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Craziest Guitar Solos.

Re: Craziest Guitar Solos.

I'm not a fan of blisteringly fast guitar solos unless it's:

a) Eddie Van Halen. He invented shredding. Few can pull it off as well as him.

OR

b) Mark Knopfler. Funny name, great guitarist. He's not a metal guitarist by any stretch, but when he plays fast, it has a much bigger effect. Just listen to Sultans of Swing.

Other than that, I like:

Minor Swing: Django Reinhardt. I had to play it for my music exam, and it was the hardest thing I've ever had to play. Gypsy Jazz is such a bitch.

Comfortably Numb, Money, Time, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Have a Cigar, Pigs (Three Different Kinds), Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 and In the Flesh are all prime examples of David Gilmour's guitar prowess.

Any Clapton song.

Any Hendrix song.

Rocky Mountain Way, by Joe Walsh and Hotel California by Joe Walsh and the other guy in the Eagles.

If I think of more I'll make a new post.
 
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I think fast solos (PALENDROME!!!!) with tapping and whathaveyou are INCREDIBLY overrated. For three reasons:

a) They come across as being a gimmick. The guitar isn't nearly as important as the rest of the music.

b) It's just (mostly) repeating scales which have been drilled into you by relentless bedroom practice. It's not really skill.

c) They do not convey emotion, which is just as, if not more, important for a good guitar solo. Just listen to Comfortably Numb, or any other Gilmour solo.

I THOUGHT OF ANOTHER ONE.

Andy Mckee - any song. It may be a gimmick, with his whole slapping of the guitar and whathaveyou, but you can't deny that he puts his soul into his playing, and he's damn good at it.
 
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mother by pink floyd off of the wall album.
i'd say a good portion of the album is held together by that song... along with other greats on there...comfortably numb to name the obvious

IMO faster =/= better
slow and steady wins the race. ;)
 
Re: Craziest Guitar Solos.

cheezMcNASTY;346209 said:
mother by pink floyd off of the wall album.
i'd say a good portion of the album is held together by that song... along with other greats on there...comfortably numb to name the obvious

IMO faster =/= better
slow and steady wins the race. ;)
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Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?

I was actually playing that song on my guitar today, just because I remembered it out of the blue. It really surprised me how much of it I actually know.

EDIT: I thought of another few!

Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin. Specifically the solo from Whole Lotta Love, Stairway and his work in Black Dog.

Tommy Emmanuel. That guy is a psycho. He headbutts the microphone as a part of his improvisation!

Chuck Berry. The father of rock'n'roll. Nuff said.

Robert Johnson. The granddad of rock'n'roll. Father of the Blues. But not Chuck Berry's father. That would be weird.
 
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evh didnt actually invent shredding imo, frank z ripped his guitar up WAY before eddy did. whole lotta love is a great solo, so is hendrixes version of jonny b. goode. tommy emmanuells classical gas is crazy, did it for my music gcse and was sweating like a motherbitch at the end.
plus i love a good bb king
 
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well im certainly no fan of shredding, and not that keen on jazz, but i do find the strange jazz-funk-prog-shred-weird stuff that guthrie govan does extremely entertaining. IMO certainly one of the most skillful guitarist alive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yPEewaalik

ok, most people will probably say this sounds like ****, but that is shred at its best. i also used to be a fan of buckethead, not his techno crap, but of somewhat-soulful stuff like whitewash. however, since then ive realised his stuff is quite 2 dimensional. still a couple of good tunes though.
 
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As someone who prides himself on the knowledge and enjoyment of classic rock guitarists, I have to say I really wasn't that impressed with Freebird.
 
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Hotel California - Eagles

I must say, it is AMAZING. As someone who likes metal, this is pretty different than my usual stuff. And plus, this is my dad's favorite song, ever. Haha.



As a huge fan of Melodic Death Metal, I must say this is one of my all time favorite songs. This band is extremely underrated and will most likely be famous in a year or two. They don't even have a label!

Plague - Utopia Banished

If you like them, here is their myspace - Utopia Banished
 
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Melodic Death Metal?




WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??!?!
 
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That's the thing I hate about metal. There are about a billion subgenre's for each little difference. If a band sounds different to another band, maybe that's just because they're playing different songs? It's not a new genre.

That and I don't like how it sounds.
 
Re: Craziest Guitar Solos.

Yeah, I see what you're getting at.

I don't think there are too many sub-categories of metal though. A couple of ones I can list off my head are: heavy metal, death metal, metalcore, grindcore, deathcore (I do think all the "cores" are just the same though) melo-death, tech-death, etc.

I'm not really a fan of any "core" stuff, except for maybe Job For A Cowboy, but that's it. I usually just listen to Melo-Death and Heavy Metal, and Rock.
 
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