624 "2012-03-23T18:29:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/1 "2012-03-23T18:29:21Z")
I don’t even know if any bands still do this. A guitar solo at the end of a song that keeps going as the song fades out, no actual end to the song. When I think of this two Steely Dan songs immediately come to mind for me. In both cases I wish I could have heard what was going on after the music faded. 1. Kid Charlemagne: Steely Dan. Guitar solo by Larry Carleton 2. My Old School: Steely Dan. Guitar solo by Jeff “Skunk” Baxter I think it will be hard to top those but give it a shot. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/2 "2012-03-23T18:46:36Z")
I’ve always liked the ending of Mainline Florida with Eric wah-wahing away. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/3 "2012-03-23T18:49:10Z")
Boston’s _More Than a Feeling_ keeps going through my head, but I guess that it technically doesn’t end on a ‘solo’. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/4 "2012-03-23T18:57:38Z")
God, this might sound cheesy and will definitely date me, but the first song that came up when I read the thread title was _Running With the Night_ by Lionel Richie. I don’t know who did the guitar work on that song, but to my 16 yo ears, they had far better chops than one would expect from, you know, Lionel Richie music. ---
**Author:** ![DarkFire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@DarkFire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkFire)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/5 "2012-03-23T19:13:17Z")
Black by Pearl Jam. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/6 "2012-03-23T19:17:02Z")
The ones I thought of were [“Rainmaker”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK1k4y0EttQ) by Traffic and ["The Battle of Glass Tears"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E21UYss3IuE)by King Crimson (although the guitar has settled down somewhat by the end of the latter). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/7 "2012-03-23T19:23:21Z")
Hotel California. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/8 "2012-03-23T19:31:18Z")
Comfortably Numb ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/9 "2012-03-23T19:32:18Z")
**Sultans of Swing** ; when the song ends, it sounds like Knopfler is just getting warmed up. (That’s for the original version, anyway. There are online performances with a long instrumental coda, and a proper ending.) ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/10 "2012-03-23T19:33:19Z")
On Ryuichi Sakamoto’s album _The Thousand Knives of…_ the track _The End of Asia_ features [an amazing guitar solo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mtpT-nqZ3g) by _Kazumi Watanabe_. It’s not exactly a fade-out, as the song cross-fades into another song, but the guitar doesn’t show up until 4:30. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/11 "2012-03-23T19:54:14Z")
I think the best fade-out solo is Mike Campbell’s in “Runnin’ Down a Dream” by Tom Petty. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/12 "2012-03-23T20:31:58Z")
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/13 "2012-03-23T20:49:12Z")
[Gypsy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oWIF2n4ZLs) by Fleetwood Mac. Solo starts at 3:42. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/14 "2012-03-23T21:40:51Z")
I always wanted to hear the rest of ‘Siberian Khatru’ by Yes, from the album ‘Close to the Edge’. It sounded like Steve Howe had lots more to say… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/15 "2012-03-23T22:22:45Z")
“Crosseyed and Painless” - Talking Heads ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/16 "2012-03-23T23:47:25Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Hotel California. > [@Labtrash](#): > > Comfortably Numb > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > **Sultans of Swing** ; when the song ends, it sounds like Knopfler is just getting warmed up. > > (That’s for the original version, anyway. There are online performances with a long instrumental coda, and a proper ending.) Yes. YES. \*\*YES! \*\* ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/17 "2012-03-23T23:50:35Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > **Sultans of Swing** ; when the song ends, it sounds like Knopfler is just getting warmed up. Yes, that’s what I was thinking of when I opened this thread. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/18 "2012-03-24T02:01:39Z")
As a soloist, Pete isn’t in the same league as some of the players mentioned, but he does some nice work at the end of The Who’s [It’s Not Enough](http://youtu.be/R-0ScKQcSo0). ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/19 "2012-03-24T05:06:59Z")
“Loan Me A Dime” Boz Scaggs (Duane Allman playing the solo). ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624/20 "2012-03-24T05:25:44Z")
I won’t say it’s the best guitar solo outro per se, but this is a great overall outro with guitar, bass, and strings. Red Hot Chili Peppers: [Sir Psycho Sexy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PU0Cdtzk6o) It starts at 5:37. It’s just a beautiful ending to the record (I don’t count “They’re Red Hot,” since I think it’s basically a throwaway track) and so different to most of what’s come from the previous 60+ minutes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fade-out-guitar-solo/616624.md?page=2)