electric guitar solos

[James]

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[Bonehelm]

faves?

wes montgomery: four on six
jimi hendrix: machine gun
john mclaughlin: birds of fire
frank zappa: inca roads
jeff beck: goodbye porkpie hat
george benson: affirmation
eddie van halen: eruption
allan holdsworth: devil take the hindmost
steve vai: for the love of god

Nice list, but I personally wouldn't call it an electric guitar solo list without Megadeth's Marty Friedman doing Hanger 18 or Tornado of Souls in their Rust in Peace album.

[Black Knight]

The solos in Queen's "Killer Queen", "Sail Away, Sweet Sister" and so on. I love how the solos in songs by Queen are variations of or the same as the "main melody" sung by Freddie Mercury.

I read in some newspaper a long time ago that someone somewhere (am I not specific?  ) crowned the solo in Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" as the best ever solo in a rock song. Not something I agree with though...

[greg]

steve vai: for the love of god

yes, thank you!


my favorites, possibly
Joe Satriani: Memories
Yngwie Malmsteen: I Am a Viking
Jimi Hendrix: All Along the Watchtower

[bwv 1080]

Second Holdsworth on Devil Take the Hindmost

also

Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (slight return)
Pat Metheny - Have You Heard
John Scofield - I Brake 4 Monster Booty
Sonny Sharrock - Dick Dogs
Bill Frisell - Bill Me (w/ Sco)

[Shrunk]

Wes Montgomery: "If You Could See Me Now" from "Smokin' at the Half-Note"
Jim Hall: "Stompin' at the Savoy" from "Art Farmer Live at the Half-Note"  (Hmmm...)
Pat Martino: "Sunny"
Tom Verlaine: "Marquee Moon" by Television
Brinsley Schwartz: "Don't Get Excited" by Graham Parker & the Rumour
Richard Thompson: "Don't Renege on Our Love"
Sonny Sharrock:  "As We Used to Sing"
George Harrison: "Something"

That'll do for now.

[Szykneij]

50 Greatest Guitar Riffs in Rock n' Roll

Some no brainers, some surprises. Fun article with sound clips.

http://www.spinner.com/2011/01/13/rock-guitar-riffs/?icid=maing%7Cmain5%7Cdl2%7Csec1_lnk5%7C36220

[drogulus]

     
   
     http://www.youtube.com/v/vlmC9fitIxU

     Jeff Beck       Guitar, vocals (bleah!)

     Ron Wood     Bass

     Mick Waller   Drums? (uhh....no, listen to the kickdrum, that's Aynsley Dunbar)

     Rod Stewart  Vocals

     

[drogulus]

50 Greatest Guitar Riffs in Rock n' Roll

Some no brainers, some surprises. Fun article with sound clips.

     Good stuff, T. There's no point in disagreeing with any of them. So....I can't believe all the crap on that list!!! Who is this guy?



   

[Lethevich]

http://www.youtube.com/v/y60Mo_Nmydg

Most of the music I enjoy is pretty bad for solos, but I do I like the almost obnoxiously blunt quality of this one (the production helps).

There's a second towards the end, so it's kind of a 2 for 1 deal.

[snyprrr]

Blue Oyster Cult "The Last Days of May"
LIVE: On Your Feet, or On Your Knees,... not the studio version


Sorry, but I HAVE to call you all out. Who hear wouldn't list "Stairway to Heaven"? b-didl-lididl-ldidl-lididl-deee!!!

[jowcol]

Some of the top of my head-- betraying my blues and "jam band" roots...

Jon Abercrombie- Timeless
Sonny Sharrock- Many Mansions from Ask the Ages
Grant Green- Bedouin from Matador
John McLaughlin- Birds of Fire (and many others)
Roy Buchanan- The Messiah Will Come Again, You Are not Alone
Duane Allman-Dreams I'll Never See
Dickey Betts- In Memory of ELizabeth Reed from Live at the Fillmore East.
Jimi Hendrix- Machine Gun
Karl Precoda-- Days of Wine and Roses (Dream Syndicate)
Josh Homme- 50,000 Mile Trip from Kyuss, Blues for a Red Sun
Eric Clapton  Have you Heard (from the Mayall Beano Album- a lot of his later stuff doesn't thrill me)
Buddy Guy- Blues at My Baby's House, One Room Country Shack
Otis Rush- You're Breaking My Heart (from Live in Europe)
Magic Sam- Mole's Blues
Luther Allison-Bad Love
Derek Trucks-Pleasant Gardens

[drogulus]

     Quicksilver Messenger Service

     Who Do You Love Pt. 1

     John Cipollina

     http://www.youtube.com/v/x7UORh-0XwE

     Who Do You Love Pt. 2

     Gary Duncan

     http://www.youtube.com/v/Pd8NPSOsqmk

[snyprrr]

I am actually interested in when the electric guitar made it into the Modern Classical Orchestra. I believe there's one in Gruppen? And there's a piece or two by '60s era Penderecki that feature the cool tones.

Of course, the coolest thing is how the electric guitar, in the 'classical' context (in the '60s), always sounded like how we associate trippy psychedelic exploitation movie music,... with that wahwah, haha! Oy, what cracks me up are those unison serial lines that these, essentially, jazz/rock bands play for the tense, 'monster', moments in these schlock movies!

HINT: the perfect '60s band = electric bass guitar, drum set, electric guitar, harpsichord, organ, flute

I maintain that strange things were afoot '67-'71.

What are some other electric guitar 'classical' moments?

Terje Rypdal?

[jowcol]

     Quicksilver Messenger Service

     Who Do You Love Pt. 1

     John Cipollina

     http://www.youtube.com/v/x7UORh-0XwE

     Who Do You Love Pt. 2

     Gary Duncan

     http://www.youtube.com/v/Pd8NPSOsqmk

Gold and Silver from the first album is also a lot of fun.

[bhodges]

What are some other electric guitar 'classical' moments?

Since I discovered Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004) last year, I've been listening to his work a great deal, especially Professor Bad Trip, considered by many to be his finest work. That piece uses a chamber ensemble, augmented by electric guitar, electric bass, and additional electronic sounds.

You might check out his piece, Trash TV Trance here, which is for only electric guitar, but used in a relatively non-traditional way.

--Bruce

[jowcol]

Since I discovered Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004) last year, I've been listening to his work a great deal, especially Professor Bad Trip, considered by many to be his finest work. That piece uses a chamber ensemble, augmented by electric guitar, electric bass, and additional electronic sounds.

You might check out his piece, Trash TV Trance here, which is for only electric guitar, but used in a relatively non-traditional way.

--Bruce

Dead City Radio Audiodrome is a fun album that I need to go back to.

[drogulus]

      Fleetwood Mac

      Black Magic Woman

      Peter Green

     http://www.youtube.com/v/v0uS0IhXYLA

[snyprrr]

Since I discovered Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004) last year, I've been listening to his work a great deal, especially Professor Bad Trip, considered by many to be his finest work. That piece uses a chamber ensemble, augmented by electric guitar, electric bass, and additional electronic sounds.

You might check out his piece, Trash TV Trance here, which is for only electric guitar, but used in a relatively non-traditional way.

--Bruce

mmm,... I see.

I have seen a feeew electric guitar/classical/avant-whateveryoucallit,...cds. I haven't heard anything yet that really makes a case for the electric guitar per se. I've noticed the best tracks have the least amount of processing, but, why no one hasn't been able to do a Stockhausen thing on electronic guitar, I dunno.

Maybe the electric guitar is only JUST beginning to see the light of its potential? Just our kind of Composers are mostly clueless,... Fred Frith is one who has devoted himself to electric guitar, playing with balls of string and chopsticks and such.

I kinda like Reich's Nagoya Guitars.

All good Composer guitar music is going to sound 'popular' in some way or another, because it has to communicate as such. I think Carter and Babbitt have written terrible examples of 'guitar' music, with Babbitt (and others) specifically, simply writing Serial Music on guitar. A lot of needless learning of pieces in the '80s and '90s, I think. Of course, this is gut string guitar, but I think the generality applies.

[RJR]

Mick Waller   Drums? (uhh....no, listen to the kickdrum, that's Aynsley Dunbar).

Anybody here familiar with the Aynsley Dunbar Group: To Mum from Aynsley & the Boys?