![]() It'd been a loooong time since my jaw had dropped from someones playing. Love the way it devolves into an air raid siren. I love this solo because Ty goes apeshit which he rarely does. ![]() Ty has to be the most underrated guitarist on the planet and his tone is perfect. You can here Zappa all over this and Vai is deliberately responsible for my love of all things lydian. ![]() This is a much overlooked piece from Steve. Once again proving that you also hafta play the spaces between the notes. I wish I could evoke feeling like this from a guitar. For me the feedback solo in the middle is pure atonal beauty.Īs close as I can be moved to tears by an instrument. Steve Vai - Bad Horsie (Live at the Astoria). Probably not something you'd whistle along with, but for a flashy rock guitar solo it's a great piece. Lee's live solo performance in the middle of Suicide Solution in the BATM tour 1984. Glen Kuykendall - Sundown (GP flexi-disc 90) Joe Satriani - The Crush Of Love (GP flexi-disc 87) Queensryche (Chris DeGarmo) - Jet City Woman TNT (Ronni Le Tekrø) - Caught Between The Tigers Fifteen minutes of heaven.Įddie Van Halen - Down In Flames (live 78)Īndy Taylor (& Steve Jones) - I Might Lie. Gary Moore - The Loner (Live In Stockholm 1987). Thin Lizzy (Scott Gorham) - The Sun Goes Down. Judas Priest (Glen Tipton) - Beyond The Realms Of Death.ĭire Straits (Mark Knopfler) - Brothers In Armsĭavid Gilmour - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (today)īruce Springsteen (Nils Lofgren) - Youngstown (Live in NYC 2000) Both solos are good, but I especially like how the 2nd one rocks. Toto (Steve Lukather) - Lovers In The Night. #PAT TRAVERS JUST A TOUCH RAR FREE#Lynyrd Skynyrd (Allen Collins, Gary Rossington) - Free Bird. Yes it does.Įagles (Don Felder & Joe Walsh) - Hotel California. From the first sustaining scream to the last faint whammied note, ecstasy.Įric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun (Live at the Fillmore East, 2nd night). Also, to me featuring guitar heavy and instrumental songs feels almost like cheating if we are talking about usual songs rather than solo instrumentals, but can't help myself so here are few of my favorites anyway. #PAT TRAVERS JUST A TOUCH RAR FULL#Same as with many others, I could name hundreds of albums full of great solos, singling best out of them feels almost impossible. which very much reminds me of Alan Murphy with SFX There are a couple of solos from 2:09 and 4:00 in the Go West clip below. Probably the most exciting player I've seen live. ![]() I also used to see him play in a fusion band called SFX on the London pub circuit. Markus Albert (Moio on this forum): Quantum Cheesecake on his Les Nuits Blanches EP (link below), which he originally posted on this forum.Īll of the late Alan Murphy's solos on the first Go West album. But I got a bit over confident and forgot it the last time I tried to play it and had to improvise. Jeff Skunk Baxter's solo on Pretzel Logic is also a favourite, which I often play at gigs. Probably the hardest solo I've ever had to learn and play live.Ģ) Larry Carlton's solo on Kid Charlemagne, which I had to play for the first time live at a gig last Saturday. ![]() Nuno Bettencourt: Get The Funk Out from Extreme's 'Pornograffitti' album.Ĭoincidentally, I had to play a couple of my favourite solos for the first time at recent gigs, which wereġ) Eddie Van Halen's solo on Beat It, which I had to play for the first time at a gig a few weeks ago. Steve Vai: Big Trouble from Dave Lee Roth's 'Eat Em and Smile' album Probably most things by Jeff Beck, Robben Ford, Paul Kossoff and Dave Gilmour I don't know where to start, there are so many. I think the song was Feels So Good, but there were no vocals, probably why I remember it as the guitar solo from Mangiones Band. His name was Grant Geissman, thats a name I wont forget. There is one more recently that never gets much air play but was the Guitar Solo in a CHuck Mangione song I can't remember the name of, but that guy put a lifes worth of knowledge into 32 bars of perfection. Definately affected me, and the bands songs were so different compared to every other group out back then. I have so many I love from guys like Eric Johnson, Hendrix, Van Halen, etc.īUt one old unfamous solos was Steve Howes Intro solos on Yours Is no Disgrace, and all through the song his guitar parts, well at least when I was without pubic hair, was really a new style and sound. Many guys can display their prowess with fancy licks and speed riffs, but you really need some resemblance of a melody for a Guitar solo to become as famous as a vocal hook line. Gilmours solos are really geared towards the average listener which is an art in itself. ![]()
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