I was listening to "Hotel California" today, and thought about how awesome the guitar solo is, so that got me thinking about my favorite rock guitar solos. :guitar:

"Hotel California" is one, I also love the solo in "Reeling in the Years".
I know of one more that really blows me away, I think its "Comfortably Numb", Gilmour Rocks.

Give me some more, something I may not have ever heard, Something that will have me running to find it. :D

Tyson

So do I get to be the first one to say Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption" solo off of the debut LP back in 1978? THAT solo is what got me the most interested in guitar when I was 12. I had already been playing since I was 7 but THAT solo really said, "learn to play better...chicks dig it". :D :thmbsp:

There are so many great solos out there. So hard to choose.

To End the Rapture by Avenged Sevenfold blows anything else I've heard out of the water. It goes into unbelievable finger tapping (hammer ons minus the initial pick) for about 12 seconds.
That or Second Heartbeat, also by Avenged Sevenfold. The thing about that band is that because their vocalist sucks and their lyrics suck they make up for it with the most unbelievable guitar ever. And not just in the solos.
I've seen several guitar tabs for Second Heartbeat that summarize the last untabbable 20 seconds of the song with
------------------------------------
-Then he goes---------<20>-----
-absolutely------------------------
-crazy-----------------------------
-for a while-----------------------
------------------------------------

Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth (Genesis - Selling England By The Pound)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nbhZEi2uNg

Or Dire Straits/Sultans of Swing, Jimi Hendrix/All Along The Watchtower

-Derek:music:

Poli Gap, by Hendrix
There must be 20 different types of solos in that one song. Then all the solos in 1983 by Hendrix.

Eric Clapton on Crossroads, the old Wheels of Fire LP

Poli Gap, by Hendrix
There must be 20 different types of solos in that one song. Then all the solos in 1983 by Hendrix.

YES!!!!!!!!!!! I gotta dig that shit out. That song kicks ass. Thanks!:thmbsp:
-Derek:music:

PS-It's "Pali Gap"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nbhZEi2uNg

Or Dire Straits/Sultans of Swing, Jimi Hendrix/All Along The Watchtower

-Derek:music:

A true Guitar God. There was nothing he could not do with that Strat.

Try Michael Schenker's solos ( esp. the last one) in the song Lights Out, from the album "Strangers in the Night" by UFO. :thmbsp:

Mike

Anything by EVH, Like..... Hot For Teacher.
And the very underrated Glenn Tipton: Rock Hard, Ride Free, Is one of many tricky solos by this guy, Hell, Priest's whole catalog is full of great licks.

:guitar:

Jerry Garcia, Dark Star.

I couldn't even begin to tell you the ones I like. It would hog up valuable server space. :D There are tons of them.

Ritchie Blackmore - Highway Star, the live version from Made in Japan

The one at the beginning of Steely Dan's "Don't Take Me Alive".

Scorpions ~ Coast to Coast off the "Love Drive" album, played (at the time) by Michael Schenker one of the true (with an ego to match) guitar gods of the 70's-80's rock era.

Anything by George Lynch...

Jerry Garcia, Dark Star.

Which one do you like best? Out of the ones I've heard, I'd vote for Halloween '71. But, I'm always looking for new and better versions.
-Derek

Many Great guitar solo's listed already, and many still unlisted.
Noones listed anything from Jeff Beck yet.

Jeff Beck ~ Brush With The Blues ~ Live version off the Who Else Album.

Jorma Kaukonen, Jefferson Airplane, Crown of Creation:
The House at Pooneil Corners

I've seen a couple of mentions for songs from Steely Dan.
Don't forget the guitar work on their tune "Bodhisattva"

Rush, Alex Lifeson - Feewill

I like the lead in War Pigs by Black Sabbath. It really adds to the song and carries the song without sounding like "Hey look at me!! I play guitar!"

Little known blues guitarist Chris Cain, pretty much anything from "Live at the Rep". He's just amazing. And fun to watch. When he solos he throws his head back, mouth hanging open, and just lets the music come out.

Here's one where he's gettin' wid it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8e97M1L5sc

And one where you can see the head thrown back thing, but not nearly the solo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ve1TLyyr4

For the most emotional solo I've ever heard, try Robben Ford's work on "Good Thing".

Ray

How about this one from Eddie Hazel?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmR3qMKVc4U

Another vote for Eddie Van Halen's Eruption!

then there was this little number

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r279/meggy_030/jimi.jpg

Anything by Kurt Cobain. Yes, he was technically simplistic. I've never heard anyone impart the iconclasm of punk in the form of a guitar solo so perfectly before or since. They were short and to the point and frequently at odds with the rest of the song. As someone who loves a good anti-hero, Kurt's anti-solos always hit the spot for me.

But if you want to consider real axe-wielding chops... Richard Lloyd's solo on "Marquee Moon" is hard to beat.

Many Great guitar solo's listed already, and many still unlisted.
Noones listed anything from Jeff Beck yet.

Jeff Beck ~ Brush With The Blues ~ Live version off the Who Else Album.

I saw Jeff do that number at Civic Auditorium in Portland in '99. Blew me away.

And don't forget Elliot Randall's solo in Reelin' In The Years, Steely Dan.

Also, Eric Johnson, Zap.

Another vote for Eddie Van Halen's Eruption!

OK, who knows what he quotes in this solo? It's worth 10 points.

I think Duane Allman's solo on "One Way Out" from Fillmore was one of his high points.

I don't know if this counts, but listen to the solo in "How Can a Man Stand Such Times and Live" on Ry Cooder's Live "Show Time" album.

I've been listening to Derek Trucks and The North Mississippi All Stars recently. Some tasty work there.

Doug

I am shocked that I am the first with this but there is no other solo with as much feal or fealling than David Gilmours solo on "Comfortable Numb"

Gilmour is the best of the Brits by far but never got the acclaim off folks like Beck or Clapton who are not nearly as soulfull in there playing.

Jimi Hendrix - Johnny B. Goode ("IN THE WEST" LP)
Johnny Winter - Rock N' Roll Hochie Coo
Danny Gatton - Harlem Nocturne

Steve

Here is a couple of more that will make you tap your toes.

Slash - November Rain

Brian May - Killer Queen

Johnny Winter - Highway 61 Revisited

And let us not forget Mr. Carlos Santana w/a little number called Jingo. As it has been said before, just too many to list.:smoke:

OK, who knows what he quotes in this solo? It's worth 10 points.



Doug

Rodolphe Kreutzer, Caprice Study #2 for Violin.

Do I win the award for Best Google Solo?

Hendrix doing "Machine Gun" on New Year's Eve, 1969, @ Fillmore East, is up there for me...

So is Cortez the Killer...

Just a few of my favorites, of hundreds....

the guitar solos in...

Bohemian Rhapsody (Brian May)
So Lonely (Andy Summers)
My Sharona (can't remember his name, but the Knack)
yep, both solos in Stairway to Heaven
Limelight (Alex Lifeson)

There are so many more.

I am shocked that I am the first with this but there is no other solo with as much feal or fealling than David Gilmours solo on "Comfortable Numb"

Gilmour is the best of the Brits by far but never got the acclaim off folks like Beck or Clapton who are not nearly as soulfull in there playing.

My Favorite PF track, Agree 100%.

One out of left field....

Robert Fripp on Brian Eno's-Baby's on Fire

Tom Scholz and Barry Goudreau, on Boston's first release.

Hitch a Ride.

Great dual solo.

So do I get to be the first one to say Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption" solo off of the debut LP back in 1978? Yes you were and I'm the first to mention:

Too Rolling Stoned by Robin Trower. :guitar::rockon::guitar::rockon::guitar::smoke:

Eddie Hazel...MaggotBrain

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e127/flyingpatricio/6a00c22529b8c0604a00d09e5ef590be2b-.jpg

I forgot this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbAi7fa2yZo&mode=related&search=

And this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lb9h0J_ajA&mode=related&search=

We share the same birthdate.:guitar:

So is Cortez the Killer...

I'm hoppin' mad it took 'til page three of this thread to mention Neil Young. Cortez The Killer - Zuma, Powderfinger - Live Rust, Down By The River - Live At The Fillmore East... three that should make any top 5 list. Y'all are slipping.

Stairway To Heaven
Highway Star
Free Bird
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

I'm hoppin' mad it took 'til page three of this thread to mention Neil Young. Cortez The Killer - Zuma, Powderfinger - Live Rust, Down By The River - Live At The Fillmore East... three that should make any top 5 list. Y'all are slipping.

True Dat, Yo!

I'll second the "So Lonely" solo that Bordeno mentioned. Pure Tele.
Plus, whoever played on "My Old School". Skunk?
But what really brought me to the table is the interplay of Keith Richards and Mick Taylor on the Stones' "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" live LP, in particular "Sympathy for the Devil", "Street Fighting Man", "Love In Vain" and "Stray Cat Blues". That's what I'm f%$#in' talking about right there.
Kudos also to Marc Ford of the Black Crowes for "Sometimes Salvation".
Oh, and "The Rover"...
Oh, and....

Did nobody mention Slash, "Sweet Child o'Mine" ~ Guns n' Roses ?

"Framton Comes Alive; Do You Feel Like We do"... This solo, has everything. Starts off slow, Frampton mixes in all of what makes rock great; blues, heavy metal, wawa, effects. All with a three piece band in 1975, LIVE.

BTW. I'm excluding Hendrix. He's in a class by himself....R.I.P.

anything that Michael Angelo Batio does!!!

Rodolphe Kreutzer, Caprice Study #2 for Violin.

Do I win the award for Best Google Solo?

Well done!
I have worked through more than one exercise written by Kreutzer. His exercises are so melodic they hardly seem like work. I wish my chops were where they were when I had more time to devote to Kreutzer exercises.

Doug

While looking around for the answer I found an article that may be of interest here, but it's a pdf. Here's the citation (my form is a little rusty but you get the idea):

Walser, Robert. "Eruptions: heavy metal appropriations of classical virtuosity." Popular Music, Volume 11/3, Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Is there a place this can live on AK? It's about a meg and a half.

SRV's first appearance on Austin City Limits in '83. If you have the cajones to take on Hendrix's Voodoo Chile, you'd better do something with it. And he did.

This one's technically not rock, but I've always admired the Nile Rodgers solo on Madonna's "Dress You Up" for sheer efficiency. Dances into the break, pushes the song elsewhere without overwhelming it, and jumps back out in a hurry. It's the sonic equivalent of Monet trying to paint in an unlit crawlspace.

Damn, I forgot my other guitar anti-hero, D. Boon, late great guitarist for the punk-art-jazz group the Minutemen. he usually played on a telecaster with no special effects except perhaps some gain boost (or just cranking the amp). Taut little solos, melodically inventive. Nothing like the guitar gods discussed here, but what for what his band was playing his work was perfect. Check this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2-CgCyh5YM) out if you can stand it- no SRV, more like DIY- just a quick little solo thrown in because the lyric at that point was about... guitar solos. Brilliant.

But what really brought me to the table is the interplay of Keith Richards and Mick Taylor on the Stones' "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" live LP, in particular "Sympathy for the Devil", "Street Fighting Man", "Love In Vain" and "Stray Cat Blues". That's what I'm f%$#in' talking about right there.


Damn straight. That is the real deal. I love that album and the Fingers-era Stones in general.

A few other things that came to mind: Clapton's solo on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" perhaps that is too iconic to mention? I mean who didn't THAT influence?

Also- just about every damn song Frank Zappa did. "Watermelon in Easter Hay" is a good place to start. "Transylvania Boogie"'s got the dirtiest riffs ever. The clean solo on "Peaches en Regalia" is pure gold.

And what about that shit in the middle of "Willie the Pimp??" Dude was a genius.

This thread is really sparking some memories. How about Townshend's playing on "Underture" at Woodstock? Does that count as a solo? People say Hendrix's Star Spangled banner was the most riveting moment at Woodstock, and maybe that's so, but "Underture" would have had to be #2.

#3 would have to be Santana's "Soul Sacrifice."

[QUOTE=ponderbear;1351090]Damn straight. That is the real deal. I love that album and the Fingers-era Stones in general.

Keith playing just behind the beat and bending the bejesus out of those two or three notes on the "Only Rock & Roll" solo. If that's not enough to get you to tap your foot or whip out the air guitar, it's because, to quote Monty Python, your metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians.

Wow - amazing selections here!

I'll add an obscure, yet deserving candidate: Frank Marino for Ditch Queen off the album "Juggernaut". Amazing!

I always thought that Comfortably Numb was just about the best rock guitar solo ever. Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower deserves recognition too. Then again, Alex Lifeson's solo during Limelight is right up there at the top...

Then again, Alex Lifeson's solo during Limelight is right up there at the top...

I'll second that! The solos in Tom Sawyer and Spirit of Radio are not shabby, either.

I know of one more that really blows me away, I think its "Comfortably Numb", Gilmour Rocks.
Tyson

I was wrong, "Comfortably Numb is good, BUT the one I was thinking of was "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2" :banana:

Also Gilmour's work on "Echoes" is great.

He's got a new live DVD coming out on the 18th.:yes:

Tyson

Also Gilmour's work on "Echoes" is great.

He's got a new live DVD coming out on the 18th.:yes:

Tyson
I can't wait for that DVD!!!

The solos in Thin Lizzy's Cowboy Song always give me chills.
Also, all of Greg Ginn's crazy solos for the great Black Flag.

Oh, and one who never gets his due-
Dave Sharp of the Alarm-"Black Sun" on 'Change'
Get out the Echoplex.

Slash - sweet child of mine

Lou Reeds, Sweet Jane Live intro

cocaine from Eric Claptons live CD has some pretty good licks

Jimi Hendrix - Little wing , Stevie Ray Vaughns version is pretty damn good also

Jay Graydon's solo on Steely Dan's "Peg".
Russ Freeman's nylon stringer on "When She Believed in Me", off the "Benoit/Freeman Project" debut.
And Jim Messina's Telecaster rip on "Good Friend" from the second Loggins & Messina album.

http://stash.nugs.net/attics/77may_mp3.asp?artist=1&show=214&cmd=shows

5-8-77 Brown Eyed Women solo kicks ass!!

-Derek:music:

Fool In the Rain - Led Zep. My favorite guitar solo.

Too many to list.

Listen to this one. First couple of minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fp2s_1A7rE


Or this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40OR-JtfP_Y


And one of my favorite songs\solos Judas Priest Beyond the Realms of Death.

Syd Barrett~'Interstellar Overdrive'

Over 10 minutes of psychedelic guitar solo. The 40 Year Anniversary issue of 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' just came out on September 3rd with three previously unreleased tracks.

Syd Barrett~'Interstellar Overdrive'

Over 10 minutes of psychedelic guitar solo. The 40 Year Anniversary issue of 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' just came out on September 3rd with three previously unreleased tracks.

GREAT call!!!

I may have to cull the responses here into a playlist- some AWESOME stuff given the nod!:yes:

I've got to go with Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of Little Wing off the Sky is Crying. It's six minutes of pure enjoyment.

outlaws. green grass and high tides

I've got to go with Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of Little Wing off the Sky is Crying. It's six minutes of pure enjoyment.

I disagree. While SRV's version is raw, uncut, and full of emotion, I love the Hendrix version. The multi-layered sounds, the his delicate guitar parts through a Leslie, the slight use of phasing. Oh man! That's 2:24min of pure sonic bliss that will have you on another planet. Sadly, I wish this song was 6:00min long. I would venture to say........its the most beautiful 2:24 in all of rock/pop music!:banana:
But, sometimes I admit, I'm in the mood for the SRV version. He plays one crazy run the second time through the progression after he cranks it up. Just amazing.:music:
I guess it depends on what kind of mood you're in.
-Derek:music:

Alan Holdsworth, "Devil Take the Hindmost"

Since I'm on a Hendrix kick..........would 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) be considered one long solo? Either way, its a great song!
-Derek:music:

I disagree. While SRV's version is raw, uncut, and full of emotion, I love the Hendrix version. The multi-layered sounds, the his delicate guitar parts through a Leslie, the slight use of phasing. Oh man! That's 2:24min of pure sonic bliss that will have you on another planet. Sadly, I wish this song was 6:00min long. I would venture to say........its the most beautiful 2:24 in all of rock/pop music!:banana:
But, sometimes I admit, I'm in the mood for the SRV version. He plays one crazy run the second time through the progression after he cranks it up. Just amazing.:music:
I guess it depends on what kind of mood you're in.
-Derek:music:

If you want the long Hendrix version. it's on Hendrix in the West. Live album. It's the one Stevie redoes. The parts with him playing feedback and lead at the same time are amazing. Has a great long live version of Redhouse on it too. Super great blues.

Rick Vito...solo on Like A Rock by Seger.

neil young like a hurican also sounds amazing

I can't believe I forgot to mention the solo in Stevie Wonder's Superwoman off of the Music of My Mind album. That's by far my favorite guitar solo of all time.

Hendrix remains in a class by himself.
My favourite Hendrix solos;
(in no particular order)
Hear my Train a coming 'Rainbow Bridge'
Pali Gap 'Rainbow Bridge'
Machine Gun 'Band of Gypsies'
Voodoo Child(slight return) 'In the West'
Little Wing 'In the West'
Voodoo Child(not the slight return)'Electric Ladyland'
Machine Gun(Isle of Wight version) 'Soundtrack of the film Jimi Hendrix'
Hey Joe "Soundtrack of the film Jimi Hendrix'
Star Spangled Banner 'Woodstock'
Who Knows 'Band of Gypsies'

I love tons of other geetar solos.
I'll make an honourable mention here of two albums
Carlos Santana/John Mclaughlin 'Love Devotion Surrender'
Satana 'Borboletta'

I love a million more,some of which have been mentioned on this thread.
Long Live the geetar solo. :yes: :thmbsp:

No one has mentioned Ted Nugent. Opening measures of Cat Scratch Fever. Awesome.

david gilmour on pink floyd's 'animals'....the whole cd:music:...but one of his best guitar workouts is: 'Dogs'.:yes:
there was a time in my youth...i used to listen to that track at least once a day!:smoke:

On the subject of David Gilmour:

His strength,is the 'emotion' evoked via his solos,the achievement being how few notes he plays to attain that result.
There are a lot of guitarists who try to impress with a flurry of notes.As if quantity equaled quality.
Gilmour says more with the bare minimum,than most guitarists do with ten times the number of notes.
That's Art. :yes:

No one has mentioned Ted Nugent. Opening measures of Cat Scratch Fever. Awesome.

“Great white buffalo” has some pretty good licks in it also.

Whipping Post,,, Jessica ,,Allman Bros

How about Steve Vai's "For the Love of God". He fasted, meditated, and had no sex for four days, nailed it in one take.:yes:

I agree with all the above:yes: How about " I'd love to change the world" by Ten Years After-Smokin:smoke:

Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs

Frank Marino - Just about anything he does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdYDnYCgDsU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulHGJV9i2zM

White light white heat, Rock and Roll, Heroin, and Sweet Jane all off of Lou Reed RnR animal had great solos.

eric jonson cliffs of dover. Whole song is pretty much a solo.
Zakk wylde farm fiddlin. Another guitar song.
Anything G3 is great.

Many great ones here that I agree with, including anything by:
Robin Trower
Duane Allman
Neil Young

Also what comes to mind is when Robert Plant pulled out that violin bow and made his guitar sound possessed on Moby Dick IIRC. Also pretty much anything by Roy Buchanon.:banana:

I was always impressed by the lead Alvin Lee from Ten Years After played on "I'm Going Home'. both the Woodstock, and studio version. Also Alvin Lee's Version of "Woodchopper's Ball", off the Ten Years After-Undead album.

It may be campy, but Berton Averre's solo on The Knack's "My Sharona" is pretty darn good and certainly burned into our brains.
I also have a soft spot for Martin Barre's solo on Jethro Tull's "Aqualung"
http://home.cogeco.ca/~mansion/barre2.jpg

Some of the best guitar work ever.

Link one & two go together.

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er1KLo7MtuI

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv_n7NEii6c

Led Zeppilen "nobody's fault but mine"
Byan Adams- everthing I do
The who- baba O'reilly :yes:
The who -Who are you? :yes: :music:

Neil Young
Steve Howe
Jeff Beck
Jimmy Page
Dave Cousins

just to mention a few

The ending of Johnny B Goode, then Hear my train a coming. Blues at it's very finest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXdtPEwQGCU
As ELP would say spectacular..spectacular.

Don't know if it's already mentioned, but Eddie van Halen's Eruption is what got me into playing guitar. Not that I'm any good. But that's not to blame on mr. Van Halen!

I will have to start with Andy Powell and Ted Turner. They have many but my favorites, and favorite side of an LP, is Live Dates- The King Will Come, Warrior, and Throw Down the Sword. Each note is full of emotion and thought out, not just speed playing. Others- Rory , Irish Tour '74, A Million Miles Away. Jimi, Voodoo Child (Slight Return), Trower- Bridge, In This Place, etc. That whole album has stood the test of time. Cream- Spoonful and the list goes on and on

Steve Howe's Your Is No Disgrace and especially Perpetual Change on Yessons and Starship Trooper during the ABWH tour are the most complete pieces of solo guitar playing...they are melodic, rythmic, sometimes chaotic, keeping the skeleton melody and backbeat of the songs that they are a part of...Display of many influences...just beautiful work and powerful at the same time...
Definitely in a league of his own...

Frank Zappa did. "Watermelon in Easter Hay"...




FZ @ Watermelon in Easter Hay is one of my favorites, too.

Another good one: Eddie Hazel on the song Maggot Brain for Funkadelic.

'This is the Central Scarootinizer....." :D

The docks are for loading and unloading

Also- just about every damn song Frank Zappa did. "Watermelon in Easter Hay" is a good place to start. "Transylvania Boogie"'s got the dirtiest riffs ever. The clean solo on "Peaches en Regalia" is pure gold.

And what about that shit in the middle of "Willie the Pimp??" Dude was a genius.

I have to agree :yes:
The two acoustic guitars (well yes its not solo) on Sleep Dirt is so damn good. Always makes me sad when it ends, it's just 3 minutes and 20 seconds :tears:

Ritchie Blackmore on the song "Catch the Rainbow" from the Rainbow live album On Stage. I'm not a musician but this song makes me wish that I were.

then there was this little number

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r279/meggy_030/jimi.jpg

How about a number "Hey Baby" from First New Rays of Rising Sun.All Hendrix blows me away but this song has got to be one of his best.

Allan Holdsworth, Expresso on Gazeuse by Gong.

Don't know if it's already mentioned, but Eddie van Halen's Eruption is what got me into playing guitar. Not that I'm any good. But that's not to blame on mr. Van Halen!

Defined the term guitar solo....Period. But Joe walsh with the Eagles in hotel california is in the top ten fo shore

Some off the top of my head:
Frank Zappa's solo in 'Muffin Man' on 'Bongo Fury'

And I forget the name of the band, nor do I know the guitar player, but the solo at the end of 'Rid Captain, Ride (Upon Your Mystery Ship)'!!!

Denny Dias solo in "My Old School'-Steely Dan

Joe Perry's solo in the middle of 'Train kept A Rollin'-Aerosmith

Some off the top of my head:
Frank Zappa's solo in 'Muffin Man' on 'Bongo Fury'

And I forget the name of the band, nor do I know the guitar player, but the solo at the end of 'Rid Captain, Ride (Upon Your Mystery Ship)'!!!

Denny Dias solo in "My Old School'-Steely Dan

Joe Perry's solo in the middle of 'Train kept A Rollin'-Aerosmith



Blues Image did Ride Captain Ride

Blues Image did Ride Captain Ride
Yes!:thmbsp:
I love that song!
Did they ever make a whole LP?

Yes!:thmbsp:
I love that song!
Did they ever make a whole LP?


Yes, I use to have two of their albums, the first was self-titled, the second (I had, not necesssarily release order) was Ride Captain Ride, and I think there was a third and I am not sure if there were more. Ride Captain Ride was the only hit that I know of that they had,

Yes, I use to have two of their albums, the first was self-titled, the second (I had, not necesssarily release order) was Ride Captain Ride, and I think there was a third and I am not sure if there were more. Ride Captain Ride was the only hit that I know of that they had,

Did the rest of their records sound like, Ride Captain, Ride?

Thought of another great, great guitar solo, from a guy not normally thought of as a 'guitar player'!

Springsteen's solo guitar duel with Little Steven in, 'It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City', from the Hammersmith Odeon-1975 CD!

It's incendiary!

Try Michael Schenker's solos ( esp. the last one) in the song Lights Out, from the album "Strangers in the Night" by UFO. :thmbsp:

Mike
I concur!
What great song and great record!:thmbsp:

How about Bill Nelson's solo from Bebop Deluxe's, 'Life in The Air Age'?
Or, Richard Thompson in just about every song he's ever done, but especially, 'Shoot Out The Lights'!

Did the rest of their records sound like, Ride Captain, Ride?

Not really, it was obvious why they had only the one hit.

Not really, it was obvious why they had only the one hit.

NO F'N WAY!:nono: those guys were heavy-duty! listen to: blues image 'open'. it's the one with 'ride capt ride'. the rest of the album is killer! mean guitar, b3 and mexicali percussion. this is one of my top favorites:music: there is a 9 minute blues jam that is some of the best playing of that period IMHO:banana:

Here's more information on Blues Image:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Image

Cliff Gallup on "Be-Bop-A-Lula" by Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps.

Steve Cropper on "Soul Man" by Sam and Dave

John Fogarty on "Sweet Hitchiker" by CCR

Anything Scotty Moore and James Burton did with Elvis.

Jerry Miller on "Changes, Circles Spinnin" by Moby Grape

Child in Time by Deep Purple

Fade to Black by Metallica
Satch Boogie by Joe Satriani
The Wizard by Black Sabbath
Highway Song- Blackfoot
Free Bird Live- Lynyrd Skynyrd
Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll- Blue Oyster Cult
I Heard it through the Grapevine- CCR
Touch, Peel and Stand- Days of the New
One Rainy Day- Godsmack
Everything on the greatest hits- Guns N' Roses
anything by Indigenous
I got to go

Here's more information on Blues Image:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Image
Wow!! I have Iron Butterfly and Ramatam records, (though I haven't played either in many years) and I'm familiar with Pinera, and his guitar work. But I never knew Pinera was the guitar player in Blues Image! You learn something new, everyday around here! That's why I love this place!

I see a couple of mentions of CCR in this thread. But two of John Fogerty's absolute best workouts are. 'Fortunate Son' and 'Ramble Tamble'. His guitar work in 'Ramble Tamble' can best be described as Scotty Moore on LSD! It's an amazing hybrid of rockabilly and pyschedelia.

Smells like Teen Spirit by Nirvana.
This has to be one of the most innovative,imaginative creative guitar solos ever.:nono:

anybody say richie blackmore on highway star?

Here's more information on Blues Image:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Image

I have Blues Image on Vinyl....its a great album...a couple of really wild experimental blues/rock/jazz fusion pieces on there

There's no question that this is not the most technically impressive or face-melting guitar solo, but an entry into "guitar solos that get me every time I hear them" category: the short solo at the end of the three-and-a-half minute instrumental section in Weezer's Only In Dreams. For my money, it is one of the greatest rock songs of all time (many definitions of rock). Even though I'm expecting it, that short solo right before the song ends just blows me away.

Too bad Weezer hasn't released a good record in over a decade, now. :no:

2 that come 2 my mind quick:
Springsteen in Born to Run
Ed Van Halen in Beat It