Awesome guitar solos

Zadius · Post by **Zadius** » 2005-07-26 11:58pm

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?

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-07-27 12:05am

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.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-07-27 04:04am

Speaking of hendrix, How could you leave out his version of the Star Spangled Banner? One of the best guitar pieces ever played (IMNSHO).

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2005-07-27 04:55am

One of the best solos I ever heard was Jan Akkerman's in Hocus Pocus, by Focus. His fingers must have been moving really fast.

There's also the solo in Tristram, one of the songs made for Diablo 2.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2005-07-27 07:00am

Dire Straights - Money For Nothing

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-07-27 10:57am

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.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2005-07-27 11:26am

General 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.

After some quick research I am pretty certain it's Mr. Crowley

There's also a track labled Suicide Solution Guitar Solo which qualifies too. It's 2 minutes and 49 seconds long.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-07-27 11:48am

Tsyroc wrote:
General 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.
After some quick research I am pretty certain it's Mr. Crowley

There's also a track labled Suicide Solution Guitar Solo which qualifies too. It's 2 minutes and 49 seconds long.

Ah, there we go. It's the Suicide Solution solo. Couldn't think of the name for a moment there.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2005-07-27 12:36pm

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.

Post by **The Wookiee** » 2005-07-27 01:44pm

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.

Civil War Man · Post by **Civil War Man** » 2005-07-27 01:44pm

Duh. Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-07-27 01:45pm

There is some simply fantastic guitar solo shit on Led Zeppelin's BBC Sessions.

Dooku's Disciple · Post by **Dooku's Disciple** » 2005-07-30 01:08am

Two words: Tony. Iommi.

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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DD

NeoGoomba · Post by **NeoGoomba** » 2005-07-30 12:31pm

"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

Civil War Man · Post by **Civil War Man** » 2005-07-30 12:43pm

NeoGoomba wrote:Oh, and I highly recommend this song:

http://vgmix.com/song_view.php?song_id=4277

If you're going with video game music remixes, then Ailsean's remixes of Terra's theme from FF6 (Terra in Black) and Frog's theme from Chrono Trigger (Knights Come Marching Home), while not of the godlike quality of the best guitar solos, certain qualify as really cool.

Zadius · Post by **Zadius** » 2005-07-30 12:48pm

NeoGoomba wrote:"Fade to Black" is a favorite of mine.

That is actually my favorite song of all time.

suicidal lyrics + heart-wrenching solo = best. song. ever

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-07-30 01:28pm

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

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2005-07-30 07:10pm

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.

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2005-07-31 01:54am

Lord Pounder wrote:Dire Straights - Money For Nothing

Sultans of Swing had better guitar work methinks.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-07-31 04:08am

NeoGoomba wrote:Oh, and I highly recommend this song:

http://vgmix.com/song_view.php?song_id=4277

ZOMG that ROCKS!!!

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2005-07-31 04:37am

And I can't get it. What a bugger.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2005-07-31 05:43am

Yngwie Malmsteen is pretty

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-07-31 08:29am

ok some oldies

Robert Johnson: Terapin Blues, Crossroads Blues
Eric Clapton: While my guitar gently weeps
AC/DC: "the speaker test" <literally goes up and down the Hz scale in the intro>

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2005-07-31 08:31am

The Yosemite Bear wrote: AC/DC: "the speaker test" <literally goes up and down the Hz scale in the intro>

That, is magic, that is.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-07-31 09:01am

I just wish I could remember the song in which this happens