greatest guitar solo?

Question

What is your favourite guitar solo?

My personal fave is Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock with his Improvisation Solo that then leads on to Villanova Junction. Just magic!!

Answer 1

Eruption - Eddie Van Halen

Answer 2

Its hard to tell. solo's like eruption by van halen are one of a kind, while the solo in fade to black by metallica is also unique. they are all different because each guitarist has a different style. I have no idea what the best guitar solo ever is, but my personal favorite is walk by pantera. it uses combinations of pinch harmonics, natural harmonics, uses of the tremelo bar, a unique style of play, and at the time, new and unheard of ways to play the guitar. its melodic while it still continues to uphold one of the heaviest riffs and songs of all time. It is fast at times while slow at others. It is my personal favorite.

Answer 3

The End by The Beatles (last song on their last recorded album, though it was 2nd to last to be released)

it has a Solo by all of em, and Ringo's only drum solo on any beatles track

Answer 4

"Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic.

According to legend, George Clinton, out of his mind on Orange Sunshine, told Eddie Hazel to play the first half of the song like his mother had just died, and then the second half as if he had found out she was alive. The result was the 10-minute guitar solo for which Hazel is most fondly remembered by many music critics and fans. Though several other musicians began the track playing, Clinton soon realized the power of Hazel's solo and faded them out so that the focus would be on Hazel's guitar. The entire track was recorded in one take.

Seven years later, Michael Hampton (Eddie Hazel's replacement as lead guitarist) performed his own interpretation of the song in 1978. That cut was included in a bonus EP-vinyl that was distributed with Funkadelic album, One Nation Under a Groove. The cut is also included in most of CD editions of the album.

This song has very few lyrics, spoken only at the beginning of the song before Hazel's solo takes off. The concept of "Maggot Brain" is, however, very important in understanding P Funk mythology. On one level, it is said to refer to Eddie Hazel's drug-riddled brain. In the grand scheme of things, Maggot Brain is a mode of being, thinking and existing, in which one transcends the troubles of Earthly existence by revelling in the freedom of funk. The brief spoken word introduction to the song tells us that "Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time, for y'all have knocked her up. I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe - I was not offended, for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own ****."

In March 2005, Q magazine placed "Maggot Brain" at number 71 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.


This solo will change your life.

Answer 5

Niel Young and David Gilmore(pink floyd) Have great solos that are just mind numbing.

Answer 6

Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson

Answer 7

Anything that Joe Satriani does is EXCELLENT!!! Also Peter Frampton's "Show Me the Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do", can really make that guitar talk!!

Answer 8

freebird by lynyrd skynyrd
stairway to heaven
comfortably numb and time Pink Floyd
fade to black -Metallica
soul sacrifice Santana
bohemian rhapsody Queen
Son of Mr Greenjeans and Black napkins- Frank zappa
arpeggios from hell yngwie malmsteen

Answer 9

Yeah...i'm going with "Eruption" also, how can ya not??!! Btw- I've heard about a thousand people over the years that claim they could play it note for note, but when i heard them.....not one of em' were even close.

Answer 10

Sharp Dressed Man that is the hardest song to play ever!!! unless yu know anymore ...