The Best Guitar Solos Of All Time!

eems · 6 April 2018 10:59

Been listening to a lot of Marc Ribot recently - he was the guitarist on Rain Dogs and has all this amazing avant garde jazz and blues guitar stuff on spotify.

badcustard · 6 April 2018 11:12

I like the twinkly solo on Dishes by Pulp

Severed799 · 6 April 2018 11:27

it’s so obviously any Slayer solo. Let’s go with Angel of Death because it’s first:

CeeJay · 6 April 2018 11:32

Ella_Megablast · 6 April 2018 22:02

This is my favourite by a mile - an audience recording of Frank Zappa & his band playing “Yo Mama” at the New York Palladium, 29th October 1978. Ten minutes of completely improvised, utterly gorgeous soloing accompanied by some near-telephathic interplay with the band, Vinnie Colaiuta the drummer in particular. Forget your preconceptions of FZ if necessary, and if you really feel the need, skip to 1:29 to avoid the rather trivial ‘song’ bookending the gargantuan solo.

TAFH33 · 6 April 2018 22:11

Here’s my Neil Young entry.

DeathfromABrum · 6 April 2018 22:17

This

Or This

Trev · 6 April 2018 23:18

Maggot Brain = end of thread
Unless we debate 2nd best guitar solo

1101010 · 6 April 2018 23:48

So you’re not a fan of Siamese Dream?

Always going to pick the Astoria live version of Maquilladora by Radiohead for a best solo @plasticniki

Also the impossible (because I think it’s two guitars with one going backwards) solo on Blur’s This Is a Low

1101010 · 6 April 2018 23:55

All this Frusciante talk’s made me stick on Ataxia which is like just one long solo of his

ericVI · 6 April 2018 23:57

Here Is No Why
In Bloom

0 voters

1101010 · 7 April 2018 00:01

Not heard Here is No Why but equally most (all?) Nevermind solos are just the vocal line played on guitar which is really great to listen to but doesn’t exactly hit the ‘great solos’ territory

ericVI · 7 April 2018 00:01

i don’t know where to start with this post tbh teho

1101010 · 7 April 2018 00:02

It’s a pretty simple statement of fact and opinion TBH.

But yeah now I’ve had to stick Nevermind on because YEAH

1101010 · 7 April 2018 00:11

I do recall when Danny Baker got a hard time in Radio Times or something for playing In Bloom shortly after Cobain’s death and remarked on the ‘irony’ of the “I don’t have a gun” line.

AtTheBorderGuy · 7 April 2018 00:12

Dunno. Don’t like them unless they lead somewhere. This is good though:

imipolex · 7 April 2018 05:48

Was gonna post Marc Ribot’s solo from Jockey Full of Bourbon. He’s probably my favourite guitarist.

theShipment · 7 April 2018 06:23

Blue Sky

theShipment · 7 April 2018 06:24

could always just post more eddie hazel

shinymcshine · 7 April 2018 07:22

That is a big peach.