Comments on: What Are Your Favorite Guitar Solos?

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:18:32 +0000

Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin. CAMAAAAN!

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:01:10 +0000

Basically anything Holdsworth has ever done is worthy. He deserves his own category!

By: Ariel

Ariel — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:53:28 +0000

Andy Latimer’s solo on Rhayader Goes to Town (from The Snow Goose) is pretty awesome. Johan Reinholdz from the prog metal band Andromeda also does a wonderful lead work, in songs like Veil of Illumination , Encyclopedia, Blink of an Eye..

Allan Holdsworth worths another mention in my opinion!! Many are not familiar with his work in Soft Machine. The album Bundles (from the mid-70s) provides a great chance to see a relatively young Allan developing his unique style, probably on a Gibson SG (?!). His solo on the track “Land of the Bag Snake” (actually, the entire track is his solo..) is just excellent. This is also a good place to stress the importance of the backing band in a solo . It’s a true case of ‘make it or break it’. In Soft Machine they make it of course.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:37:18 +0000

Well, Butch. You’ve hit it. Rush is, and forever shall be, the greatest rock band ever, given that The Beatles are pretty much in their own category, of course. They have been my favorite band since I got 2112 on vinyl.

By: Butch Ross

Butch Ross — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:22:48 +0000

Although I left electric guitar for acoustic pastures years and years ago, Alex Lifeson’s solo in the live version of “La Villa Strangiato” from “Exit, Stage Left” still remains an all time favorite.

By: Keith McGee

Keith McGee — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:44:09 +0000

I don’t want to be a pain, but I thought of another one: Duke Levine on a tune called ‘Longhorn’ on his album “Almost Home”, and “Kissing in the Car” on Jennifer Kimball’s “Veering from the Wave” (That’s two, isn’t it?).
Duke is a fine player, as good as anybody.

By: Keith McGee

Keith McGee — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:21:23 +0000

I guess I should have my own site, but this one is fun. How about “Sundown” on The Edgar Winter Group’s “Shock Treatment”? Not terribly difficult to play, but feel is everything, isn’t it? Derringer’s solo doesn’t disappoint on this.
Nice video this week. I love Wayne.