Most Memorable Guitar Solos!

[Gnasty]

Not a huge fan of Lifeson's soloing, but I thought "Limelight" was very inventive

Really? Don`t get me wrong I love Hendrix to death and i use a wah pedal too like every guitar player does.
I also use a vox but i`m thinking getting rid of it. It really wrecks my tone more than i want.
And i hate people who use it to hide their shitty playing. When it comes to a wah solo. This is one of my fav wah solos. Alex at his best!

2:30 point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diUNDsP3Hns


Haha..I just saw this parody in comments!

Cinderella Man
Hang on to your pants
Try as they might
They cannot steal your jeans

[Gnasty]

This is long but very memorable to me watching over and over as a kid from the Crossroad movie. But stuck in my head.

Steve Vai with The Karate Kid playing Ry Cooder`s part. Ry Cooder is way under rated. That last paginni solo is killer!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iZUkoS4Enc

[Bobtail]

^^^^^ I like that movie too,havent seen it for years but.
That Ralph Machio( karate kid ) burnt Vai and sent him back to hell. 
Good guitar player for a movie star  .


Now solos, I like November Rain -Slash ,and Fire it up - Zakk Wylde.

Rat-tat-tat ; Good call on Eruption mate,maybe VH's 1st album shoulda been in my top 5 albums too

Cheers

[maxit]

hey - I was young in the '80 - wanted to be a guitar hero too (i still remember now how to play hotel california, sultans of swing,  and some riffs by van halen)! All the ones you said plus some older ones: the solo of clapton in 'lay down sally', and santana's 'europe' (is not a solo, is the melody ;-)

[Greeny]

There's a lot of great solos out there, but my personal fave is Rikki Don't Lose that Number by Steely Dan - see 2:36 below. It's concise, beautiful, and leads back into the bridge so nicely.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfZWp-hGCdA

I also rate the solo in My Sharona very highly too!

[64Guitars]

Or Reelin' In The Years.

Solo at 2:28


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bwHK1xkgJA

[64Guitars]

Jeff Beck - Ambitious

Solo starts at 3:13

I just love those first 7 notes, including the dive bomb.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udp8ozkrym4

[ODH]

Has noby mention'd Van Halen's "Eruption"... I think that one stands out as most memorable for me!!! I cannot count the number of times I've seen drunken patrons playin "Air Guitar" to that solo... Myself included.

Second that, and - much as I hate to reference Michael Jackson here - EVH's solo in Beat It has to be one of the most memorable and influencial of all time.

Greeny & 64G - definitely with you on the Steeley Dan

Not a massive Queen fan either, but how about the solo in Boh-Rap, a la Wayne's World?

[bruno]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NklCIaYiiEQ

Okay - the first 10 seconds of this song - me and my mates sat around listening to the first 12 seconds for days - it still is, for me, one of the most wicked licks ever - the rest of the song never got a listen, but that first 12 seconds, over and over and over again - its a great piece of playing and it still really grabs me.

[bruno]

However, probably the finest ever piece of electric guitar playing ever


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15eu7ar5EKM