I’ll add one: The Living End, Second Solution (starts at 1:30). 19 seconds of searing punka-rocka-billy magic, here and then gone again - poof! Definitely worthy IMO, and quite fun.
PS: how do you do that thing where you link directly to specific time in a YouTube video? Someone in this thread did that; that’s pretty cool and I don’t quite see how to do that looking at YouTube’s site. Please clue me.
Oh, I get it! pulykamell did this in post #5. The url he linked to had “#t=90” at the end, i.e. 90 seconds. I tried this in other YouTube links and it works great, e.g. here’s a direct link that takes you right to that Living End solo I posted about. Damned if I know how someone would figure this out without an example URL.
I’ve never had an issue with it, myself. Another way of linking to the time is right click the video at the point you want the link at, and one of the options that pops up should be “copy video URL at current time.”
Yep - the slop in Page’s Whole Lotta Love solo is the equivalent of Merry Clayton’s voice breaking when she is belting the Rape, Murder break in Gimme Shelter - only adds to the emotion and power as they try to keep it together and don’t quite succeed.
ETA: I hate thread-shitting, and really try to avoid it, and understand when folks dismiss threadshitters, even when they have something to say. I just struggle with the inclusion of anything by Big Brother and the Holding Company - I am a San Franciscan and Northern California boy down to my bones, but man, they were mediocre musicians at best - easy to see why Janis moved on. Sorry, JKellyMap.
I just have to mention a three-second guitar fill by Robrt Fripp at 3:12 of King Crimson’s “Indoor Games” that cracks me up every time I hear it. Maybe you have to understand Fripp in order to get it… he’s such a precise player, and for the purposes of this song, he inserts this intentionally horrible bit.
For a more representative sample of Fripp, I submit the solo from 1:21 to 1:51 in Brian Eno’s “St. Elmo’s Fire”.
Well, the topic is favorite ultra ultra short guitar solos, not best. There are no wrong answers.
And I kinda like that opening. It’s rough, but around 0:15 it starts that downscale then upscale then downscale set of riffs as Janice comes in that works pretty well for me. I’m really not fond of the rest of the song, but that part’s okay IMO.
If I repeatedly click the link I made above (this one) I often get behavior where the video loads but doesn’t seek to 90 seconds like it should, it just plays from the start. Not every time, and it seems once it behaves properly it will do so on subsequent clicks for a while. I’m using Chrome.
If not, here’s a blast from the past - SRC doing The Angel Song (from their 1969 album Milestones). The solo I’m talking about is from 3:48 to 4:25 (and, if you’re interested, there’s a longer one starting at 0:45 and going to 2:00).
We seem to have settled on a limit of 30 seconds in the thread; there’s only been one entry over that limit so far. So yeah, probably. Good solo, though.