Favorite Non-Metal guitar solos

[Vimana]

At the moment mine are

Audioslave - One And The Same
The Mars Volta - Cicatriz E.S.P. (around 10 minutes or so in)
Led Zeppelin - Dazed And Confused

I'll think of more later.

 

[The Ozzman]

Comfortably Numb

 

[username345]

Comfortably Numb

Yup.

 

[Matt]

Too many to list imo.

 

[panzerfaust666]

toto-Rosanna
Jimi Hendrix-anything
Brad Paisely-Mud on the tires....

 

[razoredge]

Larry Carlton on Steely Dans Kid Charlamaine(sp) - always
Santana - Europa (Earths Cry Heavens Smile) - always
Hendrix - most all of it and he doesnt have to be "soloing"
Stairway to Heaven & Since I've Been Loving You - always
SRV = Riviera Paradise
Eagles - Hotel California - still speaks to me after all these years
George Puleo - every group of notes I've ever heard him play

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

Greg Howe - Land of Ladies; Introspection
Steve Vai - The Riddle; Windows to the Soul; Tender Surrender, Boston Rain Melody Fire Garden Suite
Tony MacAlpine - Autumn Lords, Ghost of Versailes
Guthrie Govan - Ner Ner
Frank Gambale - Little Charmer
Brett Garsed - So What
Dave Martone - The Four Horsemen

I'll think of some more. There are so many. Some of this stuff might be on the verge of being instrumental metal, like maybe MacAlpine...

 

[razoredge]

Wouldnt you consider Vai a metal player ? More than jazz, fusion, rock/blues ? Tho his music is diverse he still speaks metal in his solos, right ? or do I need to listen to more material ? I'm slack in the Vai department only borrowed tapes or CD's over the years and I have the three G3 vids. Maybe Vai need his own subgenre - Wizard music

 

[panzerfaust666]

main reason that i didnt put him down, but nonetheless, he is a good lead guitarist...Obviously

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

Vai's not really Metal on most of his solo stuff. He've very eclectic. I guess there are some Metal shadings in there, but he has a style that many metal guys are bound to hate. I believe The Ultrazone & Passion & Warfare are his best albums, but Alien Love Secrets is a really cool EP full of great tracks.

Holdsworth is definitely not Metal. He has so many great solos. I'm really bad at naming most of his songs though.

 

[razoredge]

thats why I didnt mention any of the shreaders except Puleo, their solos are less than memorable and after awhile all blend together. sure theres 30,000 notes of jaw dropping ability, Holdsworth, DiMeola any other fusion player or any of the hundreds of metal shredders but they rarely paint a picture where every note is placed for a reason other than to lead the the next note in a flurry of madness. Satch had expressed good memorable melodic feel but his style is also routed in rock/metal

 

[The Ozzman]

More:

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood, Pride & Joy
Cream - White Room

I'll think of more later

 

[razoredge]

^ SRV - Tin Pan Alley
for the life of me I cant remember what the solo in White Room sounded like ?

 

[sceloporus]

More:

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood, Pride & Joy
Cream - White Room

I'll think of more later

Yes!
Boston- peace of mind

 

[Matt]

Boston has a lot of great ones.

 

[The Ozzman]

^ SRV - Tin Pan Alley
for the life of me I cant remember what the solo in White Room sounded like ?

The one near the end. It obviously differs from the studio version, but you get the point.

Another one:

Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe

 

[razoredge]

thanks

hey joe was great guitar work but you just reminded me that I always felt All Along the Watchtower was his best, due to how he took it through three distinctly seperate stages, when he drops into the chord strummming flurry it just blew my mind. The solo just evolves perfectly, truely a master piece in my opinion

 

[challenge_everything]

The two solos that stand out most for me are Steve Vai's For the Love of God and Devin Townsend's Deep Peace.

 

[jrsh92]

To End The Rapture/Avenged Sevenfold

 

[The Ozzman]

Oh, in before any mention of Interpol