The Alabama Wildman is one of my alltime fav's too...I guess he's still going out and pickin' up a storm at 70 years old!!
My favorite is \"East Bound and Down.\"...but I drive a Big Pete too.... Com' own brang it. hehehe
Cool.....Manitou. Nice tarp. I love most types of music as long as it requires skill..talent or creativity and it is nice to know some others like what I do.
East Bound and Down is great..along with KO Ko Joe..When You're Hot You're Hot..Amos Moses... The Claw...so many good ones. I can't but be happy when listening to Jerry reed.
Yes it is Greek...the bouzuki. I used to work in a Greek place way back and the owner used to plsy all these videos and tapes of bouzuki players.
It is kinda like a mandolin.
Very well rounded bunch! As for the Rush guys - I'm a Rush freak and have to say I love the solo on \"Working Man\". You can hear so much growth from that solo up to \"Limelight\", it's like 2 different guitarists. Back when I was about 20 I went through this Rush phaze and it's all I listened to for about 8 months straight.
I also love the Tony Iomi stuff, a chapter all in itself. The first time you hear \"Paranoid\" or \"War Pigs\" you want to find out more.
You guys listed all the greatest players, some, maybe even a lot I never heard of.
All the posts here gave me a lot of good stuff to go check out and learn from.
bababoey - I love that solo, the way the sections run into each other and the use of a wah, delay and reverb is outstanding not to mention the tone is brilliant.
One solo that always catches my attention EVERY time I hear it is the solo Dimebag laid down in The Sleep off of Cowboys From Hell. Sooo much emotion in that solo....it just fits the song perfectly. I can't stand solos that break the feeling of the song.....
1. Surfing with the Alien-Joe Satriani (we're not worthy)
2. Cliffs of Dover- Eric Johnson
3. Too many great Van Halen solos to choose from
4. Clapton stuff, Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Vai
Yeah EVH wow... Since I've picked guitar back up I've been rediscovering all the music I used to listen to and Eddie while not really any type of influence on my playing style, always blows me away.
Holy schnitzel I just listened to \"Mean Street\" for the first time in I don't know how many years and just wow.... And \"Dirty Movies\" man that guy is so top shelf it's insane.
Hey guys,
First of all I think that Vai and Petrucci are pretty much in a league of their own and just about anything either of them do is just gold. But other than them, I really love Paul Gilbert - \"Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy\" and in \"Green Tinted Sixties Mind\" he finishes the second phrase of that solo by bending up to an E I think while hitting the crybaby - very tasty just the tone and placement of that one note kills me every time. Also someone who doesn't get talked about much anymore - Alex Skolnick from Testament. Not my favorite band in the world but man can he put together a killer solo. \"Electric Crown\" really fluid, melodic and just gets you moving. But one of my favorite solos of all time would have to be \"Souls of Black\". Killer technique, shreds where he needs to but most of all the melody is just awesome.
I should be tarred and feathered for neglecting Randy...
Anything from Ozzy's first two albums is pretty much where it's at for me. In fact I just got those two albums today. I haven't listened to them for probably fifteen years and guess what the tone I'm dialing in for myself on the GNX sounds like? Yup. Very close to Randy's sound when it's not effected with the flanger or phaser whatever it was that he used. I'll have to look that up. But I've got this really biting mid range in my \"mysound\" preset. I couldn't be more proud of myself
I couldn't agree more, how the hell did we not mention Randy. Have any of you guys ever heard the early Quiet Riot stuff? Some of it was a bit raw, but you definitely know that it's Randy - tone, licks everything.
There's a KILLER little pretty solo by Robbie Blount on Robert Plant's \"Like I've Never Been Gone\", that never fails to prick my ears up; and the hot little riffs that Howe does in \"Yours Is No Disgrace\" always wets my panties... :oops:
I'm mostly familiar with Randy's pre-Ozzy endeavors from the Quiet Riot Years album. Laughing Gas (which contains fragments of what you hear in the live Suicide Solution solo), Trouble, It's Not So Funny - all great solos. Randy was an innovator and a genious beyond compare, and I wish he had really gotten more of a chance in his lifetime, or even after.
His stuff is kinda like Ritchie Blackmore - I cannot name what was best, even given limited material from which to choose. He was a revolutionary, and that is what should go down in history - not any particular one solo that he played on record.
That said, I would add Smoke On The Water solo to my list, solely for composition if nothing else.
One of my favourite soloists is CC DeVille from the band Poison. Not so much for impressive techniques , but making a great song even greater with his 10 or 20 seconds of guitar work. A few of my favs being:
Something to Believe In
I Won't Forget You
Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Joe Perry of Aerosmith was pretty good in the mid 80's early 90's
Dude Looks like a Lady
Angel
What it Takes
Janie's Got a Gun
Vito Bratta:
Little Fighter
Wait
Cinderella Don't know What you Got Till It's Gone
George Lynch of Dokken:
Unchain the Night
The Hunter
Unchain the Night.
Don't Lie to Me
Satch Always with me
Megadeth Holy Wars
Ratt - Round and Round
Scorpions - No One Like You
Triumph - World of Fantasy
Fight the Good Fight
Skid Row - 18 and Life
Judas Priest- Locked In
David Lee Roth - Ladies Night in Buffalo
Big Trouble
SRV - Texas Flood
Little Wing
Randy Rhoads - Goodbye to Romance
Mr Crowley
Flying High Again
Jake E Lee -Bark at the Moon
Centre of Eternity
Rock and Roll Rebel
Slow Down
Secret Loser
Lightning Strikes
Killer of Giants
Vivian Cambell - Holy Diver
Don't Talk to Strangers
Invisible
Van Halen
Secrets
Panama
Jump
I'll Wait
When It's Love
I couldn't agree more, how the hell did we not mention Randy. Have any of you guys ever heard the early Quiet Riot stuff? Some of it was a bit raw, but you definitely know that it's Randy - tone, licks everything.
I remember Trouble, and the Laughing Gas extended guitar solo parts of which he used all the time during unaccompanied guitar spots with Ozzy.
I couldn't agree more, how the hell did we not mention Randy. Have any of you guys ever heard the early Quiet Riot stuff? Some of it was a bit raw, but you definitely know that it's Randy - tone, licks everything.
I used to have them on cassette along with a bootlegged live set but alas those are long gone....
off the top of my head I say some of my favorites are
Steve Vai-Lotus Feet, For the Love of God, Building the Church
Marty Friedman-Tornado of Souls, High Speed Dirt, A Tout le Monde
Dave Mustaine-Holy Wars, Mechanix, Sweating Bulletts
Satch-Surfing with the Alien, Circles
John Petrucci-Learning to Live, Voices, A Change of Seasons, Spirit Carries On
Joe Walsh-Hotel California
Dimebag-Cowboys from Hell
Crikey. I knew five was far too little. I'm rockin out with Neal Giraldo right now... What an under rated axe slinger.
Heartbreaker
Hit me With Your Best Shot
Hell is for Children
Treat me Right
You Better Run
Fire and Ice Promises in the Dark Precious Time
These go down in my book as some of the finest guitar work ever recorded. I remember sitting in my bedroom picking apart Precious Time and just never getting it right... lol But then I could turn around and play Black Star almost to the \"T\" go figure.
I have a friend who is a high up in SoCal says someone else did the solo writing for Slash on Appetite and he just played them...
I'd love to hear a very much earlier bootleg of them to be able to judge for myself.
I have to mention Toni Iommi. Come on, the guy has plastic fingertips!!!
It's amazing what he has been able to do on guitar both physically and mentally after such an injury to the fingertips of his fret hand.
Comfortably Numb
Voodo child
almost anything from Satch
Fade to Black
Heaven and Hell
Comments
That sounds Greek to me Professor Zoo...
The Alabama Wildman is one of my alltime fav's too...I guess he's still going out and pickin' up a storm at 70 years old!!
My favorite is \"East Bound and Down.\"...but I drive a Big Pete too.... Com' own brang it. hehehe
East Bound and Down is great..along with KO Ko Joe..When You're Hot You're Hot..Amos Moses... The Claw...so many good ones. I can't but be happy when listening to Jerry reed.
Yes it is Greek...the bouzuki. I used to work in a Greek place way back and the owner used to plsy all these videos and tapes of bouzuki players.
It is kinda like a mandolin.
I also love the Tony Iomi stuff, a chapter all in itself. The first time you hear \"Paranoid\" or \"War Pigs\" you want to find out more.
You guys listed all the greatest players, some, maybe even a lot I never heard of.
All the posts here gave me a lot of good stuff to go check out and learn from.
You guys are awesome! Thanks for posting.
Like ODannyBoy says \"RAWKON\"
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Ritchie Blackmore, Blackmore's Night, \"Faerie Queen.\" 8)
Jimi Hendrix..... All along the watchtower.
I love the way each solo is a continuation of the previous solo. Plus Jimi really put his heart and soul into those solo's
1. Surfing with the Alien-Joe Satriani (we're not worthy)
2. Cliffs of Dover- Eric Johnson
3. Too many great Van Halen solos to choose from
4. Clapton stuff, Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Vai
Holy schnitzel I just listened to \"Mean Street\" for the first time in I don't know how many years and just wow.... And \"Dirty Movies\" man that guy is so top shelf it's insane.
First of all I think that Vai and Petrucci are pretty much in a league of their own and just about anything either of them do is just gold. But other than them, I really love Paul Gilbert - \"Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy\" and in \"Green Tinted Sixties Mind\" he finishes the second phrase of that solo by bending up to an E I think while hitting the crybaby - very tasty just the tone and placement of that one note kills me every time. Also someone who doesn't get talked about much anymore - Alex Skolnick from Testament. Not my favorite band in the world but man can he put together a killer solo. \"Electric Crown\" really fluid, melodic and just gets you moving. But one of my favorite solos of all time would have to be \"Souls of Black\". Killer technique, shreds where he needs to but most of all the melody is just awesome.
Greg Howe - Direct Injection (the actual guitar solo)
Metallica - Unforgiven 1
Anything from Ozzy's first two albums is pretty much where it's at for me. In fact I just got those two albums today. I haven't listened to them for probably fifteen years and guess what the tone I'm dialing in for myself on the GNX sounds like? Yup. Very close to Randy's sound when it's not effected with the flanger or phaser whatever it was that he used. I'll have to look that up. But I've got this really biting mid range in my \"mysound\" preset. I couldn't be more proud of myself
His stuff is kinda like Ritchie Blackmore - I cannot name what was best, even given limited material from which to choose. He was a revolutionary, and that is what should go down in history - not any particular one solo that he played on record.
That said, I would add Smoke On The Water solo to my list, solely for composition if nothing else.
Something to Believe In
I Won't Forget You
Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Joe Perry of Aerosmith was pretty good in the mid 80's early 90's
Dude Looks like a Lady
Angel
What it Takes
Janie's Got a Gun
Vito Bratta:
Little Fighter
Wait
Cinderella Don't know What you Got Till It's Gone
George Lynch of Dokken:
Unchain the Night
The Hunter
Unchain the Night.
Don't Lie to Me
Satch Always with me
Megadeth Holy Wars
Ratt - Round and Round
Scorpions - No One Like You
Triumph - World of Fantasy
Fight the Good Fight
Skid Row - 18 and Life
Judas Priest- Locked In
David Lee Roth - Ladies Night in Buffalo
Big Trouble
SRV - Texas Flood
Little Wing
Randy Rhoads - Goodbye to Romance
Mr Crowley
Flying High Again
Jake E Lee -Bark at the Moon
Centre of Eternity
Rock and Roll Rebel
Slow Down
Secret Loser
Lightning Strikes
Killer of Giants
Vivian Cambell - Holy Diver
Don't Talk to Strangers
Invisible
Van Halen
Secrets
Panama
Jump
I'll Wait
When It's Love
Journey - Seperate Ways
Kiss - Who Wants to be Lonely
Tears are Falling
Krokus - Screaming in the Night
Heart- Magic Man
What about Love
Alone
Jimi Hendrix - All ALong the Watchtower
I used to have them on cassette along with a bootlegged live set but alas those are long gone....
Steve Vai-Lotus Feet, For the Love of God, Building the Church
Marty Friedman-Tornado of Souls, High Speed Dirt, A Tout le Monde
Dave Mustaine-Holy Wars, Mechanix, Sweating Bulletts
Satch-Surfing with the Alien, Circles
John Petrucci-Learning to Live, Voices, A Change of Seasons, Spirit Carries On
Joe Walsh-Hotel California
Dimebag-Cowboys from Hell
\"Field of Fire\"-Richard Lloyd
\"Time\"-Pink Floyd
\"Freeway Jam\"-Jeff Beck
\"Echo\"-Satch
Heartbreaker
Hit me With Your Best Shot
Hell is for Children
Treat me Right
You Better Run
Fire and Ice
Promises in the Dark
Precious Time
These go down in my book as some of the finest guitar work ever recorded. I remember sitting in my bedroom picking apart Precious Time and just never getting it right... lol But then I could turn around and play Black Star almost to the \"T\" go figure.
Zakk Wylde - No More Tears (Ozzy)
He has some of the most tasty solos goin IMHO
I'd love to hear a very much earlier bootleg of them to be able to judge for myself.
It's amazing what he has been able to do on guitar both physically and mentally after such an injury to the fingertips of his fret hand.
Comfortably Numb
Voodo child
almost anything from Satch
Fade to Black
Heaven and Hell
Anything I heard these cats do I thought was fabulous. 8) .
Tal Farlow..
http://homepages.tesco.net/~guylj/TalFarlow/Index.htm
Wes Montgomery
http://www.anthonymontgomery.com/wes_m.htm
Johnny Smith
http://csindy.com/csindy/2001-03-15/cover.html
Jimmy Bruno.
http://www.jimmybruno.com/
Chet Atkins
http://www.misterguitar.com/
I'd like to say this song is the best or this one, but anything those cats did just blew me away..
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