Your top solo

scrumhalf

A fairly crap song with a great solo - Penthouse Pauper by Point Blank.

And then there's the first bit of Yngwie's solo on Alcatrazz's Too Young To Die, To Drunk To Live.

And finally whoever did the solo on The Beatles' I'm Down (which is also a contender for best intro). 

Cranky

Can't say I have a number one.  I guess I don't think of it like that, and a lot of my favorite stuff isn't build around a solo (punk, grunge, VU, Elliott Smith).  But when I close my eyes and think about that lead part that I look forward to, a few come to mind:

The Black Crowes, "Descending"

SRV, "Lenny" (kinda just one long solo, but arguably the best blues instrumental of all time)

Metallica, "Orion" (kinda just one long solo, but arguably the best rock instrumental of all time)

GnR: "Rocket Queen"

Pink Floyd, "Mother" (most Pink Floyd lead playing is blissful, but "Mother" is the one I hear in my head most immediately)

Red Hot Chili Peppers, "I Could Have Lied"

Lou Reed, "Coney Island Baby" (not so much the solo but the dripping wet lead guitar the runs through the whole song)

Deep Purple, "Highway Star"

and it's hard to deny Queen's "We Will Rock You", love that energy

Bellycaster

My Favourite solo is ever changing.....................BUT:

This below is my favourite Type of Solo

First solo is from 2:00 to 2:17 and then the outro solo, which is even better is from 3:02 onwards. Very skilful player and so imaginative with the target notes.

John De Faria: Who Knew? What a player.



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paulnb57

Dire Straits, Walk of Life, On Every Street Tour, Paul Franklins Pedal Steel Solo is just the nuts!

at 4:15 although I think the whole thing is worth a watch...

https://youtu.be/p30NV97_MFQ

duotone

west said:

1. Kid charlamagne .. larry carlton

2. Rosanna ... ( especially the outro ) ... steve lukather

3. Headed for a heartbreak ... reb beach ....

and many more ...

Atm it’s this for me also, the note choice & really everything about the solo is fantastic. Absolutely class playing from Larry.

blobb

Steve Hillage's Master Builder solo.

But for a change I'll go with Alan Mostert for this 5 min epic. Light your joss sticks and freak out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxSJrpPzHjc

tekbow

Uli J on Sails of Charon.

And I don't even like The Scorpions that much, but this blew my mind a couple of years ago when I heard it.

Full on shred at least 5 years before it was really a thing, and surprisingly little gain too.

danishbacon

Frampton Feel like I do is pretty epic

https://g.co/kgs/FDvrdn

Litterick

Badge.

the_jaffa

This is really difficult to rank but the solo in You Do Something To Me by Paul Weller is definitely a great one. 

TTBZ

It's between these:

Mastodon - The Czar
UFO - Rock Bottom
Van Halen - Ice Cream Man
Nirvana - In Bloom
The Knack - My Sharona (definitely the most fun to play!)

roberty

Dontgiveupyourdayjob said:

Marc Ribot's solo on Tom Waits' Hoist That Rag

(Starts at 1:45s)

One of mine too, so cool. That whole album is just something else

tekbow said:

Uli J on Sails of Charon.

And I don't even like The Scorpions that much, but this blew my mind a couple of years ago when I heard it.

Full on shred at least 5 years before it was really a thing, and surprisingly little gain too.

Tried learning that last year. It's bloody tricky!

proggy

There really are too many to choose from but I really love Bill Nelson's outro solo on Crying to the sky from the Sunburst Finish album. So tasteful.

And Comfortably Numb of course.

steven70

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roberty

After giving it some thought I'd probably go with the solo from Soma by Smashing Pumpkins as my best ever, the squeaks and squeals are something else, total command of the instrument (4:20)

Romain

First that came to my mind is:
Whitesnake - Crying in the Rain!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnzfE8war2w

So epic that Jon Sykes decided to disappear just after  

Blueingreen

On another day it'd be something else but today I'll go for George Benson's solo on What's New.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qLvPyB0wTQ

EricTheWeary

tekbow said:

Uli J on Sails of Charon.

And I don't even like The Scorpions that much, but this blew my mind a couple of years ago when I heard it.

Full on shred at least 5 years before it was really a thing, and surprisingly little gain too.

I can't remember under what category but I've posted that clip on here before, that intro solo is a lovely thing ( although it's easy to get distracted by Uli's porn star moustache). That combination of technical, fluid playing and musicality is quite something. 
I saw him on his Beyond the Astral Skies tour, his album that was an attempt to get away from completely disappearing up his own artistic arsehole. Live most of the vocals were handled by Nicky Moore ( who does some of the backing vox on the album ) and it's a pity he didn't pursue that line up after.    

Whitecat

Other than the obvious Gilmour stuff and virtually any given Steely Dan tune, I love Lukather's outro on 'Rosanna' and Nils Lofgren on Springsteen's 'Tunnel Of Love'. I'm only a fair-weather Springsteen fan at best too, but that solo is just otherworldly.

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

tekbow said:

Uli J on Sails of Charon.

And I don't even like The Scorpions that much, but this blew my mind a couple of years ago when I heard it.

Full on shred at least 5 years before it was really a thing, and surprisingly little gain too.

I can't remember under what category but I've posted that clip on here before, that intro solo is a lovely thing ( although it's easy to get distracted by Uli's porn star moustache). That combination of technical, fluid playing and musicality is quite something. 
I saw him on his Beyond the Astral Skies tour, his album that was an attempt to get away from completely disappearing up his own artistic arsehole. Live most of the vocals were handled by Nicky Moore ( who does some of the backing vox on the album ) and it's a pity he didn't pursue that line up after.    

I'm a big Uli Roth fan, although more for the Scorpions years than his solo career.  I've seen him a couple of times on the same stage as Michael Schenker and it seems like he's always "on" whereas Schenker can be extremely erratic.

He's a surprisingly affable chap, too.  On the Scorpions deluxe reissues which came out a few years ago there's quite a lot of interview material and he's very jolly, not a hippy dippy weirdo at all.