Solos that rock your world

Brooks

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Here I am again, listening to Mike Stern's career defining solo on 'Fat Time' by the Miles Davis group, and once again, it just KILLS me how good it is. For an improv under the all hearing eye of Miles Davis, anyone could have just crumbled under pressure, but Stern went all out and delivered the solo that left Miles giving stern the nickname Fat Time, and dedicating the song to him. Check it out.

What are some guitar performances that just kill you time and time again?
 
Great thread Brooks ....

Fat Time of course is an all time great ....

Others that just grab me buy the nuts are

Satch on I Believe, not flashy very ambient fits the song perfect.

Vai on Sailing Ships by Whitesnake

Van Halen - Finish What Ya Started

Greg Howe - Pepper Shake

Pat Metheney - The Entire We Live Here CD

John McGlaughlin - Inner Mounting Flame

Malmsteen - Little Savage

Becker / Friedman - Black Cat

Dan Felder / Joe Walsh - Hotel California

Al Dimeola - Race With The Devil On A Spanish Highway (actually everything off Casino is AWSOME!!)

Vito Bratta - Wait (White Lion)

Nono Bettencourt - Cupids Dead

Slash - Night Train

Thats just for starters ... those are the ones that immediately were faves
 
solos that rock my world.
Definitely those in return to serenity, alone in the dark and the new order by testament.
satriani-surfing with the alien, midnight (not a solo, but worth mentioning)
hammett-fade to black (yes, it is stock, but i love the solos very much)
jeff loomis-sentient6, 42147, deconstruction, sorrowed man
the steve- tge.
friedman-elixir
sucimez-fermentted offal discharge-necrophagist
 
zakk wylde - miracle man (those bends in the end are awesome)
mr big - burn (the guitar and the bass solos)
aerosmith - amazing
deep purple - sometimes i feel like screaming (especially with the orchestra)
dr sin - emotional catastrophe (brazilian band, anyone knows?)
and many others that i dont remember right now
 
Hell Yeah to the guy who came up with this thread... Kudos goes out to ya.
Solos that rock my world huh...hmm
BTW If you see any Jason Becker, Jeff Loomis or Steve Smyth solos here, they go without thinking for me...Greatness!!!
Jason Becker- Air (Genius)
Jason Becker- Rain
Jeff Loomis- Sentiant 6 outro (the crazy arpeggios)
Steve Smyth- Rapture (the one in Db, last one)
Steve Smyth- Sell My Heart For Stones (one of my fav songs...ever)
Jason Becker- The End Of The Beginning (the demos of it RULE)
Steve Smyth- Just When You Think (wail-o-rama)
Michael Amott- Snowbound (genius with a wah)
Alex Skolnick- Burnt Offerings intro (best volume technique EVER)
Michael Amott- Skeleton Dance (hells yeah)
Rusty Cooley- Outworld (the song, man, B Phrygian Dominant, lml)
Steve Smyth This Godless Endeavout (Learning this one atm)
Alex Skolnick- Trial By Fire Intro (first sweep I've ever heard in my life)
Graham Greene- Vinnie's Pink Guitar
James Murphy- Low (Hell yeah, PHRYGIAN DOMINANT lol)
Graham Greene- Hell and Bach
Well, that's probably all I can think of now... A lot of it's newer catologue but I have my fair share of ripped up Testament LPs from when I was 6 months old haha. "Summoned to the house of seance....
 
these solos rock my world in a different way than the ones i first posted
these next one make me feel very evil
sepultura-arise. andreas kisser was the man in 91
sepultura-territory the tapping part is so arab and metal
sepultura-slaves of pain (all of them)
nevermore-optimist or pesimist, first one, i dunno who plays it, jeff or pat o'brien
steve's last final product solo.
hammett-damage inc
 
Nevermore - Born

There's just been something distinctly calling to me with that solo. It's the sort of phrasing I hear in my head whenever I approach a metal solo. It just coincides with what I imagine an awesome shred solo to be.

Allan Holdsworth - Beef Cherokee

Enough said there. Just his style alone is enough to blow minds.
 
Currently......I've been on a Warren Haynes kick. Can't get some of his work out of my head.....but not really one song in particular....just his work in general after listening through some of the Gov't Mule albums
 
Hey guys, heave you ever heard of Per Nilsson from Scar Symmetry? He has great phrasing and very "clean" technique... I like all his solos from Scar Symmetry albums.
 
Holdsworth, Zappa, Wes Montgomery (outside the metal world).

Petrucci's 'Awake' solos, the 'Psalm of Lydia' exchange, Children of Bodom's 'Kissing The Shadows', every instrumental section Tool has ever done, and the solos on the Symbyosis album 'On The Wings of Phoenix' really do it for metal.

Jeff
 
JBroll said:
Holdsworth, Zappa, Wes Montgomery (outside the metal world).

Petrucci's 'Awake' solos, the 'Psalm of Lydia' exchange, Children of Bodom's 'Kissing The Shadows', every instrumental section Tool has ever done, and the solos on the Symbyosis album 'On The Wings of Phoenix' really do it for metal.

Jeff
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Dude, the solo in Scarred in AMAZING. As well as the ending solo in Lie.
 
The solo on "Born" from Nevermore, I really like that one :D

Also, "Glassgow Kiss" from John Petrucci is like one huge solo, I love that song.

And I don't know if you guys know this one, but I really dig the solo on "What-I'm-Made-Of" from Jun Senoue's Crush 40. Love the chorus as well! But since it's made for a pretty bad Sonic The Hedgehog videogame, I doubt anyone will know this :(
 
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