Best solos ever

[TrapsMaster]

What are the best solos you`ve ever heard?

My personal:

Symphony X - Heretic, The Divine Wings of Tragedy, Seven, Sea of Lies, Bastards of the Machine, The Walls of Babylon

Iron Maiden - Lord of Light, The Nomad, Aces High, The Mercenary, No More Lies, Seventh Son of the Seventh Son

Metallica - My Friend of Misery, Phantom Lord

OverKill - Ironbound, Goodnight

Nightwish - Crownless

Judas Priest - Painkiller

Dream Theater - A Rite of Passage, The Shattered Fortress (intro), Octavarium (intro)

I don`t include SX intros, because 90% of them is amazing. I will add more songs and bands later, because now I don`t remember titles.

 

[Kenneth R.]

Riverside - Acronym Love
Marillion - This Strange Engine & Easter

 

[Krondor]

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

Lepond's bass solo in the beginning of Awakenings is pretty great. Also Rullo's drums in Frontiers and Death of Balance.

 

[Liampie]

Easily Devin Townsend's Deep Peace. Incredible emotional solo in an incredible emotional song on an incredible emotional album - Terria.

 

[Phanto]

my favorite guitar solo is this one (listen to the entire thing including the build-up for "maximum effect" )


this guitar solo is also sick as hell, and delivered live too (2:30 onward for solo)


the violin solos in this song

 

[Kenneth R.]

Passengers is a slick album. I could also mention "The Gap is Too Wide" by Mostly Autumn.

 

[Postulate]

I have way too many to list...one that sticks out in my mind right now is the one on Options & Opinions, from Geoff Mann's Second Chants. I don't actually know who plays it...maybe Marc Cately.

Can't find a youtube video of it, might upload one myself once I get access to the album. It's like a weird Robert Fripp/Steve Hackett mashup, totally beautiful

 

[metalxmetalx]

There are so many, so I'll post two at a time.

Scorpions:

1. The Sails of Charon




2. Fly to the Rainbow

 

[Phanto]

fly to the rainbow is awzummmmmmmmmm

 

[iceandfire84]

The Wizard by Al Di Meola. Those are some serious chops the last 2:30 of that song.

 

[Frosties]

 

[donKyle]

The solo at the end gets me every time.

 

[Kenneth R.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJxFAoiWSY

The piano solo toward the end is perfection. It's so wrong, so broken, so... on.

 

[J-Dubya 777]

3 come to mind for me instantly, in order:

Reckless Fable's (aka Steve Vai) solo in Bob Harris' tune "Western Vacation"

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Rory Gallagher - Follow Me from the live Stage Struck cd/album






Steve Vai - For the Love of God



All give me goose bumps to this day.......

 

[Postulate]

Sieges Even - To the Ones Who Have Failed

 

[donKyle]

I've always loved the bass solo on Seventh Wonder's Taint the Sky

 

[Kenneth R.]

Sieges Even - To the Ones Who Have Failed

nice pick.

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

I've always loved the bass solo on Seventh Wonder's Taint the Sky

Yes!!!

 

[JesterIF]

I'll just name a few, I feel this list could go on and on.

- Ending solo in Venus Isle by Eric Johnson (can't find it on youtube sorry)

- (Per Nilsson's solo, 3:30)

- (1:20, holy fucking shit)

The last 2 were probably my favorite solos when I was just starting guitar. 10 years later, I still think they're awesome.

- (Vito Bratta's solo, 2:18)

- (guest solo by some unkown guy, 1:27)

Got to say I enjoyed immensely most of you guys' picks.