# Favorite guitar solos **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 12, 2004, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941 "2004-06-12T05:12:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/41 "2004-06-14T13:38:03Z")
Watched a documentary about Rory Gallagher the other night which reminded me of just how great he was. No particular song, but he I think he was a lot better live than in the studio. Otherwise I like Mark Knopfler’s early stuff ( **astorian’s** vote for _Down to the Waterline_ is probably about right) as well as fellow “slowpoke” J.J. Cale. Favourite of his…hmmmm…probably _Call me the Breeze_ off _Naturally_ is a great start to that album. Stick in car radio, unwind window and enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Master\_Killer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@The\_Master\_Killer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Master_Killer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/42 "2004-06-14T13:41:36Z")
I cant believe that no-one has mentioned “Money”? David Gilmore has been mentioned alot, but no-one has uttered the word “Money”!!! That solo gives me goose-bumps…It’s perfect. Also, on Yngwie’s first album, Rising Force, is an instrumental call Icarus Dream Suite Op. 4 which makes me cry…It’s so beautiful and Yngwie is so talented. I love him and I hate him!! (Would that I had but a fraction of his talent!!) Later… ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/43 "2004-06-14T14:09:46Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Let’s see… I’d include Duane Allman’s solo from In Memory of Elizabeth Reed and Dickey Betts’s from Whipping Post (both from _At Fillmore East_). Great solos, both, but I always fell for their call-and-response solos on _One Way Out_. And Richard Betts never got the props he deserved, if you ask me. After Duane’s death, his stuff on the _Brothers and Sisters_ album was fantastic. Jessica and Ramblin’ Man were gorgeous. And I’ll cast my vote for the great Luther Perkins. He might have been the most minimalist guitar player who ever lived, and his tone made him sound like he never changed his strings, but every note was right, even if there weren’t many of them. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/44 "2004-06-14T14:36:05Z")
> [@Small Clanger](#): > > Still can 🙂 cute chord sequence. What happened **if6** lose your guitar? How about Hendrix stuff? And thanks for bringing up **Love ain’t for Keeping** I like that too but I wouldn’t have thought of listing it as a solo. I just don’t play near as much as I used to. Still have all 5 guitars tho. 😃 I used to play a mean Star Spangled Banner and Foxey Lady. Which reminds me of another great solo, _Are You Experienced?_ Never could figure out if that was studio tricks or not. I know Jimi could play “backwards”… in real time. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/45 "2004-06-14T15:07:01Z")
> [@if6was9](#): > > I just don’t play near as much as I used to. Still have all 5 guitars tho. 😃 Just the 5 eh? Did you post to the _axes-I-have-owned_ thread? I also have more guitars than I could possibly justify. > [@Master Killer](#): > > I can’t believe that no-one has mentioned “Money”? Time is pretty darn good too but I’m guessing that all the Gilmour-ites are choosing something off the beaten track. More for the OP. _Any_ Steely Dan guitar solo, athough that’s probably a stretch for a GnR fan. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/46 "2004-06-14T15:36:15Z")
Oh, I don’t know. I think it’s possible to appreciate both GnR & Steely Dan. And Muddy Waters. And John Lee Hooker. Good music is good music. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/47 "2004-06-14T16:08:06Z")
And I didn’t even mention Duane on Layla, geez, I must’ve been tired. 😉 > [@LMM](#): > > And Richard Betts never got the props he deserved, if you ask me. After Duane’s death, his stuff on the _Brothers and Sisters_ album was fantastic. Jessica and Ramblin’ Man were gorgeous. True true. If you’ve heard the Allmans’ always-overlooked-except-by-diehards live album _Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas_, that’s got a lot of Dickey’s best work. His solos on most of the songs are great; Ramblin’ Man and a radicalyl different Elizabeth Reed in particular. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/48 "2004-06-14T17:26:40Z")
First, [check this link](http://guitar.about.com/library/bl100greatest.htm) for inspiration. Now, for some of my personal favorites (I could easily make a list of 200 if I sat down for a couple hours with my music collection): I’ll post another vote for Crossroads. (Eric Clapton; Cream; Wheels of Fire) Also: Toussaint l’Ouverture (Carlos Santana and Neal Schon; Santana; Santana III) Victim of Love (Joe Walsh and Don Felder; The Eagles; The Long Run) Reelin’ In the Years(Elliot Randall;Steely Dan;Can’t Buy a Thrill) Geek USA (Billy Corgan;Smashing Pumpkins;Siamese Dream) I’m Gonna Crawl (Jimmi Page;Led Zeppelin;In through the Out Door) Teacher(Trey Anastasio;Phish;A Picture of Nectar) and many many more!!! ---
**Author:** ![Lando\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@Lando\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lando_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/49 "2004-06-14T18:59:37Z")
Jimmy Page’s solo in _Dazed and Confused_, as played 3/24/73 Offenburg, Germany. 30 minutes of sheer brilliance! Runners up: Achilles’ Last Stand (6/21/77 Los Angeles) The Rover (Physical Graffiti) No Quarter (Houses of the Holy) Eric Clapton - White Room (Live from 24 Days) ---
**Author:** ![Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Ass\_For\_A\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ass_For_A_Hat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/50 "2004-06-14T19:05:08Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > First, [check this link](http://guitar.about.com/library/bl100greatest.htm) for inspiration. Thanks for the link. That’s a good list. #48 seems way too low for Smypathy For The Devil to me. For a guy who isn’t famous for his solos, Keef absolutely smoked that one. I was also happy to see Dave Davies make it in at #59 for You Really Got Me. That solo and the similar one for All Day And All Of The Night were ahead of their time. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/51 "2004-06-14T21:25:10Z")
Nearly every track on the Wall has a guitar solo that’s better than nearly every non-Wall solo ever recorded. It’s almost too much, really. It’s even leagues ahead of Gilmour’s other stuff such as WYWH, Animals, and Obscured by Clouds (probably my second favorite floyd album for soloes.) ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/52 "2004-06-15T04:51:54Z")
I’m a big fan of all of Kirk Hammett’s work from everything prior to the black album, expecially “One,” “Sanitarium,” “Battery,” “Dyer’s Eve” and “The Four Horsemen.” That said, at the moment I’m loving Jimmy Page’s in “Stairway to Heaven” ---
**Author:** ![Qwertyasdfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/53 "2004-06-15T05:07:44Z")
Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin: “Whole Lotta Love” “Heartbreaker” “Stairway to Heaven” “Fool in the Rain” David Gilmour of Pink Floyd: “Money” “Have a Cigar” Eddie van Halen: “Eruption” the guitarist for the Descendents (don’t know his name) has a cool one on the song “Thank You” “Clap” by Steve Howe of Yes. “Pawn Shop” and “We’re Only Gonna Die From Our Own Arrogance” by Sublime have good, fairly easy solos. There are dozens more that just don’t come to mind at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/54 "2004-06-15T06:03:46Z")
> [@Small Clanger](#): > > Cor Blimey **Ray** you another ex-guitarist? C’mon you can still do the outro from **Sheep** yes? > > I once had a harmoniser (IIRC actually a vocal processor called the Vocalist) which could do diatonic harmonies. It could make you sound like tracked-up Brain May (not so hot on Thin Lizzy type harmonies). I don’t think it would have worked for Dogs because of the modulations in the chords, you’d have to keep dialling in different keys. Well, I don’t play much anymore, but I could probably still do the outro to Sheep. You’re right about the harmoniser. I played around with one once, and you could do the the first parts of the duet from Dogs over the Dm and C chords but it has some subsequent chords that are out of key so you can’t do the whole thing. You’d need two harmonisers, each set to a different key and connected via an A/B switch so you could change harmonisers with one button push. ---
**Author:** ![pyrrthon1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@pyrrthon1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pyrrthon1)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/55 "2004-06-15T06:36:58Z")
Gawd there are tons of them that I know I love but can’t place them. [ul] [li]Queen: Bohemian Rhadsody[/li][li]Eric Clapton: _While My Guitar Gently Weeps_ (Beatles)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/56 "2004-06-15T10:14:28Z")
I forgot to mention Nigel Tufnel of “Spinal Tap.” Any hack can play guitar with a bow, playing it with a violin takes genius to a whole new level As the man himself once said, “My solos are my trademark.” ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/57 "2004-06-15T12:31:52Z")
> [@1920s Style "Death Ray"](#): > > I love all of the guitar solos on **Dogs** by **Pink Floyd**. A lot of it is very nasty and angular but then there are some soaring duet parts as well, all good stuff. Seconded. Phenomenal stuff on Animals. ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/58 "2004-06-15T14:20:16Z")
Alex Lifeson on _Limelight_, _La Villa Strangiato_, _Red Barchetta_, and _Earthshine_ Randy Rhoads on _Mr. Crowley_ and _Tonight_ Billy Gibbons on _Cheap Sunglasses_ Mick Taylor on _Can’t You Hear Me Knocking?_ David Gilmore on _Comfortably Numb_ and _Time_ Hendrix on _Red House_ Angus Young on _Back in Black_ Jimmy Page on _The Rover_ Van Halen on _Panama_ and _Ice Cream Man_ Pete Townsend on _Who Are You?_ …and about a million others ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941/59 "2004-06-15T14:36:05Z")
> [@Denis](#): > > Alex Lifeson on … _La Villa Strangiato_ … OH YEAH!!! ---
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Some of my favorites: **Eddie Hazel** from Parliment playing _Maggot Brain_ **Jimi Hendrix** playing _Little Wing_ **Jimmy Page** playing _Bron-Y-Aur Stomp_ (not quite a solo but a great accoustic piece) **Martin Barre** from Jethro Tull playing _Mistrel in the Gallery_ **Jorma Kaukonen** from Jefferson Airplane playing _Embroynic Journey_ (an accoustic piece that is simply amazing) **Frank Zappa** playing _Muffin Man_ or _Sexual Harrassment in the Workplace_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-guitar-solos/249941.md?page=4)