Favorite guitar solo

invisible man, a winter tale

For me it has to be between Spread Your Wings, The Hero and Hijack My Heart - The Hero probably edges ahead of the other two (which also happen to be my favourite Queen songs). Brilliant solos!

1. You Don't Fool Me
2. White Queen (As It Began)
3. Delilah (F*** you haters on this one, it makes me laugh the **** out loud.)
4. Dancer
5. Back Chat
6. Somebody to Love
7. Seaside Rendezvous (the whole jazz band....^^ too lazy to retype it up there)
8. Love Of My Life (it's beautiful)
9. A Winter's Tale (is that a E-bow?)
10. Get Down Make Love...

Just off the top of my head. We all know Brian May is a brilliant solo writer/arranger

damn, how did i manage to leave off The Show Must Go On, I'm Going Slightly Mad and BIJOU as 1, 2 and 3??

Anybody notice how hardly anyone just picked ONE solo?

BTW: poster.... you're right about RIDE THE WILD WIND...

even if it sounds sorta like "Walk Like An Egyptian" the song rocks... the solo sings, shines, takes flight, then rises climbs and shines...

Brian has a mastery of the motions.

Always thought the solo in These are the Days of our Lives was amazing. Had a lovely tone, and it just perfectly fits the song.

I'd rate the Killer Queen solo as one of his most melodic and well written solos too, short as it is.

The Millonaire Waltz is nice too, some tricky little runs at the end of it.

Brian is still a seriously underrated Guitarist. Personally, I'd rate him well above the likes of Jimmy Page. Aimlessly flying through a 1000 note solo is fine, but there's a lot to be said for melodic solos, and no one ever did that better than Brian. Plus he could play pretty fast himself when he wanted to.

I think my all time favorite BM guitar solo must be 'See What A Fool I've Been'.
all those layers of different solos mixed into one massive piece.... mennnn that really thrills me

You don´t fool me (the best solo)

OneTrackMind wrote:

Personally, I'd rate him well above the likes of Jimmy Page.  Aimlessly flying through a 1000 note solo is fine, but there's a lot to be said for melodic solos, and no one ever did that better than Brian.

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True.  But Page does have his many merits.  Listen to Ten Years Gone, where he was a master orchestrator himself.  In fact, here's a link to the pyramid of genius being created - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6eXeQ-sY0

And Brian sometimes meandered on for ten minutes in concert himself.  Not many rock guitarists are immune to self-indulgence.

Brian is my favourite rock guitarist, but I'm just trying to even out the playing field here. :-)

I wouldnt say the best but when we talk about Brian Solos that "Its a Kind of Magic" at Wembley  and Bijou flashback in my brains...

you don't fool me's solo is friggin insane and powerful, and very difficult to play.  Make the song what it is.  Plus the Hitman has great power and style.

For me, the very obvious and classic:  WWRY.

Also not really a solo but i love the guitar work on boh rap

"We are going to do something a bit special for you tonight ,this is called Brighton Rock !"

White Man and Bijou I think!

JESUS

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