top ten HARD ROCK/ HEAVEY METAL lead guitar solos of all time? 1) All along the watchtower-Hendrix 2) 25 or 6 to 4-TerryKath 3) Harrison-"Carry that weight finale solo" lead 4) "White Room" solo-Eric Clapton 5) Stairway to heaven lead solo-Jimmy Page 6) Angus Young-solo on "Back in Black" 7)Steve Howe-solo on "Yours is no Disgrace"8) "Reelin in the Years" solo by Steely Dan 9) Leslie West "Missippi Queen" solo 10) Duane Allman off "Eat a Peach "-"Sweet Mellisa" lead solo.

eric clapton in a hard rock/heavy metal list?

steve howe's Yours Is No Disgrace is a solo masterpiece that encompases so many different styles and sounds, its a encyclopedia of a solo....To me that is above all others!

Top ten guitar solos? One of them is Maggot Brain by Eddie Hazel with Funkadelic. Sadness, ectasy, pain and fear, all in 10 minutes. Check it out.
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tapehead

Yes!
And how is it that Wicked World is not there?
Hendrix's Catfish Blues off the BBC album? :screwy:


Carl

Nigel Tufnel's solos were some of the most explosive in rock history. To numerous to mention just one. Here is a summary lifted from one of their many fan sites.


Solos: During the filming of "This is Spinal Tap," DiBergi captured some of Nigel’s better known solo performances—"my solos are my trademark." In one, he uses a violin as a bow on his guitar (stopping to tune the violin) and then brings out horseshoes—all techniques that he had perfected by the time Guitar Player did a cover story on him for its first issue in 1967. "I can’t really get into it unless I’ve been playing 12 or 13 minutes. Because, musically, that’s where I start to form a structure. And I usually think of what I’ve had to eat; if it’s been Indian food, then maybe I’d write a tune later on. Or if I haven’t had Indian food, if my trousers are bunchin’ up in the back. Sometimes they ride up, during the show. I think, ‘Well, good, because when I finish playing I can pull them down a little bit.’ Or I think sometimes that the roadie, the bloke that changes my cord, doesn’t smell good. Things like that." (GP) During Tap's residency at the Electric Banana in the late 1960s, Nigel recalls, he played a solo that lasted 46 minutes. "They had to change my strings while I was actually playing." (QM) Often his solos are so long and involved that Derek and David have been known to step out for dinner or a leg wax and facial. Nigel’s solo on "Break Like the Wind"—"Springtime"—has been compared to both early Steppenwolf and Moby Grape. (IST) His efforts are not highlighted on "Break Like the Wind," in part because of the mischievous antics of David and Derek. On the title track, Nigel was scheduled to share the stage with Jeff Beck, Slash and Joe Satriani. Nigel explains: "It was a rather unpleasant surprise. You see, as it is now, I do the first solo, the Spanish guitar solo. Then I do the first electric solo. Then the other chaps do their bit. But originally it was to be all mine. But Derek and David for a birthday surprise erased the rest of my playing. It came as quite a shock to walk into the studio and hear this other music and have to say, ‘Where’s the rest of what I did?’ And they started singing, ‘Happy birthday to you...’ They’d meant it as a tribute." (CT) Still, there is no doubt Nigel has the respect of his fellow band members. As David recently told Guitar World (February 1997): "No one plays like Nigel. No one even tries."


How can you beat that.

RC

Any live Hendrix, Gallagher, Buchannon, Clapton, Townshend, Trower, Santana, the 3 Kings, Edge, Buddy Guy, and a whole lot others qualify. Is any one better than the other - not in my opinion as each guitarist is different and has their own style and sound and in almost every case demonstrates mastery of the electic guitar. Of course there is the acoustic magic of Fahey, Segovia, Thompson and a plethora of others.

Zappa also qualifies as long as he shut his mouth long enough to finish a riff which unfortunately was not too many times.

Hendrix - Voodoo Child, Of course, this whole song is a solo. His records are solos. :music:

Blue Collar -Bachman turner overdrive
Hendrix- Little wing+Voodoo Child+ Star Spangled Banner + Rage in Mississippi
Cream- CrossRoads
Ten Years after-Im Goin Home+ Woodchoppers Ball
Johnny winter- Highway 61
Edgar winters White trash (Rick Derringer) Tobaco Road

Angus Young smokes on Let There Be Rock.
Frank Zappa kicks major booty on Son Of Mr. Green Genes.
I always thought David Gilmour's solos during Us And Them and Time were very emotive.
Gotta include Robin Trower.....Days Of The Eagle and Too Rolling Stoned.
Jeff Beck's solo on Get Us All In The End is killer.

I know there's more, lots more, but I'm just going from memory which apparenty isn't very good at the moment.

I always thought Slash absolutely smoked on 'Sweet Child O' Mine'...

(don't waste your energy flaming me... I know a lot of people hate G-N-R)

I always thought Slash absolutely smoked on 'Sweet Child O' Mine'...

(don't waste your energy flaming me... I know a lot of people hate G-N-R)

No need to flame you, you did a fine job of that yourself
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Hiya guys,

As Datsunmike says, this is a hard one. The solos that come to mind immediatedly are :-

1) Ritchie Blackmore - Highway Star/Smoke on the Water/Soldier of Fortune etc.
2) Angus Young - H.T.H./You Shook Me/DDDDC/Soul Stripper/TNT etc.
3) Santana - B.M.W./Samba Pati/Sensitive Kind etc.
4) Joe Walsh/Glen Frey - Hotel California
5) Jimmy Page - S.T.H./Rock n Roll/Black Dog etc.

As you said rock I will leave the Bluesmen out.

Thanks.
cosmicdust

Ronnie Montrose - Town without Pity
Eric Clapton - Layla

Top ten guitar solos? One of them is Maggot Brain by Eddie Hazel with Funkadelic. Sadness, ectasy, pain and fear, all in 10 minutes. Check it out.

I completely agree!! :yes:

It is one of the most amazing pieces of guitar that I can think of. Truly mind blowing :music:

John

i like jeff beck album guitar shop very muchos :thmbsp:

Any solo by Randy Rhodes while he was with Ozzy. The man invented the modern day "Heavy Metal" sound.

Tom Verlaine from the first 2 Television records is amazing and though not thought of as hard rock, rocks as hard as any.

For real hard rock look up Nick Salamon of The Bevis Frond. I'll lay him against anyone from anytime period. He's that good. Check out some of the older stuff to be blown away.

Gary

I don't like to add to these, but down here in TX we like SRV a bit and I beleive he had a few memorable solos. Also I have not seen mention of The Allman Brothers....Was it Dickey Betts? Knopfler deserves a mention too.

I can't make a top ten list.

Worth mentioning: Steely Dan Guitar=Walter Becker

Gotta Joe Walsh from the beginnings of James Gang through his solo albums and then with the Eagles,
JOe has his own signature sound, but can play the other guys, too.

The Maestro's "Son of Mr. Green Genes". There's 15 different songs in that song and each one is absolutely gorgeous..

I have to agree on Stevie Ray Vaughn. I believe he was Clapton's favorite. Each SRV tune was truly a guitar solo. Some say he played Hendrix better than Jimi - but I won't go there....

tapehead

Neil Young. I can't pick one, but I love that Crazy Horse era. I just listened to "Like a Hurricane", from the new G. Hits album (should be from Decade). Very nice.

1. Jimi Hendrix- The Star Spangled Banner (Woodstock version) Or damn near anything else he did......

2. Ten Years After- I'm Going Home (also from Woodstock)

3. Led Zeppelin- Dazed And Confused (live from The Song Remains The Same)

4. Grand Funk Railroad- In Need (early album, self titled, red cover, I think their first)

5. Neil Young-Down By The River (from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere)

6. Blue Cheer-Parchaman Farm (From the legendary Vincibus Eruptum LP. A MUST have for ANY lover of guitar laden madness!!)

7. Cream- N.S.U. (From "Live Cream")

8. Cream-Sweet Wine (From "Live Cream") Really this whole album IS a guitar solo!!!

9. Stevie Ray Vaughan-Texas Flood (like Hendrix "damn near anything else he did"

10. The Allman Brothers Band-Whipping Post (Fillmore East version)

Ritchie Blackmore, a tune called "Place In Line" from the album "Who Do We Think We Are". One of Blackmores best moments!

The tune starts off with a heavy blues-riff then goes into an outright JAM that seems to go on forever. One of my all time favorites. When it came to jammin'....no-one could top DP (IMHO).


Russ

Awww what about Skynard ... freebird :banana:

I will acknowledge the "classic rock playlist faves" (Stairway, Dream On, Freebird, - heard over and over ad nauseum), but I dig a little deeper and add to others I listed - other members may have listed:

- Pete Townshend - Who (Relay + other obvious tunes - check out the 2000 Live at Royal Albert Hall DVD - you won't be disappointed - should be played LOUD)
- Aren't You Glad - Randy California, Spirit
- Europa (Well maybe this makes the classic rock FM playlists) - Santana
- Do You Feel Like We Do (gimmick free version) - Frampton's Camel (BEFORE FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE LP)
- Any of the slide work by Lowell George backed w/ Paul Barrere on guitar - Little Feat
- Jesse "Guitar" Taylor - Guitar for Joe Ely, and others
- Lloyd Maines (well no one said it couldn't be steel guitar)
- Jerry Douglas (no one eliminated dobro)
- Bela Fleck (banjo)

Lots of others. As mentioned in other posts, all are different, and most are great.
No one person has "THE list". I'll be checking out some of the ones I haven't heard of that others have mentioned. Sorry if strayed from the original intent, but these are all steel string masters..

tapehead

You can't leave out Theodore Nugent.....no matter how much you may hate him, he still plays some wild lead guitar.
Jeff Beck- Situation. Great guitar work

This one is more atmospheric, but for you "old-timers":

Steve Hackett's solo during the Genesis song "Firth of Fifth" on the LP "Selling England by the Pound". This solo is further enhanced by the accompanying bass pedals (M. Rutherford) and Mellotron (T. Banks).

Actually, there are many other FINE examples of Hackett solos on both Genesis songs as well as Hackett's self-penned pieces (a current song like "Twice Around the Sun" with an incredible lonnnnnggggggg sustained Fernandes Guitar!)...very, VERY accomplished he is--an incredible under-rated musician and composer.


Oh...and I definitely agree about Lowell George and those "Feat"! The live solo on Time Loves a Hero is awesome!

it´s a song from the outlaws text is green gras forever maybe you know right title
this song takes me far endless guitarsolo :smoke:

Robert Fripp's demonic opus on Eno's Baby's On Fire from Here Come the Warm Jets. It still scares the living daylights out of me.

I also want to mention a beautiful bass solo by, I assume, Bill MacCormick (he's the credited bass player on the album) on a song called Rongwrong that you will find on Quiet Sun's Mainstream album. Quiet Sun was a one of project of Phil Manzanera's and Eno's. I think most of the personell also appeared on the 801 Live record on which a reworked version of Rongwrong also appears.

...and in a similar vein...there are MANY incredible solos by Allan Holdsworth on the Gong album "Gaseuze" (Europe title) AKA "Expresso" (USA Version) not to mention bass and percussion, this album seriously COOKS!

I also agree with the Robert Fripp comment above..saw him (with King Crimson) a few times over the years and had a chance once to sit in the front row at a concert in Syracuse, NY (Landmark Theatre--great Egyptian Revival building)...a true technical wizard on that axe, complete with Frippertronics (and tape loops!). There's also some pretty "scary" stuff on his album "Exposure" like "NY3"

A couple of names I haven't seen mentioned:

Robbie Robertson/The Band. Song: Unfaithful Servant, album: Rock Of Ages.
Billy Gibbons/ZZ Top. Song: Blue Jean Blues, album:Fandango.
Andy Powell/Wishbone Ash. Song: Throw Down The Sword, album: Live Dates.

And Roy Buchanan was the grandaddy of 'em all...

it´s a song from the outlaws text is green gras forever maybe you know right title
this song takes me far endless guitarsolo :smoke:

That'd be "Green Grass & High Tides"
Start your weekend w/that one, you're good to go ALL weekend! :banana:

The theme song from the television show "The Rockford Files" rules!

The mentioned solos are great.

Just wanted to give John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service a nod.

John Cipollina (and Gary Duncan) are awesome on Happy Trails album.


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I like that you included Reelin in the Years in there. It is an amazing solo. All the early Dan stuff had great guitar work. My personal fav is Botishatva.

The mentioned solos are great.

Just wanted to give John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service a nod.

John Cipollina (and Gary Duncan) are awesome on Happy Trails album.


:music: Too young? Or too Old, to remember? Have another hit!

CSN&Y "Long Time Comin' " and "Southern Man" from the "4 Way Street" live album...two songs...26 minutes of guitar solos!

The theme song from the television show "The Rockford Files" rules!


That theme was done by Mike post...and the guitar solo was by the great Larry Carlton !....


No foolin'!.. :thmbsp:

Well ok I'll bite-
1. Mick Taylor-Rolling Stones "Sympathy for the Devil" Live on 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out'
Keith plays a wicked middle solo-then Taylor stomps him into the ground 'til the end of the song
2. Ritchie Blackmore-Deep Purple "Wasted Sunsets" off 'Perfect Strangers' still makes my fur stand up
3. Whoever played the "Barney Miller" theme song.
4. Angus Young-AC/DC "Let Me Put My Love Into You" off 'Back in Black' A lovely sentiment and a man using his entire left side to coax vibrato out of an SG.
5. Ron Wood-Faces 'A Nod is As Good As A Wink' The whole damn album. All of it.
6. Dave Sharp-The Alarm "Black Sun" off 'Change' A man in pain takes it out on an innocent Telecaster.
7. Keith Richards-Rolling Stones "Bitch" off 'Sticky Fingers' Simple, Chuck Berry-style smorgasbord. Go, Keith. Yeah, baby.
8. Jimmy Page-Led Zep "The Rover" off 'Physical Graffitti' The whole song.
9. Eric Clapton-Cream "Badge" off 'Goodbye' just perfect.
10. George Harrison-Beatles "Hey Bulldog" off 'Yellow Submarine' A shamefully underplayed track 'cause it probably sounds like shit on car radio.

Dan

top ten HARD ROCK/ HEAVEY METAL lead guitar solos of all time? 8) "Reelin in the Years" solo by Steely Dan

But WHO in Steely Dan was responsible for the solo? :scratch2:

Jeff

But WHO in Steely Dan was responsible for the solo? :scratch2:

Jeff


That would be Walter Becker.


And now my nominee for great solos...most anything David Gilmour does, but especially "Comfortably Numb."

Also, Mark Knopfler "Telegraph Road."

Anyone old enough to remember the incredible closing riff on Dave Mason's Alone Together album(the infamous vomit vinyl)? Credited to Mason but many believe it was actually Clapton. Similar enough to the After Midnight solo to raise suspicion.

Without a doubt...

Harry Chapin - Six String Orchestra

close 2nd:

Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show - Cover of the Rolling Stone

That would be Walter Becker.


OK. I thought it was Elliott Randall...
Are you SURE it was Walter Becker??? :scratch2:

Jeff

OK. I thought it was Elliott Randall...
Are you SURE it was Walter Becker??? :scratch2:

Jeff

Actually, I believe it was Elliott Randall who did the guitar work on this.

You are correct sir! According to Wiki,

"...Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)
Produced by Katz and recorded by Roger (The Immortal) Nichols at The Village Recorder, their debut album, Can't Buy A Thrill, was released in 1972 and made an immediate impression with the hit singles "Do It Again", the Palmer-sung "Dirty Work" (later covered by Max Merritt), and "Reelin' In The Years." Both "Do It Again" and "Reelin' In The Years" hit the Top Ten on the Billboard singles chart. All three tunes soon became staples of FM radio. "Reelin' In The Years" also features what many consider to be one of rock's all-time great guitar solos (performed by Elliott Randall)..."

Actually, I believe it was Elliott Randall who did the guitar work on this.

Amazing how quickly our beliefs can change, isn't it (LOL)? :D

Jeff