Favorite solos evar!?

[NeverMarty]

Nothing by PF or PoS comes close to Gary Moore's best stuff - heck, even Yngwie can outdo those, or could in his better days. A great solo to me also displays the artist's distinctive style and technical abilities, as part of the emotions the solo is trying to purvey. Some personal favorites:

Ron Jarzombek (Control and Resistance, Life Cycles, Eighths Is Enough)
Jason Gobel (How Could I)
Marty Friedman (The Pit And The Pendulum, Overture Volcanica)
Chuck (The Flesh And The Power It Holds)
Muhammed (Fermented Offal Discharge, even if it seems incongruous, when relating it to the subject matter...)

 

[Will Bozarth]

ya know... i LOVE Yngwie's Brothers from the Seventh Sign CD. I haven't heard it in so long.

 

[azal]

agree with the randy rhoads and dave gilmour nods.

Marty Friedman played most of my favorite solos in metal, so he wins.

fav PoS solo is "water"

meshuggah - glints collide

fav dream theater - under a glass moon, scarred, lines in the sand, trial of tears

 

[Metal head87]

Sleepless Nights - King Diamond

Andy Larocque!! http://youtube.com/watch?v=D_Xd5M3S_Cw

An amazing solo.
But I especially love Andy's solo toward the last minute or so of Visit From The Dead.
Andy is a really underrated guitar shredder

 

[buzz21]

Sleepless Nights - King Diamond

Andy Larocque!! http://youtube.com/watch?v=D_Xd5M3S_Cw

great call - there were some legendary solos all over "conspiracy"


how about viv campbell on "rainbow in the dark" - he never came close to duplicating that kind of shredding

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Jag Panzer- Hell to Pay

I should upload it since Im willing to bet many havent heard it.

 

[Jeff-Loomis-fan]

ok what do you guys prefer slow or fast solo's?

 

[lad]

ok what do you guys prefer slow or fast solo's?

Not "slow" or "fast" per se. More just how well a lead fits, how expressive, tasteful and evocative it is, the phrasing and - on an incidental level - the technique involved. I suppose the context in which the lead is played largely accounts for how effective it is, too (e.g. obviously a heartfelt and beautifully phrased Stevie Ray Vaughn or Billy Gibbons lead wouldn't fit in, say, a Morbid Angel track.) Err...sort of a shite example, but it's hard to say, since not all music featuring lead guitar requires some manically furious shredding and utterly precise technique. I'll cop out by saying it's all a matter of personal taste.

 

[Liverslapper]

i've always had Pantera's Floods Solo and Outro one of my all time favorite solo's.

 

[Sorrow Evoker]

the stairway to heaven solo on zeppelin's live dvd pretty much obliterates everything

 

[naboo]

Nile - Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten
The solo is just so emotional and great. It's a slower Nile song.

Iron Maiden - Alexander the Great (although most of the solos on Somewhere in Time were fucking awesome)

 

[Metal head87]

From Nile, I really loved Unas, Slayer Of The Gods. The solo there is really powerful.

Not the most technical or flashy solo, but the one from Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness is also really powerful.

 

[Will Bozarth]

YES @ LoDDoD

 

[stefan86]

Dream Theater - Under A Glass Moon

 

[Will Bozarth]

St Anger

 

[stefan86]

st wankah!

 

[ShadowsWithin]

Anything by Jens Johansson

 

[Jeff-Loomis-fan]

how about anything from: Mattias Ia Eklundh

 

[kirk_hammett]

St Anger

i agree with you here, lars and bob rock pushed me really hard to do that solo. gald you liked it!
and fuck that petrucci fag, he doesn't know how to play guitar

 

[Metal head87]

That made me giggle a little