Best Guitar Solos EverMusic

[BubbleBelly542]

What are some of your favorite guitar solos, and I mean in-song guitar solos not a guitar playing alone.

Some of my personal favorites:

Monsters by Matchbook Romance
Haunt You Every Day by Weezer (Weezer usually has cool guitar solos)
Believe American I'm Lying by Forever the Sickest Kids
21 Guns by Greenday

Ill add more as I think of them.

 

[AOS-]

This.

Still love it to this day. 👍

 

[CAM]

If you like guitar solos, OP, listen to some classic rock.

Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock
Cult of Personality - Living Colour
Thunderstruck - AC/DC
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
There are more but I don't have my iPod with me.

👍

 

[disinfected]

This one is a Japanese song, but their guitarist is well known around the world, solo comes in at 2:16


Then plenty of Bayside maybe I am biased, but their guitarist is awesome. See 2:34

 

[BubbleBelly542]

This one is a Japanese song, but their guitarist is well known around the world, solo comes in at 2:16
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOO_Wdbku60">YouTube Link</a>

Then plenty of Bayside maybe I am biased, but their guitarist is awesome. See 2:34
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ7GxhTSOhM">YouTube Link</a>

2:23
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZIDa1cmZ0E">YouTube Link</a>

And perhaps their most well known, 2:04
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3jsfljvrXo&ob">YouTube Link</a>

These are also pretty mind blowing.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEihTfTgqM">YouTube Link</a>

Then lastly, the solo here at 2:42 is super awesome.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZYVSOKxkU0">YouTube Link</a>

Well all but 2 of these didn't work/weren't available on mobile but I liked the first two.

 

[disinfected]

See 2:44, mind, blown.

 

[Alex.]

[youtubehd]xAx8y9AjVOs[/youtubehd] 3:40 until the end.
Much better than studio version.
Enough said.

 

[Prosthetic]

At 3:47 it starts and it just plays funny games with your body.


Starts at 4:57 and goes into Petrucci kicking some ass into Portnoy kicking some serious ass.


I have NEVER heard a song that has the power that this very short masterpiece achieves. The power that Woody and Pepper create should be lethal. Starts at 2:32 but listen to the whole song to be effected by the short and extremely powerful masterpiece.


MMmmmm.. I had too.

 

[Mcjoz88]

To me a guitar solo is more like the following videos. What I mean is, not a 10-30 second repetition of some random notes with some bends or vibrato or whatever, but something that comes from the guitarist's soul. Where you can hear his talent and heart in what he is playing.... Here are some of my favorite solos:

Eric Johnson - SRV(this is a tribute song to Stevie Ray Vaughn. the whole song is like a solo pretty much)


Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff( around 4:50, so you can get a feel for the rhythm of the song, then about 5 seconds later the solo starts til the end. one of my favorite solos ever, the rhythm and groove Clapton gets into, you can't help but tap your foot or jam on your air guitar):



Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover(listen to the whole song. The tones Eric Johnson has with that Fender guitar are beautiful)



Joe Satriani - Made of Tears(the whole song is an amazing groove, but I guess you could say the solo starts around 4:45)



Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing(Jimi Hendrix cover. this is just classic, plain and simple. Just incredible)



Eric Gales - Little Wing(Jimi Hendrix cover again. this guy is left handed, and plays a right handed guitar upside down. Incredible. Jimi Hendrix did the same, but Hendrix re-strung his guitar, Gales just takes the guitar and plays it upside down, no re-stringing at all. This is not an exact cover, but Eric's own take on the song.)



Those are some of my favorite solos, guitarists, and music. You can really hear each artist putting his soul and heart into each song/jam. To me, that's what a solo is, and that's what music should always be, something from the heart, no matter if it's shredding like Eric Gales, or the soulful rhythm and melodies that Clapton, Johnson, and Satriani produce...

 

[Villain]

No Slash? However, you guys have listed some of the best - Clapton, Skynyrd, etc. 👍

~7 minute mark

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Bonus version:

 

[disinfected]

Always thought this had a good one, if we are talking about some of the classics.

 

[Villain]

^ Dude that video is hilarious.

 

[disinfected]

^ Dude that video is hilarious.

They have another one that is even more hilarious, can't remember which one it is though.

 

[Skython]

Try listening to In the Name of God by Dream Theater, the guitar solo and keyboard solos at the same time and are so good I must bow down (And I don't even play guitar, I'm just a vocalist)

The guitar solos in Telegraph Road by Dire Straits

Future of Mankind - Judas Priest (Kicks in at about 3 minutes or something like that, there's two solos going right through to the 5 minute mark

 

[disinfected]

Try listening to In the Name of God by Dream Theater, the guitar solo and keyboard solos at the same time and are so good I must bow down (And I don't even play guitar, I'm just a vocalist)

The guitar solos in Telegraph Road by Dire Straits

Future of Mankind - Judas Priest (Kicks in at about 3 minutes or something like that, there's two solos going right through to the 5 minute mark

There are too many Dream Theater ones to name.

 

[Skython]

There are too many Dream Theater ones to name.

Yeah, almost any DT song has a godly solo.

 

[Villain]

Try listening to In the Name of God by Dream Theater, the guitar solo and keyboard solos at the same time and are so good I must bow down (And I don't even play guitar, I'm just a vocalist)

Wouldn't that technically be a duo?

 

[nizmo_bro]

Bohemian Rhapsody

This song is just amazing all around, possibly one of my all time favorite songs. I love Queen.

 

[Eric Demory]

I like Steve Morse's solos in Highway Star. Especially the last solo where his hands shred the strings with fire igniting off his hands.

 

[W3H5]

Slash on the last few minutes of November Rain by Guns and Roses. And the Stairway to Heaven solo rocks too.
Solo in Iron Man and Mr. Crowley by Sabbath. Both legendary.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Van Halen - "5150" from "Live Without A Net" concert video at the 3:15 to 5:55


Van Halen - "Not Enough" live from David Letterman show 2:27 to 3:15


Eddie Van Halen - "Beat It"

 

[Merciless0ne]

Yeah, almost any DT song has a godly solo.

John Petrucci. He's a bear with a battle axe. Literally.





Anyway, to contribute:



My bad if it's a repost.

 

[Icarus25]

The guitar solos in Telegraph Road by Dire Straits

THIS. A million times this. Especially the live version off Money For Nothing. Also Brothers In Arms, Sultans of Swing, and I love the guitar work in Down to the Waterline not just the solo. Knopfler does not get the recognition he deserves.

Dream Theater is also a must mention, that combo of Petrucci and Portnoy was epic.

And some added eargasm: Liquid Tension Experiment

 

[Skython]

THIS. A million times this. Especially the live version off Money For Nothing. Also Brothers In Arms, Sultans of Swing, and I love the guitar work in Down to the Waterline not just the solo. Knopfler does not get the recognition he deserves.

Dream Theater is also a must mention, that combo of Petrucci and Portnoy was epic.

And some added eargasm: Liquid Tension Experiment

LTE is just DT where John Myung has turned into a big white bald guy playing a Chapman stick (then again, John Myung plays it too) and LaBrie has vanished.

PS: Merciless0ne, John Petrucci's not a bear with a metal axe, he's GOD. I think it went so far with fans referring to him as god that he wrote If I seem Superhuman I have been Misunderstood, in the song Misunderstood

 

[Villain]

Tom Morello. 'nuff said. 2 minutes and 50 seconds:

 

[CLAPTON1968]

My favorite solos are by Joe Bonamassa.
Like "Asking Around For You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYl4T7OVJZA

 

[dudeguy]

it starts at 1:48 after make me fries.

 

[disinfected]

Here's another underrated guitar player from Japan, You (Janne da Arc)

For those not familiar, some of the Dream Theater heads on this thread might appreciate it.

 

[Horde_R35]

Dream Theater is the best musicians ever to form a band (bold huh?! )

90% of Petruccis solos are Epic


Petrucci solo at 5.00 and after that Jordan Rudess goes crazy and pretucci joins him in unisono solo while Mike goes crazy god.


Steve vai The Phenomenon (has i like to call him). If you like solos and guitar this is to me an anthem to solos. The whole song is amazing.


RIP dimebag you wont be forgoten. Great great solo. He had a fantastic technic.




A have a few hundreds on my head... ill wait for later (who knew Phil Anselmo had that voice hidden . He must have 🤬 himself )

 

[Prosthetic]

RIP dimebag you wont be forgoten. Great great solo. He had a fantastic technic.




A have a few hundreds on my head... ill wait for later (who knew Phil Anselmo had that voice hidden . He must have 🤬 himself )

Bleh I hate that shortened version.

As for Phil, he has a phenomenal voice. And he really isn't afraid to show it, people are just blinded by his attitude but that's mostly to get the crowd going. Hes the best in the business to get a crowd moving.
Another good example of Phil... But this time its Pepper kicking some ass. That solo and how it transition back into the chorus is just sex.



Another good example of Phil... and holy **** Pepper and Kirk sure can rip up some riffs like no other.

Phil is also quite the lyricist. Something he doesn't get recognized enough for.