Favorite guitar solo?
- Thread starter steelcurtain55.
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I can appreciate weird
He was so smacked out it was just noise and weird wailing
This is an impossible question . There are a ton of guitarists out there with which we can choose from . My favorites ? Too many to choose from .
The best ? We could debate that forever . Anyhow . This one is pretty God damned good .
The best ? We could debate that forever . Anyhow . This one is pretty God damned good .
So tough, again personal favs so I actually lean towards the artist and not the individual song.
Hendrix - Voodoo Child, my favorite song of his purely for the guitar
Iommi - Anything from the riff master
Knopfler - Sultans is the standard for a picker
Rhoads - Crazy Trainor any other
Slash - He was very good, hard to pick one
Honorable mention
Hammett
Page
Morello
Eddie V
Chuck Berry
Hendrix - Voodoo Child, my favorite song of his purely for the guitar
Iommi - Anything from the riff master
Knopfler - Sultans is the standard for a picker
Rhoads - Crazy Trainor any other
Slash - He was very good, hard to pick one
Honorable mention
Hammett
Page
Morello
Eddie V
Chuck Berry
Love Out There, my fav J Mascis song of them all.
I’m a bass player, so I tend to listen for the bass, and they didn’t come any better than John Entwistle from The Who.
OK. Is this too pedestrian? Nonetheless, I really love this song and the guitar conveys the emotion pretty well.
Great. And you can start a thread regarding bass players and bass riffs. Which would be cool. I just don't get the inability of people to be disciplined enough to stay on topic.
I’m curious-What were his examples of “showboaters””? Because many guitarists who were “great” players from a technical standpoint weren’t capable of performing the kinds of improvised solo riffs that some of the guitarists who are universally considered to be the greatest of all time are known for.
I did that just to give you high blood pressure.
You’re wired kinda tight.
He didn’t like Gary Moore. I did.
There was a video where Moore did a duet with an old, black blues man.
Jim thought Moore tried to show him up and went over the top. Jim thought Moore was always trying “too hard”.
Moore was his example of what he was talking about. He said there were others but we never got heavy into it.
I always told him the Beatles killed music, Thank God disco arrived to save it. Joking of course.
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Whoever started this thread is responsible for distracting me from my work. I started listening to 70's music again and then I found myself bouncing around to this song.
I've been trying to stay away from this thread, because I knew I'd start spending too much time listening to everything I could think of as well as a lot of things that were suggested.
I could listen to slide or bottleneck playing alone for several hours.
I just googled. Was Jim Gordon. Was told the Moon worked in studio. I stand corrected. Sorry.....
“Boris the Spider” with a bass lead....vintage Entwhistle....
In fairness, the thread is labeled Favorite guitar solo. The bass is a guitar, and some bassists had solos. Metallica fans know Cliff had a solo called Anesthesia. Check this out, Cliff's version and then a rendition done by a string bassist from the San Francisco Symphony.
You know Jim?
he was always badmouthing Joe Grushecky. ( in a kidding type of way)
I think Joe was his teen rival?
We were together 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for 7 years.
Bass is like guitar, only better. 😃
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The truth is he now has less money and still only the ability to play one guitar at a time,
My thoughts exactly. Not a Journey fan at all, but the outro's on Who's Crying Now and Stone in Love are some of the best ever. Stone in Love also works in the best bass riff during that same outro. As I said, I'm not that big on Journey but those two songs rank up there as some of the best from the 80's (both on the Escape album)
Interesting list but I can't really say "eruption" is under-rated at all. One of the most classic solos of all time and always referenced that way.
And with all the old guys hanging around the board I'm surprised not more love given to EddieVan Halen on this thread.
