Top Hottest Guitar Solos?

B. P. Johnson · Post by **B. P. Johnson** » 27 May 2004 5:44 pm

I think Phil Baugh should be mentioned.

Jim Peters · Post by **Jim Peters** » 28 May 2004 6:02 am

Jimi - Up from the skies (my fav wah wah solo)
Robben Ford- Prison of Love(try it)
Danny Gatton- Poinsetta
Van Halen--Drop Dead Legs
finally,Jimi Manic Depression

Charles French · Post by **Charles French** » 28 May 2004 10:39 am

errahh,
Robert Johnson, can't be copied!
Robert Lockwood Jr. "Lockwoods Boogie"
Louis Myers, "Flying Saucers"
Eddie Taylor, "Find me a baby"
Hollywood Fats,everything he played.
Redd Volkeart!!!!! WOW, Everything!
Clint Strong, on whatever Merle!
Muddy Waters,"She's 19 yrs old"
Elmore James, "12 yr old boy"
Merle Travis,"I'll see you in my dreams"
Don Rich,"Buckaroo"

jim milewski · Post by **jim milewski** » 28 May 2004 12:37 pm

Holy Cow! leave it to Brad to remind of Roy Buchanan, the album with Fugitive, some cajun tune, Haunted House, Sweet Dreams, I think the Messiah may have been on it, GREAT album, Eagles on hotel Californi Hendrix , along the watchtower, Jorgensen on hello Trouble

Jim Hankins · Post by **Jim Hankins** » 28 May 2004 12:56 pm

Jimi Hendrix hear my train a commin (Rainbow Bridge Album, both solos) Michael Schenker(Rock Bottom, UFO Strangers in the Night,Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson on Still in Love With You, from Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous. I think the Johnny Winter Captured Live is better than the earlier frequently mentioned "live And" and Jimmy Bryant may be the hottest guitar player Ive ever discovered, though I have only heard him on the 2 fairly recent CDs put out that he collaborated with Seedy West from the "capitol years"

Leslie Ehrlich · Post by **Leslie Ehrlich** » 29 May 2004 6:13 pm

Here are just a few:

Ritchie Blackmore 'Child In Time' (Deep Purple)

Jimmy Page 'Heartbreaker' (Led Zeppelin)

Jimi Henrdrix 'All Along The Watchtower'

Tom Scholz 'Hitch A Ride' (Boston)

Tony Iommi 'Iron Man' (Black Sabbath)

Jan Akkerman 'Hocus Pocus' (Focus)

David Gilmour 'Comfortably Numb' (Pink Floyd)

Martin Barre 'Minstrel In The Gallery' (Jethro Tull)

I could go on and on...

Stephen Gregory · Post by **Stephen Gregory** » 19 Oct 2006 5:12 pm

Interesting!

Mike Shefrin · Post by **Mike Shefrin** » 19 Oct 2006 6:37 pm

"I don't want her,you can have her,she's too fat for me" Lobo Lobinsky aka "The Polish Wolf" and his Polka Kings.
(just kidding)
Seriously though,I would have to say pretty much everything and anything Paco DeLucia plays.
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Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 19 Oct 2006 7:13 pm

I got another!

Hank Garland - 'Stick With Me, Baby' by the Everlys. What a terrific r'n'r solo, with just a hint of jazz phrasing just as they go to the '4' chord....

And another -

Albert Lee's solo on Rodney Crowell's 'Til I Can Gain Control Again' (on a Stratocaster, he told me!)

RR (this could go on for a while!)

Jeff Agnew · Post by **Jeff Agnew** » 20 Oct 2006 4:37 am

Did he also do "Kid Charmelagne"(sp?) too ?

Larry Carlton did that one. IMO, one of the most lyrical rock solos of all time.

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 20 Oct 2006 4:54 am

Well as long as you're resurrecting threads - there's an old Stanley Clarke album called "Journey to Love" with a guest shot by Jeff Beck on a song called "Hello Jeff" - I had that solo in my head for 20 years without having the album any more, I finally scored the CD on Ebay. Wow!! Jeff also torches a blues on "Who Else" from 2004, called "Brush with the Blues."

On the second acoustic trio album from Paco DeLucia, Al DiMeola, and John McLaughlin from 1983, there's a Paco composition called "Sichia" where McLaughlin once again boots it through the end zone... on the third trio album from 1996, he drills 'em again on "Midsummer Night." I find myself wondering, why can't people as good as DiMeola and DiLucia keep up with John, then I realize... they did try, they really did.

Julien Kasper from "The New Imperial" - "Promise", "8 to 11", "All of the Years", the title track
Prasanna from "Electric Ganesha Land" - "4th Stone from the Sun", "Indra's Necklace", "Pot Belly Blues", "Bowling for Peace".

Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 20 Oct 2006 5:41 am

My all time favorite guitar solo is on "Hello" by Lionel Ritchie. I can't remember who did it, but it is a nice sounding jazz thing.

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Riva Ridge Recording

Terry Edwards · Post by **Terry Edwards** » 20 Oct 2006 6:24 am

Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun

Recorded live with Band Of Gypsies.

Just three pieces; guitar, bass, drums.

All live and nowhere to hide. No gimmicks. Raw and imaginitive. Creativity and performance unmatched to this day.

P Gleespen · Post by **P Gleespen** » 20 Oct 2006 10:32 am

It ain't all about the chops, but the solo on the Kinks "You Really Got Me" is one of my all time fav's...pure rock.

Was it Dave Davies or Jimmy Page? I've heard stories accrediting it to both. I wonder who it really was...

Ken Fox · Post by **Ken Fox** » 20 Oct 2006 10:51 am

Try this one on for size!

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Rick Schmidt · Post by **Rick Schmidt** » 20 Oct 2006 11:07 am

Yeah I'd say that's pretty hot....

Mark White · Post by **Mark White** » 20 Oct 2006 2:18 pm

Have You Heard-Clapton with Bluesbreakers
Theme From an Imaginary Western-Mountain
Crossroads-Cream
Jumping at Shadows (live)-Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (any early Peter Green)
All Hendrix's studio solos.......

Jesse Pearson · Post by **Jesse Pearson** » 20 Oct 2006 2:19 pm

1. Right place wrong time - Dr John.

2. Midnight Lightning - Jimi Hendrix, Isle of Wright (3 weeks before his passing).

3. Uptown groove - Zachery Breaux, Tx boy.

4. Oh yea - Johnny A.

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 20 Oct 2006 4:31 pm

Well I sure like the others listed on thread starter's Eric West post (I realize this is an old thread), and don't mean any disrespect to Mr. West-but I can't buy the Alvin Lee at Woodstock solo. Haven't seen the film in years, but I always thought that was one of the most self-indulgent guitar solos in rock history-and to put it in plain English-I hated it. The guy could obviously play fast-but I just never cared for him as a guitarist.

The Hunter/Wagner solo on Sweet Jane from Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Animal, as posted by someone earlier, may be my favorite of all time.

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David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 20 Oct 2006 9:29 pm

I just spent last evening floating around Bophut Bay
on a 22 meter chinese junk.

The music much of the evening was Paco De Lucia.
It reiterated for me what a comprehensive
master of the guitar he is.

Of all the players listed in this thread
3 stick out as playing things NO ONE ELSE CAN.

Paco DeLucia, Al DiMeola, and John McLaughlin

Faster, cleaner and more fluid than ANYBODY else,
and doing it in harmonic forms/lines most others never even TRY to enter.
Yet also able to step back and make one note
hold place of purpose properly.

And doing this consistantly at top level for decades.

One of the issues for judging them
is having to work your ear advanced enough,
to grasp their nuances.[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 20 October 2006 at 10:30 PM.]

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 21 Oct 2006 4:39 am

That first live trio album was the best seller, but it was almost fluffy compared to the two studio efforts. McLaughlin and DeLucia actually toured as a trio with Philip Catherine and Larry Coryell in the third slot, but when they went to the mat they had to record with DiMeola for the reason you mentioned - he's the only other guy in the WORLD who could play the parts. He's really strong compositionally too, some of the best songs on those two albums are his. He's just a hair off the mark trying to solo with McLaughlin and DiLucia. Like, right, I could do so much better....

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 21 Oct 2006 10:52 am

Mark. I saw this thread and I thought how much my ideas have changed in the year I've been back seriously playing guitar..

I agree about the Alvin Lee solo. I not only thought he was deceased, (and he is not..) but it was much like all the other music of the period, and etched into my brain by drugs my friends made me take...

Now I wouldn't know where to start.

I'll have to give it a think after my head clears from burying my best dog after work yesterday before the gig, and the dreaded trip to the dog doctor..

I think BS's Sleepwalk will still make the cut, but I'm getting an idea of what Pedal Steel Guitar is in relation to "regular guitar".

There are SO many more guitar masters than steel masters, and STILL I don't lose my desire to play guitar. It's strange.

When I hear people opine that "everything worth playing has already been played" on the PSG, it pales in comparison to the guitar works that are "out here", and STILL there are people today that are filling all their spare time learning , relearning in my case, cramming, and enjoying the life out of the songs they play.

I reflected last nite to Ron Ferrante, our guitar player about some of the "old stuff". I played him an old classical piece from long ago called "Adelita". Then I remembered it was on the Chet Atkins record that had Swedish Rapsody, Glow Worm, and a bunch of other songs. I think it the early 60s that it came out.

Also, I hope to see, though I probably won't a time where in Pedal Steel Guitar's post-adolescence people can quit arguing about who the "most prolific 'session' man" is, "how you are supposed to tune it", who the "most important player" is and a couple other things that really stick in my craw.

I think though I play live every week, I've lost a lot of my desire in the light of some of this "personality cult of self absorption". I don't feel it will take hold, but I feel much less "Je Ne Se Qua" when I grab the tele, and play on the bandstand.

As we approach being finally taken as seriously as the simple six string guitar, and are finally washed with sheer volume of works, as we are with six string, some of these things will shake out, and become less contentious.

Maybe we can get a list together of players that played themselves into a higher plane of existance.

I'm sure trying.

EJL

Dan Carey · Post by **Dan Carey** » 21 Oct 2006 1:51 pm

Chet Atkins "Galloping Guitar"

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 21 Oct 2006 9:41 pm

Dave M.
how's about 'Walk With The Devil Down Spanish Highway'.
Now that is screaming and clean and inventive.
I agree DeMiola was the only other to cut the charts.

For me anyway a GREAT solo must be

Inventive, something not heard before

Clean at speeds most others don't attempt
but also cutting time and being filled with feeling

Harmonically rich

Sure there are some cats who have since been able to copy these guys more or less.

But these three 'created it' from thin air more or less.

Hence original.

There are plenty of solos I adore in several genres.
Many are listed above.

But 'greatest' has to be new invention
and unsurpassed since.
Few fit this definition.

Another I like not mentioned above is
Jamie Glazer on Lenny White's 'Twelve Bars From Mars'
Not the greatest ever, but I really like it.
Those albums with him, Lenny
and Alex Blake on bass are killer.
If not truely advancing the genre by great leaps.

What MacGlaughlin did on Inner Mounting Flame and Birds Of Fire,
was just on another plane compared to most before and after.

And Demiola's 1st two albums were watershed's too.

I have yet to meet a guitarist who listened to them and didn't go,
Oh my... (enter appropriate word)[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 21 October 2006 at 10:56 PM.]

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 22 Oct 2006 4:45 am

David,

With respect, I don't believe that speed should be a prerequisite of a great solo, whatever the genre.

RR