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"Best Guitar solo"

My personal favourites are the ones in 'Devil and Daughter' by Black Sabbath, 'Disposable Heroes by Metallica, and 'Eruption' by Van Halen. Who disagrees?

maddmun wrote:
> Does the guitar solo in Bohemian Rhapsody count?
> If so, then... well...

Like the song, it rocks in a strange kinda way.

triggerhappyrocker wrote:
> chorus also doubles-up a guitar part

no it doesn't.
chorus is simply a frequency modulation. sounds particularly good when used with a sparkly clean tone, or especially on an electro-acoustic...

Lots of Mark Knopfler's early stuff, there's very few original guitar solo's any more ?

Does the guitar solo in Bohemian Rhapsody count?
If so, then... well...

Very_Metal wrote:
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> "Freebird" by Lynrd Skynrd needs a mention here i feel :)

Damn right it does!

I'd tie it next Sweet Child of Mine, Paradise City (that Solo's fast!) and the beginning to Extreme's He-man Woman Hater.

Weirdest solo award goes to Buckethead who used to be in the re-made G'n R

has to be dreaming of you by the coral. hands down winners!

The original album they recorded was more.. er.. unique. The title track was pretty odd to say the least.

Darwock wrote:
>> I think you missed the point - I'm talking about a live performance.
> You can't play three guitars at once unless you have three hands.
> Jordan (and Prince) can play a guitar one-handed... see? Something to
> do with the way you strike the strings.

No, fool! Lynyrd Skynyrd had 3 guitarists! thats 3 different people each wiv 1 guitar. alright? honestly, people these days.... :)

Steve vai sumhow plays 3 necks @ once, like 1 guy sed a few posts ago, and if u uze a harmonizer (like tom morello-well good!!) u can effectively get 2 different guitar parts. chorus also doubles-up a guitar part but that doesnt change the pitch much.....

Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> Well I suppose it's really a combination. But it's not right to put
> metal down as coming purely from rock, since Sabbath really defined
> metal and their early stuff was really blues with a bit more added
> in. Although it's pretty hard to categorise it since it's still
> pretty unique.

I know. I've got Paranoid, for hell's sake. However, the only other Sabbath album I've got is Headless Cross, from 1989. And although it's not the original Black Sabbath (Tony Iommi being the only one of the originals still in Sabbath in '89) it's still a great album.

Steve Vai had a triple neck guitar. 2 on the left side, 1 on the right.

As for Stanley Jordan, he even shaves the frets on his guitars down, and then lowers the string action so you only need lightly touch the strings to get a decent sound. I like tapping, gives a cool tone.