10 Favorite Guitar Solos

[pale rider]

I don't think I've seen this on the board before!!!!!

1) Theme From an Imaginary Western; Mountain
2) Stairway to Heaven; Led Zeppelin
3) Comfortably Numb; Pink Floyd
4) Highway Star; Deep Purple
5) Child in Time; Deep Purple
6) Achilles Last Stand; Led Zeppelin
7) Stranglehold; Ted Nugent
8) All Along The Watchtower; Jimi Hendrix
9) Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers; ZZ Top
10) Hocus Pocus; Focus


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In love is pain, it can devour you,but you are never alone

[Dawnie_Rock]

Originally posted by pale rider

10) Hocus Pocus; Focus


OK, when I was really little, my 2 brothers used to scare the crap out of me by shutting off all the lights in the house, and BLASTING this song!!

This song STILL freaks me out!!

[pale rider]

I'm sorry Dawn ; If I would have known it brought back bad memories I would 'nt have put it on my list. It might be scary but it still has some great guitar work on it!!!!






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In love is pain, it can devour you, but you are never alone

[Dawnie_Rock]

Originally posted by pale rider
I'm sorry Dawn ; If I would have known it brought back bad memories I would 'nt have put it on my list. It might be scary but it still has some great guitar work on it!!!!

It's OK, Pale Rider..I'll be strong....

You know the whistling part?? They used to tell me it was the ghost of Fred Mertz, coming to get me!!

It's hard to believe I grew up normal with those 2 around!!

[Hugh_Bond]

Originally posted by Dawnie_Rock
It's hard to believe I grew up normal with those 2 around!!

Normal???

[Doorman]

Originally posted by Dawnie_Rock

It's OK, Pale Rider..I'll be strong....

You know the whistling part?? They used to tell me it was the ghost of Fred Mertz, coming to get me!!

It's hard to believe I grew up normal with those 2 around!! Says YOU!!!

[Doorman]

Gotta love Eddie on "Hear About It Later" or "Girl Gone Bad"

[Doorman]

Now go listen to the solo on VH's version of "Dancin' In The Streets" on Diver Down, then his solo on "Beat It".

[chinarain62]

Originally posted by Dawnie_Rock

It's OK, Pale Rider..I'll be strong....

You know the whistling part?? They used to tell me it was the ghost of Fred Mertz, coming to get me!!

It's hard to believe I grew up normal with those 2 around!!


You grew up normal???

The ghost of Fred Mertz??? LMAO!:D :D :D

[Hugh_Bond]

"Where Do You Come From" - Dave Davies
"Money" - David Gilmour
"Celluloid Heroes"(One for the Road) - Dave Davies
"Little Wing" - Stevie Ray Vaughan
"I'm Not Like Everybody Else"(To the Bone) - Dave Davies
"Bless My Soul It's Rock and Roll" - Mark McEntee
"Till The End of the Day"(Riviera Theater, Chicago, 1987 bootleg) - Dave Davies
"Take Your Fingers From My Hair"(Zebra Live) - Randy Jackson
"I Can't Quit You Baby"(Coda) - Jimmy Page
"Juke Box Music" - Dave Davies

That's 10 and I'm not even half done!

[Hugh_Bond]

"All Day and All of the Night" - Dave Davies
"Till the End of the Day"(The Kink Kontroversy) - Dave Davies
"Here Comes Yet Another Day"(The Kinks Live at the BBC) - Dave Davies

Okay, you guys have had enough... ;)

[GuitarPLYR]

Originally posted by Doorman
Gotta love Eddie on "Hear About It Later" or "Girl Gone Bad"
YES! YES! YES! "Hear About It Later" finally gets some recognition! I believe those two are probably Van Halen's greatest songs. Ed is king.

[Doorman]

Originally posted by GuitarPLYR

YES! YES! YES! "Hear About It Later" finally gets some recognition! I believe those two are probably Van Halen's greatest songs. Ed is king.
Well OBVIOUSLY I would agree with you "GP"!
One other one that I love is Mike Campbell on TP's
"Runnin' Down A Dream". This past tour they opened with that one. What a way to get the show goin'!!!

[NY DREAMER]

Jimi Hendrix's version of The Star Spangle Banner
Joe Satriani's Summer Song
Ted Nugent's Damn I can't remember the name of the song (burnt) it's on Cat Scratch Fever






Gimme the beat boy that frees my soul I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away...

[GuitarPLYR]

Wang Dang Sweet Poontang?

[NY DREAMER]

No thats not it. There is no words at all in it! I wish I could hum it to ya!:p

[mark]

I always liked Michael Shenker's - Capt. Nemo

[rob]

randy rhoads all over blizzard of oz

[OU812]

EVERY THING EDDIE VAN HALEN EVER DONE

[Doorman]

Originally posted by rob
randy rhoads all over blizzard of oz
Indeed Robbo !!! As well as Diary.......!

[EVHFV]

A fellow Schenker-ite!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know if I could pick 10 solos. There are too many I love for different reasons. It's just good to see someone else knows who Michael Schenker is and loves his work. It's a rare thing, like Zebra fans!!! :D

[Hugh_Bond]

Originally posted by EVHFV
A fellow Schenker-ite!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know if I could pick 10 solos. There are too many I love for different reasons. It's just good to see someone else knows who Michael Schenker is and loves his work. It's a rare thing, like Zebra fans!!! :D

Geez, how old are you? Everyone knew Schenker back in '79-'80. I love UFO!

"Lights out, lights out in London. Hold on tight until the end..."

YEAH!

[zebragirl]

anything by ERIC JOHNSON

[EVHFV]

Heh...I'll be 33 soon. Ok, I'll put it this way. Around here at least, the only people that know who Schenker is, are guitar players. And most of those that know who he is, never heard anything by him. They know he was in UFO, but that's about it. Once in awhile you can run into someone that actually heard his music, and might even have a few albums. They're missin' out, that's all I can say.

[Dawnie_Rock]

Originally posted by chinarain62
The ghost of Fred Mertz??? LMAO!:D :D :D

He's one scary dude!!

The part of the song with the whistling....
That's the part that used to freak me out!
And they would say it was Fred Mertz, coming to get me!!

[pale rider]

Originally posted by Dawnie_Rock


He's one scary dude!!

The part of the song with the whistling....
That's the part that used to freak me out!
And they would say it was Fred Mertz, coming to get me!!



The same Fred Mertz from I Love Lucy ??????????
Ethels hubbie?????????/ Scary???????????


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In love is pain, it can devour you, but you are never alone

[rob]

Originally posted by Doorman

Indeed Robbo !!! As well as Diary.......! you got it brother. hey how did you know my name? everyone from back in the day calls me robbo. i miss r.r.

[macca]

In no special order!
01)Eruption - EVH
02)Crossroads movie duel with Steve Vai & Ralph Macchio's character
03)Crossroads(Live) - Cream/Clapton
04)Smoke On The Water(Live) - Deep Purple
05)Flying High Again - Randy Rhodes
06)Take Your Fingers From My Hair(Live) Zebra(RJ)
07)Heartbreaker(Live) Zebra(RJ)
08)Ah Via Musicom - Eric Johnson
09)Jessica - Allman Brothers(****ey Betts)
10)Freebird(Live) - Lynyrd Skynyrd

[macca]

A sight correction-------For Eric Johnson's entry------Cliffs Of Dover is the main song-----Ah Via Musicom is the lead-in. Hell, the whole album cooks! Catch him live if you can.........

[Sampire]

Can't answer this one, it's harder than the top LP's and song list for me to complete!

There are at least 10 solos by each of my fave axemen alone that cannot even be compared to each other.

I will say that Randy Jackson has a couple of great solos in my list. The slower more melodic solo's as his "fast" stuff doesn't do much for me (kinda sloppy, I know I might get killed for saying that but for me it's true, especially that "fast" stuff he does live all the time, <like when the ending of Tell Me What You Want when he plays the end of the solo extremely fast, those same few notes over & over>).

When Randy and puts some emotion into it like Lullaby & Don't Walk Away it's great! The Arabian solo rocks too for a faster RJ solo, hopefully we will have a lot of that on the new CD. I never think of RJ as a guitar player first, I always associate Randy with some of the greatest songwriting instead of a guitarist.

[Sampire]

Originally posted by EVHFV
Heh...I'll be 33 soon. Ok, I'll put it this way. Around here at least, the only people that know who Schenker is,
Zebragirl is into some MSG! and she's 30

[GuitarPLYR]

Originally posted by Sampire
...The slower more melodic solo's as his "fast" stuff doesn't do much for me (kinda sloppy, I know I might get killed for saying that but for me it's true, especially that "fast" stuff he does live all the time... I never think of RJ as a guitar player first, I always associate Randy with some of the greatest songwriting instead of a guitarist.
WOW Sam, I am surprised that you think Randy is a sloppy guitar player when he plays fast. I am also partial to his slower solos but always thought he plays pretty clean when he starts shredding.

[Doorman]

Ya gotta love Nigel Tuffnel on "Big Bottom"!!!
And of course Eddie VH on "Bottoms Up"!

[LessPaull]

Johnny race baby

[zebrachikodoom]

hmmmm

the la la song- zebra
ten years gone- led zeppelin
ghost of a chance -rush
sympathy for the devil-stones
desert rose-eric johnson
dear mr fantasy- traffic
tonight the zeros-david bowie
take me for a little while- coverdale/page
nantuket sleighride-mountain
rain-candlebox

[LessPaull]

And me. me me me.

[Sampire]

Originally posted by zebrachikodoom
tonight the zeros-david bowie
That's awesome you know that tune! Everytime I mention it to someone they never what I'm talking about. Good find!

"Tonight the Zeroes will be singing for you!"

BTW -Checkout the Bowie Glass Spider MP3's from the '87 tour (both a show from Australia & Canada, one is a King Biscuit, the other is a Westwood One show) as the live version of tunes like Time & Never Let Me Down are way cool! That was the only time I ever saw Bowie, that tour @ the Superdome when I was in 10th grade!

[Sampire]

Originally posted by GuitarPLYR

WOW Sam, I am surprised that you think Randy is a sloppy guitar player when he plays fast.

I guess it's not that it's really sloppy but kinda just like a few notes on the high E over & over, that little pattern he gets into sometimes and keeps going and sometimes does the same lick in the solo for a couple of different tunes in one show sometimes. I guess it's that I like original distinct solos so that's way I like his solols in tunes like Don't Walk Away quite a lot. He's a good guitarist I guess I just don't get into the faster stuff he does.

[zebrachikodoom]

isn't that such a great album when i was about 7 or 8 i don't really remember , bowie did a glass spider show the tonight before thanks giving and i taped it .i wore that video tape out

[GuitarPLYR]

Originally posted by Sampire


I guess it's not that it's really sloppy but kinda just like a few notes on the high E over & over, that little pattern he gets into sometimes and keeps going and sometimes does the same lick in the solo for a couple of different tunes in one show sometimes. I guess it's that I like original distinct solos so that's way I like his solols in tunes like Don't Walk Away quite a lot. He's a good guitarist I guess I just don't get into the faster stuff he does.
I can agree with that, sometimes repetitive...yes, sloppy...no.
I also think that the "Don't Walk Away" solo is his best..."Lullaby" too.

[chinarain62]

Arabian Nights
Take Your Fingers
La La

[Sampire]

Originally posted by GuitarPLYR

I can agree with that, sometimes repetitive...yes, sloppy...no.
I also think that the "Don't Walk Away" solo is his best..."Lullaby" too.
Now Ronnie Snow the guy from Kenner, La. that plays on China Rain & used to be in a local band named Hagen can shred (ultra fast YJM sweep stuff) away all day... good but boring......

[LessPaull]

Randys fast solos sound very much the same.

[GuitarPLYR]

Originally posted by Sampire

Now Ronnie Snot the guy from Kenner, La. that plays on China Rain & used to be in a local band named Hagen can shred (ultra fast YJM sweep stuff) away all day... good but boring......
Do you mean Ronnie Snow?
Or did you mean Ronnie Snot?

[Doorman]

Originally posted by GuitarPLYR

Do you mean Ronnie Snow?
Or did you mean Ronnie Snot?
Snow, Snot.....one goes up the other comes out.....
Let's call the whole thing off.

[LessPaull]

Sampie we need to jam one day.

[Sampire]

Originally posted by LessPaull
Sampie we need to jam one day.

Whenever North meets up with South, all of us musician's need to be sure to arrange a jam session!

I'm going nuts trying to get all of Alex Lifeson's sounds down nonetheless learn the Rush tunes for my current gig. The guy uses like 10 different chorus sounds!

We will just jam & you can show us Southern folks some Rock N Roll guitar "the way it oughta be" & we will teach you how to play Dixie on the banjo!:)

[ZEBRAFREAK]

LETS GET TIM ON THE DRUMS

[earl]

Randy Rhodes-Suicide Solution 1981 at the Paladium

[ZEBRAFREAK]

WE'LL HAVE 2 DRUMMERS LIKE THE GRATEFUL DEAD!!!

[OU812]

BACK IN THE DAY

[ZEBRAFREAK]

THE OUTLAWS HAD 2 DRUMMERS ALSO!!!

[OU812]

YES AND I KNOW OF TWO OTHER DRUMMERS WINK WINK

[ZEBRAFREAK]

WINK AND I'LL BE THERE!!!

[OU812]

WINK MARTINDALE

[ZEBRAFREAK]

TELL HIM WHAT HE'S WON WINK!!!

[OU812]

Originally posted by ZEBRAFREAK
TELL HIM WHAT HE'S WON WINK!!! WELL JOHN YOU WON A HENRY WINKLER ACTION FIGURE.

[ZEBRAFREAK]

I WANT THE LARS ACTION FIGURE

[OU812]

LARS ACTION FIGURE YES THATS RIGHT BOYS AND GIRLS PUT HIM BEHIND A DRUM KIT AND WATCH HIM LOCK HIS HIGH HAT SO HE CAN DOUBLE BASS EVERY SONG TO DEATH

[ZEBRAFREAK]

I WISH I COULD DOUBLE BASS LIKE THAT!!!

[OU812]

EASY I DO IT EVERY DAY

[ZEBRAFREAK]

YOU DA LEFTY DRUMMER...

[OU812]

DAS LEFT RIGHT ON

[ZEBRAFREAK]

MAKE 3 RIGHTS AND A LEFT!!!

[OU812]

AND IM IN THE FRONT DOOR.

[RockinRob1970]

Y'all better be stop knocking on Randy's solos, dawgs.

That "high e" hammerons belong to "Summer's gone" and "Taking a Stance" and I like both of those songs. The others belong to the La La song (I can hear La La in the Arabian Knights Solo: anybody hear that?) What about "Better Not Call" Solo; Fast, clean, rippin', original sounding.

Zchick: Ghost of a chance is awesome song and solo.

Good metal music: Iron Maiden (new album in NOV.), Motorhead, Dio, etc.


Just a few of the things I hate about new metal music:

Dry, Dry, Dry..........Dry!
Double base and snare is the whole drum line.
Weird, guitar sounds with no emotion and.....Dry!
Alot of the singing has no emotion.
No viberance on bass guitars......Dry!
Name one newer metal band with a keyboard..........ok........waiting.....

[Doorman]

Originally posted by ZEBRAFREAK
MAKE 3 RIGHTS AND A LEFT!!!
Wait a minute..."3 rights MAKE a left!!"

[rob]

Originally posted by ZEBRAFREAK
YOU DA LEFTY DRUMMER... he da left everything