Posted: 12/9/2008 5:20:40 PM EDT
What songs have the most memorable solos that you can think of, as in ones that just stick in your head, heck you don't even have to like them. Anything goes, guitar, piano, accordian , whatever.
For me it tends to be the more melodic stuff that sticks on my head, but not always. Metallica - Fade to Black, Master of Puppets, The Unforgiven, Nothing Else Matters Zakk Wylde/BLS - Farewell Ballad Brad Paisley - Munster Rag Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing, Texas Floods, ect, ect........... Joe Satriani - Down Down Down, Scatch Boogie Sumer Song Scorpoins - Rock You Like A Hurricane, Humanity, Pantera - Cowboys From Hell, Walk, Floods, 10s, ect, ect...... Ozzy - Crazy Train, Road To Nowhere |
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Brad Paisley - Munster Rag and the jams at sound check no one hears. Stevie Ray Vaughan - ect, ect........... Joe Satriani - etc..etc.. ooooooo yeah! Brad Paisley is a monster, seriously, a monster. Most don't know.  The man got no ass , cuz he played it off. Eric Clapton Lala Robin Trower Europa and Peter Frampton (feel like we do, live) |
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Anna Netrebko - O mio Babbino caro
For the uninformed Here ya go |
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Neil Young - Like a Hurricane
Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay Freddie King/Eric Clapton - Further on Up The Road(live) from Freddie King 1942-1976 Brian Setzer Orchestra - Bothisattva Albert Collins - If Trouble Was Money Duane Allman/Boz Scaggs - Loan Me A Dime |
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Well, it's been said a million times... and it's not a technically hard to do thing, but if we're talking about classics that will stick in your head, there's always Jimmy Page's solo in Stairway to Heaven (zeppelin).
But I agree with the statements about Satriani/Steve Vai and the various Ozzy guitar players from Randy Rhodes to Zakk Wylde, etc. - All great players. |
| Don't know the name of the song, but I was at a Dreamtheatre concert in St. Louis back in '04 when the guitarist starts to rip out a rediculously technical solo, and I happen to look over at the bassist and see that he's following note for note on his 6 string bass!!! Then I look at the pianist in lockstep with them both and Mike Portnoy back on the drumset doing his typical (read: incredibly rediculously impossible) drum lines that happen to follow along beautifully with the melody of the "solo". Those guys drive me nuts every time I listen to them. |
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Let me add the following, even though they are not just for the solo work.
Vandenberg - Burning Heart, Prelude Mortale/Different Worlds REO Speedwagon - Golden Country, plus the usual Riding the Storm Out, Roll With the Changes Chicago - the early stuff with Terry Kath Jeff Healey - Did an awesome remake of While My Guitar Gently Weeps (and I usually hate remakes) Allison Krause and Union Station - If I Didn't Know Any Better (Jerry Douglass, if I remember correctly) Bad Company - Shootin' Star Well, let's just say that I love just about all the old classic rock songs and bands. There are just way too many to be able to pick from, and thankfully I don't have to try. |
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I'd say that the most memorable solos are probably not the "greatest" in terms of technical mastery, but may be the "greatest" in terms of fitting the song and regular (non-musician) people being able to sing it in their heads.
A few of the ones that immediately come to my mind are Neal Schon's "Who's Cryin Now", "Any Way You Want It", "Faithfully", and "Don't Stop Believin". I really don't think that ANYONE can top Neil in terms of writing lyrical solos that EVERYONE can remember and that really fit the song well. Some other GREAT solos might be Lifeson's solo to "Limelight" and "Spirit of the Radio" and Gilmore's solos to "Another Brick" and "Comfortably Numb". Hard to beat those! And there are probably hundreds more that qualify for the most-memorable for me as well. As far as techinal displays that are also very memorable (for me) go: Allan Holdsworth "Devil Take the Hindmost", Uli Roth's "I'll Be There" and Yngwie's "Black Star" would have to top the list. |
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I'd say that the most memorable solos are probably not the "greatest" in terms of technical mastery, but may be the "greatest" in terms of fitting the song and regular (non-musician) people being able to sing it in their heads. A few of the ones that immediately come to my mind are Neal Schon's "Who's Cryin Now", "Any Way You Want It", "Faithfully", and "Don't Stop Believin". I really don't think that ANYONE can top Neil in terms of writing lyrical solos that EVERYONE can remember and that really fit the song well. Some other GREAT solos might be Lifeson's solo to "Limelight" and "Spirit of the Radio" and Gilmore's solos to "Another Brick" and "Comfortably Numb". Hard to beat those! And there are probably hundreds more that qualify for the most-memorable for me as well. As far as techinal displays that are also very memorable (for me) go: Allan Holdsworth "Devil Take the Hindmost", Uli Roth's "I'll Be There" and Yngwie's "Black Star" would have to top the list. +1 I agree completely with everything said there. Alex Lifeson really has a lot of stuff that, even though he's not the "cleanest" player in the world, is just really memorable from an artistic point of view. Here's one of many... the solo from "A Passage to Bangkok" Link (I don't know what's going on with youtube tonight... one time you click it and it won't play, but the next time you click it is does. They must be having site issues. Just keep trying if it doesn't work right away.) |
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I'd say that the most memorable solos are probably not the "greatest" in terms of technical mastery, but may be the "greatest" in terms of fitting the song and regular (non-musician) people being able to sing it in their heads. A few of the ones that immediately come to my mind are Neal Schon's "Who's Cryin Now", "Any Way You Want It", "Faithfully", and "Don't Stop Believin". I really don't think that ANYONE can top Neil in terms of writing lyrical solos that EVERYONE can remember and that really fit the song well. Some other GREAT solos might be Lifeson's solo to "Limelight" and "Spirit of the Radio" and Gilmore's solos to "Another Brick" and "Comfortably Numb". Hard to beat those! And there are probably hundreds more that qualify for the most-memorable for me as well. As far as techinal displays that are also very memorable (for me) go: Allan Holdsworth "Devil Take the Hindmost", Uli Roth's "I'll Be There" and Yngwie's "Black Star" would have to top the list. +1 I agree completely with everything said there. Alex Lifeson really has a lot of stuff that, even though he's not the "cleanest" player in the world, is just really memorable from an artistic point of view. Here's one of many... the solo from "A Passage to Bangkok" Link (I don't know what's going on with youtube tonight... one time you click it and it won't play, but the next time you click it is does. They must be having site issues. Just keep trying if it doesn't work right away.) Alex is just a straight up under-rated guitar player. Period. |
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Selkies: the endless obession by between the buried and me.
If you listen to the whole ending , and you can't admit how awesome it is, you're just stuborn. The sweeps are amazing. Paul looks kinda geeky, but he is quite the player. The endless obsession solo |