Top 5 Greatest Guitar solos

24-03-2008, 01:34 PM

Top 5 Greatest Guitar solos

Everyone loves a good rock guitar solo. Unless you like that RnB crap that is...

Mine:

1. Pink Floyd - Comfortbly Numb (The 2nd solo)
2. Pink Floyd - Time
3. Bon Jovi - Wanted dead or alive (I HATE Bon Jovi but you cannot take anything away from Richie Sambora.)
4. Gary Moore - Still got the blues
5. Dragonforce - Operation ground and pound (Both solos)

Kona Palangi · 24-03-2008, 03:15 PM

Um, no Van Halen? Are you communist? I'd have to say Eruption is a top 3 candidate. It's extremely difficult to play & Eddie very rarely plays it live because his fingers cramp. Here is one of his live performances of Eruption.

YouTube - Eddie Van Halen- Eruption (Live 1998) Toronto

Andyz · 24-03-2008, 03:20 PM

eerrrrr........
you missed loads of other guys............(and songs lol)

blu_yu_away · 24-03-2008, 03:30 PM

My personal top 5 would be:
1. David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb
2. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
3. Kirk Hammet - One
4. Eddie Van Halen - Eruption (Not a big Van Halen fan but the solo is amazing)
5. Jimmy Page - Stairway to Heaven

24-03-2008, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andyz

eerrrrr........
you missed loads of other guys............(and songs lol)

Well, I could have put up a list of thousands of guitar solos I like. But seen as I started it in the Top 5 forum, I had to keep it to the same amount of IQ points you have - which is 5.

Oh and sorry for leaving Eddie out, I do like eruption but it doesn't quite make my own top 5.

Scotracer · 24-03-2008, 03:50 PM

1- Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (Brian May FTMFW)
2- I want it all - Queen
3- Still got the blues - Gary Moore
4- Die to Live - Steve Vai
5- Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

IIJoshIII · 24-03-2008, 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andyz

eerrrrr........
you missed loads of other guys............(and songs lol)

Notice it's Top 5, not list every single good solo.

EDIT: It appears that Charles has beaten me to it.

Jacksmith28 · 24-03-2008, 04:36 PM

1. Free Bird (I mean, HOLY CRAP)
2. Iron Man
3. Nightwish: Wishmater

IDK

Glock 19 · 24-03-2008, 05:36 PM

1. Jimmy Hendrix -Star Spangled banner (Woodstock 1969).
2. Randy Rhodes (Ozzy Osbourne)- Crazy Train
3. B.B. King - The thrill is gone
4. George Harrison (Beatles)-While my guitar gently weeps.
5. Dave Murray (Iron Maiden)- The Trooper

boom!headshot · 24-03-2008, 05:49 PM

1. Master of Puppets-Metallica: thrash at its finest.
2. All Along the Watchtower-Jimi Hendrix: need i say more?
3. Green Grass and High Tides - The Outlaws: this **** blows Free Bird out of the water.
4.Hot for Teacher-Van Halen: just awesome.
5. Palms Read-Protest the Hero: one of my favorite newer bands, every one of their songs has awesome guitar work.

Kona Palangi · 24-03-2008, 08:13 PM

Being that my Wife is Latino I gotta rep' some Carlos Santana ... Black Magic Woman ~ Oye Como Va ~ Samba Pa' Ti & Maria Maria. Dude makes some ruthless **** and can handle a git fiddle like nobody's business! He's like the Mexican Bob Marley for salsa & samba.

Blasterpez · 24-03-2008, 08:38 PM

Hmm, this is a tough one.

But here goes, and either i like them, or are the only ones i can think of at the moment:

1. Unforgiven-Metallica
2. Bleeding Me-Metallica (yeah, so i like metallica, wanna make something of it?)
3. Fiddler on the Green-Demons & Wizards
4. Hunting Girl- Jethro Tull (from the songs in the wood album...i like this one)
5. Ain't Talkin' bout love- Van Halen (what about Beat it?)

STIGA_man · 24-03-2008, 08:55 PM

"Transdermal Celebration" - Dean Ween - Ween
"Sweet Child O' Mine" - Slash
"Another Brickin the Wall Part 2" - DG

Do these two count, since the entire songs are guitar solos?
"Maggot Brain" (live from One Nation Under a Groove) - Eddie Hazel - Funkadelic
"Little Wing" - Stevie Ray Vaughan