For me it's two solos:
Pantera's "Floods" Dimebag Darrel-
This solos just flows so well with the song and it's more like an emotional release. It has everything too. It starts with a great classical-inspired progression and crescendos into a southern flavoured frenzy of pedal steelesque smear licks a' la "Freebird".
R.E.O. Speedwagon "Sing To Me"
This solo to me is nothing but emotion, it hits hard, yet it glides through the song effortlessly. Following the standard bluegrass blueprint the solo ultimately reiterates the vocal. I think what I like most about it is if you listen closely you can almost hear the amount of effort the guitar player is giving to the song.
Favorite guitar solos
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Luke The Unbeliever
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Brian: Who cured you?
Ex-Leper: Jesus did, sir. I was hopping along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave! "You're cured, mate." Bloody do-gooder.
Brian: Well, why don't you go and tell him you want to be a leper again?
Ex-Leper: Uh, I could do that sir, yeah. Yeah, I could do that I suppose. What I was thinking was I was going to ask him if he could make me a bit lame in one leg during the middle of the week. You know, something beggable, but not leprosy, which is a pain in the @$$ to be blunt and excuse my French, sir.
Ex-Leper: Jesus did, sir. I was hopping along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave! "You're cured, mate." Bloody do-gooder.
Brian: Well, why don't you go and tell him you want to be a leper again?
Ex-Leper: Uh, I could do that sir, yeah. Yeah, I could do that I suppose. What I was thinking was I was going to ask him if he could make me a bit lame in one leg during the middle of the week. You know, something beggable, but not leprosy, which is a pain in the @$$ to be blunt and excuse my French, sir.
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Spiral Jacobs
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My favourite guitarists are (and have always been):
Ritchie Blackmore
Brian May
Alex Lifeson
However, one of my (currently) very favourite solos isn't by any of them. Has anyone here ever heard of the Hughes Turner Project? It's a collaboration of Glenn Hughes and Joe Lynn Turner and is absolutely amazing. On one of the songs, called Heaven's Missing An Angel, there's a guest guitar solo by John Sykes, which is friggin great. Why? It's a love song and he comes in and lets that guitar wail and because of all the extra noise he makes it sounds like it's screaming and crying and it just fits the song so well. Damn I'm gonna listen to that song right now!
Ritchie Blackmore
Brian May
Alex Lifeson
However, one of my (currently) very favourite solos isn't by any of them. Has anyone here ever heard of the Hughes Turner Project? It's a collaboration of Glenn Hughes and Joe Lynn Turner and is absolutely amazing. On one of the songs, called Heaven's Missing An Angel, there's a guest guitar solo by John Sykes, which is friggin great. Why? It's a love song and he comes in and lets that guitar wail and because of all the extra noise he makes it sounds like it's screaming and crying and it just fits the song so well. Damn I'm gonna listen to that song right now!
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Mortice Root
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Hey Spiral Jacobs-
I'm a big fan of both Lifeson and May myself. I don't know that I could come up with a favortie Lifeson solo off the top of my head, but I do have one for Brian May, even though it kinda comes out of left field. I love May's solo on "Dancer" from Hot Space. It's odd, cause that's certainly my least favorite Queen album - generally too dance oriented for me. And, I usually like the live-feeling guitar solos as opposed to obvious studio constructs. But..... the "Dancer" solo is just sooooo cool!
Do you have favs by May or Lifeson?
I'm a big fan of both Lifeson and May myself. I don't know that I could come up with a favortie Lifeson solo off the top of my head, but I do have one for Brian May, even though it kinda comes out of left field. I love May's solo on "Dancer" from Hot Space. It's odd, cause that's certainly my least favorite Queen album - generally too dance oriented for me. And, I usually like the live-feeling guitar solos as opposed to obvious studio constructs. But..... the "Dancer" solo is just sooooo cool!
Do you have favs by May or Lifeson?
Sykes is sick. I've been meaning to pick up the Hughes Turner Project album. Now I have no excuse.
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None that I can mention just like that. It's more that I like their general playing style and what they add to the music. Brian May for example, how he manages to play a whole jazz band with multi-layered guitars. Sure it's a studio product, but the sheer musical skill and daring! Mr. May is the master of so many styles it's unbelievable.Mortice Root wrote:Hey Spiral Jacobs-
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Do you have favs by May or Lifeson?
Alex Lifeson always has the most amazing chord progressions and simply the way he plays things is unequaled. Those lovely chords with open strings, fantastic. His solos are quite inventive and although they sometimes sound a bit chaotic they're still carefully crafted.
Cail: get the albums (there's two), and fast. You won't regret it. A few years ago H&T toured in Europe but only in the Eastern part for some reason. So a friend and I decided to drive to Czech (nine hour drive) to see their show. We were terribly lucky: Joe Lynn Turner wasn't feeling well but he sang anyway, and the show the next night was apparently canceled. It was cool, we had backstage passes and everything, and my friend went along when the people from the venue went to get Hughes and Turner up from the hotel.