4 come to mind right away for me (no order):
Jungleland - Clarence Clemons - Saxophone
Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour - Guitar
Roundabout - Rick Wakeman - Keyboard
Absolutely Sweet Marie - Bob Dylan - Harmonica
4 come to mind right away for me (no order):
Jungleland - Clarence Clemons - Saxophone
Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour - Guitar
Roundabout - Rick Wakeman - Keyboard
Absolutely Sweet Marie - Bob Dylan - Harmonica
John Wesley Harding wrote:
4 come to mind right away for me (no order):
Jungleland - Clarence Clemons - Saxophone
Comfortably Numb - David Gilmour - Guitar
Roundabout - Rick Wakeman - Keyboard
Absolutely Sweet Marie - Bob Dylan - Harmonica
Best Dylan harmonica solo is the intro to “Girl From the North Country.”
Best harmonica solo period is “Hook” by Blues Traveler
Guitar - Turtleneck Coverup by Ozma
Intro. portion of "Intro./Sweet Jane" by Lou Reed on the Rock 'n Roll Animal Album, in which Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter exchange guitar riffs.
Comfortably numb is a great call, easily ranks in my too guitar solos. While not all strictly solo, per se, my all time favourite guitar work in Mark Knopfler in Sultans of Swing and Telegraph Road.
Good call on Knopfler's guitar skills.
I'd say:
-Eric Clapton - "White Room" (motivated me to buy a wah pedal)
-Not sure if we can count Skynyrd's "Free Bird" (seems like more of a soli rather than a solo?)
-John Entwistle's bass lines (simple and short) in songs like The Who's "My Generation"
-Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven"
1) 25 or 6 to 4, Chicago (Terry Kath, guitarist)
2) Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen (Brian May, guitarist)
3) Stone in Love, Journey (Neal Schon, guitarist)
4) Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page, guitarist)
5) Beat It, Michael Jackson (Eddie Van Halen, guitarist)
Honorable mentions:
1) Sultans of Swing, Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler, guitarist)
2) Best You Got, Walter Trout and the Radicals (Walter Trout, guitarist)
3) Lie to Me, Jonny Lang (Jonny Lang, guitarist)
4) White Room, Cream (Eric Clapton, guitarist)
5) Nothing from Nothing, Billy Preston (Billy Preston, keyboards)
6) Foreplay/Long Time, Boston (Tom Scholz, keyboards)
doc idiot wrote:
Comfortably numb is a great call, easily ranks in my too guitar solos. While not all strictly solo, per se, my all time favourite guitar work in Mark Knopfler in Sultans of Swing and Telegraph Road.
I think David Gilmour is perhaps the best rock guitar soloist of all time, and yet I think Knopfler and several other big names are better rock guitarists, overall. As a Dylan fanatic, I’m big on Knopfler’s guitar work on the Infidels album.
Jimmy Page's solo in Stairway to Heaven is clearly the best rock guitar solo. Perfect phrasing and meter. Was one of three solos he recorded for STH -- all three a one shot deal. All three completely different. They definitely chose the right one. I don't think the masters on the other two exist. Makes you wonder?
I'll agree with Jimmy Page's favorite solo of all time -- Elliott Randall's beautifully executed solo in Reelin' In The Years.
Telecasters were the guitar of choice on both songs. The "Dragon Telecaster" was used on STH.
In all due respect, we can't go very far without mentioning the late, great Jimi Hendrix.
Pick your favorite, but there's no shortage as he instilled even the simplest melody lines with captivating riffs - Killing Floor, Wild Thing, Hey Joe, and though not my favorite, his historic rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. or Purple Haze.
And it would be hard to call most of these solos. His guitar virtuosity is so pervasive and prolific, it intertwines in most every song to create a sense that the freeform riffing and experimentation is more the norm, which he is constantly having to reel back in service to the song's recognizable melody.
Jimi Hendrix!
malmo wrote:
...I'll agree with Jimmy Page's favorite solo of all time -- Elliott Randall's beautifully executed solo in Reelin' In The Years.
Telecasters were the guitar of choice on both songs. The "Dragon Telecaster" was used on STH.
https://youtu.be/eATk6LkpNIc
I always liked the guitar work on another Steely Dan song, "My Old School", featuring Jeff Baxter on lead guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq8OU-7JDFAeddie hazel-(fundadelic)-maggot brain ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc8H6USGR90 ...
In my humble option, he best solo is PeeWee Ellis with Van Morrison on Tupelo Honey.
nels cline(wilco)-impossible germany ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBpDs-BfwO0 ...
tom verlaine & richard lloyd(television)-marquee moon ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbunmCbTBA ...
j mascis(dinosaur jr)-start choppin' ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbD1sZj8BbA ...
James Honeyman Scott's solo in the Pretenders "Kid" -
Not sure if this would even be considered a solo, but I'll go with the bass in Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain".
Also, two good guitar solos are Tad Kubler in The Hold Steady's "Most People are DJs" and Jason Isbell in the Drive-By Truckers' "Decoration Day".
Santana "Samba Pa Ti"
John Petrucci’s guitar solo from Under a Glass Moon (starts at 4:37)
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