Awesome guitar solos

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2005-07-31 03:30pm

A friend has told me good things about a guy i think he's called Joe Satriani? Amyone able to confirm that he's good?

Zadius · Post by **Zadius** » 2005-07-31 03:42pm

Lord Pounder wrote:A friend has told me good things about a guy i think he's called Joe Satriani? Amyone able to confirm that he's good?

Yes, he's very good. Both Steve Vai and Kirk Hammett (Metallica) were students of his.

sketerpot · Post by **sketerpot** » 2005-07-31 04:03pm

Lord Pounder wrote:A friend has told me good things about a guy i think he's called Joe Satriani? Amyone able to confirm that he's good?

He's excellent. I have his Strange Beautiful Music album, and it's still the single best source of guitar music that I have.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-07-31 06:57pm

Rye wrote:You fuckers should all be purged for not mentioning Zakk Wylde. He's the God of all metal soloing, especially since Dimebag was killed.

I saw him when he was Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist, he did a 5 minute guitar solo just for the hell of it at the end of one of the songs and it was pretty unreal. He just went and stood on top a 10' stack of amps and speakers and started shredding away.

sketerpot wrote:
Lord Pounder wrote:A friend has told me good things about a guy i think he's called Joe Satriani? Amyone able to confirm that he's good?
He's excellent. I have his Strange Beautiful Music album, and it's still the single best source of guitar music that I have.

You want Crystal Planet, Surfing with the Alien, and Flying in a Blue Dream, now. What I like about him is that he keeps the songs grounded and they don't wander off into la-la land and become complete guitar wankfests.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2005-07-31 10:52pm

No Freebird? Fools. I'm not too Lynard Skynardy, but you cant deny the badassedness of that solo.

Civil War Man · Post by **Civil War Man** » 2005-07-31 11:08pm

Chardok wrote:No Freebird? Fools. I'm not too Lynard Skynardy, but you cant deny the badassedness of that solo.

Only in the 15 minute versions, and there are no a's in Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-07-31 11:40pm

and it's not Skynyrd with out VanZants

NeoGoomba · Post by **NeoGoomba** » 2005-08-01 02:15pm

Also have to mention Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption" solo. Greatness

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2005-08-01 03:16pm

Civil War Man wrote:
Chardok wrote:No Freebird? Fools. I'm not too Lynard Skynardy, but you cant deny the badassedness of that solo.
Only in the 15 minute versions, and there are no a's in Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Right, right, right. Blame the Lunesta™ for my mispellings. sorry about that. Anyway, it still fucking rocks. And when, in these threads, do we EVER refer to stupid radio versions of songs, eh?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2005-08-01 08:26pm

aerius wrote: I saw him when he was Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitarist, he did a 5 minute guitar solo just for the hell of it at the end of one of the songs and it was pretty unreal. He just went and stood on top a 10' stack of amps and speakers and started shredding away.

Yeah, he did the same thing at Ozzfest when I went a few years ago. It was sick, he played soloes with his teeth somehow.

Darth RyanKCR · Post by **Darth RyanKCR** » 2005-08-01 09:05pm

May not be metal but Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream when he had his Les Paul Gibson in the mid to late 70's was excellent and improvised most of the time.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-08-01 11:58pm

just realized that this month marks 35 years of no James Marshal Hendrix, I am going to have to brush up on my Voodoo and my connections with the Great Raven and set about getting the ultimate basement tape jam session started. Who else whose dead do we need.

Siege · Post by **Siege** » 2005-08-02 07:22am

Pretty much the entire "Friday Night in San Francisco" album, which is Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin and Paco DeLucia jamming a CD full of awesome guitar stuff. It's all spanish guitars, but if you want mind-blowing solo's, check out "Meditteranean Sundance" from that album.