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2ControversialIGo t1_j6ld91t wrote

Cult Of Personality, Vernon Reid

Since I've Been Loving You, Jimmy Page

That dude Robbie Blunt on Big Log by Robert Plant

Life Without You, Stevie Ray Vaughan on the In Step album. This is why he's the 3rd greatest guitarist ever. Also he did the solo for Bowie's China Girl.

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KolhiiHead69 t1_j6le009 wrote

Stairway To Heaven is the greatest guitar solo of all time.

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2ControversialIGo t1_j6leqz2 wrote

Also, the intro to Hotel California on the Hell Freezes Over album by Eagles.

Some Lindsey Buckingham stuff is in the mix

Dimes solo on Mouth For War is wild, but the one on Domination? Its crazy. Got to watch him do it from about 6' away and the shit was so hard that when he pulled it off note for note he looked like he won the Super bowl. Geeked beyond all reason, the dudes smile was unstoppable

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six6sixer t1_j6lffk5 wrote

Prince - 2004, plays "while my guitar gently weeps" George Harrison Rock & Roll Induction ceremony

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Tobias_flenderz t1_j6lfg89 wrote

Stevie Ray Vaughn's cover of Jimi Hendrix - "Little Wing" is up there for me. Smooth, takes a theme and just keeps lifting it up to new levels as the song goes. Very pretty.

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midwesteno t1_j6lfzcg wrote

Maybe not "best" but One by Metallica always comes to mind, and the music video makes it more intense

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2ControversialIGo t1_j6lgdlc wrote

DONT COME BACK TO SAC. What we knew is dead and gone.

Downtown looks like the worst parts of Oakland, the BA trash moved up here. We now have scams at gas stations, open air drug dealing, homeless camps blocks long, lunatics in the streets and murder galore.

I'm trying to get the hell out and up to Eureka

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Ihadsumthin4this t1_j6lgo7o wrote

I'm a bit partial to the version as we hear in the Zeppelin movie. As far as that song. Well, and a couple others, too.

Jeez. Don't let me start on Page and Richards and their ilk. I'm such a blues purist, it's annoying even to me. For sake of decorum (read: love of humanity / common decency) I'll spare everyone before this becomes me pontificating in essays of opinion.

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AllTheZoltans t1_j6lgvsf wrote

Lenny Kravitz - Again. Perfect solo for the song, very memorable

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CoolArt589 t1_j6lhvdx wrote

I find Paul Gilbert’s Boku No Atama quite nice.

Also, valley of eternity by Cacophony and Tsunami by Marty Friedman are favorites for me

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Least_Cabinet5936 t1_j6lj0y4 wrote

The solo on mother by Pink Floyd, though not incredibly technical, has that feeling that just gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

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bop999 t1_j6lj1l5 wrote

Alex Lifeson - La Villa Strangiato (exit stage left version)

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HesterFlareStar t1_j6lle2p wrote

The Faceless - Deconsecrate

Periphery - Mile Zero

Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good

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Nizamark t1_j6lnt3j wrote

Gumbo Variations by Frank Zappa

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gldmj5 t1_j6lo4y0 wrote

I don't know about best, but I've always really enjoyed Elliot Easton guitar solos. Same with Neil Giraldo. Just really interesting stuff happening in there to pick apart.

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Ihadsumthin4this t1_j6loxg5 wrote

Prince was so good it was ridiculous. The kind of beyond where decades later, you can find room and play in what he was trying to get across -- as it hits you after repeat listens, or not necessarily looking for it, whether in his guitar phrasing or keyboard arrangements. And vocally, he presented avenues and platforms which gave so many of his influences their justice and due.

Thanks for the reminder on the Gap Band, as well. Man, you weren't kidding: Early In The Morning has the kind of inescapable infectious grip that's like a good massage -- like the Isleys' unbeatable smoothness you can't help but savor. Early/Morning from now on will find regular replays happening here on my system.

One of my longtime Isleys pets (among others) is Livin' In The Life.

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Ihadsumthin4this t1_j6lq3s8 wrote

> Lindsey Buckingham

For goosebumps on your skin and chills to your marrow, get comfy and pull up the version found on The Dance (1998? / 2000?) DVD of "I'm So Afraid".

While abso-to-the-lutely, the other 4 members of the band are flawless in the gifts they provide, Lindsey just shuts the world down and shows us all what it means to experience and display being human.

Enjoy!

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CaptainKrc t1_j6lqwqv wrote

The entire Blow By Blow album by Jeff Beck

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gjgun t1_j6m1skv wrote

Best live solo is all I can contribute. Frank Zappa ‘The Muffin Man’

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Freddy_Rican_11-3 t1_j6m9h6e wrote

David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, “Comfortably Numb” live version “Pulse”.

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Asleep-Camp1686 t1_j6msreb wrote

Not exactly "solos" but Little Wing by Hendrix or Eruption by Van Halen are really masterpieces of the solo electric guitar.

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Desecrator92 t1_j6mt1in wrote

Any Judas Priest solo,really(Except last 2 albums)

Mercyful Fate is only one came close

One Shot At Glory,Beyond The Realms of Death,Hellrider,Judas Rising,throw a dart.

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andywtr t1_j6muitx wrote

Hiram Bullock's solo on Sting's version of Little Wing.

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WorldsWeakestMan t1_j6mxeq6 wrote

Sweet Child O’ Mine, I’ll hear no arguments, have a nice day.

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Iwillnotbeokay t1_j6n2644 wrote

Master Of Puppets - Metallica

Holy Wars… Megadeth

Almost Easy - Avenged Sevenfold

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VrinTheTerrible t1_j6n4ot0 wrote

I know it’s not the guitar but I feel like some love needs to be given to the fiddle solo in The Devil Went Down To Georgia.

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666ygolonhcet t1_j6nqsbi wrote

My SHARONNA by the Knack. 2 1/2 minutes of Chuck Berry licks on hyper speed. No Eddie Van Halen tricks, just blues rock soloing that takes the song to a higher plain.

Don’t scoff. Go to YouTube and listen. Don’t play the radio edit where they cut the solo in 1/2.

Our vinyl had a mark where the solo started from me moving the needle back there over and over.

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