Awesome guitar solos
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Awesome guitar solos
I'm looking for songs with great guitar solos, especially from the metal genre.
A few of my favorites are:
One - Metallica
Fade To Black - Metallica
Tornado Of Souls - Megadeth
Fury Of The Storm - Dragonforce (Wow!)
Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns n' Roses
Am I Evil? - Diamond Head
Suggestions?
A few of my favorites are:
One - Metallica
Fade To Black - Metallica
Tornado Of Souls - Megadeth
Fury Of The Storm - Dragonforce (Wow!)
Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns n' Roses
Am I Evil? - Diamond Head
Suggestions?
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There is, of course, the Lord-God-Master of All Electric Guitar, The Hendrix Himself. Anything of his, really, though since you ask for metal I'd recommend his harder stuff, like All Along the Watchtower or Purple Haze.
I'm also a fan of Deep Purple. It's late-60s/early-70s rock, but there's some sweet solos in there. My personal favorite is Highway Star, which I've seen cited in at least one "Top 100 guitar solos of all time," list.
I'm also a fan of Deep Purple. It's late-60s/early-70s rock, but there's some sweet solos in there. My personal favorite is Highway Star, which I've seen cited in at least one "Top 100 guitar solos of all time," list.
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One of the single coolest solos I remember hearing is in the Randy Rhoades tribute CD, by Ozzy, where Rhoades goes off on a minute long jam after finishing up after one of the songs. Unfortunately I no longer have the CD, so can't remember which track.
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After some quick research I am pretty certain it's Mr. CrowleyGeneral Zod wrote:One of the single coolest solos I remember hearing is in the Randy Rhoades tribute CD, by Ozzy, where Rhoades goes off on a minute long jam after finishing up after one of the songs. Unfortunately I no longer have the CD, so can't remember which track.
There's also a track labled Suicide Solution Guitar Solo which qualifies too. It's 2 minutes and 49 seconds long.
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Ah, there we go. It's the Suicide Solution solo. Couldn't think of the name for a moment there.Tsyroc wrote:After some quick research I am pretty certain it's Mr. CrowleyGeneral Zod wrote:One of the single coolest solos I remember hearing is in the Randy Rhoades tribute CD, by Ozzy, where Rhoades goes off on a minute long jam after finishing up after one of the songs. Unfortunately I no longer have the CD, so can't remember which track.
There's also a track labled Suicide Solution Guitar Solo which qualifies too. It's 2 minutes and 49 seconds long.
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Stranglehold by Ted Nugent is almost all guitar solo. It's more a slow solo. Not a high energy one like some of the ones previously mentioned.
Metallica Bleeding Me from Load has a cool solo.
Van Halen Erruption from Van Halen almost nothing but a chicken choking guitar solo. (do instrumtentals count as guitar solos?)
Gimme the Prize by Queen from It's a Kind of Magic is a pretty good one and a bit different from the usual guitar solo.
It seems that most of Iron Maiden's songs on Edward the Great: Greatest Hits have some sort of guitar solo in them. Just the way rock is meant to be.
Metallica Bleeding Me from Load has a cool solo.
Van Halen Erruption from Van Halen almost nothing but a chicken choking guitar solo. (do instrumtentals count as guitar solos?)
Gimme the Prize by Queen from It's a Kind of Magic is a pretty good one and a bit different from the usual guitar solo.
It seems that most of Iron Maiden's songs on Edward the Great: Greatest Hits have some sort of guitar solo in them. Just the way rock is meant to be.
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Jimmy Page's solo in "Stairway to Heaven" is awesome.
Angus Young at the beginning of "Thunderstruck". That's quality.
Slash at the end of "November Rain". Hell, anytime Slash plays solo.
Angus Young at the beginning of "Thunderstruck". That's quality.
Slash at the end of "November Rain". Hell, anytime Slash plays solo.
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He's nowhere near as highly rated as he should be, but without him Black Sabbath (and therefore heavy metal) would not exist.
Also get thee some Judas Priest. Glenn Tipton and KK Downing picked up where Iommi left off, and in turn paved the way for Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton from Queensryche (amongst others).
Ace Frehley from KISS has been a favourite of mine ever since I can remember, but sadly he's no longer the intergalactic hero he once was. In his heyday, what he lacked in technical know how he *always* made up for in energy and enthusiasm. Try Rocket Ride, Strange Ways and Dark Light for starters, or almost any song from his 1978 solo album.
Vinnie Vincent is good for sheer jaw dropping speed playing that has almost nothing to do with the song. Grab his "Invasion" album (1986) if you're brave enough.
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He's nowhere near as highly rated as he should be, but without him Black Sabbath (and therefore heavy metal) would not exist.
Also get thee some Judas Priest. Glenn Tipton and KK Downing picked up where Iommi left off, and in turn paved the way for Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton from Queensryche (amongst others).
Ace Frehley from KISS has been a favourite of mine ever since I can remember, but sadly he's no longer the intergalactic hero he once was. In his heyday, what he lacked in technical know how he *always* made up for in energy and enthusiasm. Try Rocket Ride, Strange Ways and Dark Light for starters, or almost any song from his 1978 solo album.
Vinnie Vincent is good for sheer jaw dropping speed playing that has almost nothing to do with the song. Grab his "Invasion" album (1986) if you're brave enough.
And why has no-one mentioned Steve Vai yet? Shame on the lot of you .
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"Fade to Black" is a favorite of mine. As well as almost any Joe Satriani or Steve Vai song.
Amazing guitar duel in "Crossroads" between Steve Vai (as the Devil) and Ry Cooder.
Oh, and I highly recommend this song:
http://vgmix.com/song_view.php?song_id=4277
Amazing guitar duel in "Crossroads" between Steve Vai (as the Devil) and Ry Cooder.
Oh, and I highly recommend this song:
http://vgmix.com/song_view.php?song_id=4277
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Many of the legends have been covered, so I'd just add:
Clapton -- Cream's Disraeli Gears would be a good starting point
Stevie Ray Vaughn -- Texas Flood
Carlos Santana -- Moonflower or Abraxas
Robin Trower -- Day of the Eagle from Bridge of Sighs
The entire Montrose album, especially Bad Motor Scooter and Space Station # Five
Buck Dharma of Blue Oyster Cult, start with the Secret Treaties album
Jeff Beck's Wired
And off the metal track, but guitar gods nonetheless -- almost anything by Ry Cooder, Al DiMeola, Paco de Lucia, John McLaughlin, and Richard Thompson
Clapton -- Cream's Disraeli Gears would be a good starting point
Stevie Ray Vaughn -- Texas Flood
Carlos Santana -- Moonflower or Abraxas
Robin Trower -- Day of the Eagle from Bridge of Sighs
The entire Montrose album, especially Bad Motor Scooter and Space Station # Five
Buck Dharma of Blue Oyster Cult, start with the Secret Treaties album
Jeff Beck's Wired
And off the metal track, but guitar gods nonetheless -- almost anything by Ry Cooder, Al DiMeola, Paco de Lucia, John McLaughlin, and Richard Thompson
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You fuckers should all be purged for not mentioning Zakk Wylde. He's the God of all metal soloing, especially since Dimebag was killed.
My favourite Black Label Society (Zakk Wylde's band) song is Counterfeit God. Naturally it has an amazing solo in, just like every single song of his. T.A.Z is all an acoustic solo.
Children of Bodom have lots and lots of soloes interspersed throughout their stuff (think: Dragonforce but with less cheese and harsh vocals), snogs to check out by them: Bed Of Razors, Downfall, Taste of My Scythe, Follow The Reaper.
Dream Theatre...well, these are pretty well known, so I'll just recommend The Glass Prison.
Pantera ..of course...I would recommend you anything from their first album for guitar soloes, though their later stuff has them in pretty much every song (Floods has a particularly memorable one), it's not as power metally as earlier on. Get all the pantera you can, anyway, especially Domination, my favourite song of theirs.
Jag Panzer - soloes up the yinyang.
Kataklysm - lots of great guitar work, but they're very heavy, I wouldn't recommend them for people that consider bands like metallica as "heavy". Under the bleeding sun and the night they returned are the song that immediately come to mind, but the whole serenity in fire album is great.
Nile, similarly. Unas slayer of the gods is my favourite, there.
Skinlab and Machine Head have lots of soloes and heavy songs. Not as heavy as the above mentioned death metal bands, but along the same lines as pantera and pissing razors. MH songs - davidian, take my scars.
Therion's "Secret of the Runes" album might be interesting to you.
My favourite Black Label Society (Zakk Wylde's band) song is Counterfeit God. Naturally it has an amazing solo in, just like every single song of his. T.A.Z is all an acoustic solo.
Children of Bodom have lots and lots of soloes interspersed throughout their stuff (think: Dragonforce but with less cheese and harsh vocals), snogs to check out by them: Bed Of Razors, Downfall, Taste of My Scythe, Follow The Reaper.
Dream Theatre...well, these are pretty well known, so I'll just recommend The Glass Prison.
Pantera ..of course...I would recommend you anything from their first album for guitar soloes, though their later stuff has them in pretty much every song (Floods has a particularly memorable one), it's not as power metally as earlier on. Get all the pantera you can, anyway, especially Domination, my favourite song of theirs.
Jag Panzer - soloes up the yinyang.
Kataklysm - lots of great guitar work, but they're very heavy, I wouldn't recommend them for people that consider bands like metallica as "heavy". Under the bleeding sun and the night they returned are the song that immediately come to mind, but the whole serenity in fire album is great.
Nile, similarly. Unas slayer of the gods is my favourite, there.
Skinlab and Machine Head have lots of soloes and heavy songs. Not as heavy as the above mentioned death metal bands, but along the same lines as pantera and pissing razors. MH songs - davidian, take my scars.
Therion's "Secret of the Runes" album might be interesting to you.
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