Your Favorite Guitar Solo(s)

Er... no.

Honestly, I love you both to bits but you aren't going to convince each other of anything. It's just going to be the same boring argument. List your favourites and find something you can agree on... Jimmy Page is obviously not going to be common ground.


This isn't quite limited to guitar, but I always dug the soloing (both guitar and keyboard) in the Deep Purple song "Lazy".
I never thought the lyrics were up to snuff, though. John Lennon had the market cornered as far as 'I'm too tired to get up' songs went.

I was going to say "God Gave Rock and Roll To You" had a good solo, but you know what?? That song is one big rip off of "Friends Will Be Friends", so it doesn't count.

I always thought "Saltwater" had a great solo... someone told me George Harrison played slide on that song - whether it was really him or not, he had an excellent touch when it came to slide playing.
I feel it was a little wasted on "Handle With Care"... (come on, who let Bob Dylan near the mic?).

Climax Blues Band "I Love You" has a pretty nice little solo in it. Very tasteful.

It might be obvious, but "Was It All Worth It" was one of my favourite Queen solos.

what about the you dont fool me solo, thats a good one, and these are the days of our lives, that one is hugely emotional

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b>- Horsie Vai - wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Er... no.[/QUOTE]
Maybe you dislike Page, but you can't really deny his talent. If you think you can deny the talent of a man who's influenced nearly all rock guitarists who came after him, then you should come up with something much better (which I doubt you can - sorry, Page was excellent) and totally free from Page's influences. Basically, reinvent rock guitar playing and make it sound good. Can you do that?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Micrówave wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Well, I googled one of those garbage lists to see of what THEY put in their top 100 even mattered to me, because it usually doesn't.
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If you actually took the time to find a list, then that means that in a way it kind of matters to you.

The Heartbreaker solo sounds so sloppy.

Yet excellent. Jimmy Page <3

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color="lime">Raf840 wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b>- Horsie Vai - wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Er... no.[/QUOTE]
Maybe you dislike Page, but you can't really deny his talent. If you think you can deny the talent of a man who's influenced nearly all rock guitarists who came after him, then you should come up with something much better (which I doubt you can - sorry, Page was excellent) and totally free from Page's influences. Basically, reinvent rock guitar playing and make it sound good. Can you do that?[/QUOTE]Still, a guy who can't follow the most basic rhythm or properly bend a string and not go out of tune... is obviously not a great player.

You don't influence others because you're good, you do because you are important. If you write a (good?) song, it doesn't mean you're a good guitar player or singer, it just means you wrote a song, which obviously can be good or not.


Jimmy is also well known as a plagiarist, so who's inventing then? Besides, creating things doesn't make you a good guitar player either. It's like saying that if some guy designs a new Formula 1 car, he's the best racer ever. What happens in your head and what you can do with your hands are two completely different things, which not necessarily go together.


Eddie Van Halen said that Page inspired him to develop the tapping technique. Tapping had existed for more than a hundred years, tho. Then you might think JIMMY'S THE BEST, HE INFLUENCED EDDIE TO DEVELOP THE TAPPING but that's just wrong. Eddie said that when he saw Page doing this hammer on's and pull off's he thought about using his other hand to tap notes over the fretbpard. Eddie's the true genius coming up with this idea and being able to play it so well, not Page.


He is obviously not a good player. The fact that he influenced other players doesn't have a thing to do with him playing the damn thing. The Sex Pistols also influenced lots of bands, and so did The Ramones. So they're amazingly good bands, great composers and outstanding players, right?

What you say is like saying that the apple is the best fruit ever cuz it fell over Isaac Newton's head and made him formulate the law of gravity.

Kashmir

@Horsie Vai: What do you think about Steve Lukather? He's my favourite guitar player.

That one's easy, so long as we don't count jazz.

Deep Purple - Child In Time

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=blue>Rick wrote: [/QUOTENAME]@Horsie Vai: What do you think about Steve Lukather? He's my favourite guitar player.[/QUOTE]You've already asked me that. Steve is a great player.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b><font color = "crimson"> ThomasQuinn wrote: [/QUOTENAME]


Deep Purple - Child In Time[/QUOTE]

Oh hell yes

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b>- Horsie Vai - wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=blue>Rick wrote: [/QUOTENAME]@Horsie Vai: What do you think about Steve Lukather? He's my favourite guitar player.[/QUOTE]You've already asked me that. Steve is a great player.[/QUOTE]

I did? I forgot then.

Thanks for answering anyway ;-)

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=blue>Rick wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<b>- Horsie Vai - wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=blue>Rick wrote: [/QUOTENAME]@Horsie Vai: What do you think about Steve Lukather? He's my favourite guitar player.[/QUOTE]You've already asked me that. Steve is a great player.[/QUOTE]

I did? I forgot then.

Thanks for answering anyway ;-)[/QUOTE]

No, that was I who brought up Luke. So Rick, you've got the Larry Carlton/Steve Lukather live in Japan, right?

Careful listening to Larry, you may have a new favorite player. He's Luke's.

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen - Killer Queen
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Beatles - Till There Was You
The Beatles - The End
The Ramones - My Sharona