The online racing simulator
Greatest Rock Guitar Solos of All Time
2
(62 posts, started )
#26 - spankmeyer
#27 - SamH
#28 - bunder9999
Quote from kingfag :A guitar solo topic isnt complete without these two:

Comfortably numb (skip to 4:26)

Stairway to heaven (skip to 6:48)

here's a little youtube URL trick i learned the other day...

add #t=6m48s to the URL for autoskip.

edit: does "joe satriani - if i could fly" count as a solo?
#29 - Vendetta
#30 - J@tko
#31 - SidiousX
#32 - Stefani24
#33 - danthebangerboy
Queen, Brighton Rock

Best solo ever!!

Don't be fooled by the beginning of the song either, wait until about 2:40, thats when the excellent guitar work really begins!
#34 - PAracer
Quote from danthebangerboy :Queen, Brighton Rock

Best solo ever!!

Don't be fooled by the beginning of the song either, wait until about 2:40, thats when the excellent guitar work really begins!

Dude, Brian's guitar work is awesome throughout Brighton Rock. Anyway, the backstory on the carnival intro is that it was supplied as a gift from their new managment. It is also that this song opened their third album. Kind of an ear catcher the first time you hear it.

The solo from Brighton Rock was originally used by Brian before Queen was formed. You can hear an earlier version of the solo in this version of Son and Daughter, recorded in 1973 for the BBC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28v9gZUOt2s
#35 - danthebangerboy
Quote from PAracer :Dude, Brian's guitar work is awesome throughout Brighton Rock. Anyway, the backstory on the carnival intro is that it was supplied as a gift from their new managment. It is also that this song opened their third album. Kind of an ear catcher the first time you hear it.

The solo from Brighton Rock was originally used by Brian before Queen was formed. You can hear an earlier version of the solo in this version of Son and Daughter, recorded in 1973 for the BBC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28v9gZUOt2s

Finally, another person who likes queen on lfsforum, i thought i was the only one!

The best band ever in my book
#36 - samjh
Quote from SamH :Firstly, congrats to samjh for an inspired topic!

It was inspired by my efforts to learn the guitar lead for (the relatively simple) Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet (originally by The Troggs).

At the risk of sounding like an emo, I'll also nominate So Afraid by Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, during their 1997 The Dance tour. I can't find a proper clip for it (removed by YouTube, sigh), but the link is the best I can find.

Big Love is another awesome solo by Lindsey Buckingham. Totally crazy acoustic play.

Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman by Bryan Adams is another nice acoustic one. Paco de Lucia played the guitar - beautiful dynamics. Love it.
#37 - mrodgers
Quote from SamH :You lot will all be too young to appreciate Stevie Ray Vaughan, but I reckon he's one of the kings of the guitar kingdom. I love this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLw7nozO_U

Please refrain from the generalization there, old man. Not everyone reading this thread are just kiddies

Now I'm going to be missing bedtime because I'll be watching all the videos in the sidebar.

And my pick would already have been posted, David Gilmour in Comfortably Numb.

Couple of my other favorites of Gilmour....

Coming Back to Life (I'm halfway through trying to play this one, about the only thing I can play.)

Shine on You Crazy Diamond Acoustic (absolute must see for all Floyd Freaks)

There's no way out of here
#38 - freddyalek90
Quote from danthebangerboy :Finally, another person who likes queen on lfsforum, i thought i was the only one!

Here's the third
Brighton Rock's solo it just... blows your mind!
But I'd say that ALL Brian's solos were fantastic... that man has taste.
#39 - Joe_Keaveney
Just to go slightly off-topic (although I wonder if we should have a 'Queen fans' thread),

I'm Queen daft, been a Queen fan since very early teens.

Got two Queen t-shirt, two Queen mugs, all the albums, been to see 'We Will Rock You' twice - go and watch it, it's brilliant - and I finally went and watched Queen + Paul Rodgers in concert at Cardiff last October.

What was absolutely awesome about that night is that we were about 5 yards from the stage - and then in the middle of the concert, with the stage smoke behind Brian, the lights, and him playing one of his amazing solos - man, that was a boyhood dream come true right there. Just amazing.

Brighton Rock is of course brilliant as an example of Brian's guitar skills, but how about Keep Yourself Alive? Or one of my favourites, Dead on Time (from the Jazz album, the opening few bars are great) There's so many really, not perhaps the greatest rock guitar solos of all time, but certainly brilliant still.

OK back on topic
#40 - D.Zanetti
#41 - The Moose
#42 - D.Zanetti
#43 - mrodgers
Quote from D.Zanetti :... well Gilmour deserves two posts.

3 posts. I was smart enough to mention that it was already posted so I didn't post Comfortably Numb I just posted a couple of other Gilmour links.
#44 - Bladerunner
#45 - Bladerunner
#46 - RiGun
The guitar solo that I like the most is the one in the live version of Hollow Years by Dream Theater, that solo is just amazing, there are lots of excellent solos but that one is a recurring thought.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H78F7M-LATw
#47 - batteryy
#48 - theirishnoob
#49 - Bladerunner
#50 - RossUK
Quote from RiGun :The guitar solo that I like the most is the one in the live version of Hollow Years by Dream Theater, that solo is just amazing, there are lots of excellent solos but that one is a recurring thought.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H78F7M-LATw

+1

Awesome solo. I have that concert on DVD and that song is amazing live. I hope to be able to play that one someday!

Talking about playing solo's live I played Joe Satriani's "Surfing With The Alien" in a pub last year while meeting some folks from a music forum. Here's the vid, its bad sound quality but oh well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo_C35ZlByA
2

Greatest Rock Guitar Solos of All Time
(62 posts, started )
FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG