Most Memorable Guitar Solos!

[Gnasty]

I was watching the hockey game last night and they were playing a song between breaks that i faintly heard and  i never heard in ages and i knew that i heard the song before. I started humming it and when i got to the guitar solo i figured out it was Deep Purple`s Knocking at your backdoor. Now that is a long and wicked guitar solo yet i knew it like i heard it yesterday instead of 10 years ago.

There`s a ton of great guitar players out there but a lot are jamming guitarists which is great too but like a catchy song, i like catchy solos. What are memorable ones for you? That`s if you thought of it you would hear it note for note. Mine are obvious for now.

Skip to 2:40 for the solo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0UXygnCzB8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8k8st337w0

Skip to 1:40


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RKWJD5ops

[bruno]

Probably the most technically gifted guitarist in the world. I am convinced he can play anything, in any style.


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

[Gnasty]

Probably the most technically gifted guitarist in the world. I am convinced he can play anything, in any style.

He`s wicked good and awesome but not what i was going for in this thread. It`s not about skill or technique.
It`s about memorable catchy solos in songs.

Like the solo to Neil Young`s Cinnamon Girl. The most simplistic one on earth yet it fits the song and it
sticks in your head like glue.

[bruno]

Then it has to the Another Brick in the wall solo then by Gilmour. That one left me on the floor when I first heard it.

[Blooby]

Then it has to the Another Brick in the wall solo then by Gilmour. That one left me on the floor when I first heard it.

Yeah, I was thinking "Comfortably Numb."

Blooby

[bruno]

Actually that's quite hard - I can think of loads of stand-out solo's, but some of them are in mediocre songs or at least obscure songs. Deep purple Burn had a wicked solo - although my favourite purple album was come taste the band, with Tommy Bolan's solo on gettin' tighter. Of course their is Cliffs of Dover by EJ, a song from heaven! But quite hard.

[Gritter]

Dean Ween at 1:05:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-oYMsoCc1g




Andy Summers at 1:12:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBDro8MF2SM




Wayne Perkins at 2:32 (not Peter Tosh as the video would suggest) and here's the story behind it:

The name of the "Bob Marley" album I was on was his first one called "Catch a Fire". It was in 1972, when I lived in London and was touring with my own group. I ran into Chris Blackwell in the Hallway of Island Records and he asked if I'd like to come downstairs and overdub on some reggae music. I had never heard of it {just like the rest of the world} so I said "sure, what kind of guitar do you want and he said you know that southern rock thing you play" I said all right, just let me know when you need me. Therefore, I went downstairs later on to meet Bob and the Wailers. It was a smoke filled room full of Rasta's and I couldn't find the first beat of this weird music to save my life. Chris said "forget the bass he's a melody guy, the bass drum and snares on the 2 and 4 and the keyboards are on the up beat", does that make it clearer for you? I said "we'll see" but I didn't know if I should catch a bus or build a bomb shelter! Anyway, the first thing they played was "Concrete Jungle" and on about the third take I hit "The Solo". Bob came running out there trying to cram this giant spiff in my mouth and I didn't understand one thing he'd said. I just knew he was pretty happy. The second song was "Stir it Up" and I did that overdub with a great keyboard player friend of mine named John "Rabbit" Bundrick. And we took turns playing the solos. I think we played "Rock it Baby" the same way. Anyway by the end of the night I was "well schooled" in reggae music!  - Wayne Perkins.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ3eA5gxiLs

[dasilvasings]

Anesthesia, pulling teeth 


OK OK, probably Slash in Estranged. Someone mentioned "Epic"? 8:06 is Epic!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmAY059TTY

I'll probably change opinion in the next minutes, so I'm off! Back to my recent lurking!

errrr... not fast enough...

Confortably Numb is absolutely amazing indeed! Oh! and also ...

[slyswell]

i like shorter solos  like the beatles'  Hey Bulldog . It's simple but effective.

[Bluesberry]

Dean Ween at 1:05:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-oYMsoCc1g

Damn I love that crazy song.........sheeeeet thats a great solo........

I always loved this version......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnriPwC2ydM