Top 5 guitar solos

[jasonbruce]

Five of my acoustic-oriented picks of the moment, in no particular order...

Sara Smile - Monte Montgomery (Hall & Oates cover)
Little Wing/Castles Made of Sand - Tuck Andress (Hendrix cover)
Lola - Chris Smither
The Diner - Ani Difranco (Live, from the Living in Clip album)
Guitar Boogie - Tommy Emmanuel

 

[Dime]

The Dagger - RoadRunner United
Air That I Breathe - All That Remains
Domination - Pantera
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
Farewell Ballad - Zakk Wylde

 

[rylche]

Stairway to Heaven grabs the top spot for me, which is then followed by:

-November Rain
-Crying Machine
-Open Your Eyes
-Sleep Walk by Satriani

 

[redphoenix]

1. Hotel California by The Eagles
2. Tender Surrender by Steve Vai
3. Californication by RHCP (the slane castle version)
4. Stairway To Heaven by Led Zepplin
5. Master Of Puppets by Metallica

 

[bobwiramuzzy01]

sword of the warrior-Cacophony,X-Ray Eyes-Cacophony,Go Off-Cacophony,Images-Cacophony,Concerto-Cacophony,Lucretia-Megadeth,Five Magics-Megadeth,Hangar 18-Megadeth,Temple Of the Absurd-Jason Becker,Metal Dog(terrifying guitar trip)-Paul Gilbert,Shyboy-Steve Vai,Passion And Warfare album-Steve Vai,Hip Today-Nuno Bettencourt[/list]

rite on Djanggo....

cacaphony cool.... i was wondering if anyone remembered them....


here are my 5 fav solos....

1. Sails of Charon - Ulrich Roth (Scorpions)
2. Heading for Tomorrow - Kai Hansen (Gamma Ray)
3. Go Off - Marty Friedman & Jason Becker (Cacaphony)
4. Eruption - Van Halen
5. Orion - Bass Solo by the late Cliff Burton (Metallica)

 

[Whitestrat]

I wonder how many people have heard of this:

Album: Age Of Impact
Track: Impact #2 - Fading Fast
By: Explorer's Club

This was a project group by Trent Gardner. What's worth buying about this album is mainly the solos all over the album which many are by none other than John Petrucci. This was when he was still with Ibanez, comparatively still less known, and freshly after A Change Of Seasons and Falling Into Infinity.

I specially mention track 2, mainly because he does all the solos on this track, and his signature tone is all over this. he RARELY plays like this on his DT albums (with the exception of Lines In The Sand from Falling Into Infinity), and is probably the most powerful solo I've ever heard. It's so simple a 5 year old could probably play it. But it's so damned effective. Try searching for this track. You won't regret it. It'll bring you to tears...

Up till today, these 3 solos never fail to bring a chill to my spine. THIS is tone!!!:mrgreen:

The other one that just slays is also by John Petrucci, but done with Jordan Rudess in the live album "An Evening With" - In The Moment. This one kills man...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Droo5Ch6OLY

 

[Special_K]

Tornado of souls - Megadeth
Hangar 18 - Megadeth
Holy Wars - Megadeth
In my darkest hour - Megadeth
Fade to black - Metallica

 

[lamborghini90]

enter sandman- metallica

still trying to figure out the speed

 

[Special_K]

enter sandman- metallica

still trying to figure out the speed

Slower than a Lamborghini for sure...LOL

Think it's about 160bpm???

 

[empihsrow]

Cemetery Gates - Pantera
Floods - Pantera
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
The Storm Still Rages Inside - Orphaned Land
Eruption - Van Halen

 

[Hunderworld]

Free Bird- lynyrd skynrd
Sweet child - GNR
Afterlife- a7x
BeastnHarlot- a7x
m.i.a- A7x

 

[metalella_eh]

the dagger - roadrunners united
ravenous - arch enemy
conquer all - behemoth
pulse of the maggots - slipknot
in the fire - roadrunners united

 

[langren82]

November Rain - GnR
For the love of God - Steve Vai
Say Anything - X Japan
Rising Force - Malmsteen
Crystal Planet - Joe Satriani

 

[sufyannnnnn]

for the love of god - Steve Vai
Rescuing Rukia - Rosli Mansor
far beyond the sun - Yngwie Malmsteen
november rain - guns N roses.
cemetary gates - pantera

These are the 5's i love. so yeah. :mrgreen:

 

[g_kyallin]

children of bodom - kissing the shadows
sonata arctica - black sheep
bullet for my valentine - eye of a storm
atreyu - ex's and oh's
avenged sevenfold - chapter four


awesome!!! \m/

 

[OhamtaroO]

Mab Mab~~~~

 

[Breen]

everyone here's a rocker it seems, why no jazz/country/bluesy/pop stuff?
I think a solo can only be as good as the entire song. Shreddy stuff are great but does it go along with the whole piece and not just arp arp arp lots of notes arp arp root with vibrato.
just from the top of my head...

Brad Paisley - Little Moments
Brian Setzer - Sleepwalk
Joe Satriani - Until We Say Goodbye
Brad Paisley - Munster Rag
Beyond - Hai Kuo Tian Kong =)

plus one - Extreme - Get The Funk Out

SRV live, Micheal Landau improvs, Danny Gatton anywhere, Tommy Emmanuel anywhere...

can i add Journey's Lights? hehe

 

[psionic]

omg i love the journey - lights solo damn bloody emotional and lots of feel. great melody and tone as well....as with all of neal schon's solos with journey..

good taste Breen

 

[Hydrofly]

Damaged - John 5
Masquerade - Yngwie Malmsteen
Tornado of Souls - Megadeth
Technical Difficulties - Paul Gilbert
Blitzkrieg - Yngwie Malmsteen

 

[LadyInTears]

dying in your arms- trivium
x - x japan
bohemian rhapsody- queen
sweet child o mine - guns and roses
endless rain -x japan

i can play all, and all these arent technically great or whatever, but the emotion, sexiness and feeling is there, thus my 5 fav solos. super melodic man

ps. x japan might have a south east asia tour...